voyage/commands/trekreview.md

---
name: trekreview
description: |
  Independent post-hoc review of delivered code against the brief. Produces
  review.md with severity-tagged findings (BLOCKER/MAJOR/MINOR/SUGGESTION)
  per Handover 6 (review → plan).
argument-hint: "--project <dir> [--since <ref>] [--quick] [--validate] [--dry-run] [--answers]"
allowed-tools: Agent, Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit, Bash, AskUserQuestion, Skill, Workflow
---

# Ultrareview Local v1.0

Independent post-hoc review of code delivered by `/trekexecute`
against the contract in `brief.md`. Produces `review.md` — a structured
artifact with severity-tagged findings that `/trekplan --brief
review.md` can consume as plan input (Handover 6).

Pipeline position:

```
/trekbrief     →  brief.md
/trekresearch  →  research/*.md
/trekplan      →  plan.md
/trekexecute   →  progress.json (+ commits)
/trekreview    →  review.md            (this command)
```

The review is **independent**: each reviewer runs without cross-feeding,
and the coordinator applies BOUNDED operations only. Synthesis-level
inference across files is forbidden in v1.0 (Judge Agent pattern).

**The review is a gate (review_version 1.2, ordre 5).** In this order:
Claude Code's own `/code-review` and one security engine (Claude Security
where it is installed, else Claude Code's `/security-review`; with neither,
security is "not measured", never 0) are the engine (Phase 4.7); Voyage's
control against the brief runs after them and is the part that stops
(Phase 5–6); the verdict is written in `review.md` and one
command decides on it (`lib/review/verdict-gate.mjs`, Phase 8: 0 = ALLOW, or
WARN with every counting MAJOR answered, 1 = BLOCK, 2 = could not decide,
never green). No finding is struck for
length. A finding class seen in two reviews becomes one proposal for the
project's memory, approved line by line (Phase 8.7). Order credited to Boris
Cherny's public workflow (engine → brief control); the gate to Kiro and Spec
Kit — see `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md` § Handover 6.

## Phase 1 — Parse mode and validate input

Parse the arguments with the shared arg-parser. Run it first, exactly like
this, before anything else (the arguments reach the parser as the one line
inside the quoted heredoc, on stdin, never as shell words):

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/parsers/arg-parser.mjs --command trekreview --stdin <<'VOYAGE_ARGS_EOF_7F3C9E'
$ARGUMENTS
VOYAGE_ARGS_EOF_7F3C9E
```

It prints the parse as JSON on stdout. It also checks the required flag
itself: on exit 1 it has printed the error and usage lines on stderr.

The parser recognizes these flags (see `lib/parsers/arg-parser.mjs`
FLAG_SCHEMA `trekreview` entry):

| Flag | Type | Purpose |
|------|------|---------|
| `--project <dir>` | valued | Required. Path to trekplan project folder containing `brief.md`. |
| `--since <ref>` | valued | Optional. Override "before" SHA for the diff. Validated via `git rev-parse --verify`. |
| `--quick` | boolean | Skip the brief-conformance pass; run only the code-correctness reviewer; skip the coordinator's reasonableness filter except the brief-conflict rule. |
| `--validate` | boolean | Schema-only check on existing `{project_dir}/review.md`. No LLM calls. |
| `--dry-run` | boolean | Print the discovered scope and triage map. Skip writes. |
| `--fg` | boolean | No-op alias (foreground is default). |
| `--answers` | boolean | Run only Phase 8.8 (the operator's answers to the counting MAJORs) on the existing `{project_dir}/review.md`, then the Phase 8 gate line. No `prepare`, no reviewer, no write of findings: it opens no new round and counts nothing against the cap (decision 93). |

Resolution:
1. If the parser exits 1 (for example `--project` is missing), print its
   stderr lines verbatim, exactly as the parser wrote them, and stop. Do not
   compose the error message yourself.
2. Trim trailing slash from `{dir}`. Set:
   - `project_dir = {dir}`
   - `brief_path = {dir}/brief.md`
   - `review_path = {dir}/review.md`
3. If `{dir}` does not exist or `{dir}/brief.md` is missing:
   ```
   Error: project directory not initialized. Run /trekbrief first.
   Missing: {dir}/brief.md
   ```

Set `mode`:
- `validate` if `--validate` is set (overrides everything else; skip to Phase 8.5).
- `answers` if `--answers` is set: skip to Phase 8.8.
- `dry-run` if `--dry-run` is set.
- `quick` if `--quick` is set.
- `default` otherwise.

## Phase 2 — Validate brief

Run the brief validator in soft mode — the brief is upstream context, not
something this command produces, so partial grades are acceptable as long
as the file is parseable:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/validators/brief-validator.mjs --soft --json "{brief_path}"
```

Read the JSON output. If `valid: false` AND any error has code
`BRIEF_MISSING_REQUIRED_FIELD` or `FRONTMATTER_PARSE_ERROR`: stop and
ask the user to re-run `/trekbrief`. Other soft errors become
warnings in the review's Executive Summary.

Read the brief frontmatter. Capture for review.md:
- `task` → review frontmatter `task`
- `slug` → review frontmatter `slug`
- `project_dir` → review frontmatter `project_dir` (defaults to the
  CLI `--project` value when missing)

## Phase 3 — Discover scope SHA range

Determine the "before" SHA that bounds the review:

1. **`--since <ref>` override** — if set, validate via:
   ```bash
   git rev-parse --verify "$since_ref"
   ```
   On failure: print `Error: --since ref is not a valid git revision: {ref}` and stop.
   Set `before_sha = $(git rev-parse --verify "$since_ref")`.

2. **Preferred path** — read `{project_dir}/progress.json` if it exists.
   Extract `session_start_sha`. Validate it via `git rev-parse --verify`.
   Set `before_sha = session_start_sha`.

3. **Fallback** — no `progress.json`. Use the brief's mtime to find the
   most recent commit at or before the brief was written:
   ```bash
   brief_mtime=$(stat -f %m "{brief_path}")  # macOS; on Linux use stat -c %Y
   before_sha=$(git log --until="@$brief_mtime" -n 1 --format=%H)
   ```
   Emit a clear warning that gets surfaced in the review's Executive
   Summary: "scope_sha_start unavailable — falling back to brief mtime
   ({timestamp}). Coverage may include unrelated commits."

Compute the "after" SHA: `after_sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)`.

