## Review preparation

After startup, follow the preparation sections below through Confidence
Calibration. Read Decision procedure as the rule for later choices. Start the
review at Scope Challenge, then complete Sections 1–4 in order.

## Review record and write policy

Use these terms throughout the review:
- **Target:** the plan, diff or code path selected at the Scope gate. It stays fixed.
- **Working plan:** the proposed work and its current approvals. For a plan target,
  start with that plan; for code, build a remedy plan from the findings. This is
  review content, not permission to edit implementation or create another file.
- **Report file:** the one destination for the working plan, findings, decision
  ledger and final structured report. It may be the selected plan or a separate file.

| Target | Evidence to examine |
|---|---|
| Plan or design document | Proposed paths, checked against existing interfaces and tests |
| Branch diff | Changed behavior and surrounding code, traced from entry points |
| Specific file or directory | Existing behavior and relevant callers/tests |

When Test review or Outside Voice refers to the plan, use the current working
plan and this target evidence. Trace current behavior and proposed changes
separately. Include actual decisions in Outside Voice's bounded input.

Choose the **report file** before any ledger write:
1. Use the output/report path explicitly requested by the user.
2. Otherwise use the selected plan file, if there is one.
3. Otherwise use `$GSTACK_STATE_ROOT/projects/$SLUG/$BRANCH-eng-review-{YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS}.md`, adding a suffix on collision. Obtain assignments from `~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-paths` and `~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-slug`; failed commands or missing values make this path unavailable.

Name the target in the report header. Never substitute an unrelated active plan
or silently replace a requested destination.

**Check each artifact and parent directory's permission before writing.** Honor
user and host limits, including active-plan-only restrictions. Permission for one
path authorizes no other; implementation edits require explicit authority.

| Artifact | Destination | If writing is forbidden |
|---|---|---|
| Working plan, ledger and complete review report | Selected report file | Ask for a permitted destination if the user can supply one; wait without completion telemetry. If none is permitted, complete the review in chat as **not persisted**, then use **Blocked outcome**. |
| QA Test Plan and task JSONL | Discovery paths below | Present each completely as **not persisted** and continue. |
| TODOS.md | The project's TODO file | Present accepted TODO content as **not persisted** and continue. |
| Required Review Log | The helper's state location | Present its fields as **not persisted**; the final gate cannot pass without this log. |
| Best-effort metadata/learning logs | Helper-defined locations | Skip forbidden writes; otherwise keep their best-effort behavior. |

The QA Test Plan and task JSONL intentionally use legacy discovery paths under
`~/.gstack/projects/{slug}/`: `{user}-{branch}-eng-review-test-plan-{datetime}.md`
and `tasks-eng-review-{datetime}.jsonl`. QA and /autoplan require these paths even
with a different report root. Use their formats/commands below; do not relocate them.

A failed permitted save is different from forbidden writing. Use the failed
step's stated recovery; if saving or read-back still fails, take **Blocked
outcome**. Do not ask from an unsaved record or convert a failed save into the
chat-only route. Forbidden auxiliary writes allow the review to continue;
unrecovered attempted writes block it. Apply this policy at every later write.

{{LEARNINGS_SEARCH}}

## Retrospective learning
History paths by review target:
- Plan: named existing paths. Mark named future paths `not available`; missing
  history proves nothing about proposed behavior. Never invent paths.
- Branch diff: changed files.
- File/directory: selected path.

Run `git log --oneline -- <paths>` and `git log --grep=revert --oneline -- <paths>`.
Check recurring issues and reversals.

**Plan-review evidence:** Implementation/validation steps are proposals. Calibrate
findings below: quote the motivating plan requirement (file:line) and check existing interfaces
where applicable. Do not require future code or call a proposed regression observed.
Code-specific examples concern existing code.

Bounded probes address named current-behavior/interface uncertainties. Report
evidence, limits, unknowns and future verification. Complete the review without
building proposed code. Keep suppressed findings for the output appendix.

