Review

Review does not create research verdicts on new candidates and does not apply its own fixes. Fixes require a subsequent authorized change task.

• inline: render the complete document in chat and omit working_folder;
• persisted: write <working_folder>/review.md after the human confirms the destination.

Do not persist attacker transcripts, attacks.md, or findings.md. The proof of a review finding is the cited or quoted target artifact, not an agent return.

• fidelity/governance: contradictions with governing authority;
• mechanics/correctness: failures, broken validation, or doc/code mismatch;
• ownership/reference integrity: dangling pointers or double ownership;
• operability: steps a fresh operator cannot execute without invention;
• abuse/gaming: rules satisfiable in letter while defeated in purpose.

Roles:

• explorer as attacker: reads the whole target corpus through one lens;
• writer as synthesizer: deduplicates and severity-ranks findings;
• skeptic as verifier: tries to refute each finding against the target;
• optional auditor: checks coverage and ensures refuted findings were removed.

No attacker verifies its own finding. When the parent authored the target, a surviving recommendation to revert that work escalates to the human rather than being self-approved.

• target file or artifact;
• exact locator and a short quotation or directly observed behavior;
• severity: CRITICAL, MAJOR, or MINOR;
• consequence;
• one bounded proposed fix.

Use CRITICAL for system breakage, corruption, or direct contradiction of governing law; MAJOR for functional gaps, drift risks, or load-bearing omissions; and MINOR for wording, stale metadata, or fuzzy pointers.

An artifact verdict is FIX when at least one CRITICAL or MAJOR finding survives; otherwise it is KEEP. A verified FIX report is a successful review deliverable, not a failed review.

Coverage

| attacker | lens | targets checked | findings raised | zero-findings defense |

Findings

| # | artifact and locator | evidence | severity | consequence | proposed fix |

Artifact verdicts

| artifact | KEEP or FIX | rationale |

Change requests

Evidence boundary