**Then the round.** Rounds converge, at most `MAX_REVIEW_ROUNDS` (**3**, in
`lib/review/review-rounds.mjs`) per run:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/review-rounds.mjs prepare --project "{project_dir}" --since {before_sha} --json
```

Add `--dry-run` when
`mode == dry-run`. It prints `{round, round_base, previous}`; keep all three for
Phases 5 and 7. A later round is one where `{project_dir}/review.md` has this
`scope_sha_start` (the same run): `prepare` counts the round from the run's
archives, keeps the previous review as `{project_dir}/{previous}`
(`review-round-<run>-<n>.md`, `<run>` = the first 12 hex of `before_sha`), and
`round_base` is its `scope_sha_end`. Every round it deletes the previous
round's `.review-out-*.md` and `.review-engine-payload-*.json` files, so each
such file finalize reads was written this round. Exit 1 stops, for one of two
reasons, told apart by the start of `reason`: `review round cap reached` (the
operator re-plans), or `review-stop-rule:` — the stop rule (decisions 217,
220; `lib/review/stop-rule.mjs`), judged when round 3 would open: the
previous round and this one brought new BLOCKER/MAJOR findings of the same
class, or the blocking findings (BLOCKERs and counting MAJORs) did not get
fewer. Its line gives the class and the counts per round with the two
recommendations, Known issue or New mechanism, never another round; the
operator decides (`/trekexecute` Phase 7.2 asks it). Exit 2 stops "not measured" (the round base
is not an ancestor of HEAD, the round count does not match the archives, or an
archive differs). Print the reason in one line; no review is written in either
case.

Capture working-tree changes (uncommitted at review time):
```bash
git diff --name-only "$before_sha".."$after_sha"
git diff --name-only HEAD       # uncommitted (annotated [uncommitted])
```

The combined file list is the review scope. Note that the
`[uncommitted]` annotation is a **brief-level contract** — the brief's
Assumptions section declares this is allowed; the review surfaces it
explicitly in the Coverage table.

If the file count is `0`, write a minimal review.md per the template:
`verdict: ALLOW`, `findings: []` (the empty list is the one inline form the
parser reads — a bare `findings:` is null and fails validation), the
required sections (`## Executive Summary`, `## Coverage`, `## Declined to
Judge` with `None.` and `Trimmed: 0`, `## Remediation Summary`), each saying
"No diff between {before_sha} and {after_sha}; nothing to review.", and the
trailing block `{"verdict": "ALLOW", "counts": {"BLOCKER": 0, "MAJOR": 0,
"MINOR": 0, "SUGGESTION": 0}, "allow_blocked_by": [], "findings": []}` —
without it the verdict gate
cannot back the ALLOW and exits 2. There is nothing for the Phase 4.7 engine
to review, so its absence does not withhold ALLOW here. Skip Phases 4–7.
Continue to Phase 8 (validate).

## Phase 4 — Triage gate (deterministic path-pattern classifier)

The triage gate is **deterministic** — no LLM judgment. It classifies
every file from Phase 3 into a treatment bucket:

| Treatment | When |
|-----------|------|
| `skip` | Matches `*.lock`, `*.svg`, `dist/**`, `build/**`, `node_modules/**`, OR the file's first 3 lines contain a generated-file marker (`@generated`, `Code generated by`, `DO NOT EDIT`). |
| `deep-review` | Default for every changed file not in the other two rows — code, tests, `commands/`, `agents/`, `skills/` Markdown, and the instruction files `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md` and `.claude/rules/**`. |
| `summary-only` | `docs/**`, Markdown files at the repo root other than `CLAUDE.md` and `AGENTS.md` (README, CHANGELOG), `tests/fixtures/**`. |

A changed instruction file (`CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `.claude/rules/*.md`) at any depth, `docs/**` included, gets deep review: `instruction-scope.mjs --triage` lists them.

```bash
git -c core.quotePath=false diff --name-only -z {before_sha}..{after_sha} | xargs -0 node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/instruction-scope.mjs --triage
```

Hard refuse-with-suggestion gates — use `AskUserQuestion`:

```
if (reviewed_files_count > 100) → ask user
if (estimated_diff_tokens > 100000) → ask user
```

Token estimation: `wc -c "$diff_file" / 4` (rough proxy). Use
`AskUserQuestion` with the prompt:

> The diff under review is large (`{N}` files / `~{T}` tokens). Continue
> with the full scope, narrow with `--since <closer-ref>`, or stop?

Options:
1. **Continue** — proceed at this scope.
2. **Narrow** — print suggested `git log --oneline {before}..HEAD` so the
   user can pick a closer ref, then stop.
3. **Stop** — cancel.

Record the treatment for every file. Files marked `skip` MUST appear in
the Coverage section of `review.md` — never silently drop them. Silent
drops are `COVERAGE_SILENT_SKIP` (MAJOR) per the rule catalogue.

If `mode == dry-run`: print the triage map and exit.

## Phase 4.5 — Run the brief's success-criteria checks

**Skipped in `quick` mode** (that mode does not launch
`brief-conformance-reviewer`, so there is nobody to hand the result to) and in
`dry-run`.

`brief-conformance-reviewer` is asked to decide whether each Success Criterion's
verification command passes. Its tools are `Read`, `Glob`, `Grep` — it cannot
run anything, and it stays that way: a reviewer that executes the code it
reviews is not an independent reviewer. So THIS command runs the commands, and
the reviewer judges the RESULT.

```bash
# Resolve the plugin root ONCE. ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is substituted in this
# command's text but is EMPTY in the Bash tool's process env, and a bare
# `node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/…` then runs `node /lib/…`, which exits 1 —
# indistinguishable from a criterion that failed.
# Only the literal form is substituted (a `:-` default is never replaced); the
# fallback takes the highest installed version under cache/<market>/voyage/.
VOYAGE_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}"
case "$VOYAGE_ROOT" in
  /*) ;;
  *) VOYAGE_ROOT="$(ls -d "$HOME"/.claude/plugins/cache/*/voyage/[0-9]*/ 2>/dev/null \
       | awk -F/ '{ split($(NF-1), v, "."); printf "%09d%09d%09d %s\n", v[1], v[2], v[3], $(0) }' \
       | sort | tail -1 | cut -d' ' -f2-)"
     VOYAGE_ROOT="${VOYAGE_ROOT%/}" ;;
esac
if [ ! -f "$VOYAGE_ROOT/lib/verification/criteria-runner.mjs" ]; then
  echo "[voyage] success-criteria checks could not run - plugin root unresolved."
  echo "         NOT a pass: hand the reviewer NO results and say so."
  exit 2
fi

