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A rule has been on or off. Turning one on for a team that is still converging meant red checks on every push; turning it off meant losing the information. This adds a third setting:

warn = ["branch", "CC003"]

[commit]
subject_imperative = true

[branch]
conventional_branch = true

A rule listed under warn runs, its finding prints in full, and it never fails the run. Entries name a check (branch) or its rule ID (CC003, any case). A name that matches nothing is a configuration error with the list of known rules, so a typo cannot leave a rule silently enforced.

Behaviour

Text output (real output on this branch):

CC201 branch check warning ==> jsmith/fix-x
The branch should follow Conventional Branch. See https://conventionalbranch.org
Suggest: Use <type>/<description> with allowed types or add branch name to allow_branch_names in config, or use ignore_authors in config branch section to bypass
Docs: https://commit-check.com/rules/#cc201
This rule is set to warn in the config; it does not fail the run.

⚠ warnings (not enforced): branch        ← stderr, like the skip notice
$ echo $?
0

No rejection banner for a warning; the banner is still owed to the next enforced failure. --compact prints [WARN] CC201 branch: jsmith/fix-x.

JSON and Python API: the check's status is warn, the top-level status stays pass unless an enforced rule failed, and a top-level warnings count is added. overall_status already counted only fail, so consumers testing for that value (the App, the Action, the MCP server) are unaffected; they can start rendering warn when they choose.

Exit code counts only enforced rules.

How

  • ValidationRule.severity ("error" default, "warn"), set by RuleBuilder from the top-level list after all rules are built; carried in to_dict() so the printer sees it.
  • ValidationEngine.validate_all tracks failures per rule severity and prints the stderr notice; validate_all_detailed maps a failed warn-rule to status="warn".
  • util._print_failure / print_error_message gain the warn variant; new engine.count_warnings.
  • README: warn in the config example, a "Report a rule without enforcing it" section, and warnings / warn in the JSON schema and samples.

Not included, on purpose: numeric levels, "fail when warnings exceed N", per-author levels.

Tests

19 new tests across rule builder (name/ID resolution, refusal of unknown names and non-lists), engine (warn vs fail outcomes, text-mode exit and notices, overall_status / count_warnings), util (warn block without banner, compact label), main (--format json and text mode end to end through --config, unknown-name error), and the API (warnings count). Full suite: 783 passed; the one failure, test_load_config_file_permission_error, is pre-existing and root-only. pre-commit run --all-files clean.

README pins checked: all three rev: v2.16.0 match the PyPI release.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable warning-level checks using the warn setting.
    • Warning-level findings are reported without failing validation.
    • Text output now labels warnings clearly and explains that they are not enforced.
    • JSON and API results include warning counts and per-check warn statuses.
    • Supports warning configuration by check name or rule ID.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid or unknown warning configuration entries now produce clear configuration errors.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration, CLI, JSON, and API documentation with warning behavior and examples.

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The change adds a configurable warn severity for rules. Warning findings remain visible but do not fail validation. Engine, text output, JSON output, Python APIs, documentation, and tests now expose warning statuses and counts.

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Warning severity flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rule severity configuration
commit_check/rule_builder.py, README.md, tests/rule_builder_test.py
Rules now carry a severity. The warn configuration accepts check names and rule IDs, validates entries, and assigns warning severity.
Engine and text reporting
commit_check/engine.py, commit_check/util.py, tests/engine_fixes_test.py, tests/util_test.py
The engine separates warning findings from enforced failures. Text output uses warning labels, omits rejection banners, and reports that warnings do not fail the run.
Structured warning results
commit_check/api.py, commit_check/main.py, README.md, tests/api_test.py, tests/main_test.py
API and JSON results now include warning counts and warn check statuses. Documentation and integration tests cover passing warnings, output formatting, and invalid rule names.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50896

