@coderifts/agent-hooks 0.3.0 → 0.3.1

package/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "agent-hooks",
-  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "version": "0.3.1",
   "description": "Ask CodeRifts before Claude Code writes a contract artifact (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, protobuf, MCP manifest).",
   "author": {
     "name": "CodeRifts",

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.3.1 — 2026-10-04
+
+### Changed
+
+- **When CodeRifts could not decide, the refusal says so in one sentence** — the one the GitHub App, `coderifts claude-hook` and the CodeRifts mod write: `GOVERNANCE_UNAVAILABLE: CodeRifts could not decide (<why>); this is not a finding about your change.` It is added to the unreachable and unreadable-answer approvals (`gate.js`) and to the Claude hook's fail-closed messages (`claude-code/hook.mjs`); nothing that stopped now passes. `governanceUnavailable(why)` is exported from `gate.js`.
+
 ## 0.3.0 — 2026-10-03
 
 ### Changed

package/claude-code/hook.mjs

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
 import { afterText, decideToolCall } from "../contract-write.mjs";
-import { createGate, DOES_NOT_PROVE, hostIo } from "../gate.js";
+import { createGate, DOES_NOT_PROVE, governanceUnavailable, hostIo } from "../gate.js";
 
 /** The file after an Edit (`params` is the edit) or a MultiEdit (`params.edits`, in order): contract-write's afterText. */
 export function applyEdits(params, before) {
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ export async function runClaudeHook(stdinText, { env = process.env, deps } = {})
       const r = await shellDecision(String(payload.tool_input?.command ?? ""), hostIo(payload.cwd, deps?.readFile, deps?.listDir));
       return r ? jsonDecision(r.decision, r.text) : emptyPass();
     } catch (err) {
-      return failClosed(`CodeRifts Claude hook failed on a Bash call (${String(err?.message ?? err)}). Not knowing is not permission.`);
+      return failClosed(`CodeRifts Claude hook failed on a Bash call (${String(err?.message ?? err)}). ${governanceUnavailable("the Bash check failed")} Not knowing is not permission.`);
     }
   }
 
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ export async function runClaudeHook(stdinText, { env = process.env, deps } = {})
     return mapGateResult(result);
   } catch (err) {
     return failClosed(
-      `CodeRifts Claude hook failed before a decision (${String(err?.message ?? err)}). Not knowing is not permission.`,
+      `CodeRifts Claude hook failed before a decision (${String(err?.message ?? err)}). ${governanceUnavailable("the hook failed before a decision")} Not knowing is not permission.`,
     );
   }
 }

package/claude-code/marketplace-entry.json

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "repo": "coderifts/agent-hooks"
   },
   "description": "Host adapters for CodeRifts: Claude Code PreToolUse asks before Write/Edit of OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, protobuf, or MCP manifest files. Not the GitHub Action (coderifts/contract-gate) and not the guard library (@coderifts/agent-guard).",
-  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "version": "0.3.1",
   "author": {
     "name": "CodeRifts",
     "email": "peter@coderifts.com"

package/gate.js

@@ -122,6 +122,15 @@ export async function askCodeRifts({ endpoint, apiKey, timeoutMs, operation, art
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * GOVERNANCE_UNAVAILABLE (2026-10-04): the one sentence the App, the CLI hook and the Claude Code mod
+ * write verbatim when CodeRifts could not decide. The call still stops; the sentence says the stop is
+ * about CodeRifts, not about the change.
+ */
+export function governanceUnavailable(why) {
+  return `GOVERNANCE_UNAVAILABLE: CodeRifts could not decide (${why}); this is not a finding about your change.`;
+}
+
 /** Ask for a human, always with a reason. Never `{}`. */
 const ask = (title, description) => ({
   requireApproval: {
@@ -146,6 +155,7 @@ export function decide(outcome, { operation, path }) {
     return ask(
       "CodeRifts did not answer",
       `${path} is a contract artifact and CodeRifts could not be reached (${outcome.detail}). ` +
+        `${governanceUnavailable(`CodeRifts could not be reached: ${outcome.detail}`)} ` +
         `No decision was obtained, and not knowing is not permission.`,
     );
   }
@@ -153,7 +163,8 @@ export function decide(outcome, { operation, path }) {
     return ask(
       "CodeRifts answer could not be read",
       `${path} is a contract artifact and CodeRifts replied with something this gate cannot interpret ` +
-        `(${outcome.detail}). No decision was obtained, and not knowing is not permission.`,
+        `(${outcome.detail}). ${governanceUnavailable(`the answer could not be read: ${outcome.detail}`)} ` +
+        `No decision was obtained, and not knowing is not permission.`,
     );
   }
 

package/openclaw.plugin.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "id": "coderifts-contract-gate",
   "name": "CodeRifts contract gate",
   "description": "Ask CodeRifts before an agent writes a contract artifact.",
-  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "version": "0.3.1",
   "configSchema": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": false,

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@coderifts/agent-hooks",
-  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "version": "0.3.1",
   "description": "Ask CodeRifts before an agent writes a contract artifact (OpenClaw before_tool_call and Claude Code PreToolUse).",
   "license": "MIT",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/coderifts/agent-hooks#readme",