diff --git a/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json b/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
index 21c82e0..1e2d68e 100644
--- a/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
+++ b/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://anthropic.com/claude-code/marketplace.schema.json",
   "name": "make-no-mistakes",
-  "version": "1.38.0",
+  "version": "1.41.0",
   "description": "The disciplined dev lifecycle \u2014 implement issues, review PRs, sync releases, test E2E, manage sessions, and stash secrets via OS-native prompts. One plugin to make no mistakes.",
   "owner": {
     "name": "Luis Andres Pena Castillo",
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     {
       "name": "make-no-mistakes",
       "description": "Dev lifecycle orchestrator. Start with /make-no-mistakes:domain-driven-advisor \u2014 the canonical entry point that inspects your repo, asks a few plain-language questions, and routes you across the six-family audit engine (schema-drift, contract-drift, ddd, explicit-architecture, strangler, enforcement-hooks), then runs a premortem on the aggregated remediation plan. Also ships disciplined Linear issue execution with worktree isolation, PR review with Greptile gating, team release sync, E2E test generation/execution, test suite previewer, security pentesting, MoSCoW + RICE prioritization, cross-platform secret stash via OS-native GUI prompts (zenity / kdialog / osascript / Get-Credential), and session management. 37 commands, 11 auto-activating skills, 2 specialized agents.",
-      "version": "1.38.0",
+      "version": "1.41.0",
       "author": {
         "name": "Luis Andres Pena Castillo",
         "email": "lapc506@users.noreply.github.com"
diff --git a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index f2af3c5..bc071a2 100644
--- a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "make-no-mistakes",
-  "version": "1.38.0",
+  "version": "1.41.0",
   "description": "The disciplined dev lifecycle — implement issues, review PRs, sync releases, test E2E, manage sessions, stash secrets, and enforce manifest-driven tool-call hooks. One plugin to make no mistakes.",
   "author": {
     "name": "Luis Andres Pena Castillo",
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5e48682..0151bb2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,46 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.41.0] - 2026-08-02
+
+### Added
+- **`block-no-verify` — the flag that had a rule about it and no rule enforcing
+  it.** Non-negotiable 21 names four bypasses: `--no-verify`, `--admin`,
+  `--force`, and merging past a check. Measured across all 40 rules: `--admin`,
+  `push --force` and `--force-with-lease` each had one. **`--no-verify` had
+  none.**
+
+  That asymmetry is worse than a plain gap. Three of the four are covered, so a
+  reader has every reason to assume the fourth is too — the rule reads as
+  enforced and is not.
+
+  Found the way these things are always found. On 2026-08-02 an agent resolving
+  a merge conflict ran `git commit --no-verify`, by reflex and with no
+  justification. It reported the violation itself, discarded the commit, redid
+  the merge and recommitted with hooks enabled. **Nothing stopped it, because
+  there was nothing to stop it** — it did not route around a guard, it walked
+  through a gap.
+
+  **The near-miss the rule must not get wrong**, and the reason the short form
+  is scoped to one subcommand: `git commit -n` IS `--no-verify`, while
+  `git push -n` is `--dry-run`. Same letter, opposite meaning. Blocking a
+  dry-run would refuse the safest command in git, and a guard that refuses
+  ordinary work gets bypassed — which is how a guard stops carrying
+  information at all. Asserted by `push-dry-run-allowed`.
+
+  **No bypass marker, deliberately** (`bypass_marker: null`), and the refusal
+  message says why rather than asserting it. The incident's own honest attempt
+  first failed with `vitest: command not found`, because a fresh worktree had
+  no dependencies. The fix was `bun install --frozen-lockfile`. **A hook that
+  cannot run is a broken toolchain, not a gate to step over** — so the message
+  names that command, because a refusal that leaves you stuck is a refusal that
+  gets worked around next time.
+
+  Six tests, all green, covering both spellings on both subcommands, the
+  dry-run near-miss, an ordinary commit, and a quoted mention (documenting the
+  flag performs no skip). Hook suite 346/346, vitest 60/60.
+
+
 ## [1.38.0] - 2026-07-31
 
 ### Changed
@@ -950,6 +990,7 @@ installed caches) but had no representation on `main`; this release lands them.
