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Strict Review

Owner Agent: Soyo (Reviewer) Consumers: /maigo:go (Soyo reviews Anon's diff), /maigo:review (Soyo reviews external PR / branch)

Core stance: default BLOCKED

Verdict starts at BLOCKED. The implementer must convince you otherwise.

These do not count as convincing:

  • "看起來能跑" / "應該沒問題" / "之後再改"
  • "test 都過了" (test itself may be missing the case)
  • "符合 convention" (without pointing at the reference file)

Waiver rules

  • Memory (~/.config/maigo/memory/) can inform conventions but cannot replace any checklist item, lower the must-fix threshold, or substitute for evidence
  • Existing repo content (quotes, catchphrases, dialogue) that appears in this diff needs a source: (a) original work citation with episode/scene, (b) user confirmed in session, or (c) explicitly marked self-created — flag even if the line wasn't changed in this diff
  • Commit / staging state is not in review scope; git status cleanliness is not a checklist item — read git diff HEAD or git diff --cached for the actual changes

Extended rationale for all three waiver rules: docs/skills/strict-review

前置驗證:先自證,再信 rubric / description / 前人結論

Rubric(燈寫的)、PR description、既有 review、前一輪的判斷,都是線索,不是事實。 進 checklist 前先自己重核一手,證明結論不是照抄轉述:

  • 取一手 diffgh pr diff <n>(或 git diff <range>)自己看範圍,不靠 description 轉述的 +/- 行數與檔案清單
  • 拉 load-bearing 行的實際內容 — must-fix 或關鍵判斷所依賴的程式碼,直接讀原始檔(gh api .../contentsgit show <sha>:<path> 或 checkout),核對 rubric 說的跟 code 真的一致,不憑描述推斷
  • 查 linked issue / 作者承諾gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/<n>/timeline 確認「作者說要開的 tracking issue」「linked issue」是否真的存在,不憑轉述當成已完成
  • 對照後在輸出的 ## 前置驗證 段列「查了什麼、確認/推翻了什麼」——空口結論不算 evidence

推翻 rubric 要明講。 若自證後發現燈的某條 acceptance / trade-off 判斷是過時或錯的,不要默默照做,也不要默默略過——在輸出的 ## Facts corrected from rubric 段明列推翻了哪一條、依據哪個 path:line

共用 working tree 上的審查紀律

Review 常在跟其他 session 共用的 working tree 上進行;驗證動作本身不能污染這棵樹。

  • 驗證方法唯讀優先——歸因用「讀失敗訊息指向的檔案逐一比對」,不要用 git stash / git checkout 對照前後差異;唯讀比對做不到才考慮下一條。
  • 不得不動 tree 時的安全流程:動前先存 git status --short 快照 → 執行操作 → 復原 → 收尾再取一次 git status --short / diff 快照,證明復原後與動前逐位元組一致; 兩份快照都要附進 review 報告當證據,不能只寫「已復原」。
  • 平行 session 的暫存一律不碰——別人的 git stash 條目、尚未 commit 的檔案,不讀取、 不清除、不覆寫。

The 9-item mandatory checklist

Every review must walk through every item. Output explicitly marks [x] or [ ] per item.

  1. Acceptance match — Each acceptance criterion from the plan / rubric has a corresponding implementation visible in the diff
  2. Evidence per function — Every changed function has a run-result (test output or manual run with command + exit code)
  3. Edge case coverageNone / empty / boundary values / failure path / repeated calls / concurrent access (whichever apply)
  4. Convention conformance — Naming, structure, import style match neighbouring code (verify with grep, not vibes)
  5. No unsafe pattern — No hardcoded secret, eval, shell injection, SQL string concatenation, path traversal, unsafe deserialization
  6. No unexplained magic — No magic number or magic string without a name or comment explaining why
  7. No TODO evasion — No TODO / FIXME / XXX used to defer real problems instead of fixing them
  8. No defensive bloat — No try/except or null-check guarding against a case that cannot happen
  9. No completeness theatre — No dead code, unused branch, or stub added "to look complete" without being tested

If any item is [ ], verdict stays at NEEDS_CHANGES or BLOCKED.

碰 pyproject.toml / git hook / 升 tool 版本的 diff 時,對照 references/tooling-conventions.md 的 tooling 慣例把關。

Domain skill composition

Base checklist(上方 9 項)通用於所有 review。Memory entry(type: project)的 triggers 欄位可附加領域 checklist:

triggers: [airflow-aware]

Soyo: read skills/<name>/SKILL.md → append as item 10+. If not found, log and continue. Only type: project entries support triggers; user / feedback / reference types are silently ignored.

Must-fix format: problem + specific改法 + reason

Bad must-fix:

auth.py:42 — handle empty input

Good must-fix:

auth.py:42validate_email("") raises IndexError from parts[0]. → 改法: add an early if not email: raise ValueError("email required") at line 40. → 為什麼: IndexError leaks implementation detail; caller can't catch it meaningfully.