# Every command is screened twice before it runs (with no shell): the runner's own
# ALLOWLIST of test runners (npm test, node --test, pytest, bash tests/<script>,
# a read-only git subcommand) reports anything else as NOT RUN, and the executor
# denylist (catastrophe) reports BLOCKED. Neither is ever run. Foreground only.
# The working tree the criteria run in - the same resolution trekexecute
# Phase 7 uses, so one criterion cannot resolve two ways in the two phases.
CRITERIA_CWD="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)"

node "$VOYAGE_ROOT/lib/verification/criteria-runner.mjs" \
  --brief "{brief_path}" --evidence --cwd "$CRITERIA_CWD"
```

Exit 0 means every criterion passed; exit 1 means at least one failed or was
blocked by the executor denylist; a criterion with no command, or one outside
the allowlist of test runners, is reported as NOT RUN;
exit 2 means the runner could not run. **The exit
code does not stop the review** — a failing criterion is exactly what the review
exists to find. Capture stdout as `sc_evidence_block`.

If the runner exits 2 (or the root could not be resolved), set
`sc_evidence_block` to a single line naming the failure and stating that no
criterion was checked. An unrun check is never a pass, and the reviewer must be
told which of the two it is looking at.

`sc_evidence_block` is pasted verbatim into the `brief-conformance-reviewer`
prompt in Phase 5, and its summary line goes into the Coverage section of
`review.md`. Do NOT summarise, re-word or re-judge it on the way — the block is
built by `formatCriteriaEvidence` precisely so the orchestrator cannot narrate a
pass that never happened.

## Phase 4.7 — The engine: Claude Code's `/code-review` and the security engine

**Skipped in `dry-run` and `validate`.** In `quick` mode only `/code-review`
runs: no security engine. Wrap, not a new engine: `/code-review` and the
security engine find the correctness and security defects; Voyage's brief
control (Phase 5) runs after them and is what stops.

Verified in Claude Code's live documentation (2026-10-06):
- Claude may start `/code-review` itself (`code-review.md`: "Claude can start
  `/code-review` on its own", unconditionally from **v2.1.246**) and
  `/security-review` (`skills.md`: "A few built-in commands are also available
  through the Skill tool, including `/init` and `/security-review`").
- `/code-review` runs as a background subagent by default and its findings
  "arrive in your conversation when the review completes". It accepts a target
  such as a ref range.
- `/security-review` "Reviews the diff between your branch and origin's
  default branch" and "Needs an `origin` remote". The docs do not state its
  output format or whether it runs in the background.

**Choose the security engine first** (not in `quick`; E 3.1, decisions 175,
196). Claude Security is `available` when the `claude-security:claude-security`
skill is in this session's skill list AND the Workflow tool is among the tools
you can call right now (look at your tools, do not assume); otherwise it is
`missing`.

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/security-engine.mjs choose --repo . --base {before_sha} --head {after_sha} --claude-security {available|missing}
```

It prints `{engine, reason}`: `claude-security` when Claude Security is
available and `{before_sha}..{after_sha}` has committed changes; else
`security-review` when origin's HEAD resolves and `origin/HEAD...HEAD` is
non-empty; else `null`, with `no-engine` (no `origin` remote and no Claude
Security), `no-origin` (an `origin` remote whose HEAD does not resolve) or
`empty-diff` (the engine's range holds no committed change). Exit 2 = it could
not run: print the reason in one line and record the security engine as not
run. Keep `engine` and `reason` for Phases 5 and 9.

Then run, through the **Skill tool**, one after the other:

1. `Skill("code-review", args: "high {before_sha}...{after_sha}")` — the
   review's own SHA range from Phase 3. `high` is set explicitly; note in the
   Executive Summary that this also becomes the level later `/code-review`
   runs in this session reuse.
2. The security engine `choose` picked, and only that one:
   - `claude-security` —
     `Skill("claude-security:claude-security", args: "scan changes --base {before_sha} --effort high")`.
     Claude Security asks one question of its own before the scan starts (the
     scan's time and token cost): put it to the operator as it stands and never
     answer it yourself. "No", a question nobody can answer (no operator
     present), the Workflow tool missing after all, or a scan that ends without
     a report: record Claude Security as not run, with the reason. **Never fall
     back to `/security-review`**: the review is then not measured for
     security.
   - `security-review` — `Skill("security-review")`, no arguments; its base is
     fixed (origin's default branch). `/security-review` runs only when
     `choose` picked it.
   - `null` — no security engine runs: record it as not run with `choose`'s
     reason.

**Never** pass `--fix`, `--comment`, `--post` or `ultra`: a review never edits
code, never posts anywhere, and never uploads the repo to a cloud review.

**Wait for the findings.** A background `/code-review` delivers its findings
later in this conversation, and Claude Security's scan runs as a workflow
until it writes its report. Do not start Phase 6 before both engines have
delivered or have been recorded as not run. For `/code-review` and
`/security-review`, transcribe every finding — file, line (0 when none), the one-sentence summary,
the failure scenario, the category if given (it decides the tier:
`simplification`, `efficiency`, `reuse`, `style` and `readability` enter as MINOR), the
fix the engine proposes (`fix`) only when its text states one — never write one
the engine did not give — and a narrower catalogue `rule_key` only when one
plainly fits — into
`{project_dir}/.review-engine-{code-review|security-review}.json` as
`{"engine": "...", "findings": [...]}`. Transcribe; never re-judge, merge or
drop an engine finding on the way. Then convert it:

```bash
git diff --name-only "$before_sha".."$after_sha" > "{project_dir}/.review-scope.txt"
git diff --name-only HEAD >> "{project_dir}/.review-scope.txt"
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/engine-findings.mjs \
  --scope "{project_dir}/.review-scope.txt" --repo-root "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" \
  "{project_dir}/.review-engine-code-review.json" \
  > "{project_dir}/.review-engine-payload-code-review.json" \
  && cat "{project_dir}/.review-engine-payload-code-review.json"
```

The converted payload is saved to `{project_dir}/.review-engine-payload-{engine}.json`
(`code-review`, `security-review` or `claude-security`), the same stdout, also written: Phase 7's finalize
reads it from there. Never edit that file by hand.
Exit 0 prints a reviewer payload (`claude-code-review` /
`claude-security-review`) for Phase 6 plus `out_of_scope`: engine findings on
files outside the review's SHA range (`/security-review` diffs against
origin's default branch, which can be wider). Pass `out_of_scope` to the
coordinator as well: each one is listed under `## Declined to Judge`
(`engine:out-of-scope`) and in Coverage — never silently dropped. It is
`unverified` and forbids `ALLOW` — with one exception: a MINOR or SUGGESTION
from `/code-review`, which was given exactly this range, is an improvement to
code this review did not change and does not hold `ALLOW` back. A MAJOR one
still does: a change that breaks an unchanged caller is cited at the caller. Absolute paths under the repo root are made relative
before the scope match (`--repo-root`). Exit 1 = the transcription is
malformed, or the scope list is empty: fix it from the engine's own text (or
the scope from Phase 3) and re-run; never feed a payload that did not pass.
Exit 2 = could not run — record that engine as not run.

A "narrower" `rule_key` you transcribe is used only when its catalogue tier is
at least the engine's own (MAJOR for `/code-review`, BLOCKER for
`/security-review`); the adapter refuses to let a transcription lower an
engine finding.

