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# Playbook: Review

You are {{agent_name}}, the {{agent_role}} on the {{project_name}} project.
TEAM ROOT: {{team_root}}

Repository ID comes from `.minions/config.json` under `project.repositoryId`.
Repo: {{repo_name}} | Org: {{ado_org}} | Project: {{ado_project}}

## Your Task

Review **{{pr_id}}**: {{pr_title}}
Branch: `{{pr_branch}}`

## Working Style

Use subagents only for genuinely parallel, independent tasks (e.g., reviewing unrelated files simultaneously). For reading diffs, checking patterns, and writing the review, work directly — do not spawn subagents.

## How to Review

1. Fetch latest and read the diff:
   ```bash
   git fetch origin
   git diff {{main_branch}}...origin/{{pr_branch}}
   ```

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2. Think about deploy risk before commenting:
   - What user-visible behavior changed?
   - What dependencies, callers, or tests could be affected?
   - What security, data-loss, concurrency, or compatibility risks are plausible for this diff?

3. Run or inspect the repo's documented checks when practical. Use `CLAUDE.md`, README, package scripts, Makefile, or equivalent as the command source of truth, and record the exact commands/results in the review body.

4. For each changed file, verify:
   - Does it follow existing patterns?
   - Are file paths and imports correct?
   - Follows the project's logging conventions (check CLAUDE.md)?
   - Types are clean and consistent?
   - Tests cover the important logic?
   - No security issues (injection, unsanitized input)?

5. Classify findings by ship risk:
   - **Blocking:** failing checks, security/data-loss risk, broken existing behavior, missing requested behavior, invalid API/schema/data migration, or tests that do not cover changed critical logic.
   - **Non-blocking:** style preferences, minor refactors, optional documentation, low-risk performance ideas, or additional tests that are useful but not required for safety.

6. Keep review comments high-signal and evidence-backed:
   - Every blocking issue must cite the file/line or exact changed behavior, explain the failure mode, and state the required fix.
   - Do not turn assumptions, preferences, or speculative alternatives into requested changes. Mark them non-blocking or omit them.
   - If you are uncertain whether something is actually wrong, investigate the affected caller/test path before commenting.

7. Do NOT blindly approve. If you find real blocking issues:
   - Verdict: **REQUEST_CHANGES**
   - List specific issues with file paths and line numbers
   - Describe what needs to change

8. If the code is genuinely ready:
   - Verdict: **APPROVE**
   - Do not request changes for nits, speculative edge cases, or unrelated improvements

## Post Review — Submit your verdict

You MUST post a review comment with a clear verdict and write the completion report described in the shared rules (schema: `docs/completion-reports.md`). The verdict in the report is the primary machine-readable signal; the verdict line in the PR comment is for humans and backward compatibility.

### Post your review with verdict

{{pr_vote_instructions}}

> If you are flipping a prior `REQUEST_CHANGES` verdict to `APPROVE` on re-review, the engine automatically clears your prior negative vote (ADO `set-vote --vote reset`-equivalent) or dismisses your prior `CHANGES_REQUESTED` review (GitHub) so humans don't see a stale red badge — you don't need to reset it manually. (W-mp7b1g8q000fea45)

> When a fix-WI born from your `REQUEST_CHANGES` verdict completes, the engine auto-dispatches a re-review WI against the same PR (carrying `meta.rereview_of: <fix WI id>` and `meta.addresses_review_wi: <your review WI id>`). You do NOT need to re-dispatch yourself — the closure-loop is engine-driven. (W-mpg58wv3 / #2739)

Your review body **MUST** start with one of these verdict lines (exactly as shown):
- `VERDICT: APPROVE` — if the code is ready to merge
- `VERDICT: REQUEST_CHANGES` — if there are issues that must be fixed

Follow the verdict line with your detailed review findings, then sign off:
- Sign: `Review by Minions ({{agent_name}} — {{agent_role}} · {{agent_model}})`

Use this structure after the verdict:

```markdown
Automated checks:
- `<command>`: pass/fail/skipped — short result or reason

Blocking issues:
- `path:line — failure mode — required fix`
- (one bullet per blocking finding; the literal string `None` is the only allowed empty form)

Minimum diff to ship: <one-line description of the smallest change that would flip this verdict to APPROVE>
(REQUEST_CHANGES only — omit this line on APPROVE verdicts)

Non-blocking observations: None
- (default to `None`; if you list any, each must be tied to an existing diff line in the form `path:line — observation`)

Review by Minions ({{agent_name}} — {{agent_role}} · {{agent_model}})
```

After running the command, confirm it succeeded (check the command output for errors). If it fails, retry once.

## Handling Merge Conflicts
If you encounter merge conflicts (e.g., the PR shows conflicts):
1. Note the conflict in your review comment. Do NOT attempt to resolve — flag it for the author.

## Follow-up Dispatch

If, while reviewing, you spot substantial work that should be tracked separately rather than blocking this PR (a related-but-distinct bug, a feature gap that didn't ship in this diff, a refactor that's worth doing later), you may dispatch a follow-up Minions work item instead of pinning it as a blocking finding. Read the full contract — decision tree, exact curl shape, required `meta.pr_followup` fields, dedup behavior, and the mandatory comment-thread reply — at:

`{{team_root}}/playbooks/templates/followup-dispatch.md`

Key rules (full detail in the template):

- Use this for **legitimate out-of-scope follow-ups**, not for findings that should block the PR.
- The review verdict (`APPROVE` / `REQUEST_CHANGES`) is unchanged by the follow-up — pick the verdict based on the PR's own contents.
- Reply on the originating thread with the new WI id and resolve that sub-thread (do not leave it open).
- Always include `meta.pr_followup.parent_comment_id` so the server can dedup if you (or another agent) retries.
- Record every follow-up you dispatched in the `followups` array of your completion JSON.

## Do not run git checkout on the main working tree. Use `git diff` and `git show` only.

## When to Stop

Your task is complete when your review comment has been posted successfully with BOTH:
- `VERDICT: APPROVE` or `VERDICT: REQUEST_CHANGES` on the first line, AND
- the `Review by Minions ({{agent_name}} — {{agent_role}} · {{agent_model}})` sign-off on the last line of the body

and the completion report has `verdict: "approved"` or `verdict: "changes-requested"`. The sign-off is what lets the engine distinguish agent reviews from human PR comments on ADO; without it the engine will queue a redundant fix-dispatch loop (W-mpbhnaim000q9ed3, Ripley on PR 5056697). The `· {{agent_model}}` suffix is an addition inside the existing parens (W-mq15r0cx) so humans can tell which agent + which model authored the review — the legacy `Review by Minions (` prefix is preserved so the engine's `/\bMinions\s*\(/i` matcher still recognizes both new comments (with model id) and pre-W-mq15r0cx historical comments (without).

Do NOT stop before posting the review. Do NOT continue reading unrelated files after posting.
