14-day stale PR close

Close contributor pull requests that have been waiting on the author past the stale threshold. This is not a merge, not a VISION verdict, and not a factory-ship close.

Parameters

Read these from the triage charter or the invocation. Do not hardcode them.

repo — OWNER/NAME of the target repository. Required on every gh call. Do not clone.
owner — captain's personal GitHub login to exempt (not the org or repo-owner slug). Never close that login's PRs except a last-resort port whose original is also stale (or already closed).
disclosure-line — the exact first line of the required close comment.
stale-days — default 14.
firstmate-mark — text that must start a firstmate comment. Usually the disclosure line.

Stamp outcome is closed-stale-<stale-days>d (so closed-stale-14d at the default).

Clock

Waiting on author means a prior triage outcome such as waiting-author, waiting-author-no-mistakes, or an equivalent "please push / fix CI / address review" that the author still owns.

The clock starts at the last author push, author comment, author review, or inline review-thread reply on the diff. Firstmate-mark comments and bot comments do not reset it.

Close only when that clock is at least stale-days old.

Do not close

CLEAN and mergeable PRs (mergeable MERGEABLE, merge state CLEAN)
Captain holds (hold, waiting-captain, captain-hold, or a comment that the captain still owes a decision)
Last-resort ports (Last-resort port of #N) unless original #N is also past stale-days or already closed
Security items that still need a captain flag
Owner-authored PRs that are not last-resort ports
Automation authors (dependabot, github-actions, release-please, renovate, [bot], app/, Greptile, and similar)
Drafts that are not waiting on author
Anything whose last author push, comment, or review is newer than stale-days

Required comment

The close comment must start with the disclosure-line parameter, explain the stale-days wait on the author, and end with an HTML stamp:

<disclosure-line> this pull request has been waiting on the author for <stale-days> days with no author push, comment, or review, so I am closing it. Reopen if you intend to continue.

<!-- triage: <ISO8601> outcome=closed-stale-<stale-days>d -->

Use gh pr close <n> --repo <OWNER/NAME> --comment "<body>". Do not omit --repo. Do not clone the target repo. Do not delete the branch unless the charter says to.

Do not

Do not close to tidy the queue
Do not treat firstmate or bot chatter as author activity
Do not close a CLEAN mergeable PR as stale