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This functionality allows agents to see much more detailed instructions for fixing warnings, and is activated if verbose level >= 2. For now, just add agent instructions to verify-hardcoded-version, since it's the most prone to false positives and developer confusion.

Also add a write-tests skill and move general testing guidelines from add-or-modify-hook, upgrade ruff-pre-commit to 0.17.1, and fix how Codex is detected.

Issue: #169

This functionality allows agents to see much more detailed
instructions for fixing warnings, and is activated if verbose level
>= 2. For now, just add agent instructions to
`verify-hardcoded-version`, since it's the most prone to false
positives and developer confusion.

Also add a `write-tests` skill and move general testing guidelines
from `add-or-modify-hook`.

Issue: rapidsai#169
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  • New Features

    • Warnings can include actionable guidance, including resolutions for hard-coded version findings.
    • Instructions are formatted for readability and displayed in verbose mode or supported agent environments.
    • The linter indicates when available guidance has been suppressed.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved detection of Codex execution environments.
  • Documentation

    • Updated contributor guidance for writing agent instructions and tests.
  • Chores

    • Updated the Ruff pre-commit integration revision.

The pull request adds deferred agent instructions to lint warnings, displays them under specified conditions, and attaches guidance to hardcoded-version warnings. It also updates agent-related skills, the Codex environment variable check, the Ruff revision, and codeowners metadata.

Changes: Agent instruction output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Instruction callbacks and output
src/rapids_pre_commit_hooks/lint.py, tests/rapids_pre_commit_hooks/test_lint.py
Warnings can hold deferred instructions. The linter formats and prints instructions in agent environments or at verbosity level 2. Otherwise, it records suppressed instructions and prints a reminder. Tests cover deferred invocation, formatting, escaping, and output conditions.
Hardcoded-version warning guidance
src/rapids_pre_commit_hooks/hardcoded_version.py
The hardcoded-version check attaches guidance about false positives and possible resolutions to its warnings.
Instruction and test-writing guidance
.agents/skills/add-or-modify-hook/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/write-test/SKILL.md
The hook skill describes agent-instruction conventions and links to the write-test skill, which documents test locations and conventions.
Agent environment detection updates
src/rapids_pre_commit_hooks/utils/agents.py, tests/rapids_pre_commit_hooks/utils/test_agents.py, tests/rapids_pre_commit_hooks/test_lint.py
Codex detection now checks CODEX_CI. Related tests use the updated module and environment variable.

Repository maintenance updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tooling and codeowners updates
.pre-commit-config.yaml, src/rapids_pre_commit_hooks/codeowners.py
The Ruff pre-commit revision changes to v0.17.1. The codeowners copyright notice covers 2025–2026, and the expression formatting changes without changing the generated owner string.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: jameslamb

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Most users are unaffected, but verbose or agent-mode lint runs can fail when guidance contains a long unbroken token.

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🟡 Minor · Handle the two-character indent when checking wrap length. · lint.py:503-506

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle the two-character indent when checking wrap length.

When the first unformatted word has 78 or 79 characters, the length check fails while line is empty. The formatter then emits a blank " " line and an 80- or 81-character line. Handle the first word separately, or align the word-length check with the output indent.

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Review comment at @src/rapids_pre_commit_hooks/lint.py around lines 503 - 506:
Update the wrapping logic around the word-length assertion and the `len(f" 
{line}{sep}{word}")` check so the initial two-character output indent is
included when `line` is empty. Ensure the first word is wrapped or validated
without producing a blank `"  "` line or an overlong output line, while
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Assert that suppressed instruction callbacks are not evaluated.

The test uses a mock callback but does not check first.called. An implementation could evaluate the callback when verbose=False and still pass because its output is suppressed. Assert that the callback is not called when suppressed and is called once when verbose output is enabled.

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Review comment at @tests/rapids_pre_commit_hooks/test_lint.py around lines 413 -
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Update the test around Linter.print_warnings to assert the first instruction
callback mock is not called when verbose output is suppressed, then enable
verbose output and assert it is called exactly once. Preserve the existing
warning setup and output assertions.

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- Around line 503-506: Update the wrapping logic around the word-length
assertion and the `len(f"  {line}{sep}{word}")` check so the initial
two-character output indent is included when `line` is empty. Ensure the first
word is wrapped or validated without producing a blank `"  "` line or an
overlong output line, while preserving existing behavior for subsequent words.

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- Around line 413-420: Update the test around Linter.print_warnings to assert
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@KyleFromNVIDIA Not directly. Commit 2bd9382 fixes the length check to account for the two-space output indent: the maximum word length is now 77 characters, not 79.

My original finding concerned assertions on overlong paths. Those assertions remain, but I already withdrew that finding because you clarified that such paths are outside expected usage. No further change is needed for that finding.

I verified this by code inspection; I did not run tests.

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