   ([PR #4](https://github.com/DojoCodingLabs/make-no-mistakes-toolkit/pull/4)).
 
 [Unreleased]: https://github.com/DojoCodingLabs/make-no-mistakes-toolkit/compare/v1.38.0...HEAD
+[1.41.0]: https://github.com/DojoCodingLabs/make-no-mistakes-toolkit/releases/tag/v1.41.0
 [1.38.0]: https://github.com/DojoCodingLabs/make-no-mistakes-toolkit/releases/tag/v1.38.0
 [1.37.0]: https://github.com/DojoCodingLabs/make-no-mistakes-toolkit/releases/tag/v1.37.0
 [1.36.0]: https://github.com/DojoCodingLabs/make-no-mistakes-toolkit/releases/tag/v1.36.0
diff --git a/hooks/rules/rules.json b/hooks/rules/rules.json
index 17bca55..9ebd3e1 100644
--- a/hooks/rules/rules.json
+++ b/hooks/rules/rules.json
@@ -1572,6 +1572,86 @@
       }
     ]
   },
+  {
+    "id": "block-no-verify",
+    "description": "Block a commit or push that skips the hooks",
+    "applies_to": [
+      "Bash"
+    ],
+    "match": [
+      {
+        "field": "command",
+        "pattern": "(git[[:space:]]+(commit|push)[^|;&]*--no-verify|git[[:space:]]+commit[^|;&]*[[:space:]]-n([[:space:]]|$))"
+      },
+      {
+        "field": "command",
+        "not_pattern": "['\\\"]--no-verify"
+      }
+    ],
+    "action": "block",
+    "bypass_marker": null,
+    "memory_ref": "feedback_agents_never_self_authorize_documented_overrides.md",
+    "references": [
+      "dojo-os CLAUDE.md non-negotiable 21"
+    ],
+    "message": "BLOCKED: this skips the hooks.\n\nThe hooks are the only thing standing between a commit and the checks it\nwas supposed to pass. Skipping them does not make a commit faster -- it\nmakes an UNVERIFIED commit indistinguishable from a verified one, and\nnothing downstream can tell them apart afterwards.\n\nNon-negotiable 21 names this flag alongside --admin and --force. Those\nthree had rules; this one did not, which is why you are reading a new\nmessage. An agent used it on 2026-08-02, reported it, and reverted it.\n\nTHE HOOKS FAILING IS NOT A REASON TO SKIP THEM. In that same incident the\nhonest attempt failed with `vitest: command not found` because a fresh\nworktree had no dependencies. The fix was:\n\n    bun install --frozen-lockfile\n\nA hook that cannot run is a broken toolchain, not a gate to step over. If\nthe hooks are wrong, fix the hooks or say so -- both leave a trace, and\nthat trace is the entire point.\n\nThere is deliberately NO bypass marker. A gate whose refusal hands you the\nway around it is not a gate (DOJ-6247).\n",
+    "tests": [
+      {
+        "name": "commit-long-flag-blocked",
+        "input": {
+          "tool_input": {
+            "command": "git commit --no-verify -m 'wip'"
+          }
+        },
+        "expected_exit": 2
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "commit-short-flag-blocked",
+        "input": {
+          "tool_input": {
+            "command": "git commit -n -m 'wip'"
+          }
+        },
+        "expected_exit": 2
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "push-long-flag-blocked",
+        "input": {
+          "tool_input": {
+            "command": "git push --no-verify origin main"
+          }
+        },
+        "expected_exit": 2
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "push-dry-run-allowed",
+        "input": {
+          "tool_input": {
+            "command": "git push -n origin main"
+          }
+        },
+        "expected_exit": 0
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "ordinary-commit-allowed",
+        "input": {
+          "tool_input": {
+            "command": "git commit -m 'feat: add thing'"
+          }
+        },
+        "expected_exit": 0
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "quoted-mention-allowed",
+        "input": {
+          "tool_input": {
+            "command": "grep -rn '--no-verify' docs/"
+          }
+        },
+        "expected_exit": 0
+      }
+    ]
+  },
   {
     "id": "block-git-force-push-no-lease",
     "description": "Block `git push --force` / `-f` without `--force-with-lease` (overwrites collaborator pushes silently)",
diff --git a/hooks/rules/rules.yaml b/hooks/rules/rules.yaml
index ad93fd2..481be05 100644
--- a/hooks/rules/rules.yaml
+++ b/hooks/rules/rules.yaml
@@ -1309,6 +1309,73 @@
           command: 'npx playwright test # hook-bypass: playwright-headless-allowed'
       expected_exit: 0
 
+- id: block-no-verify
+  description: Block a commit or push that skips the hooks
+  applies_to: [Bash]
+  match:
+    # `git commit -n` IS --no-verify. `git push -n` is --dry-run and must NOT
+    # match, so the short form is scoped to commit only. Two flags, one letter,
+    # opposite meanings -- the same near-miss shape the force-push rule guards.
