docs(claude): coordinate parallel work through issue assignment by IAmJSD · Pull Request #62 · LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-mcp

IAmJSD · 2026-10-15T11:17:04Z

Summary

Adds an Issue assignment — claim before you work section to CLAUDE.md so that several people (and their agents) can work through the issue queue in parallel without fixing the same thing twice.

Pick the highest-priority unowned issue first (priority/p0 → p3, oldest first, then unlabelled), skipping status/blocked, status/needs-info and status/wontdo. Includes a tested gh query.
Claim it before writing code: self-assign, then re-check the assignees to catch races. Contributors without write access leave a Claiming: working on this comment instead.
Issues that are assigned or claimed are off-limits. A stale claim (7 days with no activity and no PR) is handed over only after asking on the issue.
PRs use Closes #N, which also feeds the existing label-mirroring rule.
Unassign yourself and leave a note when you drop an issue.
Larger untracked work (e.g. UI/integration) gets an assigned issue first so it shows as taken.

It also notes that the existing ~/.claude/agent-comms/ bus only coordinates agents on a single machine, while assignment coordinates people.

Docs-only change; no runtime code touched.

No closing issue: this is a contributor docs change, so there are no issue labels to mirror under the PR labeling rule.

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- Added guidance for selecting eligible unowned issues by priority (p0–p3, oldest first), followed by issues without a priority label. Blocked, needs-info, and wontdo issues are skipped.
- Clarified how to check issue comments and linked pull requests before claiming, record claims, determine ownership, and handle maintainer overrides or stale claims.
- Added instructions for splitting searches that exceed GitHub’s result limit, linking pull requests to issues, and releasing claims when work is dropped.
- Work without an issue must be tracked in an issue before it begins.

Document how people and their agents pick issues in priority order and claim them by self-assignment (or a claim comment without write access) before starting, so two contributors never fix the same issue in parallel. Covers race checks, respecting existing claims, stale-claim handoff, linking PRs, and releasing dropped issues. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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CLAUDE.md adds a required process for selecting eligible issues, checking and claiming ownership, linking PRs, releasing dropped work, and filing issues for untracked work.

Changes: Issue Assignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Issue selection and claims `CLAUDE.md`	Defines issue priority and eligibility rules. Requires checking existing claims and open PRs before claiming. Specifies claim markers and how to determine claim ownership.
Ownership and work completion `CLAUDE.md`	Defines assignment and stale-claim takeover rules. Requires PRs to link issues. Specifies how to release dropped work and handle already-fixed issues. Requires assigning an issue for untracked work.

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The ownership check can hide older claims, allowing contributors to duplicate work on affected issues. Make those claims visible or direct contributors to inspect all comments before relying on the process.

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The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: CLAUDE.md

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observed — CLAUDE.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

observed — Modified behavior in CLAUDE.md: Adds a required issue-selection procedure that queries unassigned issues by priority and age, excludes blocked, needs-info, and wontdo issues, puts unlabeled issues after p3, and requires splitting exactly-1,000-result searches. It also requires checking issue comments and open PRs before claiming.
observed — Modified behavior in CLAUDE.md: Adds claim and release marker procedures, including optional worker IDs for agents sharing a GitHub login. The owner's latest marker determines whether a claim is active; the earliest active claim wins, and an assignment without a marker or an older free-form claim also marks an issue as taken.
observed — Modified behavior in CLAUDE.md: Adds rules against working on claimed or assigned issues, except that maintainer assignment or takeover overrides claims. For an inactive issue with no linked PR for 7 days, workers must ask the owner; after 3 more days without a reply, they may post a takeover marker that supersedes only the stale owner's claim, then transfer the assignment.
observed — Modified behavior in CLAUDE.md: Requires PR bodies to include Closes #<N>. When stopping work without a PR, workers must post a release marker and unassign themselves; if the issue is already fixed, they must identify the fixing PR or commit and ask a maintainer to close it. Work not yet tracked by an issue must get an issue assigned to its worker.

