Review Design

Evaluate only the supplied design target and brief under the finding rules, causal scope, and verdict in review-change. For a whole-design target, defects anywhere in the artifact are in scope; for a diff-scoped target, a blocking candidate is caused or newly activated by that diff.

Design-Specific Checks

• Scope and ownership: one bounded change surface with a named owner, a sane dependency direction, and durable truth boundaries that stay put; material rollout or recovery risk the design does not own.
• Decisions versus means: a material unresolved decision, or an omitted main goal, necessary condition, specified technical choice, or inviolable boundary. Local choices an executor can investigate stay with the executor.
• Acceptance and cutover: success is verifiable without turning every acceptance condition into a prerequisite for switching; coexistence, qualification environments, rollback systems, and observation windows cite a concrete protected interest, per the replacement-and-cutover reference in development-standards.
• Delivery intent: delivery intent, existing authority, and actual capability stay separate; facts material to feasibility or protected boundaries are preserved in the design or an accessible owner record, with supplied facts distinct from assumptions.
• Secondary space: authorized best-effort secondary work is recorded without an exhaustive failure catalog; commitments that would force item-by-item reapproval are flagged.
• Architecture tradeoff: demand, constraints, ownership, and practical evidence support the choice; recovery or reconsideration detail appears where a concrete risk or unsettled premise needs it.