fix(init): record the distill rewrite-hook verdict in every flow

[RaghavChamadiya]

Problem

The distill command-rewrite hook treats any repo with .repowise/ and no recorded distill.commands.enabled as enabled with the ask posture. Workspace-mode repowise init never offered the distill opt-in and never recorded a verdict in the repos it indexed — so a user who had the hook installed (opted in from some other repo) got every noisy command rewritten with a confirmation prompt in workspace-indexed repos they were never asked about. With agents/subagents running many commands, that means a flood of permission prompts.

--distill-hook/--no-distill-hook was also silently ignored in workspace mode, and workspace add / first-time indexing via repowise update reopened the same gap for repos added later.

Fix

• Workspace init now runs the distill opt-in once (after the post-commit hook offer) and records the verdict in every selected repo — index-only, full, and advanced modes alike, and even when indexing failed (.repowise/ was already created, so a decline must gate those repos off too). --distill-hook / --no-distill-hook are honored and applied workspace-wide.
• offer_distill_rewrite_hook takes a list of repos: the user-level hook installs once, verdicts are written per repo, and a failed config write on one repo cannot abort init for the rest.
• workspace add inherits the primary repo's explicit verdict for newly indexed repos.
• repowise update backfills the verdict for workspace members indexed for the first time outside init (both the single-repo path and the workspace path) — covers workspace add --no-index followed by a later update.
• hook rewrite install gains PATH / --workspace / -w / --no-workspace (same targeting as hook install), so a workspace-wide decline can be reversed in one command — keeping the "run repowise hook rewrite install later" promise printed on decline.

Single-repo semantics are unchanged: interactive runs prompt (default No), decline writes enabled: false, non-interactive runs without a flag record nothing (strictly opt-in).

Tests

• 16 new/updated unit tests: opt-in matrix (flags × interactivity × env guard), workspace verdict fan-out, per-repo write isolation, workspace add inheritance, update backfill (incl. no-op outside a workspace / for the primary / when a verdict exists), workspace-mode hook rewrite install.
• Full unit suite: 3778 passed, 2 xfailed. Ruff clean (no new findings vs main baseline).

Docs updated: DISTILL.md, CLI_REFERENCE.md.

[repowise-bot]

✅ Health: 7.0 (unchanged)
_{2 files moved · 5 hotspots · 5 hidden couplings · 3 with fix history}

⚠️ Change risk: moderate _{(riskier than 59% of this repo's commits · raw 9.1/10)}
This change's risk is driven by:

• large diff (many lines added)
• scattered, high-entropy change

🩹 Review priority _{(files here with the most recent bug-fix history — defects cluster, so review these first)}

• .../commands/update_cmd.py — fixed 17× in the last ~6 months
• .../commands/workspace_cmd.py — fixed once in the last ~6 months
• .../init_cmd/command.py — fixed once in the last ~6 months

File	Score	Δ	Why
.../init_cmd/_interactive.py	7.6 → 7.4	▼ -0.2	🔻 introduced complex method, bumpy road
.../distill/test_init_optin.py	10.0 → 9.8	▼ -0.2	🔻 introduced dry violation

💡 .../init_cmd/_interactive.py: Reduce cyclomatic complexity. Decompose the function along its conditional axes; if it dispatches on a type tag, replace the if/elif ladder with polymorphism or a lookup table.

🔥 Hotspots touched (5)

• .../init_cmd/workspace.py — 3 commits/90d, 2 dependents · primary owner: Raghav Chamadiya (99%)
• .../commands/workspace_cmd.py — 4 commits/90d, 3 dependents · primary owner: Raghav Chamadiya (98%)
• .../commands/update_cmd.py — 37 commits/90d, 12 dependents · primary owner: Raghav Chamadiya (67%)

2 more

• .../cli/test_workspace_add_defaults.py — 1 commits/90d, 0 dependents · primary owner: Raghav Chamadiya (100%)
• .../init_cmd/command.py — 5 commits/90d, 1 dependents · primary owner: Raghav Chamadiya (98%)

🔗 Hidden coupling (1 file)

• .../commands/update_cmd.py co-changes with these files (not in this PR):
  • .../pipeline/orchestrator.py (8× — 🟢 routine)
  • .../cli/helpers.py (8× — 🟢 routine)
  • .../persistence/models.py (6× — 🟢 routine)
  • .../cli/test_commands.py (6× — 🟢 routine)
  • .../cli/test_helpers.py (5× — 🟢 routine)

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