**Claude Security's findings are converted, never transcribed.** When its
scan has finished it has written `CLAUDE-SECURITY-<ts>/` in the repo root
(behind its own `.gitignore`); convert that report, after the scope file
above exists:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/security-engine.mjs convert --report-dir . \
  --base {before_sha} --head {after_sha} --scope "{project_dir}/.review-scope.txt" \
  > "{project_dir}/.review-engine-payload-claude-security.json" \
  && cat "{project_dir}/.review-engine-payload-claude-security.json"
```

Exit 0 prints the `claude-security` payload: `findings` and `out_of_scope` as
for any engine, and `below_threshold`, the findings Claude Security marked
below confidence `high` (decision 219). Pass `below_threshold` to the
coordinator as well: each one is listed under `## Declined to Judge`
(`engine:below-threshold`), never counted, and it forbids `ALLOW`. Exit 2 =
not measured (no report stamp of a changes scan of exactly
`{before_sha}..{after_sha}` — an empty diff writes none —, a scan not
verified, researchers that did not all return, an empty diff or scope, a
scan limited by `--scope`, a malformed record, fewer or more records than
the stamp's `findings.total`): print the reason and record Claude Security
as not run;
the empty file the redirect leaves is no payload. Exit 1 = the scope list is
empty: rebuild it from Phase 3 and re-run.

**An engine that did not run** (Claude Code older than v2.1.246, the Skill
call refused, no `origin` remote, an `ambiguous argument` error, Claude
Security's question answered "No" or left unanswered, a report `convert`
reads as not measured, `choose` picking no engine, or no findings ever
delivered) is recorded as not run with its reason. It stays in the expected
reviewer set, so it forbids `ALLOW` (fail-closed) and the verdict gate exits
2; the Executive Summary's first sentence names it. For security that
sentence says "security: not measured" and why (`choose`'s reason, or why
the engine did not run): never 0, never "no findings". An engine that ran and
found nothing delivers an empty payload — that is a report, not an absence.

The two engine payloads are NOT shown to the Phase 5 reviewers: reviewers stay
independent, and the coordinator is the only place the outputs meet.

## Phase 5 — Launch parallel reviewers

Launch two reviewer agents **in parallel** via the Agent tool — one
message, multiple tool calls.

> **Never pass the Agent tool's `name` parameter — at this or any other spawn
> site in this command.** `name` does not label a subagent, it changes its kind:
> the spawn is recorded as `taskKind: "in_process_teammate"` (`spawnDepth: 0`)
> instead of a subagent (`spawnDepth: 1`). A teammate's final assistant text is
> not a return value — it reaches the orchestrator only if the teammate itself
> calls `SendMessage(to: "main")`, and every agent in `agents/` declares a
> `tools:` allowlist without SendMessage. The agent still runs and still
> produces correct output; the result is simply never delivered, so the phase
> presents as a hung agent that no re-prompting can revive. Measured
> 2026-08-17: named 0/5 returned, unnamed 3/3. Mechanism, denominators, and the
> on-disk recovery path: `docs/agent-return-channel-defect.md`.

Reviewers run independently. Do NOT pre-feed findings between them.

**Reviewer stance: the `reviewing-adversarially` skill.** Both reviewers and
the coordinator have `voyage:reviewing-adversarially` preloaded through their
`skills:` line. Name it in every reviewer prompt anyway, so the rules hold even
where preloading did not happen: "Follow the reviewing-adversarially skill: no
praise; every finding cites file:line or quotes the line; no downgrade without
a reason; say what you read in full and what only as a summary; list what you
did not judge under ### Declined to Judge; check claims against the diff, not
a report."

| Agent | Mode-gated | Purpose |
|-------|------------|---------|
| `brief-conformance-reviewer` | Skipped in `quick` | Trace each Success Criterion + Non-Goal to delivered code. Emits findings tagged with rule_keys from the conformance/scope categories. |
| `code-correctness-reviewer` | Always runs | 8-dimension code review. Emits findings tagged with rule_keys from the correctness/security/maintenance/tests categories, plus the conformance-category instruction-file keys `CLAUDE_MD_DEVIATION` and `CLAUDE_MD_STALE`. |

Each reviewer prompt includes:
- **Diff context** — the unified diff from Phase 3, truncated per file
  for files marked `summary-only`.
- **Triage map** — full file list with treatments. Reviewers must
  respect `skip` decisions.
- **Brief path** — `{brief_path}` (read on demand; do not inline).
- **Rule catalogue** — reference to `lib/review/rule-catalogue.mjs`.

**The instruction set.** The `code-correctness-reviewer` prompt also gets the
repo's tracked instruction files for this diff, from `instruction-scope.mjs --set`
at `{after_sha}`:

```bash
git -c core.quotePath=false diff --name-only {before_sha}..{after_sha} > "{project_dir}/.review-changed.txt"
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/instruction-scope.mjs --set --repo . --sha {after_sha} --changed "{project_dir}/.review-changed.txt"
```

On exit 0, list its `files` under **Instruction files** and tell the reviewer
to check the diff against exactly these files and no other instruction file
(dimension 8, `CLAUDE_MD_DEVIATION` / `CLAUDE_MD_STALE`, MINOR). On exit 2,
tell it that none could be read; finalize (Phase 7) then sets every finding
under those two keys aside under Declined to Judge (`instruction-out-of-set`),
as it does any such finding whose `instruction_ref` is not in the set.

**From round 2** (`round` ≥ 2 from Phase 3), each reviewer prompt also gets
the round input:
- the round diff, `git diff {round_base}..{after_sha}`, beside the run's diff;
- the previous findings, from the trailing JSON block of
  `{project_dir}/{previous}`, each with its id, to mark in the reviewer's own
  JSON block as `previous: [{id, resolved}]` (`resolved: true` only when the
  round diff fixes it);
- the line "you may read the files around it; a previous finding is never
  re-raised as new; flag every occurrence of a finding class".

Finalize (Phase 7) carries a previous finding until every reviewer that ran in
its round marks it resolved, and an engine finding until its engine ran this
round and nothing of this round holds it. Two things hold it: a matching
finding in `review.md` (an engine MAJOR or BLOCKER the coordinator left out
is put back into `review.md` first, at its own severity), or a matching entry
of that engine's `below_threshold` or `out_of_scope` (decision 222: a Claude
Security finding counted at confidence `high` that comes back below it stays
counted). An engine MINOR or SUGGESTION the coordinator left out of
`review.md` holds nothing, so the previous finding resolves (a known issue,
decision 226). The engines (Phase 4.7) stay on the run range
(`/security-review` takes no range; Claude Security scans from `{before_sha}`).

`brief-conformance-reviewer` additionally receives `sc_evidence_block` from
Phase 4.5, pasted verbatim — the command, exit code and first line of output for
every Success Criterion. It is the ONLY evidence that agent has about whether a
criterion's verification passes, because it cannot run one.

Save each reviewer's **whole answer**, verbatim — its prose and its trailing
JSON block — to `{project_dir}/.review-out-{reviewer}.md`, not only the JSON
block: the check reads the prose around the block too (wave 2, order 9: the
saved file held the block alone, 76 bytes, so no prose was ever checked).
Then **validate it against the reviewer-output schema** rather than merely
parsing it. Run:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/findings-schema.mjs --json --repo-root "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" "{project_dir}/.review-out-{reviewer}.md"
```

