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Chunk\n\nWS-CI-004-02 — reviewer adoption.\n\n## Goal\n\nMake every internal engineering reviewer bind its advisory verdict to one exact, clean Git target and prove that reviewer contracts detect owned defects, replay stale findings, reject incomplete output, and hand cross-specialty concerns to the correct reviewer.\n\n## Human-approved intent\n\nImplement the reviewer-adoption step approved after PR #341. Keep this work repository-process-only and leave the separate open implementation PR untouched until the review-evidence initiative is complete.\n\n## What changed\n\n- Composed all nine specialty reviewer skills and matching custom agents with the shared Reviewer Evidence Protocol.\n- Made the reviewer matrix the single canonical registry for reviewer IDs and one-to-one skill/agent ownership.\n- Added 45 blind evaluation cases: positive, negative, stale replay, output-contract, and handoff cases for every reviewer.\n- Added an offline validator for reviewer contracts, fixtures, outputs, and canonical protocol receipts.\n- Added twelve regression tests covering stable findings, canonical handoffs, duplicate IDs and rows, and one-to-one reviewer ownership.\n- Updated WS-CI-004 state so this chunk becomes complete on merge.\n\n## Why it changed\n\nEarlier reviews could pass an older head, omit prior-finding replay, or claim success without a complete target-bound evidence envelope. That made a green reviewer result weaker than it appeared.\n\n## Design chosen\n\nReviewers remain read-only and advisory. A canonical receipt carries the exact base, merge-base, head, start/end cleanliness, evidence provenance, stable findings, uncertainty, freshness, and verdict. Evaluation classification is separate from the receipt verdict. GitHub and the human merge remain authoritative.\n\n## Alternatives rejected\n\n- Committing exact-head receipts, because committing a receipt changes the head it describes.\n- Adding a hosted blocking validator in this chunk.\n- Giving reviewer output merge, approval, or product-decision authority.\n- Creating another Git resolver, receipt schema, or separately maintained reviewer registry.\n\n## Scope control\n\nOnly reviewer skills, custom reviewer prompts, WS-CI-004 artifacts, evaluation fixtures, and offline validation scripts changed. No product code, runtime behavior, API, schema, migration, dependency, GitHub workflow, permission, or merge policy changed.\n\n## Product behavior\n\nNo Workstream product behavior changed. Engineering review findings remain separate from product decisions: accept, needs_revision, and reject.\n\n## Acceptance criteria proof\n\n- Nine of nine reviewer skill/agent pairs compose with the protocol.\n- Forty-five of forty-five evaluation cases are covered.\n- The matrix is the single reviewer registry and requires unique IDs, agents, skills, and pairs.\n- Positive defects require stable receipt-backed findings.\n- Negative cases clear without manufactured findings.\n- Stale findings replay.\n- Invalid outputs remain provisional.\n- Cross-specialty cases use canonical handoff IDs.\n- Duplicate expectation and output rows fail closed.\n- Exact-head start/end inspection is required for final verdicts.\n\n## Tests/checks run\n\n- 43 protocol, target, Git-delta, and lightweight-gate tests passed.\n- Reviewer contract and fixture validation passed.\n- Recorded blind-output and canonical-receipt validation passed.\n- Markdown links, stale Workstream wording, stale authorization wording, chunk-state synchronization, Ruff, and git diff checks passed.\n- All nine skill folders passed skill validation.\n\n## Test delta\n\nFourteen additive reviewer-contract tests were introduced. No tests were removed, skipped, deselected, or weakened.\n\n## CI integrity\n\nNo workflow, runner, lane, package command, coverage threshold, or backend test configuration changed. Repository-wide 78 percent and protected-subsystem 90 percent coverage policy remains unchanged.\n\n## Reviewer results\n\nExact reviewed head: 8638e93\nBase and merge-base: a2eb98c\n\nAll nine required tracks completed clean exact-head reviews: architecture, CI integrity, documentation, product/operations, QA, security, senior engineering, reuse/deduplication, and test delta.\n\nResolved findings:\n- QA: canonical protocol receipt validation was incomplete.\n- Security: evaluation result could be confused with a final receipt verdict.\n- Test delta: a positive finding could pass without a stable receipt-backed finding ID.\n- CodeRabbit: canonical reviewer and handoff IDs were not fully validated.\n- CodeRabbit: custom agent handoff instructions were not mechanically required.\n- CodeRabbit: duplicate expectation and output rows could pass set-based validation.\n- Reuse/dedup: reviewer registry duplication, non-unique agent/skill pairs, and inconsistent direct-output guards.\n- CodeRabbit: malformed non-string evidence identities could raise instead of failing cleanly.\n- CodeRabbit: the durable external-response record did not fully bind private session evidence to its published PR evidence.\n\nNo internal reviewer reports a remaining code or design finding at the final head.\n\n## External review\n\nAll CodeRabbit findings were replayed and fixed with regression coverage. Original threads are resolved; the latest evidence-binding and malformed-input threads await final-head CodeRabbit confirmation. Hosted CI must pass on the exact final head before merge.\n\n## Remaining risks\n\nNo known unresolved repository-code or design risk. External freshness remains visible and blocking: final-head CodeRabbit confirmation, hosted CI completion, and required human review.\n\n## Follow-up work\n\nAfter this PR merges, create the next explicitly started WS-CI-004 convergence chunk. Use the separate open PR as a real-world test only after this review system is complete.\n\n## Human review focus\n\nConfirm exact-head receipt semantics, stable-finding enforcement, single-registry one-to-one ownership, evaluation fixture quality, and that no merge or product authority was introduced.\n\n## Human merge ownership\n\nOnly a human with repository authority decides whether and when to merge this PR.\n\n\n\n## Summary by CodeRabbit\n\n* New Features\n * Added a shared evidence-review protocol across nine reviewer specialties.\n * Added canonical reviewer IDs, structured evidence handling, finding replay, handoffs, and freshness reporting.\n * Added 40 evaluation cases and 45 expected review outcomes.\n\n* Quality Improvements\n * Added automated validation for reviewer contracts, outputs, receipts, fixtures, and handoffs.\n * Added regression coverage for protocol composition, validation failures, and output consistency.\n * Updated review guidance to require clean target checks before final verdicts.\n\n\n

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This change adopts a shared evidence protocol across nine reviewer skills and agents. It adds canonical reviewer identifiers, evaluation fixtures, a contract-validation CLI, regression tests, and updated initiative state.