{{CONFIDENCE_CALIBRATION}}

## Decision procedure

Run this six-step loop for findings from Scope Challenge, Sections 1–4, Outside
Voice, late changes and TODO choices. Finish one choice before the next.

Setup gates—Context Recovery/prerequisites, Prior Learnings configuration,
target and Scope Challenge complexity selectors—use local rules without a
pre-answer ledger. These answers approve no engineering remedy.

Flow: issue -> compare -> save/read -> ask/wait -> apply -> next issue.

One question for one choice per AskUserQuestion call. Use the preamble for
question transport/fallback and authorized auto-decisions. Use Review
record/write policy only for saved records, reports and logs.

### 1. Establish current state

Read the request, source and actual answers. Give each finding a number, severity,
confidence, file:line and reviewer. Record two separate facts:
- **Plan baseline:** the last approved value, exact scope and answer reference;
  if nothing was approved, record the original proposal.
- **Runtime evidence:** what existing code or a probe shows. Mark unverified
  behavior unknown.

Approval does not prove deployed behavior, and observed behavior does not grant
approval. Drafts, recommendations and reviewer agreement grant neither. For a
factual correction that changes no behavior, record the correction and evidence;
no question or comparison grid is needed.

If an exact prior approval covers the work, cite its answer and disposition.
Carry its necessary code, tests, documentation and later-discovered required
proof forward without asking again. Otherwise leave the remedy pending. Reopen
an approved choice only for a concrete new risk, contradictory evidence or a
changed assumption. Explain the reason and retain earlier values, complete
briefs and answers in History. Record remaining unknowns and uncertain risks.

### 2. Separate independent choices

Before drafting options, list each current value and proposed change: behavior,
approach, guarantee or bound. Include response timing, resources, lifetimes and
optional verification method or depth. Give each bound a measure and unit.

Give independently selectable changes separate IDs. If the user can accept one
while another stays approved or undecided, they are separate choices even in the
same finding, function or patch. A reopened choice keeps its ID and receives the
next continuous `D<N>` question number.

Keep one behavior with its necessary code, tests and documentation. Alternative
mechanisms for that fixed behavior belong in one question; independently
selectable runtime outcomes do not. Optional depths of one verification form
one choice. Separate instrumentation, follow-ups, guarantees and policies need
their own choices, and their tests wait for approval.

### 3. Compare one choice

Select one pending ID. Prepare its question in this order:

**Draft the native fields:** build `currentDecision`:
- `question`: the complete D-numbered preamble brief, including Project, ELI10,
  Stakes, Recommendation and applicable completeness/net fields.
- `header`: the exact native header.
- `options`: every exact label and full description.

Put the problem and file:line in the native fields. Offer 2–3 options, including
do-nothing when reasonable; Outside Voice retains its four-option menu.
Each option must explain human/CC effort, risk and maintenance. Tie the
recommendation to the engineering preferences; prefer complete coverage when
extra CC effort is marginal. Fit headers and labels to host limits now, before
saving. Without stated limits, keep both under 5 words; details go in descriptions.

For one fixed approved contract, coverage choices vary implementation or proof
depth. Use `Completeness: N/10`: 10 covers all relevant in-scope edges, 7 covers
the happy path, 3 is a shortcut. For different approaches, use
`Note: options differ in kind, not coverage — no completeness score.`
Test-review scores rate existing/proposed tests, not answer status.

**Audit the commitments.** Build a separate **comparison grid** for the whole
brief. Give every selectable
behavior, approach, guarantee or bound a row. Show its concrete current value,
each option's value and work, and any approval citation. Include shared, fixed
and pending choices.

Use these three checks for every column:
1. Vary only this choice. Keep other approved values fixed and pending choices
   undecided. A value shared by all options still needs approval if it is new.
2. Treat necessary implementation and proof of an approved contract as common
   work. Cite its answer instead of creating another approval row. Never cut an
   established contract or its required proof.
3. An Investigate/Defer option must bound the investigation and name what stays
   unchanged or pending. It approves no implementation, including a conditional
   fix. Keep that remedy pending.

