The per-commit clerk had three flaws, exposed by a 20-commit push where 6 of 7
rejections were false (incl. a CHANGELOG-only commit):
1. No-verdict / max-turns / timeout defaulted to REJECTED — an unfinished review
read as 'hard contradiction found'. Now a third outcome, INCOMPLETE, which is
non-blocking (the push proceeds with a warning); only a real REJECTED blocks.
2. Turn/time budget too tight (6 turns / 150s) for decision-heavy commits. Raised
defaults to 15 turns / 300s, and the prompt now biases to APPROVED when no
concrete contradiction is found ('unsure' means APPROVED, never REJECTED).
3. The skip valve matched its own feature commit because it scanned for the token
anywhere in the message. Moved to a trailer-line match so prose/subject mentions
no longer trip it.
Pre-push hook updated to treat INCOMPLETE as a non-blocking warning. The git-commit
skill documents the trailer form.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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