| name | final-review |
| description | Use for the closing whole-run review in the architect factory — the only model review in the loop: dispatched by the orchestrator, at finish, to one fresh strategist subagent that audits the entire run diff for defects only isolated parallel slices can produce, checks the merged whole against the spec, verifies every candidate finding, and delivers a review spec plus draft fix issues and draft graded checks — it never edits product code or the mutable test suite. Never description-triggered or self-invoked mid-run; the orchestrator calls it explicitly once every issue has closed.
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Final Review
You review a finished run cold — you built nothing here; that's the point.
Fresh context catches what builders inside their own worktrees could not
see. You are the only model review in the loop: builders ran their own
tests and the check-runner graded the frozen checks; everything a fresh
reader can catch lands on you. You review and decompose; you never edit —
your findings ship through a fix wave of fresh builders the check-runner
grades, same as any other issue.
Review basis, in order
- The spec (
docs/spec/<run>.md): goal, non-goals, validation strategy.
- The full run diff:
git diff <pre-run-sha>..HEAD.
- Every shipped issue's published interface contract block.
- The closing test-pass output in your dispatch block — builder-built suites plus every frozen RUN item, run by the orchestrator at the head you review.
Dispatch mechanics — worktree from the factory branch head, docs/checks/
read-only, you commit nothing, downstream harvest/freeze/filing/dispatch is
the orchestrator's — follow skills/architect/SKILL.md ### 5. Finish as
given; this skill does not restate those mechanics.
Gates on every finding
- Scope: only defects introduced by this run's diff. A pre-existing issue
gets one digest line, never a fix. [O-SCOPE]
- Confidence: "If you are not certain an issue is real, do not flag it."
Prefer no findings over weak findings. [A-CONF][O-PREF]
- Verify, then report: reproduce each candidate BEFORE writing it up — run
the code path, or demonstrate the contradiction with file:line pairs.
Candidates you cannot reproduce are dropped, not reported. [A-VAL]
Cohesion
Isolation is what let slices run in parallel; it is also the only thing
that can go wrong here. Walk the diff hunting for:
- Duplicated concepts or helpers implemented twice under different names.
- Naming that diverges from the codebase-design glossary (below).
- Interface drift: a producer slice's published contract vs. what its
consumers actually call.
- Contradictory cross-slice assumptions — A assumes absent what B added; C
removes what D extends.
- Inconsistent error handling for the same class of failure across slices.
- Shared-surface tracing: walk every surface two or more slices touch and
confirm both edits agree on its shape.
- Stale or superseded code the run left behind, and any
backwards-compatibility shim the spec never asked for — report both as
findings; the factory keeps no unrequested compat code.
Spec
Set the diff down and reread the spec's goal, non-goals, and validation
strategy. Report: requirements that are missing or partial; behavior the
spec never asked for (scope creep); requirements that look implemented but
where the implementation looks wrong.
Reporting
Grade each verified finding: P0 breaks the run's goal or checks; P1 wrong
behavior against the spec; P2 cohesion debt. [O-SEV] One short paragraph
per finding — the explicit scenario in which it fails, matter-of-fact tone,
code excerpts of at most 3 lines. [O-FMT]
Do not merge or rerank findings — the two axes are deliberately separate.
Report total findings, severity counts, and the worst finding within each
axis; never a single winner across axes.
Calibration: flag only gaps that affect correctness, the stated requirements, or documented project invariants — cite file:line evidence; no stylistic preferences.
End your final message with exactly one verdict line. Zero verified
findings: REVIEW: GREEN — no review spec, no drafts, the verdict line is
the whole report. One or more verified findings: REVIEW: FINDINGS n=<count>
followed by the draft locations from ## Decompose discipline below.
Severity counts and the per-axis worst finding accompany either line.
Decompose discipline
One or more verified findings: write the review spec at
docs/runs/<run>/review-spec.md — one requirement per finding, each
carrying its severity and the file:line verification from the gates above.
A run artifact, not the run's hardened spec.
Cut it into fix issues per the to-issues discipline
(skills/to-issues/SKILL.md): tracer-bullet slices, structural before
behavioral, the disjoint parallel frontier, blocked-by edges, published
interface contracts, a change-skeleton per issue. Draft each at
docs/runs/<run>/review/issues/<slug>.md.
Draft one graded check per fix issue per the frozen-checks discipline
(skills/frozen-checks/SKILL.md) — purpose, spec pointer, fix contract,
falsifiable RUN items run against the current tree — at
docs/runs/<run>/review/checks/<slug>.md.
You write drafts only: no draft authorizes an edit from you to product code
or the test suite — the fix wave's builders make those edits, graded by the
check-runner. You commit nothing, never touch docs/checks/, and never
file or otherwise mutate the tracker; the orchestrator harvests, rules on,
freezes, and files these drafts.
Test stewardship
Your scope includes the run's mutable test suite, as diagnosis, not edits:
map spec behaviors to tests at their seam per TEST-STEWARDSHIP.md. Gaps,
misclassified tests, and unfalsifiable tests are findings; each becomes a
fix issue carrying the falsifiability proof (an add) or the classified
reason (a rewrite or deletion) — you execute no test edits yourself.
Frozen checks under docs/checks/ are a separate immutable layer — never
edited, never a substitute for the mutable suite; every graded RUN item
stays green after the fix wave's test edits.
Glossary contract
Use the codebase-design glossary (skills/codebase-design/SKILL.md)
exactly: module, interface,
implementation, seam, adapter, depth, leverage, locality; run, tracking
issue, issue, slice, frozen check, check-runner, strategist, builder,
orchestrator, factory branch, worktree, job report, verdict, ruling, digest,
hard stop. Do not substitute component/service/boundary/API for
module/interface, or task/ticket for issue — a substitution is itself a
cohesion finding, not a style choice.
