---
name: jira-build-intake
description: "Symmetric counterpart to notion-prd-intake on the JIRA side. Scans a JIRA project (or JQL filter) for tickets in the configured `ready` status, claims the first eligible ticket by transitioning to the configured `claimed` status, runs the implementation/build flow via jira-agent, transitions to the configured `done` status on completion, then exits. Enforces the claim-time arm of the `leaf-only-lifecycle` rule: a parent/container with open child work (or a childless Epic) that still carries a stale build-ready status is skipped or safe-blocked with a lifecycle-repair comment, never claimed. The `ready` status is the human-flipped signal that a TODO ticket is truly ready for development — mirroring how Notion PRDs work product Draft → Ready → (us) In Review → Blocked|Ticketed."
allowed-tools: ["Skill", "Bash"]
---

# JIRA Build Intake: $ARGUMENTS

All Atlassian operations in this skill go through `lisa:atlassian-access`. Do not call MCP tools or `acli` directly.

`$ARGUMENTS` is one of:

1. A JIRA project key (e.g. `SE`) — scans that project for tickets in the configured `ready` status.
2. A full JQL filter (e.g. `project = SE AND component = "frontend" AND Status = Ready`) — used as-is. The skill will not append a `Status = <ready>` clause if the JQL already names a status, so callers can intentionally widen.

Run one build-intake cycle. The first eligible ready ticket is claimed, built via the `lisa:jira-agent` flow, transitioned to the configured `done` status (env-aware — see below), then the cycle exits. Remaining ready tickets stay queued for later scheduler invocations.

## Workflow resolution

Status names are read from `.lisa.config.json` `jira.workflow.*`, falling back to defaults documented in the `config-resolution` rule. Bash pattern:

```bash
# Read role with default fallback. Local overrides global per-key.
read_role() {
  local role="$1" default="$2"
  local local_v global_v
  local_v=$(jq -r ".jira.workflow.${role} // empty" .lisa.config.local.json 2>/dev/null)
  global_v=$(jq -r ".jira.workflow.${role} // empty" .lisa.config.json 2>/dev/null)
  echo "${local_v:-${global_v:-$default}}"
}

READY=$(read_role ready "Ready")
CLAIMED=$(read_role claimed "In Progress")
```

For env-keyed `done`, resolve the env first, then look up `done[<env>]`:

1. Explicit caller arg (`target_env=staging`) wins.
2. Otherwise, infer the env from the PR's base branch via `deploy.branches` (reverse lookup: if base is `staging`, env is `staging`).
3. If `done` in config is a **string** (not a map), use it directly regardless of env.
4. If `done` is a **map** and env cannot be resolved, **fail loudly** — do not pick arbitrarily.

```bash
# Resolve env, then DONE.
TARGET_ENV="${target_env:-}"  # from caller args if supplied
if [ -z "$TARGET_ENV" ] && [ -n "$PR_BASE_BRANCH" ]; then
  TARGET_ENV=$(jq -r --arg b "$PR_BASE_BRANCH" \
    '.deploy.branches // {} | to_entries[] | select(.value == $b) | .key' \
    .lisa.config.json 2>/dev/null | head -1)
fi

DONE_RAW=$(jq -r '.jira.workflow.done // empty' .lisa.config.json 2>/dev/null)
DONE_TYPE=$(jq -r '.jira.workflow.done | type' .lisa.config.json 2>/dev/null)
if [ "$DONE_TYPE" = "string" ]; then
  DONE="$DONE_RAW"
elif [ "$DONE_TYPE" = "object" ]; then
  [ -z "$TARGET_ENV" ] && { echo "ERROR: jira.workflow.done is env-keyed but env not resolvable"; exit 1; }
  DONE=$(jq -r --arg e "$TARGET_ENV" '.jira.workflow.done[$e] // empty' .lisa.config.json)
  [ -z "$DONE" ] && { echo "ERROR: jira.workflow.done has no entry for env '$TARGET_ENV'"; exit 1; }
else
  # Default: env-keyed map matching legacy hardcoded names.
  case "$TARGET_ENV" in
    dev) DONE="On Dev" ;;
    staging) DONE="On Stg" ;;
    production) DONE="Done" ;;
    *) echo "ERROR: cannot resolve done status without env"; exit 1 ;;
  esac
fi
```

Run one build-intake cycle. The first eligible ticket in `$READY` is claimed by transitioning to `$CLAIMED`, built via the `lisa:jira-agent` flow, transitioned to `$DONE` on completion, then the cycle exits.

