feat(sling): add --no-merge flag to skip merge queue (#939)

When contributing to upstream repos or wanting human review before merge,
the --no-merge flag keeps polecat work on a feature branch instead of
auto-merging to main.

Changes:
- Add --no-merge flag to gt sling command
- Store no_merge field in bead's AttachmentFields
- Modify gt done to skip merge queue when no_merge is set
- Push branch and mail dispatcher "READY_FOR_REVIEW" instead
- Add tests for field parsing and sling flag storage

Closes: gt-p7b8

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

internal/beads/beads_test.go

@@ -903,6 +903,80 @@ func TestAttachmentFieldsRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestNoMergeField tests the no_merge field in AttachmentFields.
+// The no_merge flag tells gt done to skip the merge queue and keep work on a feature branch.
+func TestNoMergeField(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("parse no_merge true", func(t *testing.T) {
+		issue := &Issue{Description: "no_merge: true\ndispatched_by: mayor"}
+		fields := ParseAttachmentFields(issue)
+		if fields == nil {
+			t.Fatal("ParseAttachmentFields() = nil")
+		}
+		if !fields.NoMerge {
+			t.Error("NoMerge should be true")
+		}
+		if fields.DispatchedBy != "mayor" {
+			t.Errorf("DispatchedBy = %q, want 'mayor'", fields.DispatchedBy)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("parse no_merge false", func(t *testing.T) {
+		issue := &Issue{Description: "no_merge: false\ndispatched_by: crew"}
+		fields := ParseAttachmentFields(issue)
+		if fields == nil {
+			t.Fatal("ParseAttachmentFields() = nil")
+		}
+		if fields.NoMerge {
+			t.Error("NoMerge should be false")
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("parse no-merge alternate format", func(t *testing.T) {
+		issue := &Issue{Description: "no-merge: true"}
+		fields := ParseAttachmentFields(issue)
+		if fields == nil {
+			t.Fatal("ParseAttachmentFields() = nil")
+		}
+		if !fields.NoMerge {
+			t.Error("NoMerge should be true with hyphen format")
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("format no_merge", func(t *testing.T) {
+		fields := &AttachmentFields{
+			NoMerge:      true,
+			DispatchedBy: "mayor",
+		}
+		got := FormatAttachmentFields(fields)
+		if !strings.Contains(got, "no_merge: true") {
+			t.Errorf("FormatAttachmentFields() missing no_merge, got:\n%s", got)
+		}
+		if !strings.Contains(got, "dispatched_by: mayor") {
+			t.Errorf("FormatAttachmentFields() missing dispatched_by, got:\n%s", got)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("round-trip with no_merge", func(t *testing.T) {
+		original := &AttachmentFields{
+			AttachedMolecule: "mol-test",
+			AttachedAt:       "2026-01-24T12:00:00Z",
+			DispatchedBy:     "gastown/crew/max",
+			NoMerge:          true,
+		}
+
+		formatted := FormatAttachmentFields(original)
+		issue := &Issue{Description: formatted}
+		parsed := ParseAttachmentFields(issue)
+
+		if parsed == nil {
+			t.Fatal("round-trip parse returned nil")
+		}
+		if *parsed != *original {
+			t.Errorf("round-trip mismatch:\ngot  %+v\nwant %+v", parsed, original)
+		}
+	})
+}
+
 // TestResolveBeadsDir tests the redirect following logic.
 func TestResolveBeadsDir(t *testing.T) {
 	// Create temp directory structure

internal/beads/fields.go

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ type AttachmentFields struct {
 	AttachedAt       string // ISO 8601 timestamp when attached
 	AttachedArgs     string // Natural language args passed via gt sling --args (no-tmux mode)
 	DispatchedBy     string // Agent ID that dispatched this work (for completion notification)
+	NoMerge          bool   // If true, gt done skips merge queue (for upstream PRs/human review)
 }
 
 // ParseAttachmentFields extracts attachment fields from an issue's description.
@@ -65,6 +66,9 @@ func ParseAttachmentFields(issue *Issue) *AttachmentFields {
 		case "dispatched_by", "dispatched-by", "dispatchedby":
 			fields.DispatchedBy = value
 			hasFields = true
+		case "no_merge", "no-merge", "nomerge":
+			fields.NoMerge = strings.ToLower(value) == "true"
+			hasFields = true
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -95,6 +99,9 @@ func FormatAttachmentFields(fields *AttachmentFields) string {
 	if fields.DispatchedBy != "" {
 		lines = append(lines, "dispatched_by: "+fields.DispatchedBy)
 	}
+	if fields.NoMerge {
+		lines = append(lines, "no_merge: true")
+	}
 
 	return strings.Join(lines, "\n")
 }
@@ -117,6 +124,9 @@ func SetAttachmentFields(issue *Issue, fields *AttachmentFields) string {
 		"dispatched_by":     true,
 		"dispatched-by":     true,
 		"dispatchedby":      true,
+		"no_merge":          true,
+		"no-merge":          true,
+		"nomerge":           true,
 	}
 
 	// Collect non-attachment lines from existing description