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Put Question Rules in Governance and the Promotion Line in PR Bodies - #4179
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The ask-when-cheap and irreversible-step rules lived only in the agent-conduct skill. They now sit in GOVERNANCE.md "Communicating with the User", which the skill includes, and its "Before Assuming" points there. The skill's "non-trivial" threshold is dropped. "Communicating with the User" also requires each question and its options to read whole from their own text. An operational repository's pull request into develop writes its Closes on promotion line in its body, as a direct push writes it in its commit message. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The promotion reads a merged pull request line from its body, which holds whatever merge method landed it. Cite the operational section by its full heading. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🔵 Needs a closer look
Maintainer validation is still needed for the fleet-wide governance changes, downstream resynchronization, and real GitHub promotion issue-closing semantics.
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What changed in this PR
This pull request centralizes question-handling and irreversible-action rules in GOVERNANCE.md, clarifies promotion metadata for operational repositories, and regenerates the affected skill distributions.
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- Adds
Closes on promotion:handling for operational pull requests intodevelop. - Requires questions to explain their problem, purpose, and options without relying on external context.
- Moves assumption and irreversible-action rules into governance.
- Regenerates authored skills, generated skill distributions, and source digests.
| File | Description |
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| GOVERNANCE.md | Adds operational pull-request promotion-line rules and self-contained question requirements. |
| .github/skills/session-handoff/SKILL.md | Regenerates session-handoff guidance from the centralized governance rules. |
| .github/skills/decision-triage/SKILL.md | Regenerates decision-triage guidance from the centralized governance rules. |
| .github/skills/branching-and-release-model/SKILL.md | Regenerates branching and release guidance for operational pull-request promotion metadata. |
| .github/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md | Regenerates agent-conduct guidance incorporating the centralized governance rules. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/session-handoff/SKILL.md | Updates the generated Claude session-handoff skill distribution. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/decision-triage/SKILL.md | Updates the generated Claude decision-triage skill distribution. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/branching-and-release-model/SKILL.md | Updates the generated Claude branching and release skill distribution. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md | Updates the generated Claude agent-conduct skill distribution. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/session-handoff | Updates the source digest for the session-handoff skill. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/decision-triage | Updates the source digest for the decision-triage skill. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/branching-and-release-model | Updates the source digest for the branching and release skill. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/agent-conduct | Updates the source digest for the agent-conduct skill. |
| .agents/skills/session-handoff/SKILL.md | Regenerates the authored session-handoff skill with centralized governance guidance. |
| .agents/skills/decision-triage/SKILL.md | Regenerates the authored decision-triage skill with centralized governance guidance. |
| .agents/skills/branching-and-release-model/SKILL.md | Adds authored guidance for operational pull-request promotion metadata. |
| .agents/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md | Updates authored agent-conduct guidance to point to governance for assumption rules. |
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… Rules (#4189) ## Summary Promotes the backlog-burndown rounds and changes from other hub sessions from `develop` to `main`. - Hooks and the prose gate: #4132, #4134, #4136, #4145, #4152, #4184. The Husky hook reads its path list once and diffs a merge against `MERGE_HEAD`. Interrupts re-raise their signal, a Markdown code span reads as quoted data, and the gate picks a commit's diff base and recognizes a conflicted promotion's branch cut from `main`. - Procedures and carried rules: #4133, #4139, #4141, #4149, #4166, #4177, #4179, #4183, #4185. Resync, audit and check-this-repo procedure gaps, code style and shell interrupt rules, review-loop gaps across four skills, the context and delegation section of `AGENTS.md`, question rules in governance, the promotion line in pull request bodies, closing-keyword behavior on promotion, and the history-rewrite premise. - Review and cleanup tooling: #4138, #4148, #4154, #4156, #4157, #4163, #4164, #4168, #4174, #4180. Cleanliness reads, parked handoffs, the backlog report's JSON output, exact inline script pins, trusted inputs, env-file includes, the bounded review wait, side-reviewer matching, and a Copilot billing-failure notice read as a refusal. - Workflow and runbook contract: #4153, #4155, #4169, #4171, #4178, #4182. The runtime-secrets check, a registry entry and spec references, the Copilot runbook pointers, credential-free checkout steps, and the deploy-key and runner wording. - From other hub sessions: #4159 (a repository's own .NET line under a fleet default), #4161 (the 1Password CLI as an optional host tool), #4162 (Codex's Windows installer and one managed opencode copy). These carry no promotion line. #4182 carries no promotion line by design, and #4175 holds the split-out part of #4057's scope. Both #1448 and #4175 stay open. Fixes #1071 Fixes #1154 Fixes #1391 Fixes #1471 Fixes #1594 Fixes #1620 Fixes #1627 Fixes #1650 Fixes #1801 Fixes #2853 Fixes #3620 Fixes #3668 Fixes #3697 Fixes #3766 Fixes #3787 Fixes #3837 Fixes #3840 Fixes #3842 Fixes #3844 Fixes #3865 Fixes #3882 Fixes #3890 Fixes #3894 Fixes #3912 Fixes #3916 Fixes #3954 Fixes #4014 Fixes #4015 Fixes #4016 Fixes #4043 Fixes #4050 Fixes #4057 Fixes #4058 Fixes #4062 Fixes #4084 Fixes #4097 Fixes #4098 Fixes #4099 Fixes #4104 Fixes #4108 Fixes #4114 Fixes #4115 Fixes #4117 Fixes #4118 Fixes #4119 Fixes #4121 Fixes #4122 Fixes #4123 Fixes #4131 Fixes #4135 Fixes #4140 Fixes #4142 Fixes #4143 Fixes #4144 Fixes #4151 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
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Summary
Closes on promotion:line by pull request.GOVERNANCE.md"Operational Repositories" and thebranching-and-release-modelskill named only a direct push as the place a change writes itsCloses on promotion:line. A change reachingdevelopby pull request now writes the line in its body, since the promotion reads a merged pull request's line from its body rather than from its commits. The skill's closing-keyword bullet says the reference is required in an operational repository. The part of Operational Repositories' Closes-on-Promotion Rule Misses Reverted Fixes and Pull Requests Into develop #4057 about a fix reverted later in the promotion range needs a decision, so it moved to Decide How a Promotion Treats the Closes-on-Promotion Line of a Fix Reverted Later in Its Range #4175 and is not worked here.GOVERNANCE.md"Communicating with the User" requires each question to state the problem, why it is asked, and what each option does, in its own text. It may cite an issue or pull request number, but the question and its options read fully without opening it.agent-conductskill intoGOVERNANCE.md"Communicating with the User", per the maintainer's answer on agent-conduct Surfaces Two Rules That Have No Home Outside It, Against Its Own Claim to Carry Only Includes #1594.agent-conduct"Before Assuming" becomes a pointer to them, and its "non-trivial" qualifier under "Before Claiming Done" is dropped. No heading is renamed.scripts/build_dist.pyregenerated the include regions inagent-conduct,decision-triage, andsession-handoff, and the generated trees.--checkis clean.GOVERNANCE.mdis carried, so a fleet resync is owed after promotion.Pre-existing findings, not filed
AGENTS.md"Where the Rules Live", the row for "Any push, API mutation, comment, label, or merge" (pre-existing): it routes a merge only toGOVERNANCE.md"Repository Boundaries and Write Safety", which does not state the irreversible-step rule. That rule'sGOVERNANCE.mdhome is "Communicating with the User", and the row does not name it.AGENTS.mdis outside this change, and the gap predates it.Closes on promotion: #4057, #3865, #1594
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