`rejection_dampening`

Scope: project • Default: off

What happens when the same task is rejected (pre-rejection or review reject) N times in a row.

Positions

Position	Effect
`off`	No dampening. Task stays in queue at same priority indefinitely.
`soft_penalty_after_N`	After N rejections, lower the task's priority so other work gets picked first.
`hard_suppress_after_N`	After N rejections, remove the task from the queue until you manually revive it.

yaml

rejection_dampening:
  position: { kind: soft_penalty, after: 3 }
  rationale: "Prevent thrash on persistently-ambiguous asks."

pre_rejection_policy (domain-level) — decides the immediate action on rejection; rejection_dampening is the escalating action that kicks in once pre_rejection_policy's action has fired N times.