Basically what I would want is write a commit (because I want to commit early and often) then run the lint (and tests) in a sandboxed environment. if they pass, great. if they fail and HERAD has moved ahead of the failing commit, create a "FIXME" branch off the failure. back on main or whatever branch head was pointed at, if tests start passing, you probably never need to revisit the failure.
I want to know about local test failures before I push to remote with full CI.
automatic branching and workflow stuff is optional. the core idea is great.