Add 'tooling' category to Repo Classification Standard

Insert a 'tooling' category between project and product (reusable internal
tooling/infrastructure: libraries, CLIs, services, ops components used across
the ecosystem rather than offered to external customers). Update §5 definition,
§11 decision procedure, §16 agent prompt, the machine-readable allowed-values,
and the CUST-WP-0050 T02 progress note. Nine custodian tooling repos
reclassified to it; the-custodian and inter-hub remain research.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

canon/standards/repo-classification-standard_v1.0.md

@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ category:
   - experimental
   - research
   - project
+  - tooling
   - product
   - business
 ```
@@ -233,7 +234,31 @@ Examples:
 category: project
 ```
 
-### 5.4 `product`
+### 5.4 `tooling`
+
+Use for reusable internal tooling and infrastructure that supports building,
+coordinating, or operating other work — libraries, CLIs, services, and ops
+components used across the ecosystem rather than offered to external customers.
+
+Main question:
+
+> Does this reliably support how we build and operate other work?
+
+Typical signs:
+
+- reused across multiple repos or by agents/operators,
+- stable enough to depend on, but not a customer-facing product,
+- no external pricing, customer onboarding, or go-to-market concerns,
+- sits between `project` (a bounded build) and `product` (an offerable to
+  customers); may graduate to `product` if later externalised.
+
+Examples:
+
+```yaml
+category: tooling
+```
+
+### 5.5 `product`
 
 Use for reusable, offerable products or product components with intended users or customers.
 
@@ -255,7 +280,7 @@ Examples:
 category: product
 ```
 
-### 5.5 `business`
+### 5.6 `business`
 
 Use for repos organizing commercial, operational, legal, strategic, financial, or organizational activity.
 
@@ -623,8 +648,9 @@ Ask:
 1. Is this mainly a spike or prototype? → `experimental`
 2. Is this mainly knowledge, terminology, research, or standards? → `research`
 3. Is this a bounded implementation effort? → `project`
-4. Is this reusable and offerable to users/customers? → `product`
+4. Is this reusable internal tooling/infrastructure supporting other work? → `tooling`
-5. Is this about commercial, legal, financial, strategic, or organizational viability? → `business`
+5. Is this reusable and offerable to users/customers? → `product`
+6. Is this about commercial, legal, financial, strategic, or organizational viability? → `business`
 
 ### Step 2: Identify the primary domain
 
@@ -1051,7 +1077,7 @@ Use the following prompt for agent-assisted classification.
 Classify this repository according to the Repo Classification Standard.
 
 Return a YAML block with:
-- category: one of experimental, research, project, product, business
+- category: one of experimental, research, project, tooling, product, business
 - domain: one of infotech, financials, communication, consumer, health, industrials, energy, utilities, materials, realestate, crypto, agents, space, government
 - secondary_domains: zero or more allowed domains, excluding the primary domain
 - capability_tags: lowercase kebab-case tags describing what the repo does or enables

canon/standards/repo-classification.allowed.yaml

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ categories:
   - experimental
   - research
   - project
+  - tooling
   - product
   - business
 

workplans/CUST-WP-0050-repo-classification-registration-redesign.md

@@ -192,15 +192,18 @@ Done when each custodian repo has a committed file that validates against T01 an
 has been reviewed by a human.
 
 **Progress (2026-06-22):** all 11 custodian-domain repos now carry a committed,
-validated `.repo-classification.yaml` (first-pass `classified_by: agent`):
+validated `.repo-classification.yaml` (first-pass `classified_by: agent`).
-the-custodian (research·infotech), state-hub (product·infotech), hub-core
+Following the 2026-06-22 decision, a new **`tooling`** category (between `project`
-(product·infotech), inter-hub (research·infotech), activity-core
+and `product`) was added to the standard for reusable internal
-(project·infotech), issue-core (product·infotech), kaizen-agentic
+tooling/infrastructure, and the nine tooling repos were reclassified to it:
-(product·agents), llm-connect (product·agents), ops-bridge (product·infotech),
+the-custodian (research·infotech), inter-hub (research·infotech), state-hub
-ops-warden (product·infotech), email-connect (product·infotech). Commits are
+(tooling·infotech), hub-core (tooling·infotech), activity-core (tooling·infotech),
-**local-only** in each repo (not yet pushed to Gitea). Task stays `in_progress`
+issue-core (tooling·infotech), kaizen-agentic (tooling·agents), llm-connect
-pending the **human review** step (done-criterion); review the `research` vs
+(tooling·agents), ops-bridge (tooling·infotech), ops-warden (tooling·infotech),
-`project`/`product` calls and the agents-vs-infotech primary-domain choices.
+email-connect (tooling·infotech). Commits are **local-only** in each repo (not
+yet pushed to Gitea). Task stays `in_progress` pending the **human review** step;
+remaining review item is the agents-vs-infotech primary-domain choice for
+kaizen-agentic and llm-connect.
 
 ### T03 - Classify the full Gitea inventory