Docs: complete agent-readable bounty template

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Refs #456

Summary

• add a canonical agent-readable MRWK bounty post template to the bounty rules
• update the GitHub bounty issue form so amount, evidence/tests, out-of-scope, duplicate, and stale-work rules are explicit required fields
• expand the admin runbook posting checklist and protect the new template shape with docs smoke checks

Evidence

Compared this change against the current repository surfaces named in the bounty:

• docs/bounty-rules.md: existing submission evidence templates and payout wording
• docs/admin-runbook.md: maintainer bounty posting and acceptance flow
• .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bounty.yml: current issue form fields
• scripts/docs_smoke.py: existing public documentation checks
• public API/MCP bounty fields documented in project docs: title, issue URL, reward_mrwk, max_awards, awards_remaining, labels, and public comments

This version keeps the template copy-pasteable and uses stable headings:

• ## MRWK Bounty
• ## Work Needed
• ## Acceptance Criteria
• ## How To Submit
• ## Evidence or Tests Required
• ## Out of Scope
• ## Duplicate and Stale Work Rules

After reviewer feedback, the current head also verifies that evidence, out_of_scope, and duplicate_stale_rules are all individually required fields.

Test Evidence

• python scripts/docs_smoke.py -> docs smoke ok
• python -m pytest tests/test_docs_public_urls.py tests/test_check_agents.py -q -> 26 passed
• python -m ruff check scripts/docs_smoke.py tests/test_docs_public_urls.py -> All checks passed!
• python -m ruff format --check scripts/docs_smoke.py tests/test_docs_public_urls.py -> 2 files already formatted
• git diff --check -> clean

Out of Scope

• no tokenomics, price, liquidity, exchange, bridge, cash-out, payout, wallet, or private-security-detail changes
• no broad rewrite of bounty rules, ledger behavior, or payout logic

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds an agent-readable bounty template to docs, implements it as a GitHub issue template, updates admin runbook guidance, and enforces the shape via docs smoke validations and unit tests.

Changes

Bounty Template Standardization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Agent-readable bounty post template specification docs/bounty-rules.md	Agent-Readable Bounty Post Template section specifies stable headings and structured fields (MRWK bounty title/body, acceptance criteria, submission, evidence/tests, out-of-scope, duplicate/stale rules) for consistent machine extraction.
Bounty issue template implementation .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bounty.yml	Template updated to standardized shape with markdown guidance block referencing docs/bounty-rules.md; three new required textarea sections added (evidence, out_of_scope, duplicate_stale_rules) with structured placeholders.
Admin runbook update docs/admin-runbook.md	Refined Post a Bounty steps to require the agent-readable template, specify required title/body formatting (including reward and max_awards), acceptance criteria, and explicit out-of-scope/duplicate/stale/public-artifact cautions.
Docs smoke validation and CLI checks scripts/docs_smoke.py	Extended required public phrases for docs/bounty-rules.md; added _template_field_block() and _template_field_is_required(); main() now verifies .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bounty.yml exists, contains required field ids/phrases, and marks those fields required.
Unit tests for template validation tests/test_docs_public_urls.py	Imports _template_field_is_required and adds a test asserting evidence, out_of_scope, and duplicate_stale_rules are required and checking required/optional behavior via template text substitutions.

Possibly related issues

• MRWK bounty: 150 MRWK - document agent-friendly bounty post template #456: Requests implementing the agent-readable bounty post template and validations touching the same files.

Possibly related PRs

• ramimbo/mergework#433: Related changes to docs/bounty-rules.md and scripts/docs_smoke.py for template/wording validation.
• ramimbo/mergework#392: Related changes adding template-content smoke checks in scripts/docs_smoke.py.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6

✅ Passed checks (6 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	Title directly names the main changed surface (agent-readable bounty template docs) and accurately reflects the core change across bounty-rules.md, admin-runbook.md, issue template, and validation scripts.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Mergework Public Artifact Hygiene	✅ Passed	PR strengthens hygiene by instructing authors to exclude price, investment, and cash-out claims. MRWK described as native coin with work-based tiers. No new problematic claims introduced.
Bounty Pr Focus	✅ Passed	PR diff matches all 5 stated files, includes test evidence, avoids unrelated scope—no production code changes beyond validation only.
Description check	✅ Passed	PR description covers all required template sections with concrete evidence and test results.

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[Baijack-star]

Reviewed PR #558 at current head 154a4648efafff52304290bbc22c6ccd7bf07674 for the #456 agent-readable bounty template docs/form slice.

I do not see a docs/test blocker in the current diff. The PR adds a copy-pasteable stable-heading template in docs/bounty-rules.md, updates the maintainer runbook to require the title/reward/max-awards/body shape, makes evidence, out_of_scope, and duplicate/stale rules required in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bounty.yml, and adds docs-smoke coverage for the new template and issue-form fields.

