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+# .github/labelers/area.yml
+# Classifies issues/PRs by technical area/subsystem of the Strands Evals SDK.
+
+instructions: |
+  This is the Strands Evals SDK repository (Python only).
+  Assign an area based on which subsystem the issue concerns. Each label below maps to a package under src/strands_evals/.
+
+  Precedence — chaos, redteam, and multimodal own their own evaluators, generators, and sessions, so the specialized area always wins over the general one:
+  - Anything about fault injection, recovery strategy, partial completion, or the chaos evaluators belongs to area-chaos (NOT area-evaluators).
+  - Anything about adversarial/attack generation, attack strategies, or the attack-success evaluator belongs to area-redteam (NOT area-evaluators or area-generators).
+  - Image/MLLM-as-judge and image-to-text evaluation belongs to area-multimodal (NOT area-evaluators).
+
+  General mappings (use only when the precedence rules above do not apply):
+  - General-purpose quality metrics (correctness, coherence, faithfulness, helpfulness, refusal, stereotyping, conciseness, relevance, instruction-following, goal success, harmfulness, tool selection/parameter, trajectory, output, interactions) belong to area-evaluators.
+  - Actor simulation, tool simulation, and multi-turn user simulation that the SDK generates belong to area-simulation.
+  - Failure detection and root cause analysis of a session belong to area-detectors.
+  - General experiment generation and topic planning belong to area-generators.
+  - Ingesting trace or session data that already exists elsewhere (CloudWatch, Langfuse, OpenSearch providers; session mappers; trace/tool/graph/swarm extractors; OTEL telemetry) belongs to area-tracing. This is about reading external data IN, as opposed to area-simulation which generates new conversations.
+  - CLI commands (run, report, validate, diagnose) and terminal/console output belong to area-cli. area-cli is strictly the command-line and console layer. Do NOT use it for web-based UIs, GUIs, dashboards, hosting, or any non-terminal interface — those have no dedicated area, so assign no area label unless they clearly concern area-core primitives.
+  - Core framework primitives (Case, Experiment, task handling, result/data stores) belong to area-core. area-core is NOT a catch-all: use it only when the issue is genuinely about these shared primitives, not when it concerns a specific subsystem above.
+
+  Cross-cutting labels (not tied to one subsystem):
+  - area-devx covers how it feels to use the SDK: papercuts, confusing or awkward public APIs, error-message quality, ergonomics, and surprising behavior that does not match what a developer would reasonably expect. It is appropriate even for a specific subsystem when the issue is about that subsystem's public API being confusing, awkward, or surprising to use (as opposed to a clear functional bug in its internal behavior). It is NOT a catch-all for any generic "make it better" request that lacks a concrete usability concern.
+  - area-community is NOT a catch-all. Use it only for repo health, governance, contributor process, release process, and CI dependency bumps. If no area clearly applies, assign no area label rather than defaulting to area-community.
+
+  Do not force an area: if no area clearly applies, assign no area label rather than guessing.
+  Order matters: list the most important label first, because at most 2 labels are kept. Rank by specificity — concrete subsystems (area-evaluators, area-detectors, area-simulation, area-tracing, etc.) come first, then the broader area-core, and finally the softer cross-cutting labels (area-devx, area-community) which are not tied to a feature area. When an issue reports a bug in a concrete subsystem, that subsystem takes priority. Example: "the OutputEvaluator constructor args are confusing and its error message is unhelpful" -> area-evaluators, then area-devx (subsystem first, usability second).
+
+labels:
+  area-evaluators:
+    description: "Evaluators: output, trajectory, tool use, interactions, and LLM-as-judge quality metrics (correctness, faithfulness, helpfulness, etc.)"
+  area-multimodal:
+    description: "Multimodal evaluation: MLLM-as-judge evaluators and image-to-text rubrics"
+  area-simulation:
+    description: "Conversation simulation: actor simulator, tool simulator, profiles, multi-turn interactions"
+  area-detectors:
+    description: "Failure detection and root cause analysis of agent sessions"
+  area-chaos:
+    description: "Chaos/fault injection: experiments, recovery strategy, partial completion, failure communication"
+  area-redteam:
+    description: "Red teaming: adversarial generation, attack strategies, attack success evaluation"
+  area-generators:
+    description: "Automated experiment generation and topic planning"
+  area-tracing:
+    description: "Trace/session ingestion: providers (CloudWatch, Langfuse, OpenSearch), session mappers, extractors, telemetry/OTEL"
+  area-cli:
+    description: "CLI commands (run, report, validate, diagnose) and console display"
+  area-core:
+    description: "Core eval framework: Case, Experiment, task handler, evaluation data stores"
+  area-devx:
+    description: "Developer experience: papercuts, confusing or awkward public APIs, error messages, ergonomics, surprising behavior"
+  area-community:
+    description: "Repo health, governance, contributor process, release process, and CI dependency bumps. Not a fallback for issues that fit no other area."
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+# .github/labelers/type.yml
+# Classifies issues/PRs by type (bug, feature, etc.)
+# Use max_labels: 1 in the workflow since these are mutually exclusive.
+
+instructions: |
+  Choose exactly one type. You are given only the title and body — there is no diff or file list, so judge from those.
+  The conventional-commit prefix in the title is authoritative when present, including its optional scope (e.g. "feat(core):" counts as "feat:"). Match the prefix regardless of scope:
+  - "feat" -> enhancement
+  - "fix" -> bug
+  - "chore", "ci", "build", "refactor", "perf", "style", "test" -> chore
+  - "docs" -> follow the documentation rules below
+  The prefix wins even when the description sounds user-facing: a "perf:" or "refactor:" title is a chore. When no conventional-commit prefix is present, fall back to the body: maintenance with no user-facing impact (dependency bumps, CI config, internal refactors) is a chore, while anything that adds or changes user-facing functionality is an enhancement.
+  If the title starts with [BUG] it is a bug. If the title starts with [FEATURE] it is an enhancement.
+  Documentation improvements or corrections are bugs. Requests for new docs or content additions are enhancements. Documentation questions are questions.
+
+labels:
+  bug:
+    description: "Something is broken or not working as documented"
+  enhancement:
+    description: "New feature request or improvement to existing functionality"
+  question:
+    description: "User asking for help, clarification, or how to do something"
+  chore:
+    description: "Maintenance tasks, dependency updates, CI changes, refactoring with no user-facing impact"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/issue-labeler.yml b/.github/workflows/issue-labeler.yml
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+name: Issue Labeler
+
+on:
+  issues:
+    types: [opened]
+  pull_request_target:
+    types: [opened]
+
+permissions:
+  issues: write
+  pull-requests: write
+  id-token: write
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  label-area:
+    name: "Label: Area"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 2
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          sparse-checkout: .github/labelers
+          sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
+      - uses: strands-agents/devtools/issue-labeler@main
+        with:
+          aws_role_arn: ${{ secrets.AWS_ROLE_ARN }}
+          config_path: '.github/labelers/area.yml'
+          max_labels: '2'
+
+  label-type:
+    name: "Label: Type"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 2
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          sparse-checkout: .github/labelers
+          sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
+      - uses: strands-agents/devtools/issue-labeler@main
+        with:
+          aws_role_arn: ${{ secrets.AWS_ROLE_ARN }}
+          config_path: '.github/labelers/type.yml'
+          max_labels: '1'