**Reconcile before saving.** Compare each option's full label and description
with every row in its grid column. They must make the same commitments and retain
the same conditions. Put all deliberation in the native question/descriptions;
a saved-only Pros/cons block cannot supply missing decision context. Repair
contradictions now. If you discover another independent choice, return to step 2
before sending the question.

For example, jitter and a delay cap can be chosen independently. A menu of “both / cap only / neither” bundles them by omitting “jitter only.” Ask about jitter first:

| Choice | Current | A | B |
|---|---|---|---|
| R1 jitter | unspecified, pending | on | off |
| R2 delay cap | unspecified, pending | unspecified, pending | unspecified, pending |

After the jitter answer, carry that value into both options of the later cap question.

### 4. Save the pending record

Invariant for this step: save one complete current record, Read that record
back, then ask the exact saved question. Do not ask from memory.

Save the record, complete grid and exact `currentDecision` in the report file,
before `## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT`. Include every native field, the recommendation
and all options. A–D record selectors are ledger notation only: if a saved label
already starts `A)`/`B)`/`C)`/`D)`, keep that one prefix; otherwise add it. Compare
the label separately from that notation by removing the selector before matching.

When revising, replace the whole current payload for this record: comparison
grid, question, header, options, state, actual answer and accepted scope. Keep
other choices' headings, content and approvals intact; move superseded payloads
to History. Do not leave duplicate Question, Header or Options fields.

```markdown
## Decision ledger

### R1: <one independently selectable choice>
Finding: <number, severity, confidence, file:line and reviewer>
Plan baseline: <last approved value, exact scope and answer reference; otherwise the original proposal>
Runtime evidence: <observed value and source/probe; unknown if unverified>
Comparison grid: <complete grid from step 3>
Question D2:
<currentDecision.question in full, including its D2 title and recommendation>
Header: <currentDecision.header>
Options:
<first option's exact label, with one A) record selector>
<first option's full description>
<second option's exact label, with one B) record selector>
<second option's full description>

State: <pending, or approved>
Actual answer: <unanswered, or actual option and answer reference>
Accepted scope: <exact approved work; none if no change approved>
History: <earlier values, briefs, answers and reason for reopening>
```

Check the Write/Edit result, then use Read to fetch the entire saved record.
Compare every native field with `currentDecision` and the whole grid with step 3.
Read after the final edit, even if Edit says the content is current in context.
Grep, chat references, summaries and planned writes do not verify the record.
Repair any difference and repeat the complete Read before asking. A failed save
blocks the question; an unreadable or unverifiable record follows the write
policy's recovery and then **Blocked outcome** if still unresolved.

On the permitted read-only route, present the complete record and grid as **not
persisted** and compare them with `currentDecision`. This can support the chat
review, but cannot pass the saved-report gate.

If any payload field changes, including a shortened label or formatting edit,
repeat step 3, replace the whole saved payload and Read it again. An older
comparison or a critic's advice cannot substitute for this verification.

### 5. Ask and wait

Use the preamble's tool resolution, failure fallback and authorized auto-decision
rules.

Send `AskUserQuestion({ questions: [currentDecision] })` after step 4. Send one
question object for one choice; other IDs wait. Copy the verified question,
header, labels and descriptions literally. Do not add or strip brief paragraphs
or rebuild options. Authorized prose and auto-decisions use this same verified
brief with the preamble's rendering and answer rules.
When Question Tuning is enabled, copying the verified question preserves its
`<gstack-qid:{question_id}>` marker.

**STOP until the actual answer arrives.** Do not apply a remedy, make another
call, start the next section or call ExitPlanMode while the choice awaits an
answer. An obvious fix still needs an answer unless exact prior approval covers it.

### 6. Apply and refresh

Invariant for this step: apply the selected option as one complete resolution
block, Read it back, then continue. Do not update only the answer line.

Read the selected saved label, full description and grid column together. Carry
all commitments, conditions, unchanged values and pending choices forward. If
they conflict or bundle independent choices, preserve the actual answer, explain
the conflict and repeat steps 2–5 for another answer. Do not reinterpret a caption,
drop a commitment or advance with conflicting approvals.

Replace the whole adjacent `State` / `Actual answer` / `Accepted scope` block
after the options. Use the actual option and answer reference. Set State to
`approved` for accepted scope or `pending` for an unresolved remedy. Each field
must occur once outside History. Preserve the options and move superseded states
to History. If older fields are separated, consolidate all three and remove their
old occurrences in the same edit; never update only the answer/scope tail.

Use a scoped Edit to save this record and only the authorized working-plan
amendments. Leave other choices unchanged. On the read-only route, present both
completely as **not persisted**.

Check the save result, then Read the entire resolution block, including State.
Verify that its unique state, actual answer and accepted scope match the complete
selected option and grid column. An answer-only search or current-in-context hint
cannot replace Read. In read-only mode, verify the presentation instead. Correct
any discrepancy before advancing; apply the write policy to failures.

Return to step 1 with the updated working plan and answer. Keep chosen values
fixed in later questions, and explain when a choice has become irrelevant rather
than asking it again. Start the next section only when no answer is pending in
this section. Keep unresolved risks and verification visible; resolve risk and
safety choices before readiness. /autoplan uses its authorized decisions and
audit trail, leaving User Challenges for its final gate.

## Scope Challenge

Before reviewing, answer:
1. **What already solves each sub-problem?** Inspect helpers, libraries, callers and reusable outputs: behavior and dependency/deployment boundaries. Cite authored sources; label proposed callers with their motivating plan requirement and assumptions.
2. **What minimum changes achieve the goal?** Flag work deferrable without blocking it; challenge scope creep.
3. **Complexity check:** Count files and new classes/services; seek fewer moving parts. Apply the gate below.
4. **Search check:** For each new architectural pattern, infrastructure component
   or concurrency approach, research built-ins, current practice and pitfalls
   through Aside (entrypoint readiness), one read-only request per pattern:

   ```bash
   {{ASIDE_EXEC_PRELUDE}}
   _aside_exec "Search the web for {framework} {pattern} built-in, {pattern} best practice {current year}, and {framework} {pattern} pitfalls. Read-only: do not sign in, submit, or change anything. Reply with up to 8 bullets, each with its source URL, then stop."
   ```

   If Aside is unavailable, use host WebSearch for these queries. With neither,
   skip and note: "Search unavailable — proceeding with in-distribution knowledge only."

   Prefer available built-ins. Label recommendations **[Layer 1]**, **[Layer 2]**,
   **[Layer 3]** or **[EUREKA]** per Search Before Building; explain departures
   from standard practice.
5. **TODOS cross-reference:** Read existing `TODOS.md`: what blocks this plan,
   fits this PR without expanding scope, or needs a new TODO?

6. **Completeness check:** Full tests, edges and errors cost 10-100x less with AI.
   Prefer completeness when a shortcut saves only CC+gstack minutes. Boil the ocean.

7. **Distribution check:** For new artifacts, verify build/publish CI/CD, target
   OS/architectures and download/install channels. Put deferrals in "NOT in scope".

At 8+ files or 2+ new classes/services, STOP before Section 1. Use the
preamble's decision-brief format for this complexity gate.

Initial scope selectors need no grid or **pre-answer** ledger write. Ask and
wait before changes.