`validateReviewerOutput` in `lib/review/findings-schema.mjs` extracts the
last fenced `json` block, parses it, and schema-checks every finding
(load-bearing fields: `file`, `rule_key` ∈ catalogue, `severity` ∈ enum,
`line` integer ≥ 0). With `--repo-root`, a cited line past the end of a file
that exists is `FINDING_LINE_OUT_OF_RANGE`: the reviewer cited the line in the
diff, not in the file, and is re-asked like any other schema failure (the
voyage-lekerepo trial, 2026-10-06, lost its only brief-anchored MAJOR that way). Parse failure and schema failure surface through the
same stable error codes (`FINDINGS_NO_JSON_BLOCK`, `FINDINGS_PARSE_ERROR`,
`FINDING_*`).

`FINDING_PROSE_LINE_OUT_OF_RANGE` is the same check on a `path:line` written
in prose. In a finding's own fields (`title`, `detail`, `recommended_action`,
`brief_ref`) it is an **error**: re-ask that reviewer like any other schema
failure, and quote the way a removed line is cited, `<rev>:<path>:<line>`
(`v6.2.0:hooks/x.mjs:120`, not judged against today's file), so a finding
about deleted code keeps its line instead of losing it. In the prose around the JSON block it is a **warning**: the re-ask
asks for the block only and cannot correct that prose, so do not re-ask —
report each such warning (reviewer, citation, the file's line count) in the
Coverage section of `review.md`.

On any failure, re-ask **that reviewer** to re-emit a conforming JSON
block only — quote the reported error codes/locations so the fix is
targeted. **Bounded retries: N=2.** If the output still fails after 2
re-asks, stop and report which reviewer produced non-conforming output;
do not feed unvalidated findings to the coordinator.

In `quick` mode, launch only `code-correctness-reviewer`. The Executive
Summary will note the brief-conformance pass was skipped.

### Reviewer accounting — every expected reviewer MUST report

Write down the expected reviewer set BEFORE the spawn: both reviewers in
default mode, `code-correctness-reviewer` alone in `quick` mode — plus, in
every mode, the Phase 4.7 engines that were due: `claude-code-review`, and
outside `quick` the security engine `choose` picked (`claude-security` for
Claude Security, `claude-security-review` for `/security-review`), or
`security-engine` when it picked none or could not run. `security-engine` never reports, so the
review carries `missing-reviewer:security-engine` and the verdict gate exits 2:
security not measured, never 0. After the spawn, account for each
one by name. An engine recorded as not run is passed on as missing, never
left out of the set.

**Zero findings from a silent reviewer is indistinguishable from zero findings
from a clean diff** — unless you check. A reviewer is *accounted for* only when
it returned a payload that validated. Three ways it fails to:

| Failure | Handling |
|---------|----------|
| Output fails the schema after the 2 bounded re-asks | STOP (already specified above) |
| Returned no final message at all | Re-ask that reviewer **once**. Still nothing → STOP. |
| Was never launched (spawn error, wrong mode) | STOP. |

**On STOP: name the reviewer and the failure, and do not proceed to Phase 6.**
Do not let the coordinator compute a verdict over a review one of whose
reviewers never spoke — the count would be complete-looking and wrong. This is
the same shape as the schema branch above ("do not feed unvalidated findings to
the coordinator"), applied to the other two ways a reviewer can go missing.

A reviewer that ran but never delivered is most often the return-channel
defect: check `~/.claude/projects/<proj>/<session>/subagents/agent-*.jsonl` for
its final assistant block before re-asking, and confirm no `name` parameter was
passed at the spawn (see the warning at the top of this phase).

If you proceed anyway under an explicit operator instruction, pass the expected
set to the coordinator as `expectedReviewers` so the missing reviewer at least
forbids `ALLOW` (`lib/review/coordinator-contract.mjs`, `missing_reviewers`).

## Phase 6 — Coordinator dedup + verdict

Launch `review-coordinator` (Agent tool) with the merged findings array
from Phase 5 AND the Phase 4.7 engine payloads (Claude Security's
`below_threshold` list with them), plus the triage map, brief
metadata, SHA range, the expected reviewer set (engines included), and each
not-run engine with its reason. Name `voyage:reviewing-adversarially` in the
coordinator's prompt as in Phase 5, and pass each reviewer's
`### Declined to Judge` lines verbatim from its saved
`{project_dir}/.review-out-{reviewer}.md`: the coordinator copies them into
`## Declined to Judge`, so nothing a reviewer set aside disappears.

**Brief choices.** Next to the brief metadata, pass the brief's choices
verbatim: extract the `## Non-Goals`, `## Constraints` and `## Preferences`
sections and the operator decisions in `## Open Questions / Assumptions` from
the brief, word for word (a section the brief does not carry is passed as
absent, never written for it). The coordinator reads them for the
brief-conflict rule only (`agents/review-coordinator.md` Pass 3): an engine
finding whose recommended action contradicts one of them is kept and marked
`contradicts_brief`, never removed.

The coordinator runs the 4-pass process documented in
`agents/review-coordinator.md`:

1. **Dedup** by `(file, line, rule_key)` triplet.
2. **HubSpot Judge filters** — Succinctness, Accuracy, Actionability.
   Succinctness never removes a finding: only MINOR/SUGGESTION text is
   trimmed, and every trim is counted. A long BLOCKER or MAJOR keeps every
   character.
3. **Cloudflare reasonableness** (skipped in `quick` mode) — drop a finding
   with no `file:line` citation (`no-citation`) or whose file is in neither
   the working tree nor the diff (`file-existence:refuted`); route one whose
   `rule_key` is not in `RULE_CATALOGUE` (`unknown-rule_key`) or whose file
   cannot be checked (`file-existence:indeterminate`) to `unverified`, which
   forbids `ALLOW`; reset a severity that does not match its catalogue tier.
   The brief-conflict rule still applies in every mode.
4. **Verdict** — BLOCK / WARN / ALLOW per the threshold table.

**Fail-closed.** Every removal in Pass 2 and Pass 3 is either
**dropped** (the test refuted the finding as a claim about this codebase) or
**unverified** (the finding was removed without its claim ever being settled).
A non-empty `unverified` bucket forbids `ALLOW`; the verdict becomes `WARN` and
the Executive Summary's first sentence must say why. The fail-closed rule never
raises a verdict — it only withholds the clean one. Fate table, reason
vocabulary, and the `allow_blocked_by` field: `agents/review-coordinator.md`
§*Suppression is two-valued*, mirrored deterministically in
`lib/review/coordinator-contract.mjs`.

