@oss-scout/core 1.0.0 → 1.1.0

package/dist/core/personalization.d.ts

@@ -27,24 +27,39 @@ import type { IssueCandidate } from "./types.js";
  */
 export declare const REPO_BOOST = 20;
 export declare const LANGUAGE_BOOST = 10;
+/** Soft boost for an issue-label ("issue type") match (#168). Language-tier. */
+export declare const ISSUE_TYPE_BOOST = 10;
 /**
- * The personalization sort weight of a candidate: its boost score, or 0 when it
- * is not boosted (unboosted or a diversity slot). Reads the structural
- * `personalization` field (#158) so callers never poke at the old loose
- * `boostScore` field.
+ * Soft penalty for an avoidRepos match (#168). Milder than the hard
+ * excludeRepos filter: it pushes the candidate down but a strong boost (e.g. a
+ * preferRepos affinity, +20) can still outweigh it.
+ */
+export declare const AVOID_PENALTY = 15;
+/** Per-call personalization bias lists (#168). All optional; empty = no effect. */
+export interface PersonalizationBias {
+    preferLanguages?: string[];
+    preferRepos?: string[];
+    avoidRepos?: string[];
+    boostIssueTypes?: string[];
+}
+/**
+ * The personalization sort weight of a candidate: its net score, or 0 when it
+ * carries no personalization marker. Reads the structural `personalization`
+ * field (#158). The score can be negative when avoidRepos applied (#168).
  */
 export declare function boostScoreOf(candidate: IssueCandidate): number;
 /**
- * Return a new candidate list where each candidate that matches a
- * caller-supplied preference carries `personalization: { kind: "boosted", ... }`.
- * Does NOT mutate the input candidates (#158) — matched candidates are shallow
- * copies with the field set; unmatched candidates are passed through unchanged.
- * The caller re-sorts the returned array.
+ * Return a new candidate list where each candidate matching a caller-supplied
+ * bias carries a `personalization` marker with a NET score (#168): preferRepos,
+ * preferLanguages and boostIssueTypes add; avoidRepos subtracts. The score may
+ * be negative (avoid-only) — boostScoreOf sorts those below neutral candidates.
+ * Does NOT mutate the input (#158): matched candidates are shallow copies,
+ * unmatched ones pass through unchanged.
  *
- * No-op when both preference lists are empty or undefined: the input array is
- * returned as-is and the sort tier collapses to 0 for every candidate.
+ * No-op when every bias list is empty/undefined: the input array is returned
+ * as-is and the sort tier collapses to 0 for every candidate.
  */
-export declare function annotateBoost(candidates: IssueCandidate[], preferLanguages?: string[], preferRepos?: string[]): IssueCandidate[];
+export declare function annotateBoost(candidates: IssueCandidate[], bias?: PersonalizationBias): IssueCandidate[];
 /**
  * Apply a diversity-counterweight pass over a pre-sorted candidate list
  * (#1244). Returns the first `maxResults` picks in priority order:

