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---
name: implement
-description: "Implement a piece of work based on a spec or set of tickets."
+description: "Implement one bounded assignment from an approved plan."
disable-model-invocation: true
---
-Implement the work described by the user in the spec or tickets.
+# Implement
-Use /tdd where possible, at pre-agreed seams.
+For feature work and other multi-step changes, invoke `develop-workflow`; let its parent orchestrator own approval gates, assignments, commits, independent review, and integration.
-Run typechecking regularly, single test files regularly, and the full test suite once at the end.
+For one bounded assignment, require the approved plan, acceptance criteria, exclusive owned paths, test seam, allowed commands, and deadline. Use `tdd` where practical. Change only owned paths, run focused checks, and return the diff and command evidence to the parent.
-Once done, use /code-review to review the work.
-
-Commit your work to the current branch.
+Leave user interaction, mutation delegation, commits, remediation decisions, review, and integration to the parent orchestrator.
diff --git a/skills/develop/code-review/SKILL.md b/skills/develop/code-review/SKILL.md
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---
name: code-review
-description: "Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and Spec (does the code match what the originating issue/spec asked for?). Runs both reviews in parallel sub-agents and reports them side by side. Use when the user wants to review a branch, a PR, work-in-progress changes, or asks to \"review since X\"."
+description: Review changes since a fixed commit, branch, tag, or merge-base along separate repository-standards and specification axes. Use for branch, PR, work-in-progress, or workflow-record review after implementation and verification.
---
-Two-axis review of the diff between `HEAD` and a fixed point the user supplies:
+# Code review
-- **Standards**: does the code conform to this repo's documented coding standards?
-- **Spec**: does the code faithfully implement the originating issue / spec?
+Run two independent, read-only reviews over one pinned diff:
-Both axes run as **parallel sub-agents** so they don't pollute each other's context, then this skill aggregates their findings.
+- **Standards:** repository instructions and documented conventions.
+- **Specification:** the originating issue, spec, or approved workflow record.
-The issue tracker should have been provided to you. If `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md` is missing, tell the user to run `/configure-skills`.
+Keep the axes separate so conformity cannot hide incorrect scope and correct scope cannot hide standards violations.
-## Process
+## 1. Pin the review bytes
-### 1. Pin the fixed point
+Require a fixed point; ask when none was supplied. Resolve and record:
-Whatever the user said is the fixed point (a commit SHA, branch name, tag, `main`, `HEAD~5`, etc.). If they didn't specify one, ask for it.
+- review base commit;
+- immutable product HEAD commit, never mutable `HEAD` in the reviewer brief;
+- clean status and product tree hash;
+- `git log .. --oneline`;
+- exact command `git diff --binary --full-index --find-renames ... --`.
-Capture the diff command once: `git diff ...HEAD` (three-dot, so the comparison is against the merge-base). Also note the list of commits via `git log ..HEAD --oneline`.
+Run that command once in the parent, hash its exact bytes with SHA-256, and record the digest. Stop on a bad ref, dirty product state, or empty diff unless an empty comparison was explicitly expected.
-Before going further, confirm the fixed point resolves (`git rev-parse `) and the diff is non-empty. A bad ref or empty diff should fail here, not inside two parallel sub-agents.
+## 2. Resolve specification and standards
-### 2. Identify the spec source
+Accept the first available specification source:
-Look for the originating spec, in this order:
+1. a caller-supplied approved workflow record or spec path;
+2. issue references in commits, using `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md` when configured;
+3. a matching file under `docs/`, `specs/`, or `.scratch/`;
+4. an explicit user statement that no specification exists.
-1. Issue references in the commit messages (`#123`, `Closes #45`, GitLab `!67`, etc.), fetched via the workflow in `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`.
-2. A path the user passed as an argument.
-3. A spec file under `docs/`, `specs/`, or `.scratch/` matching the branch name or feature.
-4. If nothing is found, ask the user where the spec is. If they say there isn't one, the **Spec** sub-agent will skip and report "no spec available".
+A workflow record is a complete specification source and never requires issue-tracker configuration. Ask only when no source or explicit no-spec decision exists. Skip the specification reviewer and report “no specification available” only after that explicit decision.
-### 3. Identify the standards sources
+Collect applicable `AGENTS.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, contributing, coding-standard, and ADR sources. Add this smell baseline where repository standards do not override it; treat each as a judgment call and skip tooling-enforced issues:
-Anything in the repo that documents how code should be written, such as `CODING_STANDARDS.md` or `CONTRIBUTING.md`.
+- **Mysterious Name:** a name hides purpose.
+- **Duplicated Code:** the same logic shape recurs.
+- **Feature Envy:** behavior reaches into another object's data more than its own.
+- **Data Clumps:** fields or parameters repeatedly travel together.
+- **Primitive Obsession:** primitives stand in for a domain concept.
+- **Repeated Switches:** the same type cascade recurs.
+- **Shotgun Surgery:** one change requires scattered edits.
+- **Divergent Change:** one module changes for unrelated reasons.
+- **Speculative Generality:** abstraction exists without a current requirement.
+- **Message Chains:** callers navigate long object chains.
+- **Middle Man:** code delegates without adding value.
+- **Refused Bequest:** an implementation ignores most inherited behavior.
-On top of whatever the repo documents, the Standards axis always carries the **smell baseline** below: a fixed set of Fowler code smells (_Refactoring_, ch.3) that applies even when a repo documents nothing. Two rules bind it:
+## 3. Enforce reviewer independence
-- **The repo overrides.** A documented repo standard always wins; where it endorses something the baseline would flag, suppress the smell.