## Confirmation policy

Do NOT ask the caller whether to proceed. Once invoked with a project key or JQL, run the cycle to completion — claim and dispatch the first eligible ticket through `lisa:jira-agent`, transition a successful build to `$DONE`, write the summary, and exit. The caller (a human or a cron) has already authorized the run by invoking the skill; re-prompting defeats the purpose of a background queue.

Specifically forbidden:

- Previewing projected scope (ticket count, projected PR count, build duration) and asking whether to continue.
- Offering A/B/C-style choices like "proceed / skip a few / dry-run only" — the documented behavior IS the default.
- Pausing because the queue is large, tickets look complex, or tickets are likely to be `Blocked` by `lisa:jira-agent`'s pre-flight gate. The pre-flight `Blocked` outcome is a valid terminal state of the per-ticket lifecycle (owned by `lisa:jira-agent`), not a failure mode — surfacing those tickets to humans is success.
- Pausing because the build flow looks expensive. The cost of one cycle is bounded; the cost of stalling a scheduled cron waiting on a human is unbounded.

The only legitimate reasons to stop early:

- Missing project key / JQL or required configuration. Surface the missing value and exit.
- Workflow misconfigured (pre-flight check finds `$CLAIMED` or `$DONE` not reachable, or `$READY` status absent). Surface and exit.
- Empty ready set. Exit cleanly with `"No tickets with Status=$READY. Nothing to do."`

## Lifecycle assumed

The JIRA workflow has these statuses (configured per project — see Workflow resolution above for how role names map to actual workflow values):

```text
TODO → ready → claimed → done(env-keyed) → On QA → archive
       (PM/    (us claim)  (us done;        (downstream)
        human)              PR ready)
```

This skill ONLY transitions `$READY → $CLAIMED` on claim, and `$CLAIMED → $DONE` on completion. It never touches `TODO`, post-`done` statuses, or any blocked/closed states.

**Pre-flight check**: at start of each cycle, attempt the `$CLAIMED` and `$DONE` transitions against a sample ready ticket via `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: transition key: <K> to: "<status>"` (in a probe / dry-run sense — or fetch transition metadata if the access skill exposes that). If the transitions are unreachable, stop and report the workflow misconfiguration to the caller — do not invent transitions.

## Phases

### Phase 1 — Resolve the query

1. Parse `$ARGUMENTS`:
   - Project key: build JQL `project = <KEY> AND Status = "$READY" ORDER BY priority DESC, created ASC`.
   - Full JQL: use as-is. If it does not include a `Status` clause, append `AND Status = "$READY"`.
2. Confirm the configured Atlassian site by invoking `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: list-sites` (it enforces connection match against `.lisa.config.json`).

### Phase 2 — Find ready tickets

Invoke `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: search-issues jql: "<JQL>"`. Capture each ticket's: key, summary, issue type, priority, assignee, parent (epic), labels, components.

If empty, report `"No tickets with Status=$READY. Nothing to do."` and exit. This is the common idle case.

### Phase 3 — Process the first eligible ready ticket

#### 3a.0 Repo-scope gate (claim only current-repo tickets)

A JIRA project can oversee multiple repos (`frontend` / `backend` / `infrastructure`). This skill claims only tickets for the repo it is running in. Run this gate **before** the leaf-only gate (3a) and the claim (3b), per the `repo-scope-split` rule's "Claim-time repo scoping" section (cite it by slug; do not restate its decision table).