package/dist/core/personalization.js

@@ -26,36 +26,54 @@
  */
 export const REPO_BOOST = 20;
 export const LANGUAGE_BOOST = 10;
+/** Soft boost for an issue-label ("issue type") match (#168). Language-tier. */
+export const ISSUE_TYPE_BOOST = 10;
 /**
- * The personalization sort weight of a candidate: its boost score, or 0 when it
- * is not boosted (unboosted or a diversity slot). Reads the structural
- * `personalization` field (#158) so callers never poke at the old loose
- * `boostScore` field.
+ * Soft penalty for an avoidRepos match (#168). Milder than the hard
+ * excludeRepos filter: it pushes the candidate down but a strong boost (e.g. a
+ * preferRepos affinity, +20) can still outweigh it.
+ */
+export const AVOID_PENALTY = 15;
+/**
+ * The personalization sort weight of a candidate: its net score, or 0 when it
+ * carries no personalization marker. Reads the structural `personalization`
+ * field (#158). The score can be negative when avoidRepos applied (#168).
  */
 export function boostScoreOf(candidate) {
     return candidate.personalization?.kind === "boosted"
         ? candidate.personalization.score
         : 0;
 }
+function normalizeSet(values) {
+    return new Set((values ?? []).map((v) => v.trim().toLowerCase()).filter(Boolean));
+}
 /**
- * Return a new candidate list where each candidate that matches a
- * caller-supplied preference carries `personalization: { kind: "boosted", ... }`.
- * Does NOT mutate the input candidates (#158) — matched candidates are shallow
- * copies with the field set; unmatched candidates are passed through unchanged.
- * The caller re-sorts the returned array.
+ * Return a new candidate list where each candidate matching a caller-supplied
+ * bias carries a `personalization` marker with a NET score (#168): preferRepos,
+ * preferLanguages and boostIssueTypes add; avoidRepos subtracts. The score may
+ * be negative (avoid-only) — boostScoreOf sorts those below neutral candidates.
+ * Does NOT mutate the input (#158): matched candidates are shallow copies,
+ * unmatched ones pass through unchanged.
  *
- * No-op when both preference lists are empty or undefined: the input array is
- * returned as-is and the sort tier collapses to 0 for every candidate.
+ * No-op when every bias list is empty/undefined: the input array is returned
+ * as-is and the sort tier collapses to 0 for every candidate.
  */
-export function annotateBoost(candidates, preferLanguages, preferRepos) {
-    const langSet = new Set((preferLanguages ?? []).map((l) => l.trim().toLowerCase()).filter(Boolean));
-    const repoSet = new Set((preferRepos ?? []).map((r) => r.trim().toLowerCase()).filter(Boolean));
-    if (langSet.size === 0 && repoSet.size === 0)
+export function annotateBoost(candidates, bias = {}) {
+    const langSet = normalizeSet(bias.preferLanguages);
+    const repoSet = normalizeSet(bias.preferRepos);
+    const avoidSet = normalizeSet(bias.avoidRepos);
+    const typeSet = normalizeSet(bias.boostIssueTypes);
+    if (langSet.size === 0 &&
+        repoSet.size === 0 &&
+        avoidSet.size === 0 &&
+        typeSet.size === 0) {
         return candidates;
+    }
     return candidates.map((c) => {
         let score = 0;
         const reasons = [];
-        if (repoSet.size > 0 && repoSet.has(c.issue.repo.toLowerCase())) {
+        const repoLower = c.issue.repo.toLowerCase();
+        if (repoSet.size > 0 && repoSet.has(repoLower)) {
             score += REPO_BOOST;
             reasons.push(`repo affinity: ${c.issue.repo}`);
         }
@@ -64,7 +82,18 @@ export function annotateBoost(candidates, preferLanguages, preferRepos) {
             score += LANGUAGE_BOOST;
             reasons.push(`language match: ${lang}`);
         }
-        if (score === 0)
+        if (typeSet.size > 0) {
+            const matched = c.issue.labels.find((l) => typeSet.has(l.toLowerCase()));
+            if (matched) {
+                score += ISSUE_TYPE_BOOST;
+                reasons.push(`issue type: ${matched}`);
+            }
+        }
+        if (avoidSet.size > 0 && avoidSet.has(repoLower)) {
+            score -= AVOID_PENALTY;
+            reasons.push(`avoided repo: ${c.issue.repo}`);
+        }
+        if (reasons.length === 0)
             return c;
         return { ...c, personalization: { kind: "boosted", score, reasons } };
     });
@@ -116,7 +145,10 @@ export function applyDiversityRatio(candidates, maxResults, diversityRatio) {
             break;
         if (seen.has(c.issue.url))
             continue;
-        if (boostScoreOf(c) > 0)
+        // Diversity slots are for candidates that matched NO personalization bias.
+        // Exclude both boosted (>0) and avoided (<0) candidates — resurfacing an
+        // avoided repo via a diversity slot would defeat the avoid (#168).
+        if (boostScoreOf(c) !== 0)
             continue;
         // Tag a shallow copy rather than mutating the shared candidate (#158).
         picks.push({ ...c, personalization: { kind: "diversity" } });

