Review Change

Quality gate: run every applicable review and skip the rest, then synthesize and classify one report. Findings only; never edit or refactor.

Turn contract

Load and verify the canonical Turn contract (11 boxes) before ending every turn. Skill-specific additions (receipt closeout, isolation rule, applicability) live here and in REVIEW_PROCESS.md. Missing reference → STOP.

For a final PR review, the turn is incomplete until this additional box passes:

✓ Decision: REVIEW-PASS + PR exists →
  `bun scripts/review-receipt.mjs emit --pr <N> --head "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" …`
  RUN and exited 0 — the script posts the SHA-bound comment, re-reads the PR
  comments, and exits non-zero unless the newest exact-HEAD
  `review-change:pass` marker is confirmed, so its exit code IS this box

When the receipt emitter runs, it also records the affecting-path scope manifest (fix/286) so a foreign-only commit after the review (a session-log or toolstate commit on a shared checkout) does not void the receipt at the merge gate — pass --scope-base main (the unit's base ref) and the runtime derives the manifest itself; never hand-assemble a digest. A receipt without a scope manifest stays head-bound (legacy semantics).

The receipt closeout is a precondition of the report, not a follow-up: do not print the fixed report block on a non-zero exit. A clean report without a current receipt must not recommend /audit-pr.

For REVIEW-FAIL or NEEDS-DECISION, list every open finding ID in the closing recommendation, joined with +; the review must never hand off only the first finding.

Review-end turn boundary

On REVIEW-FAIL or NEEDS-DECISION, this skill ends at the report: it never invokes /fold-findings, /execute-phase, /unit-lane or /triage-issue — those are separate user-initiated invocations, run in a fresh turn (a programmatic outer driver may compose the same sequence in-turn, per REVIEW_PROCESS.md). The review's only mutations are the ledger commit (persist step 11) and, on REVIEW-PASS with a PR, the receipt comment (persist step 12); it never folds a finding, executes a phase, or edits code. A REVIEW-FAIL/NEEDS-DECISION turn closes when the report block is printed (report step 13).

Consume the internal verification contract; the reviewer checks the same frozen acceptance artifact (legacy (pre-feature 61) ACCEPTANCE.md or post-feature-61 unit doc ## Acceptance criteria) as the executor before mapping candidate evidence.

When to use

• Mandatory before every merge. Review in a context that did not implement the change; if it did, stop and hand off to a fresh one. execute-phase may also recommend optional checkpoints at layer boundary, accumulation or sensitivity (#77).
• Use when you need applicable reviews without irrelevant passes.

Scope

Default target is the current change (branch diff vs the default branch); accept a path/glob to widen or narrow. State the scope at the top of the report.

Review charter — dismantle the claim

The workflow's job is to demonstrate that what works, works — and works well: programmatically, engineering-wise, decision-wise, and against user expectation. This review exists to try to dismantle that claim; if it survives the attempt, that survival is the review outcome. So:

• In-scope defects are this review's job — never “out of scope”. A bug, a security issue, or a guard skip inside the current feature's scope is a review-change finding: a feature is not complete while it has one. The reward is not delivery, it is meeting the acceptance criteria, adequate engineering without over-engineering, meeting other features' requirements (a page that needs auth verifies the session and the permission; a change to another table that a requirement depends on stays in scope even if it “looks” out of scope), and above all the user's expectation.
• Ask, don't infer — the whole expectation surface. Where the plan, the diff or the requirement leaves the user's expectation unclear, surface it as a question in non-technical terms (a technical user asks for an app; a non-technical user asks for “an app to measure my heart rate”) — never as an assumed intent. This review applies the all-stages no-assumption rule — ask-don't-infer, owner skills/unit-lane/references/DESIGN.md (ask-dont-infer@1) — to every expectation the change is judged against; the rule is owned there, never restated here.
• Repo-wide hunting is not this review. Open-ended bug hunting, security research and broken-version investigation across the repository belong to product-audit, where the sweep is scoped and budgeted; this review stays on the change at hand.