1. **Resolve the current repo** per `config-resolution` "Repo scoping" (`.repo` → `.github.repo` → `git remote get-url origin` basename). If unresolvable, stop and report — do not claim tickets you cannot scope.
2. **Cheap path first.** Prefer candidates already carrying `repo:<current>` — a JIRA **label**, or a **component** equal to the repo name (accepted as an alias). Keep the Phase 2 scan broad (it must still see unlabeled tickets so they can be determined and stamped); this gate orders/filters the results.
3. **Per candidate, apply the repo-scope decision (`repo-scope-split`):**
   - Carries `repo:<other>` (label or component) → **skip** (leave it `ready` for that repo's own intake); next candidate.
   - **Unlabeled** → determine the target repo(s) from the ticket (description, AC, technical approach) confirmed against the code surfaces, then **stamp** `repo:<name>` via `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: write-ticket` (add the label / set the component) so later cycles filter cheaply; re-apply with the now-known repo.
   - **Multi-repo leaf → split, never claim.** Run the `repo-scope-split` work-time procedure to break it into single-repo siblings, each created **build-ready** (`build_ready: true`) and stamped with its own `repo:<name>`; the current repo's sibling becomes a normal candidate.
   - **Single-repo leaf for the current repo** → fall through to 3a (leaf-only gate) and 3b (claim).
4. Continue until a claimable current-repo leaf is found (claim it; one per cycle) or the ready set is exhausted — exit cleanly with `"No ready tickets for repo <current>. Nothing to do."`.

#### 3a. Leaf-only claim gate (skip / safe-block containers)

Build intake claims **only independently implementable leaf work units**. This enforces the claim-time arm of the vendor-neutral `leaf-only-lifecycle` rule: a parent/container that still carries a stale build-ready status (e.g. `Ready` applied before this rule existed, or hand-applied to an Epic/Story) is **never claimed** — intake skips it or safe-blocks it with a clear lifecycle-repair message. It is the claim-time complement to the write-time labeling in `lisa:jira-write-ticket` and the validate-time S15 gate in `lisa:jira-validate-ticket`; all three cite the same rule so the classification never drifts. **Never silently implement a container.**

Run this gate **before** the claim transition, starting with the oldest/highest-priority ready candidate. Do NOT transition, comment "Claimed", or invoke `lisa:jira-agent` for a ticket that fails the gate.

**Resolve container vs. leaf — structural first, then nominal.** Per `leaf-only-lifecycle` the classification is structural: a ticket is a **container** if it has **open** child work, whatever its declared type; otherwise the **issue type** decides. Resolve child work using the same hierarchy `lisa:jira-read-ticket` uses — JIRA's native Epic → Story → Sub-task parentage (Epic link / parent field for Stories under an Epic, and the subtask relationship for Sub-tasks under a Story/Task). Issue links (`blocks` / `is blocked by`) express cross-item dependencies and are **not** parentage — do not count them as children.

Fetch the ticket's children via `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: search-issues` with a JQL that resolves both subtasks and Epic-linked Stories, then count those still open (not in a resolved/Done status):

```bash
# Children of <TICKET>: native subtasks plus, for an Epic, its linked Stories.
# (parent = <TICKET>) covers Sub-tasks and child issues; ("Epic Link" = <TICKET>)
# covers Stories under an Epic on JIRA instances that expose the Epic Link field.
CHILDREN_JQL='(parent = "<TICKET>" OR "Epic Link" = "<TICKET>")'
# Count children whose status is NOT a resolved/terminal one. A parent whose
# children are all Done is no longer holding open work and rolls up via
# leaf-only-lifecycle's rollup, not here.
OPEN_CHILDREN_JQL="${CHILDREN_JQL} AND statusCategory != Done"
```

Invoke `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: search-issues jql: "<OPEN_CHILDREN_JQL>"` and let `OPEN_CHILDREN` be the count of returned issues (0 if none). If the JQL cannot resolve the `Epic Link` field on this instance (older JIRA / team-managed projects expose parentage differently), fall back to the parentage `lisa:jira-read-ticket` derives and treat the ticket as a container if any derived child is open. Note "Epic Link unavailable — parentage derived" so the operator knows how children were resolved.

Classify and act (first match wins). The issue type comes from the ticket's `issuetype` field (`Epic`, `Story`, `Spike`, `Bug`, `Task`, `Sub-task`, `Improvement`):

| Condition | Class | Action |
|---|---|---|
| `OPEN_CHILDREN > 0` (open child work, any type) | **Container** | **Skip / safe-block — do NOT claim** |
| no open children AND type = Epic | **Childless Epic (pure rollup container)** | **Skip / safe-block — do NOT claim** |
| no open children AND type ≠ Epic (Bug, Task, Sub-task, Improvement, Story, Spike, or no recognized type) | **Leaf work unit** | **Proceed to 3b claim** |

The childless-parent exception promotes every childless type **except Epic** to a claimable leaf: a childless Story is a directly shippable increment and a childless Spike *is* the investigation unit, so neither is stranded. Only a childless **Epic** stays unclaimed — an Epic is a pure rollup container by design, and a childless one is an incomplete decomposition or a mis-applied role, never an implementable unit.