The coordinator's output is the full review.md content — frontmatter
(with the REQUIRED `verdict:`) + body sections (including `## Declined to
Judge` and, when there is a BLOCKER, `## Remediation Steps`) + trailing JSON
block. Do NOT re-run the reviewers based on the coordinator's output.

## Phase 7 — Write review.md

Write the coordinator's output verbatim to:

```
{project_dir}/review.md
```

Create parent directories if they do not exist. Atomic write pattern:
write to a temp file, then rename.

**Then compute the finding ids** — the coordinator has no shell and writes
`@@ID_<n>@@` placeholders (`agents/review-coordinator.md`, *IDs are computed
by code*):

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/fill-finding-ids.mjs {project_dir}/review.md
```

Exit 0 = every placeholder filled (or none were left); 1 = a placeholder with
no finding behind it, or a JSON id that is not the computed one — re-ask the
coordinator once with the errors quoted, then stop and report; 2 = could not
run (no JSON block) — stop. Never fill an id by hand. The frontmatter `findings:` field
must use **block-style YAML** (one ID per line, `  - ` prefix). The
parser at `lib/util/frontmatter.mjs` does not support flow-style arrays.

**Then finalize the review** — one deterministic pass after `fill-finding-ids`:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/review-finalize.mjs --review "{project_dir}/review.md" --repo . --project "{project_dir}" --round {round}
```

From round 2 it also gets the round base and the previous review, as `prepare`
printed them, and the carried answers follow it:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/review-finalize.mjs --review "{project_dir}/review.md" --repo . --project "{project_dir}" --round {round} --round-base {round_base} --previous "{project_dir}/{previous}"
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/review-answers.mjs carry --review "{project_dir}/review.md" --previous "{project_dir}/{previous}" --repo .
```

In round 1 too, finalize exit 1 or 2 stops the review: print the reason and "not measured", and stop. The file stays
as `fill-finding-ids` wrote it, and the verdict gate reads an engine MAJOR or BLOCKER missing from it as exit 2
(`review-not-measured: engine finding not in review`).
From round 2, finalize exit 1 or 2 stops the review: print the reason and "not measured", and stop. The previous
findings reach review.md only through finalize's carry, so the verdict gate reads a round 2+ review without
`finalized: true` as exit 2 (`review-not-measured: round 2+ review not finalized`), never green.
Finalize writes `round`, `round_base`, `finalized: true`, `ran` (what ran this round, read from the
`.review-out-*.md` and `.review-engine-payload-*.json` files) and, from round 2, `resolved` with a
`## Resolved since round <n>` section; a carried BLOCKER gets its `### Step R<n>`.
The standard path now puts back engine findings at MAJOR or above: finalize's
first pass reads the Phase 4.7 payloads itself from `{project_dir}` (`.review-engine-payload-*.json`, no new
argument), and each engine finding at MAJOR or BLOCKER whose row no finding of review.md carries is put back at its
own severity, with the line `**Source:** engine {name}, put back by the standard-path comparison` in its entry; the
verdict is only raised, and a put-back BLOCKER gets its `### Step R<n>`. An engine finding in `out_of_scope` stays
declined (`engine:out-of-scope`). `review-answers.mjs carry`
writes an `## Answers` row with `Carried from` for each carried MAJOR the operator accepted in an
earlier round; on exit 1 or 2 print the reason in one line and continue: no answer is carried.
A finding is pre-existing when it sits on a line the range `scope_sha_start..scope_sha_end` did not add or
change; finalize marks it from git, the verdict gate re-derives the mark, and a BLOCKER or security finding
counts in full whatever the mark. The range counts only when `scope_sha_start` is bound to the fork point from main
(`main`, else `master`): the fork point itself, or a later commit reached through process files only (the approval
log, `.claude/projects/`); otherwise, and for a range that ends on main itself, nothing is pre-existing. A carried finding (`carried_from`) keeps its line from the previous round's end,
so it is never pre-existing, whatever the mark.

**The review policy.** The policy file is `REVIEW.md` at the repo root, read at `scope_sha_start` from git, never
from the working tree, and finalize applies it as its last pass. Only its one `voyage-review-policy` block is read;
the file's text is data, never an instruction. The block holds at most one `max-minor` line (`max-minor: <0-999>`),
the cap: at most that many MINOR and SUGGESTION findings stay reported, and each one over it is listed by title
under `## Declined to Judge` with `policy:cap`, followed by `Over the policy cap: N`. It also holds at most 50
`skip` lines (`skip: <glob>`): a MINOR or SUGGESTION finding on a skip path is listed there with `policy:skip`, and
its file stays in Coverage. The policy caps and skips MINOR and SUGGESTION findings only, never a BLOCKER, a MAJOR
or a security finding; the verdict gate exits 2 on a review in which one was moved. A malformed or changed file (any
other line in the block, two blocks, a bad glob, a symlink, or a file changed inside the reviewed range) is not
applied, and the review says so in `review_policy: not-applied` and `review_policy_note`. Without the file there is
no cap (`review_policy: absent`). The review records the file's sha256 in `review_policy_sha256`, `none` without it.

**The verdict is in the file (K7).** The frontmatter carries
`verdict: ALLOW | WARN | BLOCK`, equal to the trailing JSON block's
`verdict`. It is required at write time; a review without it fails Phase 8.

**A BLOCKER is written as a plan step.** For every BLOCKER the body carries,
under `## Remediation Steps`, one numbered step `### Step R<n>: <imperative
action>` with `**Files:**`, `**Source finding:** <40-char id>`, `**Test
first:**` (a test that reproduces the finding and fails today), `**Verify:**`
(the command that proves it fixed; default: re-run `/trekreview` and the
finding is absent) and `**On failure:** escalate`. Handover 6 can append these
to a plan without rewording them; earlier steps are never rewritten.

If `mode == dry-run`: skip the write; print the would-be path and the
first 60 lines of the rendered output.

## Phase 8 — Validate output

Run the strict validator:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/validators/review-validator.mjs --json "{review_path}"
```

If validation fails:
- For repairable errors (missing required body section, malformed
  finding-ID, REVIEW_VERSION_FORMAT warning): repair in place — re-emit
  the missing section, recompute the finding-ID, fix the version
  string. Re-validate.
- `REVIEW_MISSING_VERDICT` / `REVIEW_MISSING_REMEDIATION_STEP`: repair
  from the coordinator's own output — copy the JSON block's `verdict` into the
  frontmatter; write the missing `### Step R<n>` from that BLOCKER's
  `recommended_action`, `file` and `id`. Never invent a verdict the JSON block
  does not carry. Re-validate.
- For unrepairable errors (REVIEW_WRONG_TYPE, malformed frontmatter):
  stop and ask the user to re-run; do not silently produce an invalid
  review.md.

