Tracking: portable work-item skill and remaining open-ticket drain

[MohabMohie]

Owner asked this session to drain every open SHAFT ticket in the fewest coherent batches, add a portable ChaosEngine work-item skill (Spec Kit structure, source-control agnostic), and keep valid taxonomy labels on current and new tickets.

This tracker is the status page. Related groups close via their own Closes #N lines, never this issue.

Problem Statement

Open tickets are unlabeled or partially labeled, ChaosEngine filing is GitHub-only, and leftover review pins plus product leftovers remain after the #5161 stop. Agents need one portable work-item contract that still works on GitLab or Azure DevOps.

Proposed Solution

Sequential orchestrated batches. Main thread does not implement. One writer at a time. Auto-merge after independent review and green required checks. Park #4307, #5144, and #5151 as blocked.

Tracking

Batch 0 (merged):

• Add portable ChaosEngine work-item skill and Spec Kit contract #5187 Portable ChaosEngine work-item skill
• Lift issue filing onto portable SCM adapters #5188 SCM adapters and GitHub filing lift
• Retag and Spec-Kit rewrite every currently open SHAFT issue #5189 Retag and Spec-Kit rewrite of every currently open issue

Landed: #5190 at 2026-08-18T21:23:25Z (985b4ba293).

Later writers (paused — writer hosts exhausted):

• Pin playbook companion-docs first-occurrence of never a fixed sibling path #5180 Pin playbook companion-docs first-occurrence of description of the change #5182 Pin playbook companion-docs first-occurrence of locator policy #5183 companion-docs first-occurrence pins
• Pin shaft-pilot-release isolation to slice if: changed and aggregator fail-closed #5184 validate_static certifies a non-isolated stub when workflow text lacks jobs: #5185 pilot-release isolation pins
• validate_scheduled_build_retry synthetic tests fail on main for mvn test classification #5178 Required PR Gate does not run the coverage-upload continue-on-error pin #5172 quality-config / required PR Gate
• Doctor firstFailedLocator still greedy when By.cssSelector: precedes getBy* on the same line #5165 AutobotService still has its own SECRET_LIKE copy and no locator redaction #5166 Doctor leftovers
• Pin launcher index-v2 command order, not only substring presence #5078 Flake: Windows nested-dir hook command times out after 10s in Agent Guidance Gate #5117 Force-include SHAFT .toml paths in the MemPalace promote list #5128 harness leftovers
• Spec Kit hygiene rewrite must specialize stories, not stamp one template #5193 specialize Spec Kit hygiene stories (Learning Loop from feat(harness): portable work-item skill and open-issue Spec Kit hygiene #5190)

Parked (no writer):

• Tracking: [External contribution] SeleniumHQ/selenium#12892 Java logging consistency #4307 blocked on [java] Make selenium.debug/webdriver.verbose configure the real logger (Mechanism Only) SeleniumHQ/selenium#17841
• One Aider Java flow against the Soup-trained Ollama name plus harvest #5144 blocked on a trained Ollama name from closed Owner-gated soup train, GGUF export, and new Ollama name #5143
• Refresh IntelliJ plugin user-guide screenshots against current plugin UI #5151 blocked on owner GUI approval

Pause

Codex usage limit until 2026-08-20 13:20. Grok Build subagent balance exhausted (402). Owner rule: pause when the usage limit is reached. Do not start the next writer from this session.

Acceptance

• Batch 0 PR closes Add portable ChaosEngine work-item skill and Spec Kit contract #5187 Lift issue filing onto portable SCM adapters #5188 Retag and Spec-Kit rewrite every currently open SHAFT issue #5189, not this tracker.
• This tracker stays open until later batches finish or remaining children are parked blocked.

[MohabMohie]

Approved orchestrator plan is on the host plan file. Batch 0 writer owns #5187 #5188 #5189 only. Base: origin/main 7e69e0b34a. Isolated worktree. Tests: only those created or edited in Batch 0. Do not vendor Spec Kit. Copy executable-spec matrices onto #5187 before the first implementing commit.

[MohabMohie]

Batch 0 writer dispatched. Isolated worktree C:\Users\Mohab\IdeaProjects\SHAFT_ENGINE-wt-5187-work-item on ChaosEngine/work-item-portable from 7e69e0b34a. Codex model gpt-5.3-codex-spark. Scope: #5187 #5188 #5189 only. Orchestrator idle for owner commands.

[MohabMohie]

Batch 0 spark writer died: Selected model is at capacity after 1,240,886 tokens and zero commits. Isolated tree still at 7e69e0b34a. Dispatching fallback gpt-5.6-luna on the same worktree. Spark process already exited.

[MohabMohie]

Codex gpt-5.6-luna refused: usage limit until 2026-08-20 13:20. Spark already capacity-failed. Dispatching planned lower-capability writer on the same isolated worktree. Owner pause rule applies to this host's usage limit, not to abandoning the batch after the Codex host died.

[MohabMohie]

Batch 0 progress

PR #5190 opened from ChaosEngine/work-item-portable (does not close this tracker).

• Add portable ChaosEngine work-item skill and Spec Kit contract #5187/Lift issue filing onto portable SCM adapters #5188 code+skill+adapters+templates are on the PR.
• Retag and Spec-Kit rewrite every currently open SHAFT issue #5189 hygiene: open issues retagged to valid taxonomy; Spec Kit sections added; Tracking: [External contribution] SeleniumHQ/selenium#12892 Java logging consistency #4307/One Aider Java flow against the Soup-trained Ollama name plus harvest #5144/Refresh IntelliJ plugin user-guide screenshots against current plugin UI #5151 parked blocked with https dependency URLs.
• py -3 scripts/agents/act_as_mohab_cli.py issue-labels dry-run: migrationAudit empty.
• Focused tests: py -3 -m unittest tests.scripts.test_issue_filing — 20 OK.

Leave Batch 0 checkboxes unchecked until #5190 merges.