cflx-rejecting

name	cflx-rejecting
description	Review apply-generated rejection proposals (REJECTED.md) before any terminal reject decision. Returns REJECTION_REVIEW CONFIRM, RESUME, or BLOCK. CRITICAL - This skill CANNOT ask questions or request user input.

Conflux Rejecting Review

Review apply-generated rejection proposals in openspec/changes/<change-id>/REJECTED.md before any terminal reject decision.

CRITICAL: This skill CANNOT ask questions to users. All decisions must be made autonomously based on available context.

Purpose

When an apply operation determines that implementation is impossible and creates a REJECTED.md proposal, this skill reviews that proposal to decide whether the rejection is terminal, repository-fixable, or a real non-terminal stalled blocker.

Required Checks

• If openspec/CONSTITUTION.md exists, read it before rejection review and treat it as higher-priority project law than proposal/spec deltas.

1. Confirm openspec/changes/<change-id>/REJECTED.md exists and contains a concrete reason.
2. Confirm blocker evidence in tasks.md (## Implementation Blocker #N) is specific and actionable.
3. Decide one outcome only:
   • CONFIRM: terminal rejection evidence proves the change intent is invalid, obsolete, contradictory, or constitution-violating.
   • RESUME: reject proposal is dismissed and change must return to apply because the issue is repository-fixable or the evidence is insufficient.
   • BLOCK: reject proposal describes a real non-terminal blocker such as infrastructure outage, missing non-mockable credential, rate limit, port conflict, package/Docker registry timeout, or pending managed verification job.
4. Output exactly one final marker line:
   • REJECTION_REVIEW: CONFIRM
   • REJECTION_REVIEW: RESUME
   • REJECTION_REVIEW: BLOCK

Decision Criteria

CONFIRM when:

• The blocker evidence proves the proposal/change intent itself is invalid, obsolete, contradictory, or violates openspec/CONSTITUTION.md
• The root cause is a spec contradiction or required spec amendment, not merely an unavailable verification dependency
• Terminal closure is the correct lifecycle and base branch should record REJECTED.md

RESUME when:

• The blocker evidence is vague, speculative, or lacks concrete file/line references
• The blocker could be resolved by a different implementation approach within the repo
• The apply agent did not exhaust reasonable alternatives before escalating
• The rejection reason is about difficulty rather than impossibility

BLOCK when:

• The change intent remains valid, but required verification or execution cannot currently complete for an external/local infrastructure reason
• Examples: Docker daemon unavailable, Docker image pull DNS timeout, package registry timeout, external service outage, missing non-mockable external credential, rate limit, port conflict, or managed verification job still running/pending
• The correct lifecycle is resumable stalled hold, not terminal rejected

Outcome Rules

• On REJECTION_REVIEW: CONFIRM, runtime finalizes rejection flow and base branch records only openspec/changes/<change-id>/REJECTED.md.
• On REJECTION_REVIEW: RESUME, runtime removes worktree-local REJECTED.md, appends at least one unchecked non-rejection recovery task to tasks.md, and routes directly back to apply.
• On REJECTION_REVIEW: BLOCK, runtime removes worktree-local REJECTED.md, appends/retains recovery work in tasks.md, records a non-terminal stalled hold, and MUST NOT write base-branch REJECTED.md.
• Rejecting review MUST NOT output ACCEPTANCE: GATED; that marker is reserved for acceptance operation output.

Output Contract

Output exactly ONE verdict marker at the end on its own line:

REJECTION_REVIEW: CONFIRM

or

REJECTION_REVIEW: RESUME

or

REJECTION_REVIEW: BLOCK

Never:

• Ask user for clarification
• Stop and wait for input
• Output both markers
• Output acceptance-related markers