package/dist/core/preference-fields.js

@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ export const FIELD_CONFIGS = {
     preferLanguages: { type: "array" },
     preferRepos: { type: "array" },
     diversityRatio: { type: "float" },
+    avoidRepos: { type: "array" },
+    boostIssueTypes: { type: "array" },
     slmTriageModel: { type: "string" },
     slmTriageHost: { type: "string" },
     featuresAnchorThreshold: { type: "number" },

package/dist/core/probe-repo-file.d.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/**
+ * Single-path repo-file probe (#156).
+ *
+ * Three modules (repo-health, roadmap, anti-llm-policy) independently fetch a
+ * repo doc by trying a list of candidate paths and stopping at the first hit.
+ * The per-path fetch was copy-pasted three times, each re-deriving the same
+ * 404-continue / fatal-propagate / base64-decode logic. This is the one
+ * genuinely-shared primitive.
+ *
+ * The orchestration around it stays per-caller (parallel 4-path probe,
+ * sequential 5-path probe, sequential family probe) and so do the return shapes
+ * (parsed guidelines, issue-ref set, policy scan). Only the single GET is
+ * shared.
+ *
+ * The `transient` flag is load-bearing: it distinguishes a clean miss (404 —
+ * file absent) from a degraded miss (5xx, network) so callers can decide
+ * whether to cache a negative result or leave it open to retry. Collapsing the
+ * two would bypass anti-llm-policy's transient-failure cache safeguard, so the
+ * primitive must keep them separate.
+ */
+import type { Octokit } from "@octokit/rest";
+/**
+ * Result of probing one repo file path.
+ *
+ * - `text` — decoded UTF-8 content on a 200 with a file payload, else `null`
+ *   (404, a non-content payload such as a directory listing, or a soft error).
+ * - `transient` — `true` only when the miss was a degraded failure (5xx,
+ *   network) rather than a clean 404 / missing file. A `true` value means the
+ *   `null` may be incomplete and the caller should avoid caching it as a known
+ *   absence.
+ */
+export interface ProbeRepoFileResult {
+    text: string | null;
+    transient: boolean;
+}
+/**
+ * GET one repo file path. Returns decoded content on a 200 file payload, a
+ * clean `null` on 404 or a non-content payload, and a transient `null` on a
+ * soft error (5xx, network) after logging it. Rethrows fatal errors (401 auth,
+ * rate limit) so the caller's existing rate-limit handling sees them.
+ *
+ * Callers that need 401/rate-limit to surface across a *parallel* batch (where
+ * a faster path may have already resolved) must inspect the rejected reasons
+ * themselves; this primitive only rethrows for the single path it owns. See
+ * repo-health and anti-llm-policy for that pre-scan.
+ */
+export declare function probeRepoFile(octokit: Octokit, owner: string, repo: string, path: string): Promise<ProbeRepoFileResult>;

