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 This is the single code-style guide for the fleet. The **General** section applies to every language. Each **language section** (.NET, Python) is self-contained: a repo follows only the section(s) for the languages it ships and ignores the rest. A repo keeps the whole file rather than trimming it. An unused-language section costs nothing, the same whole-file model as [`.editorconfig`][root], whose inert `[*.cs]` block a non-.NET repo keeps.
 
-Cross-cutting *process* rules (PR titles, branching, US English, markdown style, comments philosophy, workflow YAML, PR review etiquette) live in [GOVERNANCE.md][governance] and are not repeated here.
+Cross-cutting *process* rules (PR titles, branching, US English, markdown style, comments philosophy, workflow YAML, PR review etiquette, and the verification discipline that defines the pre-push lint gate) live in [GOVERNANCE.md][governance] and are not repeated here.
 
 ## General
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Use each tool's official casing in task labels, docs, and prose: `.NET` (not `.N
 
 Each language defines a **clean-compile** verification: the combination of build, formatter, linter, and code-analysis tools that must report clean before a commit. It is exposed as one or more **named** VS Code tasks (or, where a language ships no tasks, documented commands), and those definitions are the same across the fleet. The concrete names live in each language section below.
 
-- **Run it after every code change.** The relevant language's clean-compile must pass before you commit, and CI runs the same checks as a backstop.
+- **Run it after every code change, and it is not the whole gate.** The relevant language's clean-compile must pass before you commit. CI runs those same language checks as a backstop **plus everything else its validation workflow runs**, and all of it reports into the one required status, so a green clean-compile does not predict a green CI. That remainder is at least the doc-lint set (markdownlint, cspell, actionlint, `editorconfig-checker`) and whatever spec, config, and script gates the repo carries, so read the workflow for the full list rather than assuming this sentence enumerates it. What has to pass before a push is the repo's **whole** lint gate, per [GOVERNANCE.md "Verification Discipline"][governance-verification-discipline]. Each linter's known-working invocation is in [GOVERNANCE.md "Running the Linters Locally"][governance-running-the-linters-locally].
 - **The named task definition is the canonical spec** - its exact command sequence, arguments, and strictness. You may run it through the VS Code task **or** by invoking the equivalent native commands directly, and either is fine **only if the sequence, arguments, and strictness match exactly**. No shortcuts and no more-lenient options (for example, never drop `--verify-no-changes` or loosen a `--severity`).
 - **A local commit/pre-commit gate is the repo's choice.** No single hook runner fits every language (a `dotnet`-tool runner like Husky.Net suits .NET but not Python), so none is mandated, but that is **not** a recommendation against commit gates. CI is the authoritative backstop regardless, and a local gate is an additive convenience a repo may wire and keep: Husky.Net (and `dotnet husky run` as a style step) for .NET, `pre-commit` for Python. Keeping a working gate is not drift.
 
@@ -490,8 +490,10 @@ Before pushing or opening a PR:
 
 [analyzer-diagnostics-and-suppressions]: #analyzer-diagnostics-and-suppressions
 [clean-compile-verification]: #clean-compile-verification
-[history]: ./HISTORY.md
 [governance]: ./GOVERNANCE.md
+[governance-running-the-linters-locally]: ./GOVERNANCE.md#running-the-linters-locally-known-working-invocations
+[governance-verification-discipline]: ./GOVERNANCE.md#verification-discipline
+[history]: ./HISTORY.md
 [line-endings]: ./GOVERNANCE.md#line-endings
 [markdown-and-spelling]: #markdown-and-spelling
 [markdownlint-cli2]: ./.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc