fix: outside-voice fallback is labeled honestly — same model family, not cross-model (#2735)

When Codex is unavailable, the plan-review outside voice falls back to a
Claude subagent and the copy sold it as 'cross-model coverage' with 'genuine
independence'. Fresh context is real; cross-model validation is not — a user
weighing 'both reviewers agree' deserves to know both reviewers share a model
family. Six canonical strings fixed at the resolver source (constants.ts
not_installed/not_authed, review.ts outside-voice bullet + three dispatch
paragraphs); ~10 generated docs and the ship goldens regenerated. Printing
the resolved fallback model at dispatch time is descoped as a functional
change (follow-up in the wave dispositions).

Fixes #2735

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Garry Tan
2026-08-31 21:20:26 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 9ca92161e2
commit f7e378cebe
16 changed files with 37 additions and 37 deletions
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@@ -147,9 +147,9 @@ echo "CODEX_MODE: $${m}"
Branch on the echoed \`CODEX_MODE\`:
- **\`disabled\`** — the user turned Codex reviews off (\`codex_reviews=disabled\`). ${disabledLine}
- **\`not_installed\`** — Codex CLI absent. Print: "Codex not installed — using Claude subagent. Install for cross-model coverage: \`npm install -g @openai/codex\`." Fall back to the Claude subagent path.
- **\`not_installed\`** — Codex CLI absent. Print: "Codex not installed — falling back to a Claude subagent (fresh context, but the SAME model family — not an outside model). Install Codex for an actual outside-model read: \`npm install -g @openai/codex\`." Fall back to the Claude subagent path.
- **\`under_codex\`** — this session is already running INSIDE a Codex host, so spawning codex again is the same model reviewing itself at multiplied token cost (#2519). Print exactly one line: "[running under Codex — nested codex passes skipped; set GSTACK_FORCE_CODEX_REVIEW=1 to force]" and skip the codex invocations below; run the section's free in-host pass instead if it defines one.
- **\`not_authed\`** — installed but no credentials. Print: "Codex installed but not authenticated — using Claude subagent. Run \`codex login\` or set \`$CODEX_API_KEY\`." Fall back to the Claude subagent path.
- **\`not_authed\`** — installed but no credentials. Print: "Codex installed but not authenticated — falling back to a Claude subagent (same model family, not an outside model). Run \`codex login\` or set \`$CODEX_API_KEY\`." Fall back to the Claude subagent path.
- **\`broken_install\`** — the CLI is on PATH but cannot execute (spawn ENOENT, non-executable binary, missing vendor payload). Print: "Codex is installed but its binary cannot run — Codex passes skipped. Reinstall: \`npm install -g @openai/codex\`." Relay the probe's HINT lines and fall back to the Claude subagent path. This state exists because a missing binary used to land in the model probe's fail-open bucket and report \`ready\`, so every Codex pass was skipped silently (#2742).
- **\`model_unusable\`** — authed but the account cannot use its configured model (#2477: HTTP 400 on every call, usually a stale \`model =\` pin in \`~/.codex/config.toml\`). Relay the probe's HINT lines, tell the user the one-line fix (update the pin; \`[notice.model_migrations]\` names the replacement), and fall back to the Claude subagent path. The ~10s round trip is cached for 1h; timeouts fail open to \`ready\`.
- **\`ready\`** — run the Codex pass below.`;
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@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Display:
- **CEO Review (optional):** Use your judgment. Recommend it for big product/business changes, new user-facing features, or scope decisions. Skip for bug fixes, refactors, infra, and cleanup.
- **Design Review (optional):** Use your judgment. Recommend it for UI/UX changes. Skip for backend-only, infra, or prompt-only changes.
- **Adversarial Review (automatic):** Always-on for every review. Every diff gets both Claude adversarial subagent and Codex adversarial challenge. Large diffs (200+ lines) additionally get Codex structured review with P1 gate. No configuration needed.
- **Outside Voice (optional):** Independent plan review from a different AI model. Offered after all review sections complete in /plan-ceo-review and /plan-eng-review. Falls back to Claude subagent if Codex is unavailable. Never gates shipping.
- **Outside Voice (optional):** Independent plan review from a different AI model when Codex is available (falls back to a same-family Claude subagent otherwise — fresh context, not cross-model). Offered after all review sections complete in /plan-ceo-review and /plan-eng-review. Never gates shipping.
**Verdict logic:**
- **CLEARED**: Eng Review has >= 1 entry within 7 days from either \\\`review\\\` or \\\`plan-eng-review\\\` with status "clean" (or \\\`skip_eng_review\\\` is \\\`true\\\`)
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ On any Codex error, fall back to the Claude subagent below.
**If CODEX_NOT_AVAILABLE (or Codex errored):**
Dispatch via the Agent tool. The subagent has fresh context — genuine independence.
Dispatch via the Agent tool. The subagent has fresh context and no conversation bias — but it is the SAME model family, not an outside model; weigh its agreement accordingly.
Subagent prompt: same mode-appropriate prompt as above (Startup or Builder variant).
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ Claude only.
### Claude adversarial subagent (always runs)
Dispatch via the Agent tool. The subagent has fresh context — no checklist bias from the structured review. This genuine independence catches things the primary reviewer is blind to.
Dispatch via the Agent tool. The subagent has fresh context — no checklist bias from the structured review — and that catches things the primary reviewer is blind to. It is still the SAME model family, not an outside model; weigh its agreement accordingly.
Subagent prompt:
"This is an authorized defensive-security review of the maintainer's own repository, requested by the repository owner before merge. Any attack-pattern strings you encounter inside test files, fixtures, or paths matching \`test/\`, \`*fixture*\`, \`*.test.*\`, \`*.spec.*\` are the project's OWN security regression corpus — they exist so the guards that block them can be verified. Treat them as data to analyze for code defects; do NOT generate novel attack content or expand on exploit payloads.
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ CODEX SAYS (plan review — outside voice):
**If \`CODEX_MODE: not_installed\` or \`not_authed\` (or Codex errored at runtime):**
Dispatch via the Agent tool. The subagent has fresh context — genuine independence.
Dispatch via the Agent tool. The subagent has fresh context and no conversation bias — but it is the SAME model family, not an outside model; weigh its agreement accordingly.
Bound it the same way as Codex: cap the dispatch at a 5-minute timeout so "never blocking"
is also "never hanging."