pan-review

name	pan-review
description	pan review <subcommand> — manage the code review lifecycle: list pending work, re-request review, heal status drift, reset/abort/restart review cycles
triggers	["pan review","review pending","request review","review mode","reset review","resync review","restart review","abort review","code review lifecycle"]
allowed-tools	["Bash","Read"]

pan review

Manage the review pipeline for completed agent work. Use this when an issue has been signaled done by the work agent but you need to inspect, retry, or abandon the review/test/ship pass.

Usage

pan review pending                                 # List completed work awaiting review
pan review pending --ready                         # List issues ready for merge
pan review pending --blocked                       # List blocked review/test/merge issues
pan review request <id>                            # Re-request review after fixing feedback
pan review mode <id> <quick|full>                  # Set this issue's review mode override
pan review reset <id> [--session]                  # Reset review/test/merge cycles (human override)
pan review resync <id>                             # Re-emit canonical status to heal dashboard drift
pan review abort <id>                              # Kill all running reviewers, leave worker idle
pan review restart <id> [--model <m>] [--role <r>] # Kill reviewers and dispatch a fresh review pipeline

What each subcommand does

• pending — Uses durable pipeline membership as the issue universe, then shows review state as an annotation. The default view lists pending reviews plus zombie_pr and post_merge_limbo drift; with no pending review rows it still prints the resolver-derived pipeline set. --ready and --blocked preserve their review/test/merge meanings, filtered to pipeline members.
• request <id> — After fixing the issues a reviewer flagged, this re-triggers the review pipeline against the current branch state. Use this when the worker has committed fixes and you want the existing review pass to re-evaluate.
• mode <id> <quick|full> — Sets a per-issue review-mode override in the issue record. quick runs the single parent review agent. full opts the issue into the convoy review: security, correctness, performance, and requirements sub-reviewers plus synthesis. Use this only when heavier review is worth the extra agent/runtime cost for this one issue.
• reset <id> — Clears the review/test/merge state for an issue, so the pipeline can be re-dispatched from scratch. Use when the saved state is inconsistent or corrupt. --session additionally clears the saved Claude session for each reviewer so they restart with a clean conversation.
• resync <id> — Reads the canonical review status and re-emits it without changing any verdict. Use when an issue passed review but is missing from Awaiting Merge or its actions are wrongly gated by stale dashboard state.
• abort <id> — Kills any currently running reviewer sessions but leaves the work agent alone. Use when reviewers are stuck or running against the wrong commit and you want to halt without resetting state.
• restart <id> — abort + dispatch a fresh review pipeline in one command. Use when reviewers crashed or produced unusable output and you want a clean re-run. Optional flags:
  • --model <model> — override the model for every reviewer in this run (e.g. gpt-5.4, claude-sonnet-4-6). Useful when the default model has misbehaved and you want to retry with a different one.
  • --role <role> — restart only one reviewer role (correctness, security, performance, requirements) instead of the whole convoy.

When to use each

Situation	Command
"What's waiting on me?"	pan review pending
"What's ready to merge?"	pan review pending --ready
"What's blocked in review/test/merge?"	pan review pending --blocked
Worker pushed a fix, want re-review	pan review request <id>
This issue needs the full review convoy	pan review mode <id> full
Return an issue to default quick review	pan review mode <id> quick
Pipeline state is inconsistent, need a clean slate	pan review reset <id>
Issue passed but is missing from Awaiting Merge or actions are wrongly gated	pan review resync <id>
Same as above plus reviewer Claude sessions are bad	pan review reset <id> --session
Reviewer is hung, just kill it	pan review abort <id>
Reviewer crashed, want a fresh convoy with a different model	pan review restart <id> --model gpt-5.4
Only the security reviewer is broken	pan review restart <id> --role security

Merging is NOT here

pan approve has been removed. To merge an approved branch, use the MERGE button on the dashboard. The merge agent runs autonomously after all reviewers + the test specialist sign off; humans only click the button.

See also

• pan show <id> — inspect work agent state, xBRIEF status, recent activity
• pan done <id> — signal initial work completion (from the worker side)
• pan code-review skill — orchestrated parallel code review with synthesis
• roles/review.md — the review role's frontmatter and prompt
• docs/REVIEW-AGENT-ARCHITECTURE.md — full design of the review convoy