Evidence checked:

• inspected .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bounty.yml, docs/admin-runbook.md, docs/bounty-rules.md, and scripts/docs_smoke.py;
• compared the scope against #456 acceptance criteria: title format, reward/max-awards repetition, stable headings, evidence/out-of-scope/duplicate/stale fields, API/MCP/GitHub parsing rationale, and public-artifact cautions are present;
• compared against already-open #469 and #499: this is the same bounty surface, so maintainers should merge/pay at most one winner, but #558 is a coherent implementation and protects more of the template shape than #499 by including docs-smoke checks.

Validation run locally on this head:

• PYTHONPATH=. PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1 /Users/apple/Documents/paid-demand-goal-reset/mergework-review/.venv/bin/python scripts/docs_smoke.py -> docs smoke ok
• PYTHONPATH=. PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1 /Users/apple/Documents/paid-demand-goal-reset/mergework-review/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_docs_public_urls.py tests/test_check_agents.py -q -> 25 passed
• PYTHONPATH=. PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1 /Users/apple/Documents/paid-demand-goal-reset/mergework-review/.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q -> 414 passed
• /Users/apple/Documents/paid-demand-goal-reset/mergework-review/.venv/bin/python -m ruff check . -> passed
• /Users/apple/Documents/paid-demand-goal-reset/mergework-review/.venv/bin/python -m ruff format --check . -> 79 files already formatted
• PYTHONPATH=. PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1 /Users/apple/Documents/paid-demand-goal-reset/mergework-review/.venv/bin/python -m mypy app -> success
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD -> clean

GitHub Quality/readiness/docs/image checks are successful on the same head. CodeRabbit was still pending when I posted this, so this review is scoped to the repository diff, local validation, and current GitHub CI state.

[Baijack-star]

Requesting changes for a narrow docs-smoke coverage gap.

The docs/form content itself is mostly aligned with #456, but scripts/docs_smoke.py does not actually protect all of the required issue-form fields that this PR adds and that #456 asks agents to rely on. It checks that id: evidence, id: out_of_scope, and id: duplicate_stale_rules exist, then only verifies that the out_of_scope block contains required: true. The new evidence and duplicate_stale_rules fields could be changed back to optional while docs smoke still prints docs smoke ok.

Concrete reproduction on head 154a4648efafff52304290bbc22c6ccd7bf07674:

• changed only .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bounty.yml so id: evidence has required: false;
• changed only .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bounty.yml so id: duplicate_stale_rules has required: false;
• ran PYTHONPATH=. PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1 /Users/apple/Documents/paid-demand-goal-reset/mergework-review/.venv/bin/python scripts/docs_smoke.py;
• result: docs smoke ok.

That leaves the promised regression guard weaker than the PR summary and the bounty acceptance criteria. Please extend the docs smoke check to assert required: true inside the evidence, out_of_scope, and duplicate_stale_rules field blocks, or add an equivalent focused test that fails when any of those concrete required fields become optional.

Baseline validation on the unmodified PR head still passes:

• PYTHONPATH=. PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1 /Users/apple/Documents/paid-demand-goal-reset/mergework-review/.venv/bin/python scripts/docs_smoke.py -> docs smoke ok
• PYTHONPATH=. PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1 /Users/apple/Documents/paid-demand-goal-reset/mergework-review/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_docs_public_urls.py tests/test_check_agents.py -q -> 25 passed
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD -> clean

[tinyopsstudio]

Reviewed current PR #558 head 88f94f80e9a1706536ca568fd2504f236dc2d7f2 for the agent-readable bounty template docs/form slice.

No blocker found on this head.

Evidence checked:

• inspected .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bounty.yml, docs/admin-runbook.md, docs/bounty-rules.md, scripts/docs_smoke.py, tests/test_docs_public_urls.py, and the review thread;
• confirmed the earlier docs-smoke coverage gap is fixed: _template_field_is_required() now checks evidence, out_of_scope, and duplicate_stale_rules individually for validations.required: true;
• confirmed test_docs_smoke_requires_bounty_evidence_exclusion_and_duplicate_fields covers the required-field helper and negative cases;
• confirmed the docs/template still include the stable bounty title/body shape, evidence requirements, out-of-scope rules, duplicate/stale rules, API/MCP/GitHub parsing rationale, and public artifact cautions;
• ran python scripts/docs_smoke.py: docs smoke ok;
• ran pytest tests/test_docs_public_urls.py tests/test_check_agents.py -q: 26 passed;
• ran ruff check scripts/docs_smoke.py tests/test_docs_public_urls.py: all checks passed;
• ran ruff format --check scripts/docs_smoke.py tests/test_docs_public_urls.py: 2 files already formatted.

This looks mergeable from my reviewed slice.