🔧 config(coderabbit): adopt agent-voice tone and SYP best practices

[scttbnsn]

Second pass pulling in the evolved config the SYP repos converged on:

• tone_instructions: review comments written for an AI coding agent, terse, problem+fix, actionable only
• high_level_summary_instructions: emoji changelog plus flat concern list, formatted for Claude Code to consume
• Walkthrough noise stripped: collapsed walkthrough, no sequence diagrams, no effort estimate, no changed-files table, no fortune
• auto_incremental_review on, drafts skipped, WIP/DO NOT MERGE titles skipped
• Explicit tool enables for this stack (gitleaks, actionlint, markdownlint, yamllint, shellcheck, hadolint, ast-grep essential rules, github-checks) with languagetool off
• pre_merge_checks: docstring/title/description gates off, linked-issue assessment as warning
• Finishing touches (docstrings, unit tests) available on demand

✨ Added

• Expanded .coderabbit.yaml with agent-focused review guidance and terse, action-oriented tone instructions.
• Enabled additional workflow/engine controls for AI-agent usage and auto-review behavior.
• Added tools support for stack-specific checks: gitleaks, actionlint, markdownlint, yamllint, shellcheck, hadolint, ast-grep essential rules, and github-checks.
• Added finishing-touch controls for docstrings and unit_tests.
• Added pre_merge_checks configuration with docstrings/title/description modes and linked-issue assessment as a warning.
• Set chat.art: false.

🔧 Changed

• Reworked the review summary format to use an emoji changelog plus a flat concern list for Claude Code.
• Updated review-status toggles and auto-incremental review behavior.
• Added ignore_title_keywords entries to skip draft/WIP/DO NOT MERGE-style reviews.
• Disabled languagetool.
• Relaxed pre-merge checks for docstrings, title, and description.

🗑️ Removed

• Collapsed walkthrough content.
• Sequence diagrams.
• Effort estimates.
• Changed-files tables.
• Fortune text.
• The previous shorter language/reviews config block.

⚠️ Breaking

• None noted.

• Verify the new skip-keyword list covers all title variants used by the team.

• Confirm the enabled toolchain matches the repo’s CI/runtime environment.

• Check that disabling languagetool is intentional for all review paths.

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No actionable comments were generated in the recent review. 🎉

ℹ️ Recent review info

⚙️ Run configuration

Configuration used: Path: .coderabbit.yaml

Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Pro Plus

Run ID: a8e1c1ca-c96f-4456-ab30-41ad381d6b3d

📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between ac83325 and 0a7f0bb.

📒 Files selected for processing (1)

• .coderabbit.yaml

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📝 Walkthrough

Compact metadata: Config-only PR modifying `.coderabbit.yaml` (+84/-5). No code, no exported entities affected.

Walkthrough

This PR updates `.coderabbit.yaml`. It replaces the prior compact reviews block with an expanded configuration adding `tone_instructions`, workflow controls (`enable_prompt_for_ai_agents`, `abort_on_close`), incremental auto-review behavior, and an expanded `ignore_title_keywords` list. It adds `finishing_touches` (docstrings, unit_tests), `pre_merge_checks` (modes/off settings, warning level), and a `tools` block enabling linters/security checks (github-checks timeout, ast-grep essential_rules, languagetool disabled). It also sets `chat.art: false`.

Changes

Area	Change
Reviews config	Added tone_instructions, workflow toggles, ignore_title_keywords
Finishing touches	Enabled docstrings, unit_tests generation
Pre-merge checks	Added modes/off settings for docstrings, title, description, issue assessment warning
Tools	Enabled linters/security tools with specific options
Chat	Set art to false

No code paths, contracts, or exported entities touched — nothing to flag on drift or DRY here since this is pure YAML config.

Sequence Diagram(s)

Not applicable — configuration-only change with no runtime flow.

Estimated code review effort: Low-Medium (config diff, verify key names/values against CodeRabbit schema).

Related issues: None referenced.

Related PRs: None referenced.

Suggested labels: `config`, `documentation`

Suggested reviewers: Repo maintainer familiar with CodeRabbit config schema.

Poem

A rabbit hopped into the YAML den,
Turned knobs for tone, then turned again,
Tools now guard the pull request gate,
Chat art off — no ASCII to await,
Config done, no code to debate.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2

✅ Passed checks (2 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch config/coderabbit-voice

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Config-only change, checked against the CodeRabbit v2 schema.

[ALARGECOMPANY]

Config-only change, checked against the CodeRabbit v2 schema.