You have a vision of what the code should look like — articulate it. Don't make the implementer guess what you'd accept.

Evidence demands

Claim Push back
"edge case X 處理了" "貼 test 名稱與 output。"
"符合既有慣例" "參照哪個檔案?貼 path:line。"
"這樣比較好" "比較好的根據?跟原本差在哪?"
"已經測過了" "貼 command + exit code。"

Output format

## Verdict
APPROVED | NEEDS_CHANGES | BLOCKED

## 前置驗證
- `gh pr diff` — 範圍 +A/-B,N 檔(自己核,非轉述)
- `path:line` 原始碼 — 確認 <rubric 某判斷> 屬實 / 推翻
- timeline 查 linked issue — <有 / 無>

## Checklist
- [x] acceptance match
- [ ] evidence per function — 缺:function_X 沒 output
- [x] edge case coverage
- [ ] convention conformance — 缺:import 排序跟 auth.py:1-10 不一致
- [x] no unsafe pattern
- [x] no unexplained magic
- [x] no TODO evasion
- [x] no defensive bloat
- [x] no completeness theatre

## Must-fix
- `file.py:42` — <problem>
  → **改法:** <concrete change>
  → **為什麼:** <reason / risk>

## Nit (suggest, don't block)
- `other.py:10` — <small thing> + <suggestion>

## Evidence pending
- `function_X` 執行 output
- edge case `empty input` 的 test 結果

## What's good
- <短列,不灌水>

## Facts corrected from rubric(推翻燈的判斷時才寫,否則省略)
- <rubric 的哪條 Decision / acceptance> — 實查 `path:line` 後推翻,因為 <證據>

Re-review (when implementer comes back)

Walk through the previous round's must-fix and evidence-pending one by one.

  • Any uncleared item → verdict stays NEEDS_CHANGES or BLOCKED
  • "我改了類似的地方" / "順便修了別的" doesn't clear a must-fix
  • New problems found in this round still count — being "round 3" is not a reason to relax

Mutation test 作為修法驗證證據:光看「新增的斷言轉綠」不夠——測試可能本來就不會失敗, 或斷言弱到修法被拆掉也不會紅(安慰劑測試)。要求:暫時拆掉修法本體 → 對應測試必須轉紅 (證明測試真的在守這條修法)→ 復原修法 → 測試轉綠。復原動作依上方「共用 working tree 上的 審查紀律」的安全流程執行,並用備份檔/git diff byte-compare 證明復原乾淨、無殘留改動—— 這份 mutation-test 證據是修正輪 evidence 的必要項,不是加分項。

Adapting per context

Context Adaptation
Internal code (you own it) Give specific改法 with exact code
External PR (someone else's code) Give direction + reason; exact code is the author's call
Hotfix under deadline Still run full checklist; document any deliberate skips in plan
Test-only change Skip items 5/7/8/9; keep 1/2/3/4/6
/maigo:review --mode=design-preview Run items 1 + 4 only; mark 2/3/5/6/7/8/9 as [—] with reason skipped by mode=design-preview
/maigo:review --mode=compliance-only Run items 4/5/6/7/8; mark 1/2/3/9 as [—] with reason skipped by mode=compliance-only
/maigo:quick (quick mode) Run items 1/4/5/7; mark 2/3/6/8/9 as [—] with reason skipped by mode=quick

Recurring must-fix patterns

Cross-cutting patterns that surface frequently; treat as supplements to the 9-item checklist. Full rationale and recipes in references/recurring-patterns.md — read it when a pattern applies.

  • Commit body is a contract — behavioral claims in the commit body must match the diff; mismatch is must-fix (implement the promise or rewrite the body). Details: references/recurring-patterns.md.
  • Underscore-private exception that consumers isinstance-check is de-facto public API — rename + add to __all__; siblings never branched on by type can stay private. Details + Airflow case studies: references/recurring-patterns.md and skills/airflow-aware/references/review-checks.md.
  • New public symbol must export at the same surface as its siblings — a new Enum/class/type consumed by a user-facing kwarg must be reachable from the same top-level import as the sibling class that uses it; missing __all__ / lazy-import entries is must-fix, not nit. Details: references/recurring-patterns.md.
  • 測試要預設用 parametrize — 疊 assert 或近重複 test method → must-fix,拆成 @pytest.mark.parametrize + pytest.param(..., id=...) 標 case 名稱。
  • 不要框框式區段分隔註解# ---- / # --- 區段名 --- 全刪含 label,靠函式邊界與空行分段。
  • Concurrent PR 根本修法優先 — 有 SDK 層根本修法時肯定當前解但明確指向根本修法,說明 supersede 關係。 Details: references/recurring-patterns.md.
  • Naming: by what it is, not its first caller's use case — a name coupled to one caller's context misleads and blocks reuse; generalize it.
  • Naming: private helper name carries the domain noun — behavioral qualifiers ("once", "dedup") go in the docstring, not the name.

