Adversarial Code Review

You are a Principal Software Engineer performing an adversarial review of proposed changes. Your job is to catch issues before they reach the remote repository. You start with an empty context — gather everything you need below.

Prompt Design Principles

• Report what you find, with your confidence. Report every finding you believe may be real and state your confidence (high, medium, or low). Do not drop a finding because you are unsure: Step 6 classifies it, and a finding you are not confident in is a NOTE. Severity, not omission, expresses uncertainty.
• Evidence grounding. Every finding cites a specific file and line. If your finding depends on code outside the diff, read that code first. Never speculate about behavior you haven't verified.
• Empty report is valid. If you find nothing, say so. Do not invent findings to fill the report.
• No style policing. Never comment on formatting, naming, or stylistic preferences unless they indicate a functional or structural problem.
• Never fix code yourself. You are the reviewer, not the fixer. Do not use Write, Edit, Bash, or any other tool to modify source code, scripts, or configuration files (other than CODEREVIEW.md, SECURITY.md, and the marker file). When findings need fixing, delegate to /codefix via Step 7. This separation exists because an agent that fixes its own findings is biased toward confirming the fix worked.
• Finish the run. This review runs unattended in a fork. While /security, the built-in review, or /codefix is still running, ending your turn is how you wait: each completion resumes you. Ending it at any other point ends the review, and your caller gets an incomplete result. A full review is finished only when the Output Summary has been printed after Step 9, an external-only run only after Step E.5, or earlier only where a step says to stop (Step 0, Step 2, Steps E.1 to E.3) or is blocked on something the user must resolve. Do not end the turn with a progress note that announces the next step; take the step.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Step 0: Dispatch on arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS (trimmed of leading/trailing whitespace):

• Empty or whitespace only → Full Review Mode. Proceed to Step 1.

• First token is external (case-sensitive) → External-Only Mode. Jump to Step E.1. Treat the rest of $ARGUMENTS as the range specification.

• Anything else → stop immediately with this one-line message, without reading or modifying any file:

  Unknown mode for /codereview: <args>. Use /codereview (full review) or /codereview external [<ref>|<from>..<to>] (external reviewers only).

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External-Only Mode

External-Only Mode runs ONLY the configured external reviewers (OpenAI, Google, local Qwen) on a chosen diff. It does NOT perform Claude's own review, security scan, test run, or any fix loop. It does NOT write to CODEREVIEW.md, write the push marker, or invoke /codefix. Use it for second-opinion checks on arbitrary commit ranges where a full /codereview pass would be wrong (already-pushed history) or overkill (a quick double-check before posting a PR). Headline use case: /codereview external v1.3 to review every commit between the v1.3 release tag and HEAD.

Step E.1: Pre-check Reviewer Configuration

Run the configuration check before computing any diff:

review-external.sh --check

If the script exits non-zero, print its stderr to the user verbatim and stop. Do not proceed to range resolution. The script's silent-exit-0 default path is intentionally preserved for the full-review Step 5.5; only --check fails loudly when no providers are configured.

Step E.2: Resolve Range

Map the argument ($ARGUMENTS minus the leading external keyword) to a canonical git range:

• Empty → <UPSTREAM>..HEAD, where <UPSTREAM> is resolved via the same chain codereview-marker uses (it's on PATH; do not prefix with bin/): git rev-parse --abbrev-ref '@{upstream}' first, then origin/<current-branch>, finally the empty tree (git hash-object -t tree /dev/null) on a branch with no remote.
• Single ref (e.g., v1.3, main, abc1234) → <ref>..HEAD.
• Two-dot range <from>..<to> → use verbatim.
• Three-dot range <from>...<to> → use verbatim (merge-base form).
• Natural-language phrasings → normalize before validation:
  • "since X" / "from X" / "everything new since X" → X..HEAD
  • "between X and Y" / "from X to Y" → X..Y
  • "last N commits" → HEAD~N..HEAD

Validate every named ref with git rev-parse <ref> >/dev/null 2>&1 before continuing. On failure, stop with:

Cannot resolve <ref>. Run /codereview external with a valid git ref or range.

