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=. A gate may be judged against several rubrics, and --rule
# states one inline where a whole document would be more than the check is worth.
git agent-verdict "$1" my-standards-gate \
--doc docs/standards.md --doc docs/annotations.md \
--rule "every public item carries a one-line comment" \
--path .
# Advisory: same ladder, no MAJOR rung, never blocks. The shell expands $KB, so a rubric may live
# outside the repo, where nothing can stage it. A gate needs at least one --doc or --rule.
# `*.md` is a git pathspec, so it matches at any depth: this gate reads docs/ too.
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>.
# Staging a rubric is refused, whichever gate declares it: what the repo gates by is
# maintenance, and lands on its own with --no-verify.
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
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.
Fixing what a review named re-opens its gate, so run attest again after each fix. --intent is
only needed on the first run."#;
pub fn guide() -> String {
GUIDE.replace("{{line}}", &line())
}