**Safe-block (default action for a flagged container).** Leave the build-ready status in place (don't silently transition it away — that hides the lifecycle error), post a single lifecycle-repair comment, record the ticket under "Skipped (container)" in the summary, and end the cycle. Do NOT transition to `$CLAIMED`. Keep the comment idempotent — skip posting if an identical `[claude-build-intake]` lifecycle-repair comment already exists on the ticket, so a re-entrant cycle doesn't spam it.

Post via `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: comment key: <TICKET> body: "<message>"` with:

```text
[claude-build-intake] Not claimed: this ticket carries the build-ready status ($READY) but is a container with open child work (or a childless Epic), which violates the leaf-only-lifecycle rule. Build-ready (status:ready) is leaf-only per leaf-only-lifecycle — an agent claims and implements leaves, never a container. Repair: move $READY off this parent onto its leaf children (or, for a childless Epic, decompose it into leaf children or reclassify it to a leaf type). A parent's lifecycle state rolls up from its children and is never set to ready directly.
```

This gate never blocks a legitimate flat Task/Bug: those have no open children and a leaf type, so they fall straight through to the claim in 3b.

#### 3b. Claim

Transition the ticket from `$READY` to `$CLAIMED` by invoking `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: transition key: <TICKET> to: "$CLAIMED"`.
- **Assign to the authenticated user when the ticket is unassigned.** A claim must be attributable. If the ticket has no assignee, assign it to the authenticated account — prefer acli `--assignee @me` (resolves server-side to the authenticated user, which avoids the federated-`accountId` mis-assignment), or `write-ticket` with the `accountId` from the `/rest/api/3/myself` identity probe the access skill already documents. Leave an already-assigned ticket's assignee untouched — never reassign work that already has an owner.
- Post a `[claude-build-intake]` comment via `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: comment key: <TICKET> body: "Claimed by Claude. Starting build."`
- This is the idempotency lock — a re-entrant cycle's `Status = $READY` filter will not see this ticket again.

If the transition fails (permission, missing transition, race), log under "Errors" in the cycle summary and skip this ticket. **Do not invoke the build flow on a ticket you didn't successfully claim.**

#### 3c. Run the build flow

Invoke the `lisa:jira-agent` (existing per-ticket lifecycle agent) with the ticket key. `lisa:jira-agent` owns:
- Reading the full ticket graph (`lisa:jira-read-ticket`)
- Running its own pre-flight quality gate (`lisa:jira-verify`)
- Running ticket triage (`lisa:ticket-triage`)
- Routing to the appropriate flow (Build / Fix / Investigate / Improve based on type)
- Posting progress comments via `lisa:jira-sync`
- Posting evidence via `lisa:jira-evidence`

Wait for `lisa:jira-agent` to return. Capture its outcome:
- **Success** — the build flow completed and a PR exists; evidence posted. The PR may already be **merged** or still **open** (auto-merge enabled, awaiting checks/merge). "Success" means the build work is sound — it does **not** assert the change reached an environment. The env transition in 3d gates on the PR actually being merged; an open PR does not advance the ticket to a `done` env status.
- **Blocked by jira-verify pre-flight gate** — `lisa:jira-agent` itself transitions the ticket to `Blocked` and reassigns to Reporter. This is correct and expected — let it stand. Record the outcome and move on.
- **Duplicate already fixed** — `lisa:jira-agent` / `lisa:ticket-triage` returned `DUPLICATE_ALREADY_FIXED` with a canonical ticket reference and empirical base-branch evidence. Post the triage finding, ensure the native `duplicates <canonical>` link exists, transition to the terminal `$DONE` status with resolution `Duplicate`, and do not open a PR. If the canonical fix is merged but not yet on the production branch, the close comment must say the production error can recur until the canonical ticket promotes and that recurrence is tracked by the canonical ticket; do not reopen this duplicate for that recurrence.
- **Blocked by ticket-triage ambiguities** — `lisa:jira-agent` posts findings and stops. The ticket stays in `$CLAIMED`. Surface to human; do not auto-transition. Record under "Errors" with reason `"Triage found ambiguities — see comments on <ticket-key>"`.
- **Errored** — exception, missing config, etc. Leave the ticket in `$CLAIMED` for human investigation. Record under "Errors" with the exception summary.