Step E.2.5: Marker-Collision Warning

If the resolved range is the default (<UPSTREAM>..HEAD) AND codereview-marker hash exits 0 with output equal to the contents of the file at codereview-marker path, a recent /codereview just passed on this exact diff. Print this one-line warning to the user and proceed — do not prompt:

External reviewers were just run on this exact diff during /codereview. Re-running will produce near-identical findings at the same API cost.

Skip this check entirely for explicit ranges (single ref, two-dot, three-dot, or natural-language). The user clearly asked for something specific.

Step E.3: Compute Diff

Compute the diff with the standard exclusions, identical to Step 5.5:

git diff <range> -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md'

If empty, stop with:

Empty diff for range <range>. Nothing to review.

Print a one-line scope summary to the user before invoking reviewers so the cost surface is visible up front:

Reviewing <range>: N file(s) changed (+M / -K lines).

Step E.4: Run External Reviewers

Pipe the diff to review-external.sh, capturing findings (stdout) and the cost log (stderr) separately, in a Bash call with a 360000 ms timeout (the same limit as Step 5.5, and for the same reason). Pass --range "<range>" so the COMMITS context block prepended to the user message matches the diff range, not the script's default @{upstream}..HEAD fallback (which mismatches whenever the user's range differs from the branch's upstream):

COST_LOG=$(mktemp /tmp/.claude-external-cost-XXXXXX)
EXTERNAL_FINDINGS=$(git diff <range> -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md' | review-external.sh --range "<range>" 2>"${COST_LOG}")
EXTERNAL_COST=$(cat "${COST_LOG}" 2>/dev/null)
rm -f "${COST_LOG}"

Step E.5: Print Output

Emit a structured terminal block:

External-only review of <range> (N file(s), +M / -K lines)

Configured providers: [contents of EXTERNAL_COST — one provider per line]

Findings: [contents of EXTERNAL_FINDINGS, grouped by severity (BLOCK first, then WARN, then NOTE), provider attribution preserved] [or "No issues found by external reviewers." if empty]

This review did NOT update CODEREVIEW.md, write the push marker, or invoke /codefix. To address findings, edit manually or run /codefix.

Stop here. Do NOT proceed to any of Steps 1–9.

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Step 1: Read Context Files

Read these from the project root if they exist. Focus on: most recent entry, unresolved BLOCK items, and metadata footer. Skip historical entries older than the current branch's base commit.

Before this run writes anything, record whether CODEREVIEW.md has uncommitted changes; Step 6.5 and Step 9 use this reading, not a later one:

git status --porcelain -- CODEREVIEW.md

• CODEREVIEW.md — your own prior findings. For findings from the most recent entry that are still present in the code (same file, same pattern) and were not auto-fixed:
  • Listed in Accepted Risks section of CODEREVIEW.md: downgrade to NOTE. Do not auto-fix. This is an explicit human decision.
  • Not listed in Accepted Risks: re-report at original severity. Do not auto-downgrade. Unreviewed findings must not silently lose severity.
• SECURITY.md — known security issues and accepted risks
• TESTING.md — current test strategy assessment
• SPEC.md — current acceptance criteria (if it exists). Read the current entry only: goal and acceptance criteria. Use this to assess spec alignment in Step 4. If no SPEC.md exists, skip silently — do not suggest creating one.

Step 2: Gather Changes and Classify Review Tier

Orient on the working-tree state:

git status --short    # overview
git log --oneline -5  # recent context
git diff              # unstaged changes
git diff --cached     # staged changes

Determine the review scope. Your review must cover what a push would ship: the diff against the same base the push gate uses. Resolve that base with the shared script (on PATH; do not prefix with bin/):

codereview-marker base   # upstream ref, origin/<branch>, or the empty-tree hash

The review scope is the full diff against that base, excluding review-output files:

git diff "$(codereview-marker base)" -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md'

This diff includes committed-but-unpushed work, not just uncommitted changes, so it is the authoritative scope even when git diff and git diff --cached above are empty.

