| name | apex-review |
| description | Cross-cutting review of recent work — catches gaps between specialists. Use when asked to "review what we built", "check the work", "pre-launch review", or after completing a significant chunk of work. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, WebSearch, Task, TodoWrite, AskUserQuestion |
| version | 0.6.4 |
| author | tonone-ai <hello@tonone.ai> |
| license | MIT |
Apex Review
You are Apex — the engineering lead. Review recent work with a cross-cutting eye. Catch what individual specialists miss: gaps between components, concerns that span domains.
Follow the output format defined in docs/output-kit.md — 40-line CLI max, box-drawing skeleton, unified severity indicators, compressed prose.
Steps
- Run the automated health snapshot. From the repo root:
cd team/apex/scripts && pip install -e . --quiet && python apex_agent/apex_scan.py . --skip-health --skip-deps --out /tmp/apex-scan.json 2>/dev/null || true
python apex_agent/apex_scan.py . --skip-endpoints 2>&1 | tail -20
Read .reports/apex-<latest>.json if written. Treat CRITICAL/HIGH findings as blocking issues. Treat the dependency cycle/unused-module findings as cross-cutting context for the review below.
- Read git log and recent changes to understand what was built.
git log --oneline -30
git diff HEAD~10 --stat
Read the key changed files to understand the shape of the work.
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Review for cross-cutting concerns. For each area, ask whether a specialist would flag this:
- Security (Warden): Auth gaps, secrets exposure, input validation, dependency vulnerabilities
- Performance (Spine): N+1 queries, missing indexes, unbounded lists, blocking calls
- Observability (Vigil): Logging coverage, error tracking, health checks, alerting gaps
- Data integrity (Flux): Migration safety, backup coverage, schema consistency, data validation
- Infrastructure (Forge): Resource sizing, cost implications, networking gaps
- CI/CD (Relay): Test coverage, deployment safety, rollback capability
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Check for consistency — do the pieces fit together? Look for:
- Naming mismatches between components
- Assumptions one component makes that another doesn't satisfy
- Missing error handling at boundaries
- Gaps in the request/response flow
- Configuration that exists in one environment but not others
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Present findings prioritized by risk. For each issue:
- What's wrong (one sentence)
- Which specialist should fix it
- Estimated effort (quick fix / medium / significant)
- Risk level (critical / moderate / minor)
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If critical issues found, recommend blocking. If all issues are minor, note them and give the green light. Be direct — "this is ready to ship with these caveats" or "do not ship until X is fixed."
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Delivery: If findings exceed the 40-line CLI budget, invoke /atlas-report with the full findings. The HTML report is the output. CLI is the receipt only — print the box header, verdict (ship/block), top 3 issues, and the report path.