#### 3c.1 Close duplicate already fixed

Run this only when the returned triage verdict is exactly `DUPLICATE_ALREADY_FIXED`.

1. Verify the structured result includes a canonical ticket reference, the canonical PR/commit, and empirical evidence that the canonical fix is present on the base branch. If any piece is missing, treat the outcome as Held instead of closing.
2. Post or preserve the triage-finding comment that explains why this ticket is a duplicate and names the canonical ticket.
3. Ensure the native `duplicates <canonical>` link exists through `lisa:atlassian-access`.
4. Resolve the terminal `$DONE` value exactly as in Phase 3d. For env-keyed workflows, duplicate closeout uses the production/final done status, not an intermediate `On Dev`/`On Stg` waypoint.
5. Transition to `$DONE` with JIRA resolution `Duplicate`. If `acli` cannot set resolution on transition, use the Atlassian REST transition-with-fields path exposed by `lisa:atlassian-access`, or a documented follow-up edit that sets the resolution immediately after transition. Do not report success with an empty resolution when the workflow requires one.
6. Post a close comment naming the canonical ticket, PR/commit, and base-branch evidence.

If the canonical fix is merged but not yet present on the production branch, append the production-promotion caveat to the close comment: the production error can recur until the canonical ticket promotes, and recurrence is tracked by the canonical ticket rather than by reopening this duplicate.

This path is distinct from `BLOCKED`: ambiguity, open blockers, and duplicate-of-open findings remain held for human action and must not be auto-closed.

#### 3d. Transition to $DONE (only after the PR is merged)

A `done` env status (`On Dev`, `On Stg`, or the terminal value) asserts that the code has actually reached that environment. Never set it for a PR that is merely open: auto-merge can be blocked indefinitely (a required rebase / `BEHIND` branch, failing checks, an unaddressed review), and the change may never land. Setting `On Stg` on an open PR makes a ticket *claim* a deploy that never happened. Transition only after confirming the PR merged.

If `lisa:jira-agent` returned Success:
1. **Confirm the PR merged.** Read the live state of the ticket's PR — `gh pr view <pr> --json state,mergedAt,mergeStateStatus,url`:
   - **Merged** (`state == MERGED`) → proceed to resolve and apply `$DONE` below. Where the env deploy is observable (a deploy workflow run / deployment status keyed to the merged-into branch via `deploy.branches`), confirm it did not fail before transitioning; a still-running deploy is treated like an open PR (leave in `$CLAIMED` for a later cycle), a failed deploy is recorded as an Error.
   - **Open / not yet merged** → do **not** transition. The build is sound but the change has reached no environment yet. Record the ticket under **"PR open — awaiting merge"** in the summary (with the PR URL and its `mergeStateStatus`), leave it in `$CLAIMED`, and stop. A later `lisa:repair-intake` cycle drives the open PR to merge — re-syncing a `BEHIND` branch so the already-enabled auto-merge can land, or surfacing a real blocker — and, once it is merged, applies this same env transition. Do **not** comment "Build complete" or file anything: the work is in-flight, not done.
   - **Closed without merging** → record an Error (the PR was abandoned unmerged); leave the ticket in `$CLAIMED` for human investigation.
2. Resolve `$DONE` for this ticket's PR base branch using the Workflow resolution algorithm above. If env can't be resolved and `done` is env-keyed, record an Error and skip this transition — never guess.
3. Determine whether `$DONE` is the true terminal done value per the `leaf-only-lifecycle` rule's Terminal native closure section:
   - If `jira.workflow.done` is a string, that status is terminal.
   - If `jira.workflow.done` is an object, only the production/final environment value is terminal (default: `Done`). Intermediate env statuses such as `On Dev` and `On Stg` are not terminal and must remain unresolved / open.
   - If the project uses a different final environment name, resolve it from the configured deployment topology; if ambiguous, record an Error and do not finalize native resolution.
4. Invoke `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: transition key: <TICKET> to: "$DONE"`.
5. If `$DONE` is terminal, verify the resulting JIRA issue is natively closed/resolved: status category is `Done`, and resolution is set when the project's workflow requires one. If the transition screen requires an explicit resolution, use the configured default resolution if present; otherwise record an Error naming the missing workflow setup rather than silently landing in an unresolved Done-named status.
6. Post a `[claude-build-intake]` comment via `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: comment key: <TICKET> body: "Build complete. PR <URL> merged. Transitioned to $DONE."` Include whether terminal native resolution was verified, already satisfied, skipped for an intermediate env, or blocked by workflow setup.