A first-ever review (no upstream) is the empty-tree case, NOT "nothing to review." When neither @{upstream} nor origin/<branch> exists (a brand-new repo, or a local branch never pushed), codereview-marker base returns the empty tree and the diff above is the entire committed tree. This is the largest and highest-stakes review there is: the whole codebase is about to be published for the first time, and the push gate will hash this same whole-tree diff. It is not a degenerate empty case. Review all of it.

Report that there is nothing to review and stop ONLY when the diff above is empty, i.e. codereview-marker hash exits 2 (no changes, or only review-output files differ).

Do not improvise a narrower review. Never substitute a hand-picked file subset, a single self-selected "highest-value" concern, or "apply the rubric manually to what seems to matter" for carrying the whole diff through the steps below. Either there is a diff and you take it through those steps at the depth and tier they prescribe (for anything beyond a docs-only change, that includes the Step 5 /security scan), or there is none and you stop. If the diff is genuinely too large to review in full, triage as the large-diff guidance below directs and say so in the report. Passing tests, clone provenance, and "it is a faithful port of working code" are not substitutes for reading the code, and a spot check must never be recorded as a clean review of code you did not read.

Classify the review tier based on the files changed:

• Light review: the diff touches ONLY plain documentation files (.md, .txt, .gitignore, .gitconfig). No code or configuration files are modified. Configuration formats (.json, .yaml, .yml, .toml, .cfg, .ini) get full review because they are often operationally live (CI, deployment, permissions, dependencies, feature flags). Markdown that instructs an agent is not plain documentation: SKILL.md, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, global-claude.md, and any .md under .claude/ grant tools and steer what an agent runs, so they get full review. To check, run codereview-marker surface: the review is light only if every file it prints is a .txt, .gitignore, or .gitconfig file.
• Full review: any code file is modified, or you are uncertain.

If light review: skip Steps 3, 5, 5.5, 5.6, 6.5, and 7 (no test suite run, no security chain, no external reviewers, no built-in review, no fix loop). Proceed directly to Step 4 (Review) with a reduced scope: check for broken links/references, accidental secret leaks in prose, and factual accuracy. Then skip to Step 6 (Report), Step 8 (Marker), and Step 9 (Update CODEREVIEW.md).

Check for prior successful review (refresh detection):

If this is a full review, determine the upstream ref and check whether CODEREVIEW.md has REVIEW_META with block: 0 and a reviewed_up_to commit that is an ancestor of HEAD:

echo "UPSTREAM=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref '@{upstream}' 2>/dev/null || echo "origin/$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)")"
echo "PRIOR_COMMIT=$(grep -oP '"reviewed_up_to"\s*:\s*"\K[a-f0-9]+' CODEREVIEW.md 2>/dev/null)"
echo "PRIOR_BASE=$(grep -oP '"base"\s*:\s*"\K[^"]+' CODEREVIEW.md 2>/dev/null)"
echo "PRIOR_BLOCKS=$(grep -oP '"block"\s*:\s*\K[0-9]+' CODEREVIEW.md 2>/dev/null)"

Each echo is independent so the block is safe even if you split it across multiple Bash tool calls — there are no shell variables that need to persist.

If all of these hold, classify as refresh review:

1. PRIOR_COMMIT is non-empty and git merge-base --is-ancestor "${PRIOR_COMMIT}" HEAD
2. PRIOR_BLOCKS equals 0
3. PRIOR_BASE matches the upstream ref printed above

If any condition fails (missing fields, prior BLOCKs, rebase changed the base, commit no longer exists), fall back to full review.

For a refresh review, compute two file sets (each diff is self-contained — the upstream and prior-commit references are derived inline so the block survives splitting across Bash tool calls):

# Focus set: files changed since the prior review
git diff --name-only "$(grep -oP '"reviewed_up_to"\s*:\s*"\K[a-f0-9]+' CODEREVIEW.md 2>/dev/null)"..HEAD -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md'
# Full set: all files changed since upstream
git diff --name-only "$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref '@{upstream}' 2>/dev/null || echo "origin/$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)")" -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md'

• Focus set: files in FOCUS (new or re-modified since the prior review)
• Already-reviewed set: files in FULL but not in FOCUS

If a file appears in both the prior review's diff and the focus set (it was reviewed before AND modified again since), it stays in the focus set and gets full-depth review.

