Coding Policy Integration

Sync and Checkouts

• Applies only to a verified Herdr team round under rules/agent-team-operation.md.
• The foreman provisions each writer's worktree and records its fetched base.
• A worker consumes the provisioned base instead of fetching or rebasing the shared checkout under generic sync-before-work.
• Preconditions are binding: read skills/herdr-foreman/references/team-operation.md Writers and Checkouts before relying on that exception.
• The operator resolves listed shared-checkout items by push, commit, pull request or delete.
• The foreman carries out none of those resolutions.
• Foreman teardown is limited to the merged task's worktree under skills/herdr-foreman/SKILL.md Step 15 and its binding post-merge order.
• Workers retain diagnostics and handoff obligations on their own changed files.

Review and Release

• Advisory findings are acknowledged in the existing task report or round log; they create no follow-up or delivery prerequisite.
• The release worker reports blocking findings to the foreman and performs no source repair.
• Team weighing and pinned-judge verification follow skills/herdr-foreman/references/release-integration.md.
• Generic release gates and floors remain binding after team authority verification.

Accepted Scope Exclusion

• Narrow exception for a Judge-Accepted Defect Carve-Out in a team fix loop that did not converge.
• Applies only to the excluded defect in the shipped team scope.
• Preconditions (all required):
  1. The current exhaustion has a recorded REMEDY: stop diagnosis.
  2. The excluded defect has a tracked issue.
  3. The shipped scope excludes that work and carries no other blocking finding.
  4. CI, external review and independent reviewer/tester passes hold on the shipped tip.
• The operator may override the stop by explicitly authorizing a plan over it.
• Every other blocking finding follows the generic review rule.

Script Output

• Narrow exception for skills/herdr-foreman/review-package.sh artifact-path stdout under generic script delegation.
• Applies only to this script's completed review package.
• Preconditions (all required):
  1. Success emits only the absolute completed package path and a newline.
  2. The package contains the resolved commit range, commit list, diff stat and patch.
  3. Failure emits no path, exits nonzero and gives an actionable stderr diagnostic.
  4. tests/herdr-foreman/tests/test_review_package.py verifies the contract.
• Every other skill script retains the generic JSON-output requirement.