For any non-Success outcome, do NOT transition. The ticket sits in `$CLAIMED` (or wherever `lisa:jira-agent` left it for the Blocked case) — the cycle's job is done; humans take it from there.

#### 3d.1 Roll up the parent chain (forward rollup)

Run this **only after a successful `$DONE` transition in 3d**. This is the **forward** arm of the `leaf-only-lifecycle` rule's *"rollup is evaluated whenever a child transitions"* requirement: a leaf reaching `$DONE` may complete its parent Story, which may in turn complete its Epic. Without this step a fully-built parent stays open until the recovery `lisa:repair-intake` cron happens to run.

1. Resolve the ticket's parent using the same hierarchy `lisa:jira-read-ticket` uses — the native Epic → Story → Sub-task parentage (parent field / Epic link). If the ticket has no parent, skip — nothing to roll up.
2. Walk **up the ancestor chain bottom-up** (Sub-task → Story → Epic): for each ancestor invoke `lisa:jira-sync <ANCESTOR-KEY> --rollup`. That skill derives the ancestor's status from its children per `leaf-only-lifecycle`, applies it via `lisa:atlassian-access` `operation: transition` only when it differs (never the build-ready status), and performs terminal native resolution (`statusCategory = Done` with a resolution when the workflow requires one) when the derived env is the terminal `$DONE`. It is idempotent and safe-defaults (suggests, does not guess) when the rolled state is ambiguous.
3. Stop walking up when an ancestor has no parent, or when `--rollup` reports no change. Record each rolled-up ancestor and its derived state in the summary.

This does not re-implement the state machine — it delegates to `lisa:jira-sync --rollup`, the single rollup implementation `lisa:repair-intake` also uses, so the forward and recovery paths can never drift. Children closed **outside** this flow are not observed here; `lisa:repair-intake` remains the recovery net for those.

#### 3e. Stop

Stop immediately after the first claimed, skipped, blocked, held, or errored ticket. Later scheduler invocations process the remaining ready tickets.

### Phase 4 — Summary report

```text
## jira-build-intake summary

Query: <JQL or project key>
Cycle started: <ISO timestamp>
Cycle completed: <ISO timestamp>

Tickets processed: <n>
- $DONE (build complete, PR merged): <n>
  - <ticket-key> <summary> → PR <URL>
- PR open — awaiting merge (left in $CLAIMED for repair-intake): <n>
  - <ticket-key> <summary> → PR <URL> (mergeStateStatus: <state>)
- Skipped (container — leaf-only-lifecycle): <n>
  - <ticket-key> <summary> — build-ready on a parent with open child work; lifecycle-repair comment posted
- Duplicate already fixed (closed as Duplicate): <n>
  - <ticket-key> <summary> — duplicate of <canonical>; no PR opened
- Blocked (pre-flight verify failed): <n>
  - <ticket-key> <summary> — see ticket comments
- Held (triage found ambiguities): <n>
  - <ticket-key> <summary> — see ticket comments
- Errors: <n>
  - <ticket-key> <summary> — <reason>

Total PRs opened: <n>
```