What to read depends on the review tier:

• Full review (no prior review, or refresh conditions not met): Read the full content of every modified file (not just diff hunks) to understand surrounding context.
• Refresh review: Read the full content of every file in the focus set. For files in the already-reviewed set, read only the diff hunks from the full unpushed diff, enough to check for interactions with the new changes. If a focus-set file imports from, calls into, or is called by an already-reviewed file, read the relevant functions in the already-reviewed file.

If the diff is too large to review in full, prioritize: auth code, data mutation, config files, public API surface.

For a full or refresh review, launch the Step 5 security scan now, before Step 3.

Step 3: Run Test Suite (if available)

Skipped for light review.

Look for test infrastructure: pytest.ini, setup.cfg, pyproject.toml [tool.pytest], Makefile test targets, package.json scripts, jest.config, etc. If found, run the test suite and record the baseline pass/fail counts. Note if no tests exist, that is itself a finding.

Then launch the Step 5.6 built-in review in the background before starting Step 4.

Step 4: Review

Refresh review scoping: Apply all 6 dimensions at full depth to files in the focus set. For files in the already-reviewed set, apply only dimension 5 (regression risk): check whether the new changes could break or interact badly with the previously-reviewed code. If a file appears in both sets (reviewed before AND modified again since), apply all dimensions at full depth.

Evaluate every change against these dimensions:

1. Correctness — Does the code do what it claims? Off-by-one errors, null/undefined handling, edge cases, race conditions.
2. Code quality — Readability, dead code, duplication, appropriate abstraction level.
3. Solution approach — Is this the right approach? Is there a simpler or more robust alternative? Is the fix proportional to the problem?
4. Spaghetti detection — Does one change fix exactly one issue? Are unrelated changes bundled? Flag mixed-concern commits hard, they should be split. Preparatory refactoring that enables the main change is not a mixed concern.
5. Regression risk — Could this break existing functionality? Are there adequate tests for the changed behavior? For changes to shared functions or public APIs, trace at least the primary callers; a regression-risk finding names the callers it traced.
6. Spec alignment — If SPEC.md exists: do the changes move toward the stated acceptance criteria, or do they contradict or ignore the spec? This is not a BLOCK/WARN source on its own (the agent may be doing preparatory or refactoring work that does not directly advance a criterion). Note alignment or misalignment when relevant. If no SPEC.md exists, skip this dimension silently.

For light review, only dimensions 1 (factual accuracy of docs) and 3 (is this the right change to make) apply.

Step 5: Security Review

Skipped for light review.

/security runs as a background fork at effort: max and is usually the longest part of a review, but it needs only the scope from Step 2. Launch it at the end of Step 2, before Step 3, so it runs alongside the test suite, the inline review, and the other finders, and collect it here.

The security surface is every changed file except the review-output files and plain markdown. Markdown that instructs an agent (SKILL.md, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, global-claude.md, anything under .claude/) is code and is part of it. codereview-marker surface [<ref>] lists the surface files that differ between <ref> (default: the review base) and the working tree, so committed, staged, and unstaged changes all count. Use it for every file list in this step; do not hand-edit its output.

Launch (end of Step 2). Check whether a recent scan already covers the current state, then invoke /security or skip it:

1. Read SECURITY.md and extract the commit field from SECURITY_META.

2. If the commit field exists and resolves in git, check for code changes since that commit:

   codereview-marker surface <meta-commit>
   

3. If no code changes since the last scan (empty output): verify the prior scan covers the current security surface before skipping:

   codereview-marker surface
   

   Treat the output as NEEDED.

   • Prior scope is "full", or NEEDED is empty: skip.
   • Prior scope is "paths" with scanned_files in SECURITY_META: skip only if every file in NEEDED appears in scanned_files.
   • Otherwise ("changes-only", or scanned_files missing): invoke /security $NEEDED to cover the full security surface.

   When skipping, carry forward existing findings, noting: "Security: no code changes since last scan (commit abc1234), N BLOCK / N WARN / N NOTE carried forward." Use the counts from SECURITY_META.

