linked-issue-check only exempted drafts and the no-issue-needed
label, so member and collaborator PRs failed the linkage gate while
the slop review itself skipped them via skip-roles (#7944).
Skip OWNER, MEMBER, COLLABORATOR, and bot authors as well, reading
the association from the event payload so the permission-free gate
design holds. External contributors still need an issue reference.
Codify the rules agents and contributors are judged by: a tracked
AGENTS.md instruction contract, a Contribution Expectations section in
CONTRIBUTING, and a minimal PR template. Align the AI-slop review
policy with them - linkage substance, test/defensive-code padding,
write-access skips, disclosure as transparency - and add two
tamper-resistant checks: an ai-slop:high merge gate with a linked-issue
requirement (no-issue-needed exemption), plus a docs-consistency anchor
check guarding the cross-references.
Tunglies