Run the commit gate with pre-commit, Husky, or a plain hook

Goal. A commit with an error-level alert on an added line is refused, for everyone who commits, with or without the agent.

Precondition. vale on the committer’s PATH. When it is missing, the gate prints a notice and exits 0, so adding the gate never blocks a commit on a machine without Vale.

Steps

1. Run /just-say-so:init --hook auto in the repo. It picks the pre-commit framework when .pre-commit-config.yaml exists, Husky when .husky/ exists, and a plain .git/hooks/pre-commit when the repo has a package.json. Or pick with --hook pre-commit, husky, or git.

2. Run the command the skill repeats at the end, pre-commit install or a dev dependency install.

3. Stage a Markdown file with a banned word on a new line and commit. The gate prints the alerts and refuses.

By hand

The pre-commit framework, pinned at a tag:

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/ifandelse/just-say-so
    rev: v0.18.1
    hooks:
      - id: vale-staged

Husky or a plain hook, with the repo as a dev dependency from a tag, then node_modules/.bin/just-say-so-staged in the hook. Do not point a hook at the Claude plugin cache; its path is machine-specific and version-suffixed.

Skipping once

JUST_SAY_SO_PRECOMMIT=0 git commit ... skips the gate for one commit. Exit codes and what the gate checks are in The commit gate, CI, and pinning.