+    - field: command
+      pattern: '(git[[:space:]]+(commit|push)[^|;&]*--no-verify|git[[:space:]]+commit[^|;&]*[[:space:]]-n([[:space:]]|$))'
+    # Mention is not execution. A quoted occurrence -- documenting the flag,
+    # grepping for it, writing a rule about it -- performs no skip.
+    - field: command
+      not_pattern: "['\\\"]--no-verify"
+  action: block
+  bypass_marker: null
+  memory_ref: feedback_agents_never_self_authorize_documented_overrides.md
+  references:
+    - "dojo-os CLAUDE.md non-negotiable 21"
+  message: |
+    BLOCKED: this skips the hooks.
+
+    The hooks are the only thing standing between a commit and the checks it
+    was supposed to pass. Skipping them does not make a commit faster -- it
+    makes an UNVERIFIED commit indistinguishable from a verified one, and
+    nothing downstream can tell them apart afterwards.
+
+    Non-negotiable 21 names this flag alongside --admin and --force. Those
+    three had rules; this one did not, which is why you are reading a new
+    message. An agent used it on 2026-08-02, reported it, and reverted it.
+
+    THE HOOKS FAILING IS NOT A REASON TO SKIP THEM. In that same incident the
+    honest attempt failed with `vitest: command not found` because a fresh
+    worktree had no dependencies. The fix was:
+
+        bun install --frozen-lockfile
+
+    A hook that cannot run is a broken toolchain, not a gate to step over. If
+    the hooks are wrong, fix the hooks or say so -- both leave a trace, and
+    that trace is the entire point.
+
+    There is deliberately NO bypass marker. A gate whose refusal hands you the
+    way around it is not a gate (DOJ-6247).
+  tests:
+    - name: commit-long-flag-blocked
+      input: { tool_input: { command: "git commit --no-verify -m 'wip'" } }
+      expected_exit: 2
+    - name: commit-short-flag-blocked
+      input: { tool_input: { command: "git commit -n -m 'wip'" } }
+      expected_exit: 2
+    - name: push-long-flag-blocked
+      input: { tool_input: { command: "git push --no-verify origin main" } }
+      expected_exit: 2
+    # THE NEAR-MISS THIS RULE MUST NOT GET WRONG. `-n` is --no-verify on
+    # commit and --dry-run on push: same letter, opposite meaning. Blocking a
+    # dry-run would refuse the safest command in git, and a guard that refuses
+    # ordinary work gets bypassed.
+    - name: push-dry-run-allowed
+      input: { tool_input: { command: "git push -n origin main" } }
+      expected_exit: 0
+    - name: ordinary-commit-allowed
+      input: { tool_input: { command: "git commit -m 'feat: add thing'" } }
+      expected_exit: 0
+    # Mention is not execution: documenting the flag performs no skip.
+    - name: quoted-mention-allowed
+      input: { tool_input: { command: "grep -rn '--no-verify' docs/" } }
+      expected_exit: 0
+
 - id: block-git-force-push-no-lease
   description: Block `git push --force` / `-f` without `--force-with-lease` (overwrites collaborator pushes silently)
   applies_to: [Bash]
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 55db7af..fa96f05 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@lapc506/make-no-mistakes",
-  "version": "1.38.0",
+  "version": "1.41.0",
   "description": "The disciplined dev lifecycle — implement issues, review PRs, sync releases, test E2E, manage sessions, stash secrets, and enforce manifest-driven tool-call hooks (no SSH+DB, no manual prod, no minified build, no secret leaks, Slack format). OpenCode + Claude Code plugin.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "./dist/index.js",