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acceptance.no_reason

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An acceptance this change adds has no /// line above acceptance saying why a person accepted the changes it lists.

Area 14, Tools; not declinable; the next step is usually the human's.

Why Jadpo refuses it

An acceptance records a person's decision that a change which could break someone else, or widen who can do what, is safe. The reason is the decision: it tells the reviewer of the pull request, and anyone reading the history later, why it was safe.

jadpo acceptance new drafts the file listing the changes, and an agent may run it, but it writes no reason. The reason has to come from a person, so Jadpo won't write it, and neither should your agent.

What it looks like

A book catalogue's BookView stops sending each book's author, which is acceptance.missing until a person accepts it. The agent drafts the acceptance:

shell
jadpo acceptance new remove_book_author
output
Wrote acceptances/20261020T1400_remove_book_author.jadpo    main.BookView.author  ApiChange.output_field_removeddecision: 1 change waits for a person's reason --> acceptances/20261020T1400_remove_book_author.jadpo:1  next: Stop and hand over: a person reads the changes and writes why they are accepted on a `///` line above `acceptance`. (human)

The draft lists the change and nothing else:

acceptances/20261020T1400_remove_book_author.jadpo
// acceptances/20261020T1400_remove_book_author.jadpoacceptance {    changes: {        main.BookView.author: ApiChange.output_field_removed    }}

Until a person writes the reason, jadpo check fails:

shell
jadpo check
jadpo checkcheck failed: 1 error, 8 files

error acceptances/20261020T1400_remove_book_author.jadpo has no reason

--> acceptances/20261020T1400_remove_book_author.jadpo:1:1

  |1 | acceptance {  | ^^^^^^^^^^ no `///` reason above
reason
An acceptance records a person's decision, so it says why on a /// line above acceptance; an agent writes the draft and stops there.
next
A person writes why these changes are accepted on a /// line above acceptance (human)
rule
acceptance.no_reason
help
https://jadpo.dev/docs/errors/acceptance.no_reason

(human) at the end of the next: line tells your coding agent to stop and ask you which fix you want, because the choice is yours to make: it decides whether your API's clients lose the author field, and why that is safe.

Only an acceptance this change adds is judged. One already on the default branch is history, and editing it is acceptance.edited.

How to fix it

If you accept the changes, write why on a /// line directly above acceptance, in your own words, such as "No client reads a book's author: the catalogue pages stopped showing it in version 2." Then check again:

shell
jadpo check

The check passes. Commit the acceptance with the change, so the pull request's reviewer reads your reason beside the diff.

If you don't, delete the draft and undo the change it lists:

shell
rm acceptances/20261020T1400_remove_book_author.jadpo

Until the change is undone, jadpo check fails with acceptance.missing again.

Markdown for agents: /docs/errors/acceptance.no_reason.md.Built from Jadpo main at aee2e8f.