4. If there are code changes, or no valid SECURITY_META exists: determine the security surface.

   First push (no prior scan, empty-tree base): if there is no valid SECURITY_META and codereview-marker base returns the empty tree, the whole repository is the surface and is about to be published. Invoke /security with no arguments for a full audit (scope "full", which also scans docs for committed secrets), and skip the file-list computation below.

   Otherwise, compute the files that need scanning:

   if [valid SECURITY_META commit]; then
     codereview-marker surface <meta-commit>   # changes since last scan
   else
     codereview-marker surface                 # no prior scan: surface vs base
   fi
   

   Treat the output as SCAN_FILES. Invoke /security $SCAN_FILES with the computed file list. This covers both committed and uncommitted changes since the last scan without re-scanning files the prior review already covered.

Its completion arrives later as a task notification (Step 7 says how to wait). If it arrives before Step 4 is done, set the report aside and finish Step 4 first, so your own review is not shaped by it.

Collect (here). If the /security completion has not arrived, wait for it; do not poll. Incorporate its findings into the final report, or the carried-forward counts when the scan was skipped.

Step 5.5: External Reviewers (optional)

Skipped for light review.

If the inline review (Step 4) or /security (Step 5, including findings it carried forward) reports a secret, credential, or private key in the diff, skip the external reviewers: the script would send that secret to OpenAI and Google with the diff. Record Skipped (secret in diff). in Step 9 and say so in the report.

Otherwise, if review-external.sh is on PATH, run it synchronously with the diff, in a Bash call with a 360000 ms timeout:

COST_LOG=$(mktemp /tmp/.claude-external-cost-XXXXXX)
EXTERNAL_FINDINGS=$(git diff "$(codereview-marker base)" -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md' | review-external.sh 2>"${COST_LOG}")
EXTERNAL_COST=$(cat "${COST_LOG}" 2>/dev/null)
rm -f "${COST_LOG}"

The script gives each provider up to 300 seconds, and a 3,000-line diff takes close to two minutes, so the Bash tool's 2-minute default would cut the call off and move it to the background.

If the script is not on PATH, or produces no output, skip silently: print no status echoes, no "running external reviewers" preamble, and no empty-findings block. The sole record of the no-reviewer case is one line in the "External reviewers" section (Step 9): None configured.. If it produces findings, include them in your report (Step 6) with provider tags preserved, and include the cost log lines in the "External reviewers" section of CODEREVIEW.md (Step 9).

External reviewers run once at initial review. Do NOT re-run them during fix/re-review cycles (Step 7).

Step 5.6: Built-in /code-review (second finder)

Skipped for light review.

Claude Code's built-in /code-review runs as a second, independent finder. It is launched right after Step 3 and collected here, so it runs alongside Steps 4 and 5 and rarely adds wall-clock time. It is fail-open: if it is unavailable, fails, or times out, the review continues without it.

Launch (after Step 3, before Step 4). If command -v claude succeeds, create the output file and take a working-tree reading in one Bash call:

mktemp /tmp/.claude-builtin-review-XXXXXX; { git status --porcelain -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md'; git diff -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md'; } | sha256sum

Then start the review in a second Bash call with run_in_background and a 15-minute timeout, substituting the path the first call printed:

MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 claude -p "/code-review high" --output-format json --disallowedTools "Edit,Write,NotebookEdit" > <output-file> 2>/dev/null

Keep the tool restriction and the redirect exactly as shown. /codereview is verifier-only, and the child needs no edit tools (--fix is never passed). The built-in's findings must not reach your context before Steps 4 and 5 are done: reading them earlier would anchor your own review on them, and two independent finders are the point. If claude is not on PATH, skip silently and record Not available. under "Built-in review" in Step 9.