-- **Always a judgement call.** Each smell is a labelled heuristic ("possible Feature Envy"), never a hard violation. Like any standard here, skip anything tooling already enforces.
+List every display name, profile, child/session ID, and ambiguous run that authored or mutated the diff. Select two different reviewer identities outside that set. Require repository read access plus Git-capable `bash`, with no declared `write`, `edit`, or nested-agent capability.
-Each smell reads *what it is* → *how to fix*; match it against the diff:
+Capture branch, HEAD, status, tree hash, and changed paths before review. Launch the standards and specification reviewers as separate direct subagent calls rather than a wrapped parallel call. Give both the pinned commits, exact diff command, expected digest, commit list, mutator exclusions, and identity-reporting requirement.
-- **Mysterious Name**: a function, variable, or type whose name doesn't reveal what it does or holds. → rename it; if no honest name comes, the design's murky.
-- **Duplicated Code**: the same logic shape appears in more than one hunk or file in the change. → extract the shared shape, call it from both.
-- **Feature Envy**: a method that reaches into another object's data more than its own. → move the method onto the data it envies.
-- **Data Clumps**: the same few fields or params keep travelling together (a type wanting to be born). → bundle them into one type, pass that.
-- **Primitive Obsession**: a primitive or string standing in for a domain concept that deserves its own type. → give the concept its own small type.
-- **Repeated Switches**: the same `switch`/`if`-cascade on the same type recurs across the change. → replace with polymorphism, or one map both sites share.
-- **Shotgun Surgery**: one logical change forces scattered edits across many files in the diff. → gather what changes together into one module.
-- **Divergent Change**: one file or module is edited for several unrelated reasons. → split so each module changes for one reason.
-- **Speculative Generality**: abstraction, parameters, or hooks added for needs the spec doesn't have. → delete it; inline back until a real need shows.
-- **Message Chains**: long `a.b().c().d()` navigation the caller shouldn't depend on. → hide the walk behind one method on the first object.
-- **Middle Man**: a class or function that mostly just delegates onward. → cut it, call the real target direct.
-- **Refused Bequest**: a subclass or implementer that ignores or overrides most of what it inherits. → drop the inheritance, use composition.
+Require each reviewer to:
-### 4. Spawn both sub-agents in parallel
+1. regenerate the exact diff and confirm its SHA-256 before analysis;
+2. remain read-only and perform no remediation;
+3. bind every finding to file/hunk evidence and severity;
+4. report display/profile/child/session identity when exposed;
+5. stay under 400 words.
-**Standards sub-agent prompt** should include:
+For standards, include every standards source and the full baseline above. Ask for documented violations separately from baseline judgments. For specification, include the approved source and ask for missing/partial requirements, scope creep, and apparently implemented but incorrect behavior with quoted requirements.
-- The full diff command and commit list.
-- The list of standards-source files you found in step 3, **plus the smell baseline from step 3** pasted in full (the sub-agent has no other access to it).
-- The brief: "Report, per file/hunk where relevant, (a) every place the diff violates a documented standard: cite the standard (file + the rule); and (b) any baseline smell you spot: name it and quote the hunk. Distinguish hard violations from judgement calls: documented-standard breaches can be hard, but baseline smells are always judgement calls, and a documented repo standard overrides the baseline. Skip anything tooling enforces. Under 400 words."
+Treat missing delivery, digest mismatch, reviewer/mutator identity overlap, or before/after repository mutation as no verdict. Any reviewer mutation also makes that identity a mutator.
-**Spec sub-agent prompt** should include:
+## 4. Aggregate without reranking
-- The diff command and commit list.
-- The path or fetched contents of the spec.
-- The brief: "Report: (a) requirements the spec asked for that are missing or partial; (b) behaviour in the diff that wasn't asked for (scope creep); (c) requirements that look implemented but where the implementation looks wrong. Quote the spec line for each finding. Under 400 words."
+Present the reports under `## Standards` and `## Specification`. Lightly clean formatting only; keep findings and axis severity separate. End with finding counts and the worst issue within each axis, not one combined winner.
-If the spec is missing, skip the Spec sub-agent and note this in the final report.
+Bind approval to the base, product HEAD, clean status, tree hash, and diff digest.
-### 5. Aggregate
+## 5. Remediate through non-reviewers
-Present the two reports under `## Standards` and `## Spec` headings, verbatim or lightly cleaned. Do **not** merge or rerank findings, because the two axes are deliberately separate (see _Why two axes_).
+Validate findings against repository evidence. Assign accepted fixes to an original implementer or another non-reviewer. Rerun affected checks and the full required suite, create a new pinned fingerprint, and launch two fresh independent reviewers.
-End with a one-line summary: total findings per axis, and the worst issue _within each axis_ (if any). Don't pick a single winner across axes: that's the reranking the separation exists to prevent.
+Escalate after two unsuccessful remediation cycles or when a finding materially changes scope, acceptance criteria, ownership, verification, or architecture. Return material changes to plan approval before production mutation.
-## Why two axes
-
-A change can pass one axis and fail the other:
-
-- Code that follows every standard but implements the wrong thing → **Standards pass, Spec fail.**
-- Code that does exactly what the issue asked but breaks the project's conventions → **Spec pass, Standards fail.**
-
-Reporting them separately stops one axis from masking the other.
+**Complete when:** both axes approve the exact verified fingerprint and before/after evidence proves reviewers stayed read-only.