docs(claude): coordinate parallel work through issue assignment

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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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• Documentation
  • Added a required workflow for choosing the oldest unowned issue at the highest available priority, while skipping blocked, needs-info, and wontdo issues.
  • Clarified how to check for existing claims and linked pull requests, claim or take over issues, and release issues when work is dropped.
  • Added guidance for handling large issue-search results and linking completed work to its issue.

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CLAUDE.md adds a workflow for selecting issues, recording ownership, handling active and stale claims, and linking or releasing work.

Changes: Issue Claiming Guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Issue claiming and tracking CLAUDE.md	The guidance specifies priority-based issue selection, claim and PR checks, handling competing or stale claims, linking or releasing work, and assigning issues to untracked work.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~4 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: cristim

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3a3e8

The workflow could miss an existing PR or make an actively claimed issue appear unassigned, risking duplicate contributor effort. These are localized documentation fixes and the remaining risk is bounded.

### Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3a3e8

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 issue selection instructions: query unowned issues by priority, skip specified status labels, check for linked PRs and claims, and split a query into non-overlapping windows if it returns exactly 1,000 results. Unprioritized issues follow p3.
• observed — Modified behavior in CLAUDE.md: Adds the claim and ownership procedure. Contributors post a Claiming: marker before coding and assign themselves when possible; the latest marker per worker determines active status, while unmarked assignments and older free-form claims also count as taken. A later Released: marker ends that worker’s claim.
• observed — Modified behavior in CLAUDE.md: Adds rules against working on another person’s active claim or assignment, with maintainer overrides. For an inactive issue with no linked PR after 7 days, contributors ask the owner before taking over; after 3 more days without a reply, they may post a Taking over: marker. That takeover supersedes only the stale owner’s claim, and the assignment is moved to the new worker.
• observed — Modified behavior in CLAUDE.md: Requires PRs to include Closes #<N>. Contributors who stop without a PR must post a Released: marker and unassign themselves; if the issue is already fixed, they 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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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding issue-assignment guidance to coordinate parallel work through CLAUDE.md.
Docstring Coverage		No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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- Line 82: Update the issue-listing loop in the priority instructions to add a
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- Around line 104-106: Update the claim guidance around “Claiming: working on
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Addressed both CodeRabbit findings in 6d9da75 (unprioritised-issue query; earliest-claim tie-break). Also applied the limit and stale-claim fixes raised on the sibling mcp PR so the two CLAUDE.md files stay identical.

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- Line 120: Update the takeover instructions and step 2 so a contributor’s
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Applied two takeover fixes raised on the sibling mcp PR (LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-mcp#62) in a2a39f9 so both CLAUDE.md files stay identical: the takeover supersedes only the stale owner's claim (other earlier claims still win), and the takeover moves the assignment off the stale owner.

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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 106-109: Update the `gh issue view` query to include
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- Line 139: Update the losing-worker cleanup around `gh issue edit
--remove-assignee @me` to remove the assignment only when no worker under the
same GitHub login has an active claim; preserve the shared assignment while any
such claim remains active.
- Line 100: Update the existing-PR search in the workflow instructions so it
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Independent review verdict: CLEAN, head 3a3e82dea971aca838289f0b8d28b9cd74352ec9

An independent adversarial reviewer (did not author the change) found no blocking issues at this SHA.

Checked:

• The diff only adds the "Issue assignment" section to CLAUDE.md, and it merges cleanly onto current main (git merge-tree exit 0).
• Every query in the section was run read-only against this repo:
  • The priority loop returns oldest-first buckets: p1=1, p2=14, p3=29, unlabelled=1. These add up to the 45 unassigned open issues.
  • All referenced priority/* and status/* labels exist.
  • The comment-marker jq correctly surfaces the legacy claimed by comment on ops(gcp): review legacy Compute Admin grants from setup wizard #2123.
• No contradictions with the review gate, label-mirroring, CR loop or agent-comms rules. The takeover path needs 7 days idle, then an ask, then 3 more days. Release only removes @me.
• CI is green at this SHA, including pre-commit (markdown lint).

Non-blocking nits:

• gh issue list relies on the implicit open-state default.
• The no-priority query is long.

Merge still blocked: CodeRabbit posted 2 actionable findings at this exact SHA. The repo gate requires each one to be fixed or answered with a justification on its thread:

1. The gh pr list existing-PR check needs an explicit --limit.
2. A shared-login release race. This one is real for this repo, where several agents run under one GitHub login, so a losing worker's --remove-assignee @me clears the winner's assignment. Please address it.

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Delta review verdict: CLEAN, head 73f4f5201104e35d69b29962121f9b490c8c7a0b

The same independent reviewer checked the delta 3a3e82de..73f4f520 (one commit, +6/-1 in CLAUDE.md):

• Fix (1): gh pr list ... --limit 1000 --search "<N> in:body" ran read-only and is valid. The added split note matches the issue-query guidance.
• Fix (2): the shared-login release rule is consistent with the step-2 active-claim definition. It leaves no stale assignment, because the last worker on the login has no other active claim and so does unassign.
• The earlier conclusions still hold, and it merges cleanly onto main (git merge-tree exit 0).

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• Both actionable findings from the 3a3e82de review are resolved. CR confirmed both threads.
• Its incremental review of this commit was rate-limited. CR waived: quota, adversarial review + local verification + green CI (pending CI below).

Non-blocking nit: the step-3 takeover runs --remove-assignee <old-owner>, which has the same shared-login hazard when the stale owner's login hosts other active workers. It's rare and covered by the ask-first flow.

Not yet mergeable: fork CI runs 38831188233 (CI - Build & Test) and 38831188324 (pre-commit) at this SHA are awaiting maintainer approval. Once both pass, this PR meets the gate.