1. Explain the complexity. Ask each proposed feature cut/deferral separately;
   wait before changing scope. With no proposed cuts, keep the feature list and
   go directly to the structure question.
2. Always ask the structure question when this gate trips, even with no cuts.
   Compare only the file/class arrangement. Use labels `Original arrangement`
   and `Smaller arrangement`; put files/classes in each description. Both retain
   the same approved feature list, contracts and approved
   security/error/test/performance fixes. Include `Pending remedies not decided here: <ids>` in the
   question; unapproved fixes stay pending. If no smaller arrangement preserves
   these commitments, explain that and offer confirmation of the original
   arrangement or a pause to investigate a smaller one. Wait for the answer.
3. Save the actual feature and structure answers as one scope record: `feature
   answers: <refs>; structure: <A/B + ref>; accepted scope: <exact scope>;
   pending remedies: <ids or none>`.

Save this record under the write policy; no retroactive pending record.

After any complexity answers, apply only accepted scope changes. Do not re-argue
reduction or skip approved components. Below the threshold, start at step 1.

1. Present numbered Scope Challenge findings with calibrated severity, confidence
   and source; use "No issues found" for an empty list.
2. Resolve each remedy through Decision procedure, reusing exact answers.
   Findings and scope answers approve no remedies.
3. Report accepted/rejected/deferred/pending dispositions from those answers.
   Continue to Section 1 only when no answer is pending.

## Review Sections (after scope is agreed)

Evaluate Architecture → Code Quality → Tests → Performance,
at most 8 top issues each. Never condense, abbreviate or skip a section, including
strategy/spec/infra plans. With zero findings, report "No issues found" and continue.

After each of Sections 1–4, resolve new or reopened choices through Decision
procedure, report findings and dispositions, then continue.

### 1. Architecture review
Evaluate:
* System/component boundaries, dependencies and coupling.
* Data flow, bottlenecks, scaling and single points of failure.
* Security: auth, data access and API boundaries.
* Key flows needing ASCII diagrams in plans/code.
* One realistic production failure per new path/integration; does the plan handle it?
* **Distribution architecture:** New artifacts' build, publish and update paths; included or deferred CI/CD.

### 2. Code quality review
Evaluate:
* Organization and module structure.
* Shared-code opportunities in the target and related callers, using the rubric below. No standalone history/PR sweep or quotas. Check proposed caller assumptions against existing interfaces.
* Explicitly flag error handling gaps and missing edge cases.
* Technical debt, fragility and needless complexity per engineering preferences.
* Accuracy of touched files' ASCII diagrams.

{{SHARED_LIBS_RUBRIC}}

Use Decision procedure for new/reopened extraction choices; scope approval does not approve extraction.

### 3. Test review

For a plan target, review proposed coverage against proposed paths. For a
branch-diff target, diagram changed code paths plus callers/tests; the working
plan is the remedy plan from diff findings.

For shared-code changes, audit existing/missing shared-contract tests (behavior,
errors, side effects, boundaries) and each migrated caller's integration/differences.
Reuse meaningful tests; account for their costs and shared failure risk per rubric. Rejected
extractions still need coverage for real duplicated-code defects.

{{TEST_COVERAGE_AUDIT_PLAN}}

After the Test Plan Artifact is saved or presented, report the Test review findings and their dispositions and continue to Performance review. The Test review's **Add missing tests to the plan** step resolves test and eval decisions before that artifact is written.

### 4. Performance review
Evaluate:
* N+1/database access, memory, caching, and slow or complex paths.

{{CODEX_PLAN_REVIEW}}

### Continue after Outside Voice

Complete the chosen Outside Voice branch, including its accurate coverage record. Only completed reviews enter Cross-model tension. Continue to Final planning decisions and the approval check before Required outputs; report disabled or unavailable coverage in the Completion summary.

## Final planning decisions

After Sections 1–4 and the Outside Voice path, resolve the TODO choices below. Then run the approval check before preparing final outputs.

### TODOS.md updates
Review every potential TODO. Reuse an exact prior disposition under Decision procedure; ask about each unanswered proposal in its own AskUserQuestion. Never batch TODOs or silently skip them. Use `~/.claude/skills/gstack/review/TODOS-format.md`.

