agreement-opener
An advisory by default: it explains, and blocks nothing, on an agent reply that opens with praise or agreement ("Great question", "You're right").
What it catches
An agent reply that opens with praise or agreement ("Great question", "You're right").
Dimension
stance: the text reads as a verdict on a person, or as addressed to someone else. A finding is counted on
the dimension of its rule, the cost it names to the reader.
Why
Praise or agreement first answers the person's tone rather than their request, and pushes the result down. Measured 2026-10-10 over the 400 replies: it fires on 15 (3.8%), 10 of them "You're right" or "You were right". It advises: "You're right" can concede a correction the person needs to hear was taken.
Default decision
The code is PRF8026. The decision depends on the kind of text judged:
| Kind | Default |
|---|---|
agent-reply |
advise |
Changing it
A decisions table sets this rule to deny, advise or off, for everything judged
or for the files a glob matches. Proofread reads the table from the file its
-decisions flag names:
{
"rules": {"agreement-opener": "deny"},
"paths": {"blog/**": {"agreement-opener": "off"}}
}
rules applies to every file. A glob in paths applies to the files it matches, and the
last match wins. A rule set to off never reports.
Seeing it
A finding names the rule, its code and the decision that applies, and links here:
{"rule": "agreement-opener", "code": "PRF8026", "decision": "advise", "url": "https://eli.gladman.cc/magus/reference/proofread/agreement-opener/"}
proofread rules prints this entry with every other rule's.
See also
- All proofread rules - every rule, grouped by what it checks
- Writing rules - how the rules apply to this repository's pages and pull requests
- The findings contract - the fields every finding carries