Warn when user-facing UI changes drift from DESIGN.md. Advisory only; findings never gate Warden clearance.
Flag concrete bugs introduced by a merged diff. Used only by the post-merge sweep (warden-sweep.yml); never gates clearance.
Flag UI code in a diff that breaks the pinned UI Skills rule sets (baseline UI, accessibility, motion performance, Web Interface Guidelines). Used by the post-merge sweep; never gates clearance.
Open a PR, write or rewrite a PR description, "the PR body is too long", or check whether a PR description is readable. Use whenever a PR is created or its body is edited.
Review a fork PR, review an external contributor PR, check provenance (DCO) and ee/ CLA, run /test, carry a fork commit into a same-repo branch, is this PR safe to merge. Checklist for pull requests from forks before a human approves or merges them.
Validate the release, check the released binaries, is 0.18.x safe to roll out, prove a published desktop release. Checks the RELEASED mac-arm64 enterprise and cloud binaries' signing and notarization and the updater manifests, and publishes evidence.
Prove an OpenWork change works on the real product before calling it done. Start the product, drive the change the way a user or client would, capture screenshots, and show the proof fails on dev and passes on your branch. Use before opening a PR, when a…
Extend a core journey in evals/core or write a one-off proof in evals/proofs that proves a PR's change to a human reviewer. Use when a PR changes user-visible behaviour, when a reviewer asks "show me", or when the coverage decision says a journey is missing.