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- Around line 102-104: Update the “Claiming: working on this” fallback guidance
to resolve competing claims before work begins: contributors must recheck the
issue after posting, and the earliest claim timestamp takes precedence; later
claimants should withdraw their claim and coordinate with the first claimant.
- Around line 82-84: Update the `gh issue list` command to use an explicit
result limit or pagination so contributors can see enough eligible issues before
filtering candidates by claim comments; preserve its existing repository,
filters, sort order, and output format.
- Around line 108-109: Update the stale-claim handoff guidance in the
surrounding issue-ownership instructions to set a clear response window and
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List unprioritised issues and raise the result limit, resolve competing claims by earliest claim, and define the stale-claim handoff when the owner does not reply. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

IAmJSD · 2026-10-15T11:35:04Z

Addressed all three CodeRabbit findings in f43d4d4 (result limit + unprioritised query; earliest-claim tie-break; 3-day stale-claim handoff).

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IAmJSD · 2026-10-15T13:50:40Z

Applied the stale-claim takeover fix from the sibling CLI PR (LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-cli#2202) in 6b611aa so both CLAUDE.md files stay identical: a takeover comment supersedes the stale claim for the step 2 earliest-claim check.

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- Line 120: Update the takeover claim comparison described in the takeover
comment-count guidance so it excludes only the stale owner’s claim, rather than
all claims posted before the takeover comment. Preserve the earliest-claim check
for every other claim.
- Line 119: Update the takeover instruction in step 2 so the new owner removes
the stale assignee while assigning themselves, or directs a maintainer to
transfer the assignment; ensure the previous owner is no longer assigned after
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IAmJSD · 2026-10-15T21:11:56Z

Synced a fix raised on LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-go#421: the post-claim gh issue view check now prints claim comments as well as assignees, so a comment-based claim isn't missed.

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- Around line 106-107: Update the `claims` query to identify explicit claim,
takeover, and release markers rather than matching any body containing “claim,”
then determine which claim is currently active. Exclude claims that have been
released, recognize takeover comments even when they lack the word “claim,” and
let a takeover supersede only the stale owner’s claim.
- Line 105: Update the `gh issue view` output and claim-ordering guidance around
`--jq` so contributors can determine which claim came first: use timestamped
claim comments as the ordering source, since the documented JSON fields do not
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Assignment times aren't visible to gh issue view and keyword matching both misses takeovers and keeps released claims, so claims, takeovers and releases are now marker comments whose timestamps decide precedence. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Worker ids for agents sharing a login, maintainer override, a command for releasing (post a new Released: marker), a higher result limit with a note that it truncates silently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…rride, show assignees in the claim check Rewrites steps 2, 3 and 5 for readability: commands in fenced blocks wrapped under 100 columns, [<worker-id>] in every marker example, the override limited to a maintainer's assignment or Taking over:, and the post-claim check printing assignees alongside the markers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Around line 124-125: Update the comments filter in the ownership-check
instructions to include legacy comments beginning with “claimed by ” alongside
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* docs(claude): coordinate parallel work through issue assignment Document how people and their agents pick issues in priority order and claim them by self-assignment (or a claim comment without write access) before starting, so two contributors never fix the same issue in parallel. Same section as LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-cli#2202 and LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-mcp#62. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(claude): include claim comments in the post-claim check Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(claude): use Claiming/Taking over/Released markers to order claims Assignment times aren't visible to gh issue view and keyword matching both misses takeovers and keeps released claims, so claims, takeovers and releases are now marker comments whose timestamps decide precedence. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(claude): address review nits on the issue-assignment section Worker ids for agents sharing a login, maintainer override, a command for releasing (post a new Released: marker), a higher result limit with a note that it truncates silently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(claude): reflow issue-assignment step 2 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(claude): split queries that hit GitHub's 1000-result search cap Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(claude): worker ids in every marker example, maintainer-only override, show assignees in the claim check Rewrites steps 2, 3 and 5 for readability: commands in fenced blocks wrapped under 100 columns, [<worker-id>] in every marker example, the override limited to a maintainer's assignment or Taking over:, and the post-claim check printing assignees alongside the markers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(claude): show legacy "claimed by" comments in the claim check Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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List unprioritised issues and raise the result limit, resolve competing claims by earliest claim, and define the stale-claim handoff when the owner does not reply. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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docs(claude): PR-search limit and shared-login release in the claim rules #76

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