The pr_pass (reviewer) conventions guard reused the dev-path block-finding
remediation: 'add a waiver to .roboco/conventions.yml in your branch'. A
pr_reviewer does not own the assembled cell->root / root->master branch and
has no commit verb on it, so the waiver remediation is unreachable — a false
positive stranded the gate with no self-recovery (the reviewer could neither
commit a waiver nor pr_pass). The fail-open content path is documented
precision-over-recall and stays as-is; the actionable gap is the remediation.
Fix: _conventions_rejection now branches the block-finding remediation on
reviewer=True (mirroring the could_not_run branch from F044). The reviewer
path points at pr_fail carrying the findings as issues so the PR returns to
needs_revision and the DEV fixes the violation or commits the waiver (the dev
CAN commit to the branch); waiver authorship is framed as the dev's action,
not the reviewer's. Dev i_am_done path wording unchanged. TDD
test_conventions_gate_pr_pass.py (+1).
The pr_pass gate runs the toolchain + conventions guards on the REVIEWER's
workspace, but their remediation text said 'call i_am_blocked' — a verb the
PR reviewer does not have. The reviewer would chase a verb they cannot call
instead of rejecting the PR.
Make the guards reviewer-aware: a reviewer=True flag (passed by _pr_pass_blocked)
switches the remediation to pr_fail(issues=[...]) — the reviewer's reject
lever, sending the PR back to needs_revision for the dev to fix the
environment / validator. The dev (i_am_done) path keeps i_am_blocked, which a
dev does have. _conventions_guard (the pr_pass path) now passes reviewer=True
through to _conventions_rejection.
* feat(conventions): standard schema models + effective-map merge
* feat(conventions): tree-sitter Python classifier + placement checks
* feat(conventions): TS classifier, hygiene/custom checks, runner + CLI
* feat(conventions): ROBOCO_CONVENTIONS_ENABLED flag + cache table + migration
* feat(conventions): repo auto-scan + scaffold draft renderer
* feat(conventions): ConventionsService (cache/baseline/ambient/scaffold/restore)
* feat(conventions): auto-scaffold on project registration (flag-gated)
* feat(conventions): TaskDescription.constraints + auto-baseline attach
* feat(conventions): ambient architecture-map injection at spawn
* test(conventions): subprocess CLI smoke for the agent-image entrypoint
* feat(conventions): block i_am_done on block-level convention violations
* feat(conventions): block pr_pass on unresolved convention violations
* feat(conventions): surface convention findings into QA evidence
* docs(prompts): convention awareness for PO/Intake/Dev/QA/PR-reviewer
* feat(conventions): panel Conventions tab + flag toggle + parity
* test(conventions): end-to-end block, fix, and waiver through the gate
* refactor(conventions): extract pr_pass guards to keep pr_gate under the gate
* style(conventions): format the baseline-constraints attach in task.create
* test(conventions): type-annotate test helpers for the full mypy gate
* build(conventions): ignore types-PyYAML in deptry (mypy-only type stub)
* docs(conventions): document the standard in CLAUDE.md + PM prompt awareness
* fix(conventions): baseline constraints are non-suppressible (dedup-append)
* feat(conventions): scaffold on first workspace clone (threaded workspace)
* feat(conventions): multi-project ambient map for PO/Intake (per-product)
* feat(conventions): persist findings + violations-feed route (migration 044)
* feat(conventions): panel violations feed in the Conventions tab
* test(conventions): intake-spawn mock accepts the ambient layer kwarg
* fix(docker): ollama-init best-effort pull, gate startup on cached models present
A degraded/slow ollama registry made the model manifest re-check fail under
set -e, so ollama-init exited 1 and blocked the orchestrator's
service_completed_successfully gate — taking the whole stack down even though
both models were already cached. Pulls are now best-effort; success is gated on
the models being present, so a flaky registry can't down a cached deployment.
* refactor(content): drop dead TaskDescription.with_baseline_constraints
The structured baseline-merge helper had zero production callers. Project-task baseline constraints are attached by the wired string backstop (TaskService._attach_baseline_constraints), and a real task is free-form prose that cannot form a valid TaskDescription (requires a non-trivial objective + non-empty the_work), so the helper was unreachable from any live path — a leftover from the structured-merge -> string-append design pivot. Removing it leaves a single enforcement path. The constraints field itself stays: it is a member of the well-formed-spec schema (Objective / What This Builds / The Work / Notes / Constraints / Acceptance Criteria), rendered by render_markdown and unit-tested.
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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
Renn F