review-anvil-readonly

name	review-anvil-readonly
description	Multi-agent code review without any edits or commits — requested rounds of parallel reviewers, synthesis, default-on reproduction of uncertain material findings, and a final report. Use when the user wants a code review of a diff, branch, path, or PR but does NOT want any fixes applied automatically (no edits, no commits, no staging). Activates the `review-anvil` engine in read-only mode.

review-anvil-readonly

Thin preset that runs the multi-agent review loop without applying any fixes. Activates the review-anvil engine skill with commit_mode=none and a default of rounds=1.

Use the ASD-STE100-inspired language contract in ../review-anvil/references/asd-ste100-inspired.md for generated prose.

How to invoke

The agent reads the user's request, then activates review-anvil with this argument string:

commit_mode: none, <pass-through any args the user specified>, rounds: 1

Assembly order matters. The engine parses left-to-right with first-occurrence-wins precedence. Pinned values (commit_mode: none) go before user args so the pin is authoritative. Defaults the user can override (rounds: 1) go after user args so any user-supplied rounds: N wins.

Pin-rejection (defense in depth). Pins for this preset: commit_mode. If the review-anvil-pr helper script is resolvable (this preset ships no script of its own), enforce mechanically: bash <pr-helper-path> check-pins review-anvil-readonly "commit_mode" "$ARGUMENTS" — non-zero exit means abort with the script's error verbatim. Otherwise apply the engine's prose pin-rejection algorithm ("Parsing" section); the abort-message preset name is review-anvil-readonly.

Pass-through args the user may specify (non-exhaustive — any engine param not pinned here works; each is documented in the engine's SKILL.md):

• target: PR #42 / target: src/auth/ / target: branch / target: uncommitted — what to review
• focus: <topic> — narrow the four-pillar focus, or only: <topic> to replace it
• rounds: N — the user's value wins over the default rounds: 1
• agents: 2 codex + 1 claude — custom reviewer mix
• min_fix_severity: <sev> — drives the would-apply/suggestions split in the read-only report
• reproduction: auto|on|off — default-on confidence gate for uncertain material findings before they become actionable report items
• adversarial: auto|challenge|targeted|full|strict — optional adversarial review that attacks false positives and disproportionate/bloated fix plans before the final report
• adversarial_rounds: 1|2, disagreement_policy: defer|comment — tune the adversarial gate; it remains read-only and bounded
• reviewer_timeout: <seconds>, report_path: <file> — as in the engine

After the engine completes, surface the synthesized report inline. Do not follow with edits, commits, or any side effects — that's exactly what commit_mode=none rules out.

Adversarial review is still commit_mode=none: no edits, no commits, no staging, no pushes. Temporary prompt/reviewer/report artifacts under .review-anvil/ or an explicit report_path are allowed. It can make the report more conservative by dropping false positives, deferring harmful or tech-debt-heavy fix plans, hardening fix prose, or stripping unsafe suggestion blocks.

Default local policy: leave adversarial review off for ordinary fast/local reviews. Append adversarial: auto when the user asks for a careful, skeptical, high-confidence, low-noise, thorough, or production-ready read-only review. Do not append it when the user asks for a quick/rough/sanity pass unless they explicitly request adversarial review.

When not to use this

• If the user wants fixes applied and committed, activate review-anvil directly with commit_mode=per_fix (or just leave it default).
• If the user wants the report posted back to a GitHub PR comment, activate review-anvil-pr instead.

Engine reference

See ../review-anvil/SKILL.md for: full parameter surface, mix policy, focus options, reviewer prompt template, and final report format. This preset is a one-line argument addition; all behavior comes from the engine.