fn line() -> String {
let version = env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION");
let mut fields = version.split('.');
match (fields.next(), fields.next()) {
(Some(major), Some(minor)) => format!("{major}.{minor}"),
_ => version.to_string(),
}
}
const GUIDE: &str = r#"WIRING A REPO — git-agent-verdict
1. Declare the gates in .githooks/commit-msg, tracked so they travel with the repo:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
# The compatibility line these flags are written against.
git agent-verdict --require-version {{line}}
# Graded, and blocks on major=. One gate may be judged against several rubrics.
git agent-verdict "$1" my-standards-gate \
--doc docs/standards.md --doc docs/annotations.md --path .
# Advisory: counts findings, never blocks. The shell expands $KB, so a rubric may live
# outside the repo, where nothing can stage it.
# `*.md` is a git pathspec, so it matches at any depth: this gate reads docs/standards.md
# too, which is what leaves the standards rubric reviewed by someone when it changes alone.
git agent-verdict "$1" prose-gate --simple \
--doc "$KB/writing-style.md" --path "*.md"
# Line order is review order: a later gate is never judged against what an earlier one is
# still changing. Gate names are repo-chosen labels, and reach the trailer as Reviewed-<name>.
# A gate stands aside when its own rubric is the whole of what is staged, so let some other
# gate's --path cover your rubrics — attest names every staged file no gate read.
chmod +x .githooks/commit-msg
The rubrics are the repo's own, and these paths are placeholders: a --doc that does not
resolve is refused, so a hook copied verbatim says so at the first commit.
2. Point git at that directory, per clone and by hand — git refuses to let a repo do it for you:
git config core.hooksPath .githooks
3. Name the reviewer. Host configuration, not the repo's: maintainers do not share a machine, a
budget or a preferred agent. There is no default — unset, attest refuses rather than spending
on an agent nobody chose.
git config --global agent-verdict.runner "claude -p"
Any command that reads a brief on stdin and closes with one VERDICT: line will do; that one is
an example, not a dependency. It must report reviewer= and session= on the line, as the brief
asks. Wrapping it, pass the reviewer's own output through: the counts say how much was found,
and only that output says what.
4. Commit through the tool, not through git:
git agent-verdict attest --intent "<the aim, one flat line>"
One gate per run, in declaration order. It records what the reviewer reported and commits once
every gate is attested. The message is composed from --intent; nothing is handed back to paste."#;
pub fn guide() -> String {
GUIDE.replace("{{line}}", &line())
}