## Idempotency & safety

- **Leaf-only claim gate runs first**: Phase 3a classifies each candidate before any claim; a container with open child work (or a childless Epic) is skipped/safe-blocked, never claimed (the `leaf-only-lifecycle` rule's claim-time arm). The safe-block comment is idempotent — a re-entrant cycle does not re-post it.
- **Claim-first ordering**: `$CLAIMED` set BEFORE `lisa:jira-agent` invocation — no double-pickup.
- **No writes outside the lifecycle**: this skill only transitions `$READY → $CLAIMED` and `$CLAIMED → $DONE`, then verifies terminal native resolution when `$DONE` is the true terminal state per `leaf-only-lifecycle`. Every other status change is owned by `lisa:jira-agent` (which suggests transitions but only auto-transitions on the verify-FAIL path).
- **Duplicate terminal exception**: `DUPLICATE_ALREADY_FIXED` is the only triage outcome that may close a claimed ticket without a PR from this cycle. It must include a canonical ticket reference and empirical base-branch evidence, and it resolves as Duplicate rather than as completed build work.
- **Terminal native closure**: for terminal `$DONE`, the resulting JIRA issue must be in a resolved / closed state (`statusCategory = Done` and resolution set when required). Intermediate env statuses stay unresolved / open.
- **One item per cycle**: per-ticket exceptions are caught and recorded, then the cycle exits. The scheduler owns retrying or moving on to the next ready item.
- **Single cycle per query**: do not run two `lisa:jira-build-intake` cycles concurrently against overlapping queries — concurrent claims could race. The scheduling layer (when added) is responsible for serialization.
- **Never invent a transition**: if `$CLAIMED` or `$DONE` aren't valid transitions in the project's workflow, stop and report rather than guessing alternative names.

## Configuration

Reads `atlassian.cloudId`, `jira.project`, and `jira.workflow.{ready,claimed,done}` from `.lisa.config.json` (with `.lisa.config.local.json` overriding per key). The project key is also accepted as `$ARGUMENTS` for ad-hoc invocations.

Status role names default to:
- `ready` → `"Ready"`
- `claimed` → `"In Progress"`
- `done` → env-keyed map `{ "dev": "On Dev", "staging": "On Stg", "production": "Done" }`

If a project uses different names (e.g. `Open` instead of `TODO`, `In Development` instead of `In Progress`, `Code Review` for terminal), override the relevant key in `.lisa.config.json` `jira.workflow.*`. The setup skills (`/lisa:setup:jira`) handle this interactively.

Per-invocation overrides via `$ARGUMENTS` (e.g. `claim_status="In Development"`) are accepted as a secondary escape hatch but `.lisa.config.json` is the canonical source.

If a ready-equivalent status does not exist in the JIRA project's workflow, this skill cannot run. The remediation is to add it to the project workflow scheme — JIRA admin task, not something this skill can do.

| Field / variable | Default | Purpose |
|------------------|---------|---------|
| `.lisa.config.json` `jira.project` | (from `$ARGUMENTS`) | Project key for the default JQL |
| `.lisa.config.json` `atlassian.cloudId` | — | Atlassian Cloud site UUID (required) |
| `.lisa.config.json` `jira.workflow.ready` | `Ready` | The status that signals "human says this is buildable" |
| `.lisa.config.json` `jira.workflow.claimed` | `In Progress` | The intermediate status the agent sets on pickup |
| `.lisa.config.json` `jira.workflow.done` | env-keyed map (`dev`/`staging`/`production`) or string | The status set after a successful build; env-aware |
| `.lisa.config.json` `deploy.branches` | — | Reverse-lookup map for env inference from PR base branch |

## Rules

- **Claim leaves only.** Per the `leaf-only-lifecycle` rule, never claim a container — a ticket with open child work, or a childless Epic — even if it carries the build-ready status. Skip or safe-block it (Phase 3a); never silently implement a container.
- Never transition a ticket the cycle didn't claim. The `$CLAIMED` transition is the signature of cycle ownership.
- Never bypass `lisa:jira-agent` to do build work directly. `lisa:jira-agent` owns the per-ticket lifecycle (read, verify, triage, route, sync, evidence). This skill is the dispatcher, not the builder.
- Never auto-transition past `$DONE`. Downstream statuses are owned by QA / product / a future verification-intake skill — not this one.
- Never resolve / close a JIRA ticket at intermediate env statuses (`On Dev`, `On Stg`, or configured equivalents). Native resolution is terminal-only.
- If the ticket has no Validation Journey or no sign-in credentials in its description, `lisa:jira-agent`'s pre-flight verify will catch it and transition to `Blocked` — **don't try to fix the ticket from here**. Pre-flight gating is `lisa:jira-agent`'s job; running build work on a thin ticket produces broken work.
- On any unexpected response from `lisa:jira-agent` (status it doesn't claim, missing PR URL on success, etc.), record as Error and surface — never assume.
- Never pick an arbitrary env for `$DONE` resolution. If `done` is a map and env is ambiguous, fail loudly.