Warning-configured rules now report findings without failing validation, but mixed-case check names cannot be configured as warnings as documented, and some output/API documentation does not describe the new behavior accurately. These bounded contract issues should be corrected before release.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Config
  participant RuleBuilder
  participant ValidationEngine
  participant TextOutput
  participant API
  participant CLI
  Config->>RuleBuilder: provide warn rule names
  RuleBuilder-->>ValidationEngine: build rules with severity warn
  ValidationEngine->>ValidationEngine: classify warning and enforced failures
  ValidationEngine-->>TextOutput: return warning outcomes
  TextOutput-->>CLI: print warning without rejection
  ValidationEngine-->>API: return warn statuses
  API-->>CLI: expose warnings count in structured output
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121-122: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the API endpoint return documentation.

validate_message still documents only "pass"/"fail" and "checks". The same stale contract appears in the return descriptions for validate_branch, validate_tag, validate_push, validate_author, and validate_all. Document the "warnings" field and "warn" per-check status. Also remove the validate_push claim that detected force pushes always return "fail", because a warned no_force_push rule reports "warn" and keeps the overall result passing.

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In `@commit_check/api.py` around lines 121 - 122, Update the return documentation
for validate_message, validate_branch, validate_tag, validate_push,
validate_author, and validate_all to include the warnings field and the warn
per-check status. Remove validate_push documentation claiming detected force
pushes always produce an overall fail, and describe the warn outcome for
no_force_push consistently with the passing overall result.
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Inline comments:
In `@commit_check/rule_builder.py`:
- Line 126: Normalize each check name to the catalog’s canonical casing before
the RULES_BY_CHECK lookup in the rule-building logic, matching the existing
case-insensitive handling for rule IDs so warning configurations such as
“BRANCH” resolve successfully.

In `@README.md`:
- Around line 172-176: Update the warning-output documentation near the
described warned-rule format to state that --compact is an exception: warned
rules emit a single [WARN] line instead of the full warning block. Preserve the
existing non-compact behavior and JSON status details.

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In `@commit_check/api.py`:
- Around line 121-122: Update the return documentation for validate_message,
validate_branch, validate_tag, validate_push, validate_author, and validate_all
to include the warnings field and the warn per-check status. Remove
validate_push documentation claiming detected force pushes always produce an
overall fail, and describe the warn outcome for no_force_push consistently with
the passing overall result.

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shenxianpeng and others added 5 commits September 5, 2026 22:04
A rule has been on or off. Turning one on for a team that is still
converging meant red checks on every push; turning it off meant losing
the information. warn = ["branch", "CC003"] gives a rule a third
setting: it runs, its finding prints in full, and it never fails the
run.

- ValidationRule gains severity ("error" or "warn"), set by the builder
  from the top-level warn list. Entries name a check or its rule ID; a
  name that matches nothing is a configuration error, so a typo cannot
  leave a rule silently enforced.
- Text output prints the same block with "warning" in place of
  "failed", no rejection banner, and one closing line saying the run is
  not failed by it. Compact output labels it [WARN]. A one-line stderr
  notice names the warned rules, so a hook that exits 0 after
  red-looking output is not mistaken for a broken hook.
- --format json and the Python API report the check's status as "warn",
  keep the top-level status at "pass", and add a "warnings" count.
  overall_status already counted only "fail", so consumers that test
  for that value are unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
…hapes

The rule-ID spelling was already case-insensitive; the check-name
spelling was not, so warn = ["BRANCH"] was refused. Both now resolve
the same way. The README notes the --compact form of a warning, and the
API docstrings describe the warnings count and the warn status,
including that a warned no_force_push reports rather than fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
…mposite asserts

subject_max_length is only built when the commit section enables it,
so the new test named a rule that did not exist. The two "rules and
all(...)" assertions become one each, so a failure says which half.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
CodSpeed measured every RuleBuilder construction about 70 microseconds
slower: the resolver built two lookup tables from the catalog on each
call, warn list or not. Build the tables once at import, return early
when nothing is listed, and leave the built rules untouched on that
path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018xYa7m3qup5wyN5MaXFgf6
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