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Project Planning/Backlog Guardrails
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Kind | instruction |
| Source | .github/instructions/project-planning/backlog-guardrails.instructions.md |
| Invocation | Applied automatically to **/.copilot-tracking/workitems/**, **/.copilot-tracking/github-issues/**, **/.copilot-tracking/jira-issues/** |
| Interactive | No |
What it does
Always-on mutation guardrail for backlog tracking roots: require backlog-management activation before any tracker-bound mutation and stop when it is unavailable
When to use it
Apply this guardrail before any tracker-bound create, update, comment,
transition, close, or payload confirmation originating from backlog tracking
roots. Activate backlog-management and stop if it is unavailable; read-only
analysis and local file authoring do not require that mutation contract.
Example usage
Provide a concrete example that shows the asset in action, including representative input and the resulting output.