For each TODO, record **What**, **Why**, **Pros**, **Cons** (cost/complexity/risk),
**Context** (motivation, current state, where to start in 3 months), and
**Depends on / blocked by** (prerequisites/order).

Then present options: **A)** Add to TODOS.md **B)** Skip — not valuable enough **C)** Build it now in this PR instead of deferring.

Option C records accepted implementation scope; still do not edit product code.

{{PLAN_REVIEW_APPROVAL_CHECK}}

## Required outputs

Run this finish sequence after Approval readiness passes. The reference sections
below supply content, formats and commands for the named step; they do not start
another review cycle.

On recovery, resume at the failed step. Reuse a successful Review Log for
unchanged saved outputs; changed outputs must pass steps 1–4 again.

1. **Prepare the review body.** Use the output reference below to complete the
   working plan, Implementation Tasks and Completion summary. Derive unresolved
   choices from each record's current State, actual answer and accepted scope;
   leave them pending. Save permitted auxiliary artifacts under the write policy.
2. **Save and Read back.** Use Plan File Review Report to save the complete body
   and append its terminal `## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT`. Pass that writer's Read-back
   gate. If report persistence is forbidden or the save cannot be recovered,
   follow **Blocked outcome**; do not continue to logging.
3. **Log the saved review.** Run Review Log with the saved Completion summary's
   values. If the required log is forbidden, show its fields as not persisted
   and take **Blocked outcome**. If it fails, apply the write policy's recovery.
   Neither case supplies completion or saved-dashboard credit.
4. **Publish.** Display the Review Readiness Dashboard, then present the saved
   Completion summary to the user.
5. **Choose navigation.** Use Next Steps — Review Chaining and wait for its answer.
   Navigation grants no implementation authority. If a substantive change arises,
   resolve it through Decision procedure, repeat Approval readiness, and redo the
   affected outputs from step 1 through publication before asking navigation again.
6. **Finish.** Run Learning hooks, then return to the entrypoint's Section
   self-check and read-only EXIT PLAN MODE GATE. Run these checks in every host
   mode. Brain Calibration Write-Back is one gated Learning hook. Only after
   both pass, run success telemetry and cache refresh; call ExitPlanMode only in
   host plan mode.

### Output reference — review body

Keep the working plan, findings, ledger and the sections below together in the
report file. Place `Suppressed findings` as a body appendix before the terminal
`## GSTACK REVIEW REPORT`; nothing follows that terminal report.

### "NOT in scope" section
List considered work that was explicitly deferred, with one sentence explaining each deferral.

### "What already exists" section
Link existing solutions and distinguish reuse/rebuilding. For accepted shared-code
choices, reference their Code Quality/Test decisions and complete rubric evidence.
Explain safer separation or net growth; never re-ask settled remedies.

### Diagrams
Diagram non-trivial flows, states and pipelines in ASCII. Name files needing inline
diagrams for complex model, service or mixin behavior.

### Failure modes
For each new diagrammed path, name a realistic production failure, its test/error
handling coverage, and whether users see a clear error or a silent failure.

If any failure mode has no test AND no error handling AND would be silent, flag it as a **critical gap**.

### Worktree parallelization strategy

Group implementation into parallel git worktrees (`isolation: "worktree"`) or workspaces.

With one primary module or fewer than 2 independent workstreams, write:
"Sequential implementation, no parallelization opportunity."

Otherwise provide each step/workstream's **Dependency table**:

| Step | Modules touched | Depends on |
|------|----------------|------------|
| (step name) | (directories/modules, NOT specific files) | (other steps, or —) |

Use modules, not guessed files. **Parallel lanes:** disjoint modules run together;
shared modules run sequentially, dependencies later. Example:
`Lane A: step1 → step2 (shared models/)` / `Lane B: step3 (independent)`.
**Execution order:** name launch/wait points, e.g. "Launch A + B. Merge both. Then C."
**Conflict flags:** identify cross-lane shared modules; sequence or coordinate them.