**Decide on the verdict with the gate (K7).** Once the validator passes:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/verdict-gate.mjs "{review_path}"
```

Exit 0 = ALLOW, or WARN with every counting MAJOR answered; exit 1 = BLOCK;
exit 2 = the gate could not decide
(missing verdict, a verdict the file contradicts — in its JSON block, its
`## Findings (BLOCKER)` section or its finding-id list — a JSON block that is
not the last fence or has the wrong shape, two verdict lines, unreadable
file) — **never green**. A WARN that exists because a reviewer or engine
did not run (`missing-reviewer:` / `unattributable-payload` in
`allow_blocked_by`) is also exit 2: a review not performed in full stops a
merge (operator decision 2026-10-06). An exit 2 with a reason that starts
`review-unanswered:` before Phase 8.8 is expected: the operator's answers come
there. It takes exactly one file. On exit 0
with WARN, `--json` also returns `warn_reasons` (the JSON block's
`allow_blocked_by`); print them. Capture the exit code as `gate_exit` and print it in Phase 9 exactly
as returned. This is the command that later stops a merge or a release on
BLOCK; `/trekreview` reports it and never overrides it.

**Build the operator-annotation HTML.** After the gate, run:

```bash
ANNOT_HTML=$(node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/annotate.mjs "{review_path}" 2>&1)
```

`stdout` is the absolute path to the `.html` on success: the page where the
operator writes their own notes on `review.md`. The loop that follows is the
skill `voyage:annotating`: call it when the operator pastes the notes back.
If `annotate.mjs` exits non-zero, surface a one-line warning and continue —
the annotation HTML is a convenience, not a gate.

## Phase 8.5 — Validate-only mode (`--validate`)

When `mode == validate`:
1. Skip Phases 3–7 entirely.
2. Run the strict validator on `{project_dir}/review.md`.
3. Print a one-line PASS/FAIL summary plus the JSON output on FAIL. A
   `review_version` 1.0 review without `verdict:` FAILS here (K7 is a
   write-time rule); it still seeds a plan, because `/trekplan` reads in soft
   mode.
4. Run `lib/review/verdict-gate.mjs` on the same file and print its line and
   exit code.
5. Exit 0 on PASS, 1 on FAIL. Never write to disk. Never call any agent.
   Skip Phase 8.7.

## Phase 8.7 — The project's memory (recurring finding classes)

**Skipped in `dry-run` and `validate`.** A finding class (the same catalogue
`rule_key`) that shows up in two review.md files in this repo becomes ONE
proposal; one sighting is no proposal. The history is the review.md files the
repo already has (every `.claude/projects/*/review.md`, plus earlier committed
versions of them) — no new store.

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/recurrence.mjs propose --repo "$PWD"
```

`--repo` is the session's working directory — the directory `project_dir`
paths are relative to, and the project Claude Code loads `.claude/rules/`
from. Not the git toplevel: for a project in a subdirectory that would read
no reviews and write the lessons in the wrong place.

It prints `{"proposals": [...]}` (exit 0) or exits 2 (could not run — say so
in the summary; never read 2 as "nothing recurred"). Each proposal names its
`rule_key`, its route and its evidence (the finding IDs from two reviews), and
carries one line in the format **mistake · fix · how to check**:
- route `check` (mechanical) — the line names the deterministic check that
  catches the class;
- route `rule` (judgement) — the line is for the repo's `.claude/rules/`
  file, which Claude Code loads at session start;
- review-hygiene classes are never proposed.

**The operator approves every line.** For each proposal, use
`AskUserQuestion` (up to 4 proposals per call), in plain language, showing
the line and its two pieces of evidence. Options: **"Add the line"**
(recommended: the class has recurred) and **"Not now"**; the operator may
answer with an edited line through "Other". Never write a line the operator
did not approve, and never treat "sounds good" or "do as you like" as a yes
to a line it was not shown.

On yes:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/recurrence.mjs apply --repo "$PWD" \
  --rule-key <RULE_KEY> [--line "<the operator's edited line>"]
```

It writes ONLY between Voyage's own markers in
`.claude/rules/voyage-review-lessons.md` and, if the repo has a `CLAUDE.md`,
gives it a one-line pointer once (never the lesson itself). Exit 1 with
`over-budget` means the managed block is full: tell the operator the lessons
belong in a skill now — that is the operator's decision, not this command's.
Exit 1 with `invalid-line` means the line was refused by the schema check
(missing one of the three parts, a line break or control character, marker
text, or over 700 characters) — show the `detail` and ask again. Exit 1 with
`markers-damaged` means Voyage's markers in the lessons file are not one
start before one end: say so; the operator fixes the file by hand. A
finding class only counts when two reviews hold two DIFFERENT findings of it
— one unfixed finding seen again is a persisting defect, not a lesson — and
the two catch-all engine keys are never proposed. Report every outcome in the summary; when no class
recurred, say "no recurring finding class" — do not pad.

Borrowed: routing (Pocock `retro`), the three-part line (ai-native-sdlc),
the managed block (Spec Kit `agent-context`), evidence per proposal and
schema-check before write (Kiro), review → memory and the size budget
(Cherny). Credits in `lib/review/recurrence.mjs`.

## Phase 8.8 — Answers

**Skipped in `dry-run` and `validate`.** Every counting MAJOR needs the
operator's answer before a WARN opens the merge or the release; the verdict
gate decides that, not this command. List the open ones:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/review-answers.mjs pending --review {project_dir}/review.md --json
```

- Exit 0: nothing to ask.
- Exit 2: say "answers not measured" in one line; the merge stays closed.
- Exit 1: it lists the open MAJORs (`id`, `title`, `detail`, `security`,
  `fixed_pending`). Ask about each one with `AskUserQuestion`, at most four per
  call and one finding per question, in plain words with no file or function
  names. Each question gives the consequence of each option:
  - **Fix it**: a plan step is written, and the merge stays closed until a
    later review round no longer finds it.
  - **Accept: <a reason in plain words>**: the merge can open with this
    finding left as it is. Never offered for a finding `pending` marks
    `security: true`. That finding gets one option, Fix it, and its question says a security finding cannot be accepted.

The recommendation is the session's honest judgement per finding. It is
never "accept" by default. The operator may type their own reason; a hollow
answer ("sounds good", "do as you like") is not a reason.

