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+---
+canonical: github:fredericrous/aval/docs/plans/2026-10-23-code-rules-reach-writers-reviewers.md
+phases: [4]
+status: done
+branch: docs/code-rules-full-text
+---
+# Code rules reach the agent that writes and the agent that reviews
+
+Pointer. The plan and its review panel live in aval (aval#42); the ADR is
+decisions ADR-0043 (decisions#86). This repository carries Phase 4: the
+implementation-review brief built by `worktree-task` F4b carries the full text
+of the `governs: code` constraints and the decisions that apply to the changed
+files, and the `implementation-review` agent blocks on a code-rule violation the
+diff introduces, deletions included.
+
+## Verification record
+
+The two files were patched into the live `~/.claude` (only this branch's hunks:
+the live `SKILL.md` carries a newer preview step not on `origin/main`, which a
+`chezmoi apply` would have reverted; backups kept). Then the real
+`implementation-review` agent read briefs built exactly as the new F4b step
+says, on the relais branch (55 code rules in full, other constraints,
+`aval relevant --top 20` for the changed file):
+- Seeded diff adding `checkout_names` with `let mut v`, `for r in roots`,
+  `Some(n)` in `crates/relais/src/repo.rs` → blocking finding citing
+  `names.reveal-intent` → `Verdict: rework`, blocking, `repo.rs:115-117`, the
+  rule's own exception quoted and ADR-0043 named as why it blocks.
+- Seeded deletion-only diff removing `crate::tooling::GUIDANCE_TIMEOUT` from a
+  `run_aval` call in `crates/relais/src/context/mod.rs` → blocking finding
+  citing `reliability.every-wait-is-bounded` at the old-side line →
+  `Verdict: rework`, blocking, `context/mod.rs:219` (the deleted line).
+- What the drills prove: the new brief (code rules in full, decisions for the
+  changed files) yields blocking findings citing the right rule id at the right
+  line. What they do not prove: which agent text the subagent ran. The live
+  file already held `04ee438` (verdict wording), yet the rename drill answered
+  `rework` where that wording says a blocking finding under
+  `approve-with-changes`; Claude Code may load agent definitions at session
+  start, so the next session's first review is the check of the new wording.
+- The brief's commands → `aval --json rules --level constraint --governs code
+  --full` 55 rules; `aval relevant --json --top 20` 18 ranked keys.
+
+## Decision log
+
+- 2026-10-24 — `aval resolve <key>` runs without `--scope`: aval's `relevant`
+  already reports each key's resolved verdict at the default scope, and no
+  fleet repository resolves scoped decisions in review today. Follow-up if one
+  does.
+
+## Implementation review
+
+- Round 1 approve-with-changes (31k, 34 s): verification recorded above (two
+  drills on the live agent), verdict wording for a locally fixable rule finding
+  (`04ee438`), scope kept as a recorded decision.
diff --git a/dot_claude/agents/implementation-review.md b/dot_claude/agents/implementation-review.md
index 5493f51..0d050f2 100644
--- a/dot_claude/agents/implementation-review.md
+++ b/dot_claude/agents/implementation-review.md
@@ -38,13 +38,19 @@ Check, in this order:
    "Tests pass" is a finding (`work.verification-loop-before-push`). A
    recorded check with no code path that could have produced it is a
    blocking finding.
-3. **Fleet constraints.** The brief lists the repository's active
-   constraints (`aval rules --level constraint`). A violated one is a
-   finding that names the rule id and the `file:line` — a swallowed error
+3. **Fleet constraints.** The brief carries the code rules in full and the
+   decisions that apply, and lists the other active constraints
+   (`aval rules --level constraint`). A code-rule violation introduced by
+   the diff, including deletions (cite the old-side `file:line`), is a
+   blocking finding with the rule id, which makes the verdict `rework` or
+   a blocking `approve-with-changes` — a swallowed error
    (`errors.never-swallowed`), a disabled lint or a skipped test
    (`general.no-disabled-safety`), a non-exhaustive match
-   (`types.exhaustive-matching`), a boolean flag argument, and so on. Cite
-   only rules the brief lists.
+   (`types.exhaustive-matching`), a boolean flag argument, and so on.
+   Unchanged pre-existing violations are outside the check. An applicable
+   decision in the brief outranks a rule; where decision evidence is
+   missing, say so under "Would still check by hand" rather than assuming
+   an exception. Cite only rules the brief lists.
 4. **Tests.** An added test that cannot fail (no assertion, an assertion on
    a constant, a mock that returns what is asserted), or a changed
    assertion that weakens a contract the plan did not change.
@@ -69,8 +75,12 @@ Would still check by hand: <one to three things a person should look at that a d
 
 `rework` only when the implementation cannot ship as written: a ticked
 phase that is not there, a recorded verification that cannot be true, or
-a blocking constraint violation. `approve-with-changes` when every finding
-has a concrete edit the author can make without a design change.
+a blocking constraint violation whose fix changes the design. A blocking
+code-rule violation the author can fix with a local edit (a rename, a
+match arm, a returned error) is a blocking finding under
+`approve-with-changes`: it must be fixed before the push.
+`approve-with-changes` when every finding has a concrete edit the author
+can make without a design change.
 
 On a `Delta` review, the prompt carries your round-1 findings and the diff
 since. Answer each earlier finding `resolved`, `not resolved` or
diff --git a/dot_claude/skills/worktree-task/SKILL.md b/dot_claude/skills/worktree-task/SKILL.md
index 673ba18..1e2fade 100644
--- a/dot_claude/skills/worktree-task/SKILL.md
+++ b/dot_claude/skills/worktree-task/SKILL.md
@@ -180,8 +180,14 @@ below names one of them.
      - `git diff origin/main...HEAD --stat -- . ':!docs/plans'`, and the
        full diff when it is under 60 KB; above that, the stat and "Read
        the files";
-     - the active constraints: `aval rules --level constraint`, run in
-       the worktree (the pack refreshed at Start);
+     - the code rules in full: `aval --json rules --level constraint
+       --governs code --full`; the other constraints: `aval rules --level
+       constraint`; and the decisions that apply: `aval relevant --json
+       --top 20` with one `--path` per file of `git diff --name-only
+       origin/main...HEAD` (not `--changed`, which is empty on a committed
+       branch; skipped when no file changed), each returned key resolved
+       with `aval resolve <key>`; all run in the worktree (the pack
+       refreshed at Start);
      - the plan's Non-goals.
   2b. **Interface review** (advisory; skipped unless the diff touches the
      repository's UI). Trigger: the `ui` areas from `aval traits`, matched