package/dist/core/probe-repo-file.js

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/**
+ * Single-path repo-file probe (#156).
+ *
+ * Three modules (repo-health, roadmap, anti-llm-policy) independently fetch a
+ * repo doc by trying a list of candidate paths and stopping at the first hit.
+ * The per-path fetch was copy-pasted three times, each re-deriving the same
+ * 404-continue / fatal-propagate / base64-decode logic. This is the one
+ * genuinely-shared primitive.
+ *
+ * The orchestration around it stays per-caller (parallel 4-path probe,
+ * sequential 5-path probe, sequential family probe) and so do the return shapes
+ * (parsed guidelines, issue-ref set, policy scan). Only the single GET is
+ * shared.
+ *
+ * The `transient` flag is load-bearing: it distinguishes a clean miss (404 —
+ * file absent) from a degraded miss (5xx, network) so callers can decide
+ * whether to cache a negative result or leave it open to retry. Collapsing the
+ * two would bypass anti-llm-policy's transient-failure cache safeguard, so the
+ * primitive must keep them separate.
+ */
+import { errorMessage, getHttpStatusCode, rethrowIfFatal } from "./errors.js";
+import { warn } from "./logger.js";
+const MODULE = "probe-repo-file";
+/**
+ * GET one repo file path. Returns decoded content on a 200 file payload, a
+ * clean `null` on 404 or a non-content payload, and a transient `null` on a
+ * soft error (5xx, network) after logging it. Rethrows fatal errors (401 auth,
+ * rate limit) so the caller's existing rate-limit handling sees them.
+ *
+ * Callers that need 401/rate-limit to surface across a *parallel* batch (where
+ * a faster path may have already resolved) must inspect the rejected reasons
+ * themselves; this primitive only rethrows for the single path it owns. See
+ * repo-health and anti-llm-policy for that pre-scan.
+ */
+export async function probeRepoFile(octokit, owner, repo, path) {
+    try {
+        const { data } = await octokit.repos.getContent({ owner, repo, path });
+        if (data &&
+            typeof data === "object" &&
+            "content" in data &&
+            typeof data.content === "string") {
+            return {
+                text: Buffer.from(data.content, "base64").toString("utf-8"),
+                transient: false,
+            };
+        }
+        return { text: null, transient: false };
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        const status = getHttpStatusCode(error);
+        if (status === 404)
+            return { text: null, transient: false };
+        rethrowIfFatal(error);
+        warn(MODULE, `Unexpected error fetching ${path} from ${owner}/${repo}: ${errorMessage(error)}`);
+        return { text: null, transient: true };
+    }
+}

package/dist/core/repo-health.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { daysBetween } from "./utils.js";
 import { errorMessage, getHttpStatusCode, isRateLimitError, rethrowIfFatal, } from "./errors.js";
 import { warn } from "./logger.js";
 import { getHttpCache, cachedRequest, cachedTimeBased } from "./http-cache.js";
+import { probeRepoFile } from "./probe-repo-file.js";
 const MODULE = "repo-health";
 // ── Cache for contribution guidelines ──
 const guidelinesCache = new Map();
@@ -121,13 +122,11 @@ async function fetchContributionGuidelinesUncached(octokit, owner, repo) {
         "docs/CONTRIBUTING.md",
         "contributing.md",
     ];
-    // Probe all paths in parallel — take the first success in priority order
-    const results = await Promise.allSettled(filesToCheck.map((file) => octokit.repos.getContent({ owner, repo, path: file }).then(({ data }) => {
-        if ("content" in data) {
-            return Buffer.from(data.content, "base64").toString("utf-8");
-        }
-        return null;
-    })));
+    // Probe all paths in parallel — take the first success in priority order.
+    // probeRepoFile rethrows 401/rate-limit, so those still surface here as
+    // rejected results for the pre-scan below; 404s and 5xx come back as a null
+    // text (the primitive warns on 5xx, so no extra warn is needed here).
+    const results = await Promise.allSettled(filesToCheck.map((file) => probeRepoFile(octokit, owner, repo, file)));
     // Pre-scan: auth/rate-limit must propagate even if a faster probe succeeded —
     // otherwise a path-restricted token that 401s on .github/CONTRIBUTING.md but
     // wins on CONTRIBUTING.md would silently hide the auth misconfiguration.
@@ -139,20 +138,13 @@ async function fetchContributionGuidelinesUncached(octokit, owner, repo) {
             throw result.reason;
         }
     }
-    for (let i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {
-        const result = results[i];
-        if (result.status === "fulfilled" && result.value) {
-            const guidelines = parseContributionGuidelines(result.value);
+    for (const result of results) {
+        if (result.status === "fulfilled" && result.value.text) {
+            const guidelines = parseContributionGuidelines(result.value.text);
             guidelinesCache.set(cacheKey, { guidelines, fetchedAt: Date.now() });
             pruneCache();
             return guidelines;
         }
-        if (result.status === "rejected") {
-            const status = getHttpStatusCode(result.reason);
-            if (status !== 404) {
-                warn(MODULE, `Unexpected error fetching ${filesToCheck[i]} from ${owner}/${repo}: ${errorMessage(result.reason)}`);
-            }
-        }
     }
     // Cache the negative result too and prune if needed
     guidelinesCache.set(cacheKey, {