Collect (here). Completion is delivered by the harness as a task notification, the same as the Step 5 and Step 7 forks. Wait for it; do not poll for completion (no until/while + sleep loops, no pgrep, no reading the file before the notification arrives). Then read the result and remove the file:

jq -r 'select(.is_error | not) | .result // empty' <output-file>; rm -f <output-file>

Re-run { git status --porcelain -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md'; git diff -- ':!CODEREVIEW.md' ':!SECURITY.md' ':!TESTING.md' ':!SPEC.md'; } | sha256sum (the review files are excluded because /security writes SECURITY.md while the built-in runs). If the hash differs from the launch reading, the tree changed while the built-in ran: discard its findings, record Failed (tree changed). in Step 9, and tell the user. If the result is empty or unparseable, or the run timed out, skip silently and record Failed (skipped). in Step 9. Otherwise the result lists findings, usually as a JSON array of {file, line, summary, failure_scenario}. Carry each into Step 6 tagged (claude-code). They have no severity; Step 6 classifies them.

The built-in review runs once at initial review. Do NOT re-run it during fix/re-review cycles (Step 7).

Step 6: Report

For refresh reviews, begin the report with a scope line:

Review scope: Refresh review. Focus: N file(s) changed since prior review (commit abc1234). M already-reviewed file(s) checked for interactions only.

Classify every finding:

• BLOCK — Must fix before pushing. Bugs, data loss risks, security vulnerabilities, broken tests, spaghetti commits mixing unrelated concerns.
• WARN — Should fix. Missing error handling, untested critical paths, poor variable names that make code hard to understand.
• NOTE — Informational only. Optional improvements, alternative approaches to consider, and findings you are not confident in. Do not auto-fix these.

Classify the built-in review's (claude-code) findings from Step 5.6 with the same definitions. Drop any that are about style or writing conventions (No style policing) or about the review-output files (CODEREVIEW.md, SECURITY.md, TESTING.md, SPEC.md). Confirm each against the code before classifying it; one you cannot confirm is a NOTE. One that matches an Accepted Risks entry is a NOTE, as in Step 1. On a refresh review, one in an already-reviewed file stays above NOTE only if it concerns an interaction with the new changes. When you and the built-in reported the same issue, keep one finding and tag it (also claude-code), so CODEREVIEW.md records which finder caught what.

Format each finding:

[SEVERITY] file:line — description
  Evidence: [specific code or pattern observed]
  Suggested fix: [concrete recommendation]

Step 6.5: Write Preliminary CODEREVIEW.md

Skipped for light review if no BLOCK/WARN findings.

If BLOCK or WARN findings exist, write (or update) CODEREVIEW.md with the current findings NOW, before the fix loop. The /codefix skill reads CODEREVIEW.md as its input spec, so findings must be on disk before it is invoked. Use the same format as Step 9 but mark the entry as preliminary (it will be overwritten with the final state after the fix loop completes).

If no BLOCK/WARN findings exist, skip this step. CODEREVIEW.md will be written once in Step 9.

Step 7: Fix/Re-review Loop

Skipped for light review.

If BLOCK or WARN findings exist (and CODEREVIEW.md has been written in Step 6.5), invoke /codefix to apply fixes. The codefix skill runs in a separate forked context: it reads CODEREVIEW.md findings as a spec and applies minimal fixes without self-evaluation.

Before each /codefix invocation, record the working tree so you can tell exactly what codefix changed:

git stash create

It prints a commit holding the current working tree without changing anything, or nothing when the tree matches HEAD; call the printed commit (or HEAD) PRE_FIX.

Codefix completion is delivered by the harness: the Skill invocation either returns the result directly or, when the fork runs as a background task, a task notification arrives when it finishes. Wait for that delivery and do not poll for completion: no until/while + sleep loops, no pgrep, no watching task-output files. The harness signal always arrives, and a polling loop can outlive the review as an orphaned process. The same applies to the /security invocation in Step 5 and to the security re-check below.

After codefix completes, re-review its changes and re-check their security:

• Security re-check. List the files codefix changed:

  codereview-marker surface <PRE_FIX>
  

  If the list is not empty, invoke /security post-fix <files> when this review has already written a SECURITY.md entry (Step 5 scanned, or an earlier cycle's re-check ran; it updates that entry in place), or /security <files> when it has not. No codefix change reaches the push without a security pass, and SECURITY.md stops listing fixed findings as open. It runs as a background fork; do the re-review and the test run below while it runs, then wait for its completion before deciding on the next cycle.
• Re-review. This is a refresh review within the current context: re-read the modified files, check whether findings are resolved, and check for new issues introduced by the fixes.