Step 0 — Discover the project & the change (always first)

Per Workflow conventions + documentation map, decide axes from:

1. Project nature: UI (docs/frontend/), web/mobile/CLI/library/backend, and optional recorded platform skills (extras only).
2. Footprint: what the diff touches (UI, API, infra, domain). An axis applies only when both project and footprint support it.
3. Prior findings (optional retrieval aid, never authoritative): when the index entry point exists, agentic-workflow doc --query "<change topic>" --json-only may surface earlier findings, decisions and session-log entries on the same surface before the passes run. A missing index, an absent entry point, or an empty answer changes nothing — grep stays the exhaustive fallback, and the index is never a decision authority.

Applicability matrix (default; the project's docs refine it)

Every axis maps to a skill of the workflow's own internal review pack (skills/review-* — installed with the workflow, so none can be missing):

review-implementation (the single classifier over the synthesized table — process step 8) and review-debt (the debt transform over the classified table — process step 9) are not axis finders: they run once per review, not per axis.

Isolation rule (default — every pass, not only adversarial)

Each applicable pass, the verification pass (step 6), the classifier (step 8), and debt transform (step 9) runs isolated/context-clean and returns only its fixed findings table plus PASS | FAIL—never diff or prose. Spawn one fresh subagent/headless run per pass; without those, use a fresh conversation. Pass only scope, its checklist, and Step 0 docs; cap full non-diff reads at 10 (targeted ≤50-line reads/greps excluded). The orchestrator retains tables, not sources, and fuses them in step 7. Inline fallback is sequential table reduction. A pass runs at its own tier or stronger, never weaker.

Progressive loading — choose one review route

After applicability and isolation are established:

The reference allowlist is exactly the seven linked paths below. Never invent or read another references/ path.

Legacy --merge is removed — not an alias. Calling /review-change --merge prints this fixed migration refusal and stops before any git or forge mutation command runs:

migration: --merge is removed. Table fusion is --synthesize: pass the fixed
reviewer tables the same way and the synthesis contract fuses them. No
repository merge is performed by this skill.

Active review paths use only --synthesize/fusion language. Add portability only when contexts, parallelism, slash commands or tier controls are unavailable. docs/workflow/REPOSITORY_STATE.md is evidence for output/guardrails, not a skill reference; that route owns NRS and Architectural invariants rules.

Resources are one hop from this file. Fixed reviewer/synthesis/output contracts are literal. Missing required resource → stop; never approximate a review contract.

Reviewer anti-invention rule (S10, from #205)

After cycle 1, a new finding is admissible only when grounded in:

1. Provably-changed bytes (git-computed diff between the reviewed state and the base), or
2. A mis-run cited check (the cited validator's own output contradicts it).

A finding without changed-bytes grounding is a report-note, never fix-now. This is narrower and stronger than the delta-mode "genuinely new" admission: it bounds what a reviewer may invent at all, not only where it may re-report. The classifier routes fix-now (delete) for genuine findings; report-notes route to SUGGESTION severity with impact report-only and do not block.

Portability

Keep reviewer contexts isolated. Use portability for sequential/headless fallbacks; never collapse independent adversarial passes.

Relationship to other skills

Orchestrates internal finders (review-code, review-security, review-verify, review-design, review-a11y, review-brand, review-perf, review-seo), then one review-implementation classifier and review-debt transform, isolated by default; installed platform packs are optional. triage-issue is user-invoked, never auto-run (D3), for independent proposals, audit findings, and --prioritize-now runs. It is Stage 4: checkpoint reviews are optional, the end review is mandatory and fresh. fix-now is routed to the unit's fold cycle — a separate /fold-findings invocation, never run by this review; replan-in-unit adds user-confirmed phases, and independent work becomes proposals. audit-pr consumes only the verified PR-comment receipt, never the chat report; product-audit is the measured-trigger sweep. On REVIEW-FAIL the manual correction path is /fold-findings, then re-run /review-change on the changed HEAD (bounded at two cycles — a third cycle never starts without an explicit user instruction, per REVIEW_PROCESS.md); a programmatic outer driver may run the same review→fold sequence.

Done when

• One synthesized/classified table covers every applicable axis, lists skipped axes with reasons, and includes manual checks. Every finding has a destination: fold, confirmed replan phase, surfaced decision, or user-routed proposal; none is silently lost and review creates no backlog (D3). Print the closing → Next: block (clean → /audit-pr; recurring drift → /product-audit) and change no code.