chock enable

Syntax

This is the usage line argparse builds from this command's parser.

chock enable [-h] [--repo REPO] policy_id

Arguments and options

The table lists every argument the parser declares, except -h, --help, written as argparse prints it. Default is the value the parser uses when you leave the option out. It is empty for a flag or when the parser sets none.

Exit codes

• 2: argparse rejected the arguments, for example an option this command does not have. The site's tests run every command with an unknown option and check that it exits 2.
• Chock documents no other exit codes. Each example below shows the code its run returned.

Examples

Real runs, recorded by python -m sitegen.cliexamples with the engine at the pinned commit. The steps of data/cli-examples.yaml ran in order, offline, in one fresh git repository at /work/demo (made with git init -b main), with HOME at /home/demo. Those paths stand for the throwaway folders the runs used, and <time> stands for a timestamp. Output is stdout and stderr together.

Step 12 of 21, exit code 0.

$ chock enable my-block-marker
Installed pre-commit dispatcher to /work/demo/.git/hooks/pre-commit
Registered 1 pre-commit policy implementation(s)
Installed pre-merge-commit dispatcher to /work/demo/.git/hooks/pre-merge-commit
Registered 1 pre-merge-commit policy implementation(s)
Installed pre-push dispatcher to /work/demo/.git/hooks/pre-push
No git-pre-push.sh policies found; pre-push dispatcher unchanged
Installed commit-msg dispatcher to /work/demo/.git/hooks/commit-msg
No git-commit-msg.sh policies found; commit-msg dispatcher unchanged
Registered 2 PreToolUse/Stop hook(s) in .claude/settings.json
  claude_code: pre-tool: block+rewrite, best-effort, fail mode open (agentseam basis live-run, recorded 2026-09-07)
  claude_code: Untested: chock has not witnessed its hooks run in this client; the wiring follows agentseam's record. What you see there is wanted as evidence: open-coder-ai/agentseam issues labelled 'evidence wanted'.
Registered 2 hook entr(y/ies) in .gemini/settings.json
  gemini_cli: pre-tool: block+rewrite, best-effort, fail mode open (agentseam basis vendor-source, recorded 2026-08-28)
  gemini_cli: Untested: chock has not witnessed its hooks run in this client; the wiring follows agentseam's record. What you see there is wanted as evidence: open-coder-ai/agentseam issues labelled 'evidence wanted'.
Registered 1 agent hook(s) in .github/hooks/chock.json
  vscode_copilot: pre-tool: block+rewrite, best-effort, fail mode open (agentseam basis live-run-partial, recorded 2026-09-28)
INDEX.md: ~336 tokens (chars/4, max 2000)
INDEX.md: ~336 tokens (chars/4, max 2000)
Enabled my-block-marker

Help as printed

This is what --help prints, from the same parser. The usage line names the program as the engine's parser does.

usage: chock enable [-h] [--repo REPO] policy_id

positional arguments:
  policy_id    Policy identifier to enable

options:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  --repo REPO  Repo root