Review AFK software workflow patterns

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Summary

Review established GitHub workflow patterns for delegating bounded software tasks to agents while a developer is away, and extract practices applicable to StarCast.

Source

Thoughtbot: Creating software while AFK with GitHub Workflows

Questions

• How are tasks selected, scoped, and authorized?
• What artifacts are produced for human review?
• How are failures, retries, cancellation, and partial changes handled?
• Which parts belong in reusable workflows versus consumer repositories?
• What security boundaries are required for untrusted issue content and repository credentials?

Acceptance criteria

• Summarize the transferable patterns and constraints.
• Map useful patterns to existing or proposed StarCast issues.
• Record rejected patterns and why they do not fit the StarCast model.

Origin

Migrated from dupmachine/ground-control#455.