Skip to content

What goes in the filler queue, and how is it fed? #6971

Closed

Description

@kyle-sexton

The filler is low-priority work that can wait and soaks up leftover budget before reset: sweeps, deslop, bug hunts, doc drift, evals. Decide what qualifies, where the queue lives (labels, a tracker view, a file) and which producers feed it.

Activity

  1. added
    wayfind: interviewWayfind decision item: contract/requirements call the user must make; human in the loop.
    needs-humanHuman-in-the-loop required; autonomous sessions must not resolve items carrying this.
    on Oct 11, 2026
  2. added
    needs-triageNot yet classified. Floor until a type and one priority tier are set.
    on Oct 11, 2026
  3. github-actions commented on Oct 11, 2026

    @github-actions
    Contributor

    Thanks for the report. Automated triage handed this issue to a maintainer.

    Automated triage. A maintainer reviews it.

  4. kyle-sexton commented on Oct 11, 2026

    @kyle-sexton
    MemberAuthor

    Resolved by the operator (2026-10-11).

    Rule: work qualifies for the filler queue when no human is waiting on it, it can slip to the next cycle, its run is bounded, and its output lands through the normal PR and issue pipeline.

    • Starting contents: plugin eval sweeps, bugs:scan, unattended improvement:find, work-loop backlog drain, the eval hill-climb (feat(evals): run plugin eval suites in a CI lane and hill-climb in the background #6405), the harness-ops and repo-fleet-hygiene audits, and repo-wide deslop and doc-drift sweeps.
    • Where it lives: issues carrying a filler label, picked up by work-loop. The label is provisioned by the repository's label owner, not created ad hoc.
    • Producers: post-merge sweeps, bugs:scan, improvement:find, and findings the review lanes missed.

    Feeds the allocation model (#6970): the filler drains whichever budget expires next.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    needs-humanHuman-in-the-loop required; autonomous sessions must not resolve items carrying this.needs-triageNot yet classified. Floor until a type and one priority tier are set.wayfind: interviewWayfind decision item: contract/requirements call the user must make; human in the loop.

    Type

    No type

    Fields

    No fields configured for issues without a type.

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions