B-O4RK-start-task-no-verify-passthrough
Status: promoted/task
start_task.ts runs commit -> lease transition -> branch reset; when a pre-existing-drift pre-commit hook blocks the git commit, it aborts the whole transaction leaving status staged-uncommitted and the lease still ‘claimed’, so task-work must finish Step 5b by hand. Add a —no-verify passthrough (or a hook bypass scoped to the single-file task-state commit) so the script stays the deterministic owner of Step 5b. Surfaced by T-KESH post-mortem.