walk-commitslisted

# Walk Commits Walk the person about to merge a branch through it commit by commit, so they actually understand what they are shipping. The output is *reviewer comprehension and a sign-off decision*, not a defect list. For each commit you narrate the author's intent (not a restatement of the diff), anchor the single riskiest line, surface the choices that look odd on purpose, name what is absent by design, and flag anything needing the merger's explicit sign-off — then let them step to the next commit. This skill exists because the highest-leverage finding in Cohen's peer-review dataset is *author preparation*: an annotated change walked through by a prepared narrator correlates with near-zero defect variance. The pipeline produces that annotation nowhere else. `/pre-merge` finds defects across the whole diff; `/verify` runs the app; `/execute` Step 5 checks acceptance criteria. None of them narrate the change commit-by-commit for the human who clicks merge. ## Invocation Position This is a **side-route skill**. It does not block merge and is never auto-invoked. It reconnects to the main pipeline at the `/pre-merge` → merge boundary: run it when you want comprehension before approving, then proceed to merge (and `/compound` if a durable lesson emerged). `/pre-merge` Phase 4 *recommends* it (without invoking it) when the person merging did not author the diff or hasn't internalized it; `/execute` Step 5/6 names it as an option before `/pre-merge` from the author side. Us