package/dist/core/roadmap.js

@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@
  * Auth (401) and rate-limit errors propagate, matching the rest of the
  * codebase's error strategy. Other errors degrade gracefully (warn + empty).
  */
-import { errorMessage, getHttpStatusCode, rethrowIfFatal } from "./errors.js";
-import { warn } from "./logger.js";
-const MODULE = "roadmap";
+import { probeRepoFile } from "./probe-repo-file.js";
 /** TTL for roadmap fetch results (1 hour). */
 const CACHE_TTL_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000;
 /** Paths probed in priority order. First success wins. */
@@ -113,24 +111,16 @@ export async function fetchRoadmapIssueRefs(octokit, owner, repo) {
 const roadmapInflight = new Map();
 async function fetchRoadmapIssueRefsUncached(octokit, owner, repo, cacheKey) {
     for (const path of ROADMAP_PATHS) {
-        try {
-            const { data } = await octokit.repos.getContent({ owner, repo, path });
-            if (!("content" in data))
-                continue;
-            const content = Buffer.from(data.content, "base64").toString("utf-8");
-            const refs = parseRoadmapIssueRefs(content, owner, repo);
-            roadmapCache.set(cacheKey, { refs, fetchedAt: Date.now() });
-            pruneCache();
-            return refs;
-        }
-        catch (err) {
-            rethrowIfFatal(err);
-            const status = getHttpStatusCode(err);
-            if (status === 404)
-                continue; // path missing — try next
-            warn(MODULE, `Unexpected error fetching ${path} from ${owner}/${repo}: ${errorMessage(err)}`);
-            // Fall through and try next path.
-        }
+        // probeRepoFile rethrows 401/rate-limit, treats 404 and non-content
+        // payloads as a null text, and warns on 5xx — all of which we degrade past
+        // by trying the next path.
+        const { text } = await probeRepoFile(octokit, owner, repo, path);
+        if (!text)
+            continue;
+        const refs = parseRoadmapIssueRefs(text, owner, repo);
+        roadmapCache.set(cacheKey, { refs, fetchedAt: Date.now() });
+        pruneCache();
+        return refs;
     }
     // No roadmap found (or all probes errored softly). Cache the empty result
     // so we don't re-probe every run.

package/dist/core/schemas.d.ts

@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ export declare const ScoutPreferencesSchema: z.ZodObject<{
     preferLanguages: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
     preferRepos: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
     diversityRatio: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodNumber>;
+    avoidRepos: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+    boostIssueTypes: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
     broadPhaseDelayMs: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodNumber>;
     /**
      * Skip the expensive broad phase once this many candidates were found by
@@ -359,6 +361,8 @@ export declare const ScoutStateSchema: z.ZodObject<{
         preferLanguages: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
         preferRepos: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
         diversityRatio: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodNumber>;
+        avoidRepos: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
+        boostIssueTypes: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodArray<z.ZodString>>;
         broadPhaseDelayMs: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodNumber>;
         /**
          * Skip the expensive broad phase once this many candidates were found by

