grim8/23/2026, 8:36:46 AM

'passed anyway, the review fallback is off' told a maintainer nothing. It
named an internal setting and left them to guess what it did. It now says what
happened and why, in plain words:

  passed without them. this repo is set to pass when a rule can't run.

Em dashes are gone from every user-facing string in this file, and from the
docs added earlier. A test holds the rule so a new synthetic step cannot
reintroduce one.

The deny-floor string carried one too, and it read as two glued sentences. It
is now: 'no deny edge drawn. blocked by default, because deny never fails
open.'

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