Retire the in-progress label. Work-start on a tracker issue is now
signalled by assigning the issue to the dedicated tracker user
claude — one write, no removal; the assignee survives the close as
provenance. The live worktree branch (issue-N-<slug>, from the
worktree convention) is the matching git-side signal, and it
disappears with the ratified merge on its own.
Rationale (user decision 2026-07-14): a set-and-remove label is
administrative overhead with a lying-label failure mode when the
removal is forgotten; an assignee needs no removal and stays
meaningful after close.
issue/SKILL.md documents the mechanic (PATCH .../issues/<n> with
{"assignees": ["claude"]} — the call replaces the assignee set;
Gitea has no additive endpoint, verified against the live swagger).
boss/SKILL.md Step 2 assigns on a clean pick (chat-seeded runs
assign when the reference issue is created). conventions.md § Issue
tracker carries the cross-project statement. The label itself was
deleted from all Gitea repos that had it (AILang, Aura, Skills,
doctate); the label vocabulary in ~/dev/CLAUDE.md no longer lists
it.
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