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Clarify interactive and autonomous agent branch naming - #4818

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Description

Distinguish interactive, human-directed agents from autonomous agents in the shared branch-naming guidance.

  • Interactive agents may use a human-approved dev/<name>/ branch.
  • Autonomous agents must use dev/automation/.
  • The Azure DevOps work-item prompt links to the shared guidance.

This is layer 0 of 6 in the seven-PR phase-one authentication stack. Documentation only; no product or public API changes.

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  • git -C ../phase-1.0 diff --check — passed before commit.
  • Product tests were not run because this layer only changes agent guidance.

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Copilot AI balanced review requested due to automatic review settings October 9, 2026 18:24
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paulmedynski added this pull request to stack #4822 October 9, 2026 18:25

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🟢 Approval recommended

The documentation changes are consistent, correctly linked, and introduce no product behavior changes.

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What changed in this PR

Clarifies branch naming for interactive versus autonomous agents; documentation only.

Changes:

  • Allows human-approved dev/<name>/ branches for interactive agents.
  • Requires dev/automation/ for autonomous agents.
  • Links the work-item prompt to shared guidance.
File Description
AGENTS.md Defines shared branch naming rules.
.github/​prompts/​ado-work-item-agent.prompt.md References the shared rules.
.github/​copilot-instructions.md Aligns Copilot branch guidance.

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