docs: require agents to respect DNM markers on PRs#3871
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Require agents to respect do-not-merge markers across title, body, and labels before merging any PR, with explicit variations listed.
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Agents reviewing or merging PRs need a clear, unambiguous rule about do-not-merge markers. Authors use these as hard stops — often because a PR is part of a coordinated sequence, has a pending dependency, or is intentionally up for review without being ready to merge. Missing one of these markers can easily result in a premature merge that the author then has to reshape around.
This adds an explicit rule to
CLAUDE.mdthat agents must check title, body, AND labels for all common variations of "do not merge" before merging, and that this check must happen immediately before the merge — not just at triage time, since labels can change mid-session.