Three exemptions the first cut missed, all of them files no commit could
ever fix:
- Git-ignored files (todo's exported BACKLOG.md, logs, scratch dumps).
These are rewritten wholesale by whatever produces them, so splitting one
is meaningless, and pre-commit never sees them anyway. Applied to
explicitly-named paths as well as --all, so the two modes cannot disagree
about the same file.
- Vendored agent-skill bundles (.agents/skills, .claude/skills). A SKILL.md
is a fixed-name file with frontmatter; splitting one breaks the format.
Matched by directory name wherever it appears, since these get dropped
into any repo.
- .utils, where CI checks out this repo. Without it a repo's lint job fails
on utils' own long files, which that repo cannot fix.
Baseline accordingly drops from 657 to 597. Re-verified all eight fixtures:
over-cap fails, under-cap passes, generated/vendored/wordlist/git-ignored
exempt, prose still capped, and the gate still passes on its own source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C7yZz45ezmzCB89Cv5gAtZ
The measured distribution the 250-line cap was derived from, and the 657
files currently over it, so the baseline is reproducible rather than a
number in a commit message.
Stored as JSON, not a text list: a 651-line .txt would itself have failed
the gate, and the data belongs in a data file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C7yZz45ezmzCB89Cv5gAtZ