package/dist/core/schemas.js

@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ export const CONCRETE_STRATEGIES = [
 // ── Leaf schemas ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 export const RepoSignalsSchema = z.looseObject({
     hasActiveMaintainers: z.boolean(),
+    // Retained for backward compatibility but no longer affects the repo score
+    // (#167): nothing computes it, and hasActiveMaintainers is the live activity
+    // proxy. Kept so old persisted state and the search JSON output still parse.
     isResponsive: z.boolean(),
     hasHostileComments: z.boolean(),
 });
@@ -190,6 +193,12 @@ export const ScoutPreferencesSchema = z.looseObject({
     preferLanguages: z.array(z.string()).default([]),
     preferRepos: z.array(z.string()).default([]),
     diversityRatio: z.number().min(0).max(1).default(0),
+    // Soft penalty (milder than the hard excludeRepos filter): candidates in
+    // these `owner/repo` slugs are pushed down the ranking but not removed (#168).
+    avoidRepos: z.array(z.string()).default([]),
+    // Soft boost for candidates whose issue labels match one of these types,
+    // case-insensitive (e.g. "bug", "good first issue") (#168).
+    boostIssueTypes: z.array(z.string()).default([]),
     broadPhaseDelayMs: z.number().min(0).max(300000).default(90000),
     /**
      * Skip the expensive broad phase once this many candidates were found by

package/dist/core/search-phases.d.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { Octokit } from "@octokit/rest";
 import { type SearchPriority, type IssueCandidate, type IssueScope } from "./types.js";
 import { type GitHubSearchItem } from "./issue-filtering.js";
 import { IssueVetter } from "./issue-vetting.js";
+import { type SearchBudgetTracker } from "./search-budget.js";
 /** Resolve scope tiers into a flat label list, merged with custom labels. */
 export declare function buildEffectiveLabels(scopes: IssueScope[], customLabels: string[]): string[];
 /** Round-robin interleave multiple arrays. */
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ export declare function cachedSearchIssues(octokit: Octokit, params: {
     sort: "created" | "updated" | "comments" | "reactions" | "interactions";
     order: "asc" | "desc";
     per_page: number;
-}): Promise<{
+}, tracker?: SearchBudgetTracker): Promise<{
     total_count: number;
     items: GitHubSearchItem[];
 }>;
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ export declare function fetchIssuesFromKnownRepos(octokit: Octokit, vetter: Issu
  * @param buildQuery   Callback that receives a label query string and returns the full search query
  * @param perPage      Number of results per API call
  */
-export declare function searchWithChunkedLabels(octokit: Octokit, labels: string[], reservedOps: number, buildQuery: (labelQuery: string) => string, perPage: number): Promise<GitHubSearchItem[]>;
+export declare function searchWithChunkedLabels(octokit: Octokit, labels: string[], reservedOps: number, buildQuery: (labelQuery: string) => string, perPage: number, tracker?: SearchBudgetTracker): Promise<GitHubSearchItem[]>;
 /**
  * Build per-call language qualifier strings, fanning out across languages
  * when a multi-language + labels combination would trip GitHub Search's
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ export declare function buildLanguageVariants(languages: string[], isAnyLanguage
  *                        e.g. `(langQ) => `is:issue is:open ${langQ} no:assignee`.trim()`
  * @param perPage         Results per API call
  */
-export declare function searchAcrossLanguagesAndLabels(octokit: Octokit, languages: string[], isAnyLanguage: boolean, labels: string[], buildBaseQuery: (langQuery: string) => string, perPage: number): Promise<GitHubSearchItem[]>;
+export declare function searchAcrossLanguagesAndLabels(octokit: Octokit, languages: string[], isAnyLanguage: boolean, labels: string[], buildBaseQuery: (langQuery: string) => string, perPage: number, tracker?: SearchBudgetTracker): Promise<GitHubSearchItem[]>;
 /**
  * Shared pipeline: spam-filter, repo-exclusion, vetting, and star-count filter.
  * Used by Phases 2 and 3 to convert raw search results into vetted candidates.

