feat(skills): enforce independent workflow review

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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
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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.
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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.
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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 <base>..<product-head> --oneline`;
- exact command `git diff --binary --full-index --find-renames <base>...<product-head> --`.
Capture the diff command once: `git diff <fixed-point>...HEAD` (three-dot, so the comparison is against the merge-base). Also note the list of commits via `git log <fixed-point>..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 <fixed-point>`) 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.