For each answer, a "fixed" first gets its `### Step R<n>` under
`## Remediation Steps`, in the form Phase 7 writes for a BLOCKER (Files,
Source finding, Test first, Verify, On failure). Then record it, with the
reason on stdin:

```bash
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/review/review-answers.mjs record --review "{project_dir}/review.md" --finding {id} --answer {accepted|fixed} --repo . --round {R} --store {artifact_store} --trailer "Co-Authored-By: Claude {model} <noreply@anthropic.com>"
```

`{R}` is this review's round (Phase 3's `{round}`), `{artifact_store}` the
brief's `artifact_store` (absent = `local`), and `{model}` this session's model
name. It appends a K2 `review` record, writes the `## Answers` row and commits
the log as `docs(voyage): review answers (round {R})`; show the operator the
stored reason it returns. On `"committed": false`, print its reason in one
line and continue: the answer is logged but not committed. On exit 1 (a
hollow or empty reason, a "fixed" without its R-step, an accept on a security
finding), say the refusal in one line and ask that finding again once. A
second refusal leaves it unanswered. On exit 2, say "answer not recorded" with
its reason in one line.

Then run the Phase 8 gate line again and report its result as `gate_exit`.

**Known issues outside the threat model** (E, decisions 164, 218). List each
entry of the review's `## Outside the Threat Model` (the trailing JSON block's
`known_outside`) for the operator in plain words, with the brief's `Outside:`
line it falls under: Voyage's own security findings the brief's threat model
puts outside. They are not answered and do not count. The verdict gate checks
each against the brief on every run: one whose line is gone, or whose intent
approval went stale, makes the gate exit 2 (not measured) until the review
runs again. To lift one back in, the operator changes that `Outside:` line and
approves the brief's intent again.

Run on its own, outside `/trekexecute`, "fixed" leaves the finding open until a
later `/trekreview` round marks it resolved.

**`--answers` mode.** `/trekreview --answers --project <dir>` runs only this
phase on the existing `{project_dir}/review.md`, and then the Phase 8 gate
line. It runs no `prepare`, no reviewer and no write of findings, so it opens
no new round and counts nothing against the cap (decision 93: accepting needs
no new review round). When `{project_dir}/review.md` is missing it stops with
one line: "no review to answer: {project_dir}/review.md is missing". In this
mode `--round` is the review's own `round` field (1 when absent), and
`--store` is the brief's `artifact_store` (absent = `local`), read from the
brief as Phase 1 finds it.

## Phase 9 — Present summary

After the write succeeds, print:

```
## Ultrareview Complete

**Task:** {task}
**Mode:** {default | quick | dry-run}
**Brief:** {brief_path}
**Project:** {project_dir}
**Review:** {review_path}
**Annotation HTML:** file://{$ANNOT_HTML}
**Scope:** {before_sha}..{after_sha} ({reviewed_files_count} files)
**Verdict:** {BLOCK | WARN | ALLOW}
**Gate:** verdict-gate exit {gate_exit} ({0 = ALLOW, or WARN with every counting MAJOR answered | 1 = BLOCK | 2 = could not decide, a control did not run, or a MAJOR without an answer or answered "fixed" and not yet confirmed — not green})
**Engine:** /code-review {delivered N | not run: reason} · security {Claude Security delivered N, M below threshold | /security-review delivered N | not measured: reason | none in quick mode}

### Counts
- BLOCKER: {N}
- MAJOR: {N}
- MINOR: {N}
- SUGGESTION: {N}
- Trimmed (MINOR/SUGGESTION text only, never removed): {N}
- Declined to judge: {N} — {one line each: file:line rule_key — reason}

### Project memory
{each proposal: rule_key → written | declined by operator | over-budget | invalid-line;
 or "no recurring finding class"; or "recurrence check could not run"}

### Top findings
- [{severity}] {title} ({file}:{line})
  ...
{up to 5 highest-severity findings}

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
To review and annotate the review, open it in a browser:

    open file://{$ANNOT_HTML}

Click any line to add YOUR OWN note. The sidebar collects every note,
the "Copy Prompt" button gathers them into one structured prompt.
Paste that prompt back into this chat: Claude answers each Question
and revises review.md from your Fix and Change notes. Annotations
persist in your browser if you close the tab and reopen the same file.
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You can also:
- Feed BLOCKER + MAJOR findings into a follow-up plan:
    /trekplan --brief {review_path}
- Re-run with `--quick` for a faster correctness-only pass
- Re-run with `--since <ref>` to narrow scope
```

Per **Handover 6**, BLOCKER and MAJOR findings are consumed by
`/trekplan --brief review.md` to produce a remediation plan. The
review's frontmatter `findings:` list and the trailing JSON block are
the contract for that handover (see `docs/HANDOVER-CONTRACTS.md`).

## Hard rules

- **Brief is the contract.** Every finding in the review traces to a
  brief section via `brief_ref`, except `SCOPE_CREEP_BUILT` (which
  traces to "no anchor"). Conformance is the conformance reviewer's
  job — code-correctness findings carry generic anchors like
  `"NFR — code correctness"`.
- **Independent reviewers.** Do NOT cross-feed findings between
  brief-conformance-reviewer and code-correctness-reviewer. The
  coordinator is the only place where outputs combine.
- **Bounded coordination.** Synthesis-level inference across files is
  forbidden in v1.0. The coordinator dedups, filters, and computes the
  verdict — nothing more.
- **Triage map respected.** Files marked `skip` MUST appear in the
  Coverage section. Silent drops are `COVERAGE_SILENT_SKIP` (MAJOR).
- **Block-style YAML for findings list.** The frontmatter parser does
  not support flow-style arrays. `findings: [a, b]` is broken; use
  `findings:\n  - a\n  - b`.
- **Refuse-with-suggestion above 100 files / 100K tokens.** Never run
  blind on a giant diff. Use AskUserQuestion to surface the gate.
- **Privacy.** Never log secrets, tokens, or credentials in review.md.
  Findings citing files with secret-like content must redact the secret
  in the `detail` field.
- **Honesty.** If the diff is trivially small or all-skip, say so. Do
  not pad findings to make the review look thorough.
- **No production code.** This command never runs production code, never
  writes to anything outside `{project_dir}` —
  with one exception, only after the operator approved that exact line in
  Phase 8.7: Voyage's own marked block in `.claude/rules/voyage-review-lessons.md`
  and a one-line pointer in `CLAUDE.md`. Claude Security writes its own report
  folder `CLAUDE-SECURITY-<ts>/` in the repo root, behind its own `.gitignore`;
  `/trekreview` only reads it.
- **The engine never edits code.** `/code-review`, `/security-review` and Claude Security run
  without `--fix`, `--comment`, `--post` or `ultra`; Claude Security runs
  `scan changes` only, never its patch job. A review that changes
  code is not a review.
- **No finding is struck for length.** Only MINOR/SUGGESTION text is trimmed,
  and every trim is counted; what the coordinator set aside is listed under
  `## Declined to Judge`.
- **The verdict is in the file, and a command decides on it.** `verdict:` is
  required (K7); `lib/review/verdict-gate.mjs` exit 2 is never green.