package/dist/core/search-phases.js

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { debug, warn } from "./logger.js";
 import { getHttpCache, versionedCacheKey } from "./http-cache.js";
 import { detectLabelFarmingRepos, } from "./issue-filtering.js";
 import { extractRepoFromUrl, sleep } from "./utils.js";
-import { getSearchBudgetTracker } from "./search-budget.js";
+import { getSearchBudgetTracker, } from "./search-budget.js";
 const MODULE = "search-phases";
 /** GitHub Search API enforces a max of 5 AND/OR/NOT operators per query. */
 const GITHUB_MAX_BOOLEAN_OPS = 5;
@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ const SEARCH_CACHE_TTL_MS = 15 * 60 * 1000;
  * Repeated identical queries within SEARCH_CACHE_TTL_MS return cached results
  * without consuming GitHub API rate limit points.
  */
-export async function cachedSearchIssues(octokit, params) {
+export async function cachedSearchIssues(octokit, params, 
+// Optional injected budget tracker. Defaults to the shared singleton so
+// existing callers keep the exact same global budget accounting; a host
+// serving concurrent searches can inject a per-search tracker for isolation.
+tracker = getSearchBudgetTracker()) {
     const cacheKey = versionedCacheKey(`search:${params.q}:${params.sort}:${params.order}:${params.per_page}`);
     const cache = getHttpCache();
     // Check cache first
@@ -93,7 +97,6 @@ export async function cachedSearchIssues(octokit, params) {
         return cached;
     }
     // Fetch from API
-    const tracker = getSearchBudgetTracker();
     await tracker.waitForBudget();
     let data;
     try {
@@ -273,7 +276,7 @@ export async function fetchIssuesFromKnownRepos(octokit, vetter, repos, labels,
  * @param buildQuery   Callback that receives a label query string and returns the full search query
  * @param perPage      Number of results per API call
  */
-export async function searchWithChunkedLabels(octokit, labels, reservedOps, buildQuery, perPage) {
+export async function searchWithChunkedLabels(octokit, labels, reservedOps, buildQuery, perPage, tracker = getSearchBudgetTracker()) {
     const labelChunks = chunkLabels(labels, reservedOps);
     const seenUrls = new Set();
     const allItems = [];
@@ -286,7 +289,7 @@ export async function searchWithChunkedLabels(octokit, labels, reservedOps, buil
             sort: "created",
             order: "desc",
             per_page: perPage,
-        });
+        }, tracker);
         for (const item of data.items) {
             if (!seenUrls.has(item.html_url)) {
                 seenUrls.add(item.html_url);
@@ -327,7 +330,7 @@ export function buildLanguageVariants(languages, isAnyLanguage, hasLabels) {
  *                        e.g. `(langQ) => `is:issue is:open ${langQ} no:assignee`.trim()`
  * @param perPage         Results per API call
  */
-export async function searchAcrossLanguagesAndLabels(octokit, languages, isAnyLanguage, labels, buildBaseQuery, perPage) {
+export async function searchAcrossLanguagesAndLabels(octokit, languages, isAnyLanguage, labels, buildBaseQuery, perPage, tracker = getSearchBudgetTracker()) {
     const langVariants = buildLanguageVariants(languages, isAnyLanguage, labels.length > 0);
     const seenUrls = new Set();
     const allItems = [];
@@ -336,7 +339,7 @@ export async function searchAcrossLanguagesAndLabels(octokit, languages, isAnyLa
             await sleep(INTER_QUERY_DELAY_MS);
         const items = await searchWithChunkedLabels(octokit, labels, 0, (labelQ) => `${buildBaseQuery(langVariants[i])} ${labelQ}`
             .replace(/  +/g, " ")
-            .trim(), perPage);
+            .trim(), perPage, tracker);
         for (const item of items) {
             if (!seenUrls.has(item.html_url)) {
                 seenUrls.add(item.html_url);

