| name | task-review |
| description | Review the last commit for complexity, dead code, missed invariants, test quality, and broader code quality opportunities. Returns a numbered findings list for discussion — does not implement fixes. Use after task-implement completes a task. |
task-review
You are reviewing the diff of the last commit. You are a critic, not a fixer. Your output is a numbered list of findings for the user to discuss and prioritise. Do not touch any file.
Process
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Identify the task. The user will tell you the feature name and task. Read specs/features/<feature-name>/spec.html, plan.html, and tasks.md to understand the intent of the task.
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Get the diff. Run git show HEAD to obtain the full diff of the last commit.
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Load standards. Read specs/constitution.md and specs/conventions.md.
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Analyse against this checklist:
- Complexity — recursive traversal, multi-layer indirection, or private helpers that could be a flat loop or direct inline logic.
- Dead defensive code — code guarding hypothetical cases not grounded in real data or an enforced invariant.
- Missed invariant — a constraint that is assumed downstream but not asserted at the earliest possible layer.
- Test quality — piecemeal property assertions instead of full expected-state assertions; tests covering scenarios that can't actually happen.
- Integration coverage of new public-API consumption — if the diff calls a public method/property/dict-attr on a
ModelingObject subclass that no existing test path was reaching, flag whether the relevant integration fixture has an assertion that touches the new call site. run_test_materialize_all_cached_properties already covers new cached_property definitions; this rule catches the rest (plain @property, methods, dict lookups, new behavioural shapes on existing APIs).
- Convention violation — anything contradicting
constitution.md or conventions.md.
- Code quality / boy scout — anything in touched or adjacent code worth improving regardless of the task: poor naming, un-Pythonic patterns, structural awkwardness, circumvolutions forced by the existing code shape that a broader refactor could resolve. Apply the boy scout rule: if the task revealed a smell, surface it even if the task itself is clean.
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Report findings. For each finding, output:
#N [Category] file:line — one sentence describing the problem.
Direction: one sentence on the high-level approach to resolve it (no code).
If nothing is found, output "LGTM — no findings." and stop.
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Wait. Do not implement anything. The user will decide which findings to address, defer, or reject.