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Reviewer evidence integrity

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Adoption contract and evaluation data
.agent-loop/CURRENT_STATE.md, .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-CI-004-review-evidence-integrity/*
WS-CI-004-02 is recorded as complete. The reviewer matrix defines canonical IDs. Evaluation cases and expectations cover nine specialties and multiple evidence outcomes.
Shared protocol skill requirements
.agents/skills/*/SKILL.md
Nine reviewer skills now require shared evidence handling, protocol envelopes, canonical IDs, uncertainty and freshness reporting, handoffs, and severity-based dispositions.
Reviewer agent enforcement
.codex/agents/*.toml
Nine reviewer agents now require protocol use, exact target snapshots, prior-finding replay, evidence classification, freshness reporting, and specialty handoffs.
Contract validation and regression coverage
scripts/reviewer_contracts.py, scripts/test_reviewer_contracts.py
The validator checks reviewer contracts, fixtures, receipts, outputs, and output sets. Tests cover protocol composition, fixture isolation, handoffs, evidence separation, and stable findings.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d4645

The PR can still fail closed incorrectly when reviewer output contains malformed case IDs, and its validation record does not yet prove that the reported checks correspond to the exact reviewed commit with all required integrity checks. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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  participant ReviewerAgent
  participant ReviewerSkill
  participant ReviewerContracts
  participant EvaluationFixtures
  ReviewerAgent->>ReviewerSkill: Apply shared evidence protocol
  ReviewerAgent->>ReviewerContracts: Submit output and receipt
  ReviewerContracts->>EvaluationFixtures: Load cases and expectations
  EvaluationFixtures-->>ReviewerContracts: Return expected outcomes
  ReviewerContracts-->>ReviewerAgent: Return validation result
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Advisory blind-evaluation and final-review evidence\n\nThis comment records published PR evidence; it is not merge authority or a Workstream product decision.\n\nBlind evaluation:\n- Evaluated target: a2eb98c\n- 45 cases across nine canonical reviewers\n- Positive detection: 9/9\n- Negative clearance: 9/9\n- Prior-finding replay: 9/9\n- Invalid-output handling: 9/9 remained PROVISIONAL\n- Cross-specialty handoff: 9/9 correct after two noncanonical naming results were corrected and replayed\n- Every output and receipt names the evaluated target; positive/replay cases carry stable finding IDs\n- The complete private output set and nine canonical receipts pass the committed validator\n- Private JSON remains session evidence and is not repository truth\n\nFinal implementation review:\n- Base and merge-base: a2eb98c\n- Exact implementation head: 8638e93\n- Worktree clean at all final start/end target snapshots\n- All nine required specialties completed exact-head review\n- Architecture, security, QA, CI integrity, documentation, product/operations, reuse/deduplication, senior engineering, and test delta report no remaining repository-code or design finding\n- 14 reviewer-contract tests and 29 target/Git-delta/lightweight-gate tests pass\n- Reviewer contract, fixture, saved blind-output, Ruff, Markdown-link, stale-wording, stale-authorization, chunk-state, and diff checks pass\n- All requested reviewer sessions are complete; no sub-agent session remains open\n\nExternal review:\n- Every CodeRabbit finding known before this head is fixed and regression-tested\n- A fresh CodeRabbit review is being requested for exact head 8638e93\n- Human approval and merge ownership remain unchanged

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@.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-CI-004-review-evidence-integrity/REVIEWER_MATRIX.md:
- Around line 9-19: Update contract_failures to parse the matrix’s Canonical ID
column and validate every handoff_specialty against the resulting canonical
reviewer-ID set, rejecting unknown or misspelled IDs while preserving validation
of the existing reviewer entries.

In `@scripts/reviewer_contracts.py`:
- Around line 124-125: Update the contract validation around expected_ids,
expected_by_id, and output IDs to reject duplicates rather than relying on set
equality. Require the expected and actual row counts to match before per-case
validation, and add regression cases covering duplicate expectation IDs and
duplicate output IDs.
- Around line 53-62: Update contract_failures() to include the “hand off” token
in its required agent-instruction checks, then add a regression test that
removes this directive from an agent file and verifies validation fails.
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Actionable comments posted: 2

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@.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-CI-004-review-evidence-integrity/reviews/WS-CI-004-02-external-review-response.md:
- Around line 27-38: Update the “Commands rerun” evidence in the external review
response to capture the evaluated head via review_target and worktree state, and
bind each temporary JSON artifact to the case, reviewer, head, receipt verdict,
and finding ID. Retain the artifacts as private session evidence, publish the
required post-push GitHub evidence comment or immutable reference, and include
results for Markdown links, stale wording and authorization, chunk state, git
diff --check, and no-open-session checks before claiming no unresolved risk
remains.

In `@scripts/reviewer_contracts.py`:
- Around line 245-250: Update the output validation around output_id_rows and
output_ids to accept only string case_id values before constructing the set,
report rows with array or object IDs as validation failures, and ensure
validate-output-set continues through print_failures() without raising
TypeError. Add regression coverage for array and object case IDs.
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