I like the idea of ratchets, but the implementation needs to be good for them to work nicely.

> If it counts too few, it also raises an error, this time congratulating you and prompting you to lower the expected number.

This is a pain and I hate that part. It's one of the things that isn't even a big deal, but it's regularly annoying. It makes leaving things in simpler than removing them - the good act gets punished.

One way to make this better is to compare the count against the last merge base with the main branch. No need to commit anymore. Alternatively you can cache the counts for each commit externally, but that requires infra.