chore: publish from staged

.github/workflows/external-plugin-command-router.yml

@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ jobs:
               },
               'rejected': {
                 color: 'B60205',
-                description: 'Submission was rejected or failed intake validation'
+                description: 'Submission was rejected by a maintainer'
               }
             };
 
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ jobs:
               },
               'rejected': {
                 color: 'B60205',
-                description: 'Submission was rejected or failed intake validation'
+                description: 'Submission was rejected by a maintainer'
               }
             };
 

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -229,13 +229,13 @@ The public-submission policy builds on those rules and also requires `license` p
 ##### Review workflow
 
 1. **Open an issue** using the external plugin issue form. Automation applies the `external-plugin` and `awaiting-review` labels.
-2. **Automated intake validation** checks that the required fields are present and correctly formatted for a GitHub-hosted plugin. Invalid submissions are closed with a comment explaining what must be fixed before resubmitting.
+2. **Automated intake validation** checks that the required fields are present and correctly formatted for a GitHub-hosted plugin. Invalid submissions are labeled `requires-submitter-fixes` with a comment explaining what must be fixed before maintainer review.
 3. **Automated quality gates** run after metadata validation:
    - `skill-validator check --plugin` against the submitted plugin path/ref/sha
    - install smoke test via Copilot CLI against an ephemeral marketplace entry generated from the submission
 4. **Ready for maintainer review**: if metadata validation and quality gates pass, automation removes `awaiting-review` and adds `ready-for-review`.
 5. **Submitter-fix blocker**: if metadata is valid but quality gates fail, automation applies `requires-submitter-fixes` instead of advancing to human review.
-6. **Requesting another intake pass**: after updating the issue body or source plugin, the issue author or a maintainer can comment `/rerun-intake` to re-run automated intake and quality gates on demand. Open issues still re-trigger intake automatically on edit, but closed rejected issues need `/rerun-intake`. When the rerun is accepted, automation reacts to the command comment with 👀 so it is visible that processing started.
+6. **Requesting another intake pass**: after updating the issue body or source plugin, the issue author or a maintainer can comment `/rerun-intake` to re-run automated intake and quality gates on demand. Open issues re-trigger intake automatically on edit; closed maintainer-rejected issues need `/rerun-intake`. When the rerun is accepted, automation reacts to the command comment with 👀 so it is visible that processing started.
 7. **Maintainer override path**: a maintainer with write access can comment `/mark-ready-for-review [optional reason]` to explicitly move a `requires-submitter-fixes` issue to `ready-for-review`.
 8. **Maintainer decision**: once in `ready-for-review`, a maintainer with write access performs the manual review, then comments `/approve` or `/reject <reason>` on the issue. Commands from non-maintainers are ignored.
 9. **Approval path**: on `/approve`, automation removes `ready-for-review`, adds `approved`, closes the issue, and opens or updates a PR against `staged` that updates `plugins/external.json` and generated marketplace outputs.
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ Maintainers are responsible for confirming that the submission:
 - `external-plugin`: applied to every public external plugin submission and retained on approved issues so scheduled review automation can find them later
 - `awaiting-review`: initial intake state before automation finishes validating the issue
 - `ready-for-review`: the issue passed automated intake checks and is waiting on a maintainer decision
-- `requires-submitter-fixes`: metadata validation passed but automated quality gates failed; submitter updates are required before human review
+- `requires-submitter-fixes`: automated intake found metadata or quality-gate issues; submitter updates are required before human review
 - `approved`: the issue was approved, closed, and can be used as the source of truth for six-month re-review
 - `rejected`: the issue was rejected and closed without being added to the marketplace
 - `re-review-due`: the approved issue reached the six-month review threshold and is waiting on a maintainer re-review decision

eng/external-plugin-intake-state.mjs

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export const EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_INTAKE_LABELS = Object.freeze({
   },
   rejected: {
     color: "B60205",
-    description: "Submission was rejected or failed intake validation",
+    description: "Submission was rejected by a maintainer",
   },
 });
 
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ export async function applyExternalPluginIntakeEvaluation({
   issueNumber,
   evaluation,
 }) {
-  const state = evaluation.intakeState ?? (evaluation.valid ? "ready-for-review" : "rejected");
+  const state = evaluation.intakeState ?? (evaluation.valid ? "ready-for-review" : "requires-submitter-fixes");
   const desiredLabelsByState = {
     "ready-for-review": new Set(["external-plugin", "ready-for-review"]),
     "requires-submitter-fixes": new Set(["external-plugin", "requires-submitter-fixes"]),

eng/external-plugin-intake.mjs

@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ function buildQualityGatesCommentSection(qualityResult) {
 
 function getIntakeStateFromQualityResult(baseResult, qualityResult) {
   if (!baseResult.valid) {
-    return "rejected";
+    return "requires-submitter-fixes";
   }
 
   if (qualityResult.failure_class === "submitter_fixes") {
@@ -647,10 +647,10 @@ export async function evaluateExternalPluginIssue({ issue, token, runId, owner,
       ].join("\n")
     : [
         marker,
-        "## ❌ External plugin intake failed",
+        "## ⚠️ External plugin intake requires submitter fixes",
         "",
-        "This submission did not pass automated intake validation, so the issue has been closed.",
+        "This submission did not pass automated intake validation and cannot move to maintainer review yet.",
-        `Edit the issue form to address the fixes below, then have the issue author or a maintainer comment \`${RERUN_INTAKE_COMMAND}\` to re-run intake for this closed submission.`,
+        `Edit the issue form to address the fixes below. Intake reruns automatically when the issue is edited, or the issue author/maintainer can comment \`${RERUN_INTAKE_COMMAND}\` to re-run on demand.`,
         "",
         "### Required fixes",
         "",
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ export async function evaluateExternalPluginIssue({ issue, token, runId, owner,
 
   return {
     valid,
-    intakeState: valid ? "ready-for-review" : "rejected",
+    intakeState: valid ? "ready-for-review" : "requires-submitter-fixes",
     markerPresent: parsed.markerPresent,
     errors: dedupedErrors,
     warnings: dedupedWarnings,