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Jargon gate flags instead of refusing; identifiers are code #2013

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11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion src/agent_comms/todos.py
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import re
import subprocess
import sqlite3
import sys
import time
import asyncio
from abc import abstractmethod
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# for long ordinary words with no slash or filename suffix.
CITED: ClassVar[re.Pattern] = re.compile(
r'(?m)^ {4}.*$|`[^`\n]*`|"[^"\n]*"|“[^”\n]*”|'
r'(?:(?<!\S)|(?<=[`"”]))(?:\S*/\S*|\S+\.(?:py|md|jsonl?|txt|png|toml|ts|log|patch)\b)')
r'(?:(?<!\S)|(?<=[`"”]))(?:\S*/\S*|\S+\.(?:py|md|jsonl?|txt|png|toml|ts|log|patch)\b)|'
r'\b\w+_\w+\b|\b[A-Z][a-z0-9]+[A-Z]\w*\b') # identifiers are code, not prose
REFUSED: ClassVar[re.Pattern]
refusal: ClassVar[str]
least_words: ClassVar[int] = 1
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REFUSED = re.compile(r'\b(custody|admission|admit\w*|receipt\w*|checkpoint\w*|provenance|authority|authorities|witness\w*|lattice|surface|disposition\w*|invariant\w*|semantic\w*|ownership|lifecycle|acceptance|canonical|retained|borrow(?:ed|er|ers)?|bounded|certif\w*|recertif\w*|candidate|fence\w*|sidecar\w*|substrate|installed-path|source[- ]paired|exact[- ]head|integration owner|separately owned|follow-?up|remaining scope|not claimed|remains held|load[- ]bearing|cutover|carr(?:y|ies) across|declared dependency|qualifying)\b', re.I)
refusal = "Jargon {1} hides what happened; say it plainly."

@staticmethod
def refuses(found: list[str]) -> bool:
"""Flags, never blocks: a wording slip costs a note, not a resend."""
if found:
print(f"Flag: jargon {', '.join(found)} hides what happened; say it plainly.", file=sys.stderr)
return False


class StrikeReason(PlainText):
"""What a unit did, plainly, in enough words to stand on the public record. A unit's
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