{{TASKS_SECTION_EMIT:eng-review}}

### Unresolved decisions
List unanswered/interrupted choices as "Unresolved decisions that may bite you later",
with IDs and missing answers. Never silently default. Count each once, excluding
prior reviews; the terminal report adds those separately.

### Completion summary
From final decisions/outputs; publish after report Read-back and Review Log:
- Step 0: Scope Challenge — ___ (scope accepted as-is / scope reduced per recommendation)
- Architecture Review: ___ issues found
- Code Quality Review: ___ issues found
- Test Review: diagram produced, ___ gaps identified
- Performance Review: ___ issues found
- NOT in scope: written
- What already exists: written
- TODOS.md updates: ___ items proposed to user
- Failure modes: ___ critical gaps flagged
- Unresolved decisions: ___ in this review
- Outside voice: recorded provider, completed / unavailable / disabled / skipped (reason)
- Parallelization: ___ lanes, ___ parallel / ___ sequential
- Lake Score: X/Y = 10/10 choices / answered coverage choices. Exclude kind choices; N/A if Y=0.

{{PLAN_FILE_REVIEW_REPORT}}

## Review Log

Use these commands in finish step 3, after successful Read-back. The required review log and best-effort decision log each follow the write policy.

```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-review-log '{"skill":"plan-eng-review","timestamp":"TIMESTAMP","status":"STATUS","unresolved":N,"critical_gaps":N,"issues_found":N,"mode":"MODE","commit":"COMMIT"}' || exit $?
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-decision-log '{"decision":"Eng review (MODE): ARCH_SUMMARY","rationale":"KEY_DECISION","scope":"branch","source":"skill","confidence":8}' 2>/dev/null || true
```

Second command: `ARCH_SUMMARY` = findings/dispositions; `KEY_DECISION` = durable
architecture choice. Omit it when none exists.

Substitute values from the Completion Summary:
- **TIMESTAMP**: current ISO 8601 datetime
- **STATUS**: "clean" if `issues_found=0`, `unresolved=0` and `critical_gaps=0`; else "issues_open". Count resolved findings too; "issues_open" can mean mapped work, not failure.
- **unresolved**: this review's "Unresolved decisions" count; do not include prior reviews
- **critical_gaps**: number from "Failure modes: ___ critical gaps flagged"
- **issues_found**: total issues found across all review sections (Architecture + Code Quality + Performance + Test gaps)
- **MODE**: FULL_REVIEW for the Scope Challenge result "scope accepted as-is"; SCOPE_REDUCED for "scope reduced per recommendation".
- **COMMIT**: output of `git rev-parse --short HEAD`

{{REVIEW_DASHBOARD}}

## Next Steps — Review Chaining

In finish step 5, offer applicable routes from the published dashboard:
- **A) Run /plan-design-review:** unreviewed UI scope (frontend, CSS, views or
  interactions in the diagram/findings).
- **B) Run /plan-ceo-review:** optionally, an unreviewed significant product change
  (new user-facing features, changed direction or substantial scope expansion).
- **C) Ready to implement — run /ship when done**

Flag stale CEO/design reviews from contradictory assumptions or significant commit
drift. If no further review is needed or `skip_eng_review: true`, state
"All relevant reviews complete. Run /ship when ready."

AskUserQuestion with only the applicable options. This is **navigation only**:
copy the working plan's task prerequisites, dependencies and execution order
without adding or strengthening them in the question or descriptions. A test
required before editing one function does not make every independent lane wait.
A next-step answer approves no implementation change.

For a substantive late change, follow the repeat path in finish step 5. Refresh
affected tasks, dependencies and parallelization along with the other outputs.

## Learning hooks

In finish step 6, keep the working plan/approvals fixed. Review operational learnings
per preamble; use Capture Learnings below for other discoveries. Never log twice.

{{LEARNINGS_LOG}}

{{GBRAIN_SAVE_RESULTS}}

{{BRAIN_WRITE_BACK}}