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triaging-feedback

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use when deciding which review feedback to address/skip

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We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

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    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

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    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

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    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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  1. Very specific:

    ask the user only when a verdict truly needs them: a product/UX/architecture call the goal doesn't answer, where a wrong guess is expensive …

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

applies to any batch of review feedback: PR comments, reviewer reports, handoff findings

<what-to-do>
  1. group feedback into unique comments
  2. cross-check each comment and its evidence against the current code; treat reported severity and confidence as inputs, not the address/skip decision
  3. label each comment against the original goal:
    • "better": closes a gap between the code and the goal (defects, missed cases), or improves the code without changing core behavior (simplification, restructuring, code judo)
    • "more": grows behavior beyond the goal - features, abstractions, capabilities, speculative hardening
  4. skip every "more" comment, however good the idea; record it in your report so it can be promoted later
  5. skip every <comments-to-skip> comment (unless you're in round 1/2 of a /loop)
  6. weigh each "better" comment as a trade:
    • payoff: for fixes it's severity * likelihood of occurrence
    • price: complexity, LOC, maintenance burden, code churn, scope creep, time to implement and review, risk of introducing new problems
    • "address" when payoff > price, "skip" when payoff <= price
  7. feedback from humans outranks feedback from agents
  8. ask the user only when a verdict truly needs them: a product/UX/architecture call the goal doesn't answer, where a wrong guess is expensive to undo. anything else, decide
  9. done when every comment is marked "address" or "skip", with why
</what-to-do><comments-to-skip>
  • pre-existing issues that don't block the requested change
  • equally valid style, naming, or type-encoding preferences
  • non-blocking changes in non-production code (tests/fixtures/stories/comments etc.) and logging
  • non-reproducible theoreticals
  • accessibility polish
  • speculative performance work, including indexes without evidence
</comments-to-skip>

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