Trackers answer why and when
The ticket is the right place for priority, owner, roadmap context, and coordination. Day Shift does not replace that team-management layer.
Answer page
Jira/Linear vs repository-level agent workflow governance
Keep planning and coordination in your tracker; govern the implementation contract and validation evidence in the repository.
Direct answer
Jira and Linear should keep owning prioritization, ownership, and cross-team status. Repository-level governance should own the coding-agent boundary: exact scope, target paths, validation, implementation evidence, and acceptance review beside the code that changed.
Practical guidance
Make the next review decision easier.
The repository answers what changed
The task definition and implementation summary hold the implementation-specific contract and evidence. Keeping them near the code makes review and later maintenance more reliable.
Link at the handoff
Reference the ticket from the repository work and link the reconciliation result back to the ticket. Each system retains the facts it is best positioned to govern.
Verified demo evidence
A public prompt and outcome, not a completion claim.
This prompt and outcome are from the website’s checked-in synthetic repository demo. Substitute your own repository paths and declared validation gates when you apply the workflow.
Repository-writing command
Prompt: "Build milestone reconciliation evidence from current task and validation state."
outcome: reconciliation_status: completedAuthorship and sources
Trace this guidance to maintained product evidence.
- Maintainer
- Tianna McCoy ↗Day Shift maintainer; responsible for the repository-native workflow and release evidence referenced here.
- Last updated
- Tested Day Shift
- v0.2.26
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