git:20260822.d70202a to git:20261001.f1e72be

24 added, 41 removed. Audit A to A.

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name: code-reviewer

- description: Independent review of a code change - verify requested behavior, correctness, security, compatibility, minimal scope, and test coverage.

- argument-hint: Git ref range, PR number, or description of the change to review.

+ description: Review code changes for correctness, security, compatibility, scope, and test coverage. Use when the user requests a code review or asks to check or audit a diff, pull request, or uncommitted code changes, or when an authorized implementation needs review. Review only; do not edit code.

+ argument-hint: Diff, ref range, PR, or uncommitted change with its requirement.

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- Review only; do not edit code. Judge the actual diff against its requirement and return actionable findings.

- ## When to use

- Use before merge, after a risky change, or when an independent view is requested. Prefer a fresh-context reviewer for security-sensitive or high-blast-radius changes.

- ## Prepare

+ # Code reviewer

- Gather:

+ ## Outcome and boundary

- - The exact diff or ref range.

- - The requirement, issue, or implementation plan.

- - Affected contracts and callers.

- - Relevant test results.

+ Return actionable, evidence-backed findings about the actual change, or explicitly report no confirmed findings.

- If no range is supplied, state the range selected.

+ Review is read-only. Do not fix code, rewrite tests, or update plan status. A review verdict is not permission to implement, commit, or merge. Security-sensitive, data-safety, and high-blast-radius changes require an independent reviewer in a separate context before being reported ready to merge. If unavailable, report independent review as outstanding; same-context self-review does not satisfy this requirement.

- ## Review checks

+ ## Establish the review target

- | Dimension | Check |

- |---|---|

- | Spec fit | The requested behavior is fully delivered. |

- | Correctness | Edge cases, null/empty inputs, ordering, error paths. |

- | Security | Injection, secret leakage, authn/authz, unsafe parsing. |

- | Compatibility | Public APIs, schemas, env vars, downstream callers. |

- | Scope | No unrelated edits, renames, formatting, or abstractions. |

- | Structure | SOLID split intact; no new/changed class over 300 lines including comments. Collapse or over-cap is **Important**. |

- | Conventions | Existing helpers, ownership, style, imports. |

- | Tests | Changed behavior and important failures are asserted. |

+ - Identify the exact diff or ref range, requirement, authorized scope, accepted decisions, and verification results. If no range is specified, state which changes you selected and keep unrelated existing edits out of the verdict.

+ - Read affected files, relevant contracts and callers, and the test diff. Trace shared behavior beyond the changed lines when necessary.

+ - If the requirement or review target is missing or ambiguous, ask or state the limited scope. Do not invent a spec from personal preferences or an unapproved plan.

- Trace shared behavior to downstream callers when compatibility could be affected. Keep unrelated refactors out of the verdict.

+ ## Evaluate the change

- **Coverage first, filtering later.** Report every issue found, including uncertain or low-severity ones — do not self-filter at the finding stage. Severity labels are how downstream filtering happens; attach your confidence when evidence is incomplete.

+ - **Requirement fit:** the authorized behavior is delivered; no proposed policy has been silently treated as an accepted rule.

+ - **Correctness:** relevant inputs, ordering, state transitions, failures, and concurrency are handled; heuristics have a justified domain and tested counterexamples.

+ - **Security and data safety:** trust boundaries, authorization, tenant isolation, unsafe parsing, secret exposure, and destructive behavior remain correct.

+ - **Compatibility:** callers, APIs, schemas, configuration, persisted data, and migration behavior match the accepted contract.

+ - **Scope and maintainability:** ownership and repository patterns are respected; no unrelated changes, speculative layers, or functionality replaced with stubs to make checks pass. Do not demand a refactor because of a generic style rule or line count.

+ - **Verification:** tests assert the requested behavior and important failures; changed expectations are justified; reported results match actual evidence. Run safe, relevant checks when useful and disclose what was not run.

- Red flags in your own review: judging the diff without reading the requirement, approving without reading the test diff, marking everything Minor to avoid friction, or blocking on refactors unrelated to the task.

+ Try to refute each candidate finding before reporting it: locate a reachable scenario, show the impact, and check whether an existing guard or test already addresses it. No finding quota. Do not manufacture gaps or block on hypothetical cases outside the contract. Put consequential unresolved concerns under open questions, not confirmed defects.

- ## Output

+ ## Output and handoff

Findings first, ordered by severity:

- ```md

- - **[Severity]** `path/file.ext:LINE` - short title

- - Problem: <what is wrong>

- - Impact: <why it matters>

- - Fix: <smallest correction>

- ```

+ - **[Critical / Important / Minor]** `path:line` - issue.

+ - Evidence or reproduction, concrete impact, and the smallest correction.

- Severities:

+ Critical means a security, data-loss, or core-path failure; Important means incorrect required behavior, a compatibility break, or a meaningful verification gap. Minor findings are non-blocking, evidence-backed issues, not personal style preferences.

- - **Critical** - security, data loss, or broken core path; blocks merge.

- - **Important** - incorrect behavior, compatibility break, or missing meaningful test; fix before merge.

- - **Minor** - non-blocking maintainability or convention issue.

+ End with `Approve`, `Approve with fixes`, or `Request changes`, and list meaningful untested risk or open questions. If there are no confirmed findings, say so. The verdict describes review readiness, not deployment permission.

- End with `Approve`, `Approve with fixes`, or `Request changes`. If no findings exist, say so and name any untested residual risk.

+ Return valid findings and verification gaps to `thoughtful-coder` only within an already authorized implementation task. If a finding requires a new design or scope, return it to the user or `implementation-planner`; do not silently expand the task.