PR flow

The rules this procedure carries out live in AGENTS.md (Contributing, Issue-driven work style, Responding to code reviews, Waiting on long-running work). Board mechanics, including every board ID, are in /board-ops; creating a missing issue is /issue-create. This file names board columns and nothing else.

Pull requests against this repo are opened by the maintainers only. Write access is not authorization to open one. Anyone else files a detailed issue (/issue-create) and a maintainer takes it from there.

1. Start from an issue

Every PR closes an issue. A PR with no linked issue has no board card, so the work is invisible to the board. If there is no issue yet, create one first with /issue-create; never open the PR and backfill.