Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

@@ -0,0 +65,4 @@
+- `[gate] hints_hold_merge`, default `true`, applies with `automerge`:
+  at GREEN, werkrevisor counts the unresolved line comments of the bot, from this and earlier rounds.
+- With open line comments, the bot approves, schedules no merge and cancels a merge scheduled earlier
+  (`DELETE /pulls/{n}/merge`, a 404 means none was scheduled); the gate note goes into the commit status and the result comment.

@@ -592,3 +607,2 @@
                     result.reasons.append(Reason("self_approval", "the bot cannot approve its own PR", Verdict.ERROR))
-                if publish:
-                    _publish(config, pr, gitea, result, existing, bot_login, redactor)
+                created = _publish(config, pr, gitea, result, existing, bot_login, redactor) if publish else {}

@@ -488,6 +488,9 @@ def _approval_gate(config, pr, gitea, result, publish, pr_data, bot_login, redac
     if verdict is Verdict.GREEN:
         if not publish:
             return GateDecision(0, "approval not submitted (--no-publish)")
+        hints = _open_bot_line_comments(gitea, pr, bot_login) if config.gate.automerge and config.gate.hints_hold_merge else []

@@ -512,6 +515,18 @@ def _approval_gate(config, pr, gitea, result, publish, pr_data, bot_login, redac
     return GateDecision(0, f"review requested from {', '.join(config.gate.human_reviewers)}" + scheduled)
 
 
+def _hold_merge(pr, gitea, redactor, count):

@@ -515,0 +522,4 @@
+    return len(_open_bot_line_comments(gitea, pr, bot_login)) + len(in_comment_only)
+
+
+def _hold_merge(pr, gitea, redactor, count):

@@ -595,1 +616,4 @@
                 decision = _approval_gate(config, pr, gitea, result, publish, current, bot_login, redactor)
+                if publish and decision.held and existing is None:
+                    _note_hold(config, pr, gitea, result, redactor, created, decision.note)
+                elif publish and existing is not None and config.gate.automerge and config.gate.hints_hold_merge \

@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ class GateConfig:
     require_wip_transition: bool = False
     # The bot schedules the merge for when the checks succeed; after YELLOW or ORANGE a human approval then merges.
     automerge: bool = False
+    # A GREEN review with unresolved bot line comments approves, but its merge waits until they are resolved.

@@ -515,0 +536,4 @@
+    return len(_open_bot_line_comments(gitea, pr, bot_login, strict=True)) + len(in_comment_only)
+
+
+def _hold_merge(pr, gitea, redactor, count):

@@ -595,1 +630,4 @@
                 decision = _approval_gate(config, pr, gitea, result, publish, current, bot_login, redactor)
+                if publish and decision.held and existing is None:
+                    _note_hold(config, pr, gitea, result, redactor, created, decision.note)
+                elif publish and existing is not None and config.gate.automerge and config.gate.hints_hold_merge \