package/dist/core/types.d.ts

@@ -243,6 +243,21 @@ export interface SearchOptions {
      * disables the boost.
      */
     preferRepos?: string[];
+    /**
+     * Per-call personalization bias: a SOFT penalty (milder than the hard
+     * `excludeRepos` filter) for candidates in one of these `owner/repo` slugs
+     * (#168). They are pushed below equally-recommended non-matches but not
+     * removed; a strong boost can still outweigh the penalty. Empty / undefined
+     * disables it.
+     */
+    avoidRepos?: string[];
+    /**
+     * Per-call personalization bias: a soft boost for candidates whose issue
+     * labels match one of these types, case-insensitive (e.g. "bug",
+     * "good first issue") (#168). Same tier as a language match. Does not filter
+     * results, does not change `viabilityScore`. Empty / undefined disables it.
+     */
+    boostIssueTypes?: string[];
     /**
      * Counterweight against echo-chamber bias as `preferLanguages` /
      * `preferRepos` boosts accumulate over time (#1244). A value of 0.2

package/dist/formatters/human.d.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/**
+ * Human-readable (non-JSON) output formatters for the oss-scout CLI.
+ *
+ * Each renderer is a pure function that returns the exact multi-line string the
+ * CLI used to emit via a sequence of `console.log` calls. The caller does a
+ * single `console.log(renderX(...))`, which appends the one trailing newline
+ * that the final `console.log` in the old inline block produced.
+ *
+ * To stay byte-identical: every old `console.log(line)` becomes one entry in a
+ * lines array, a bare `console.log()` (blank line) becomes an empty entry, and
+ * the array is joined with "\n". The caller's own `console.log` supplies the
+ * last newline. STDERR output (the search rate-limit warning) is deliberately
+ * NOT folded in here — it stays a `console.error` in the caller.
+ */
+import type { SearchOutput } from "../commands/search.js";
+import type { FeaturesOutput } from "../commands/features.js";
+import type { SavedCandidate } from "../core/schemas.js";
+import type { VetListResult } from "../core/types.js";
+import type { VetOutput } from "../commands/vet.js";
+/** Emoji for a vetting recommendation, shared by the search and vet renderers. */
+export declare function recommendationIcon(recommendation: "approve" | "skip" | "needs_review"): string;
+/**
+ * Render the human-readable `search` output: the "Found N issue candidates"
+ * block with per-candidate icon, personalization and stalled tags, and the
+ * optional repoScore line. The trailing rate-limit warning is NOT included
+ * here; it goes to stderr in the caller.
+ */
+export declare function renderSearch(results: SearchOutput): string;
+/**
+ * Render the human-readable `features` output: the optional message, the
+ * "Feature opportunities" header, the anchor repos line, and the Quick wins /
+ * Bigger bets sections. Returns "" when there is nothing to print beyond an
+ * absent message (caller guards against logging a blank line).
+ */
+export declare function renderFeatures(result: FeaturesOutput, options: {
+    broad?: boolean;
+}): string;
+/** The empty-state message printed by `results` when nothing is saved. */
+export declare const RESULTS_EMPTY_MESSAGE = "\nNo saved results. Run `oss-scout search` to find issues.\n";
+/**
+ * Render the human-readable `results` table: the "Saved results" header and a
+ * Score / Repo / Issue / Recommendation / Title row per saved candidate.
+ * Callers handle the empty state (RESULTS_EMPTY_MESSAGE) separately.
+ */
+export declare function renderResults(results: SavedCandidate[]): string;
+/** The empty-state message printed by `vet-list` when there is nothing to vet. */
+export declare const VET_LIST_EMPTY_MESSAGE = "\nNo saved results to vet. Run `oss-scout search` first.\n";
+/**
+ * Render the human-readable `vet-list` output: the "Vet-list results (N)"
+ * block with a per-row status icon, the "Changes since last check"
+ * transitions block, the summary line, and the optional pruned-count line.
+ * Callers handle the empty state (VET_LIST_EMPTY_MESSAGE) separately.
+ */
+export declare function renderVetList(result: VetListResult): string;
+/**
+ * Render the human-readable single-issue `vet` output: the recommendation
+ * header, the reasons to approve / skip, and the project-health block. The
+ * checkFailed branch (#158) is preserved exactly.
+ */
+export declare function renderVet(result: VetOutput): string;