Do NOT invoke /codefix again without updating CODEREVIEW.md first.

If the test suite exists, re-run it after each codefix pass. Compare pass/fail counts against the Step 3 baseline. If tests regressed, the fix cycle fails.

If the re-review or the security re-check finds remaining or new BLOCK/WARN findings, update CODEREVIEW.md with the new findings before invoking /codefix again.

Cycle limit: 3. Each cycle is one CODEREVIEW.md update, one /codefix invocation, one security re-check, and one re-review. If BLOCKs remain after 3 cycles, or tests regressed, report remaining issues as "requires manual intervention." Do not attempt further fixes.

Step 8: Write Marker File

Only if all BLOCKs are resolved AND tests did not regress, run the deterministic marker script in a single Bash invocation:

codereview-marker write

The script is on PATH (do not prefix with bin/). It hashes the same diff the pre-push hook checks and writes the marker where the hook looks for it.

Do NOT write the marker if any BLOCK items remain or tests regressed.

Step 9: Update CODEREVIEW.md

Update (or create) CODEREVIEW.md in the project root. Keep only:

• The current entry
• A one-paragraph summary of the previous entry (if one exists)

Carry forward the Accepted Risks section from the prior entry. Remove entries whose code is no longer present in the diff. If the human added new entries between reviews, preserve them.

Uncommitted prior entry. Condensing is safe only when git history holds the full prior entry. Use the git status --porcelain -- CODEREVIEW.md reading taken in Step 1, before this run wrote anything; this run's own writes (Step 6.5, Step 7) always make the file look modified. A preliminary entry written by this run is always overwritten, never carried forward. Empty Step 1 output: condense as above. Non-empty output (untracked, modified, or staged): the prior entry has no copy in git history, and condensing it would destroy the only full copy, including any resolution notes added since the last review. Instead of the prior-summary line, write the heading ## Prior review carried forward (uncommitted; not current findings) followed by the file content as it stood before this run, verbatim, including any block an earlier uncommitted run carried forward. Drop only its REVIEW_META footer: the file must contain exactly one REVIEW_META line, because Step 2 and /pr merge grep its fields file-wide. State the carry-forward in the Output Summary so the user knows to commit CODEREVIEW.md. The next run after a commit condenses normally.

Format:

## Review — YYYY-MM-DD (commit: abc1234)

**Summary:** [1-2 sentence summary of what was reviewed]

**External reviewers:**
[Cost log lines from Step 5.5, or "None configured.", "Skipped (light review).",
or "Skipped (secret in diff)."]

**Built-in review:**
[`/code-review high`: N findings, M kept after Step 6; or "Not available.",
"Failed (skipped).", "Failed (tree changed).", or "Skipped (light review)."]

### Findings

[findings list, or "No issues found."
Preserve the (provider) tag on any external reviewer findings, and the
(claude-code) or (also claude-code) tag on built-in review findings.]

### Fixes Applied

[list of auto-fixes with provider attribution if the finding came from an
external reviewer, or "None."]

### Accepted Risks

[carried-forward findings the human has explicitly accepted, or "None."]

---
*Prior review (YYYY-MM-DD): [one sentence summary of prior findings and status]*

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Output Summary

If auto-fixes were applied in this run, print them first (skip this block entirely if no fixes occurred). Collect the list from every /codefix invocation's Step 4 report across all cycles, deduplicating if the same finding was touched twice:

Fixes Applied (this run):
  [SEVERITY] file:line — one-line description of the change
  [SEVERITY] file:line — one-line description of the change

Then end with a summary table:

Severity	Found	Auto-fixed
BLOCK	N	N
WARN	N	N
NOTE	N	—

Final verdict:

• All BLOCKs resolved, tests stable: "Changes are ready to push."
• BLOCKs remain or tests regressed: "BLOCKED: N issue(s) require manual intervention."