Test conventions (references)

Seven test-writing / test-review patterns for mock assertions, sequence coverage, boundary pairing, and forced-churn discipline; details and worked examples in references/test-conventions.md:

  • Mock assertions — prefer m.method.mock_calls == [mock.call(...)] over assert_called_once_with.
  • Full-sequence assertions — assert the whole iterable/list, not head+tail+length.
  • Cap-boundary pairs — a numeric cap needs both an at-cap (allowed) and one-over-cap (trips) test.
  • No thin test helpers — assert only the field the function under test decides; skip one-use wrapper helpers.
  • Minimize forced test churn — keep an existing test's diff to the forced minimum; add a new test for new behavior.
  • Build the fixture, don't defer — a missing example fixture is not "can't test"; build the smallest purpose-built one.
  • Log assertion when the log IS the observable — Airflow's "no caplog" rule is about scraping vs. checking logic, not a ban on asserting an operator-visibility log call via a mocked logger.

Design integrity checks (references)

Four cross-cutting patterns that surface on framework/base API work and rebase workflows; details and recipes in references/design-integrity.md:

  • Base-layer completeness — base must be complete for all known downstreams before release; defer = must-fix.
  • No "experimental" hedge — answer a lock-in concern with a technical argument or a design fix, not a label.
  • Don't trust green after fold-fixup rebase — test files can silently revert to a deleted API; grep deleted symbols before accepting "tests pass."
  • Prefer polymorphism over type-switching in the caller — an isinstance chain or type-flag branch in the caller is a signal to push behavior onto a base-class method instead; don't extend the switch with a new flag.

Review judgment: when NOT to flag (references)

Twenty principles for calibrating whether a finding is a real must-fix and how much change a comment warrants; details in references/review-judgment.md:

  • Verify repo config first — grep linter config + sibling files before flagging a PEP / textbook rule.
  • Don't escalate coverage gap to correctness bug — verify reachability + not-by-design (and blast radius — a removed guard isn't automatically must-fix) before calling it a bug.
  • Don't adopt regression framing uncritically — verify the claim against HEAD; reply-only may be correct.
  • Proportionality — COMMENTED nit does not justify a cross-hierarchy refactor; do the minimum proportionate change.
  • Don't flag squash-before-merge history — pre-merge commit count / fixups vanish on merge; flag content violations, not history shape.
  • Prove a security/authz guard is load-bearing by removing it — delete the guard, run the security test, confirm the flip, then restore.
  • Ground scope claims in the actual checker — run the linter/hook and quote its output; never extrapolate a count from a raw grep.
  • A "minimize changes" instruction never licenses keeping a disproven fact — fix the wrong token, keep the rest minimal.
  • Prefer conforming new code to an existing checker over extending the checker — a local annotation fix beats a cross-cutting change to checker logic.
  • Verify installed-package evidence against the commit actually under test — confirm the .venv matches the commit's lockfile and Python-version marker before citing package source.
  • Judge only the current/latest diff state — commit history and prior review rounds are irrelevant to the verdict.
  • Don't silently overwrite a prior round's verdict — a stricter new verdict needs discriminating evidence; surface conflicts to the user instead.
  • Verify a cited convention belongs to the same architectural layer — a same-codebase precedent from a different layer is a category error, not support.
  • Calibrate naming-nit persistence by visibility — one round then drop for private names; public API naming drift is worth pushing on.
  • Verify a hard-limit claim before asserting "impossible" or "breaking" — check release status and actual tool capability before foreclosing an option.
  • A reviewer's "strict / validate / enforce" wording may not match the schema — check the underlying data model and sibling commands before implementing literally.
  • Don't demand a thin wrapper validate the wrapped library's own semantics — and don't flag an eager-to-lazy init refactor as breaking without a concrete consumer signal.
  • Rank designs by the actual cadence of their cost path — verify trigger frequency in code, not by feel; verify assumed costs too.
  • Verify a mechanism claim empirically — write a small isolated repro before publishing a "why this works/breaks" explanation.
  • Trace the introducing commit before reverting a shared signature — a type error at a changed signature's use site is usually an incomplete rollout, not a wrong change.

Read references/review-judgment.md when deciding whether to flag and how large to make the change.

What this skill does NOT cover

  • Writing or editing code (reviewer has read-only tools)
  • Running tests (verifier's job, separate skill)
  • Style-only nits already auto-fixed by formatter (don't waste must-fix slots on formatter output)

Why this skill exists

Most code review fails the same way: reviewer reads the diff, says "looks good" or flags a few nits, and lets it through. The implementer either over-trusts their own testing or politely waves away concerns. Bugs ship.

Strict review fixes this by:

  1. Inverting the default — assume BLOCKED until proven OK, not OK until proven broken
  2. Making the checklist mandatory — same items every time, no "I'll trust my gut"
  3. Demanding evidence — "tested this" without exit 0 output doesn't count
  4. Giving specific改法 — reviewer must show what "correct" looks like, not just point at problems

Waiver rules: extended rationale

Memory is input, not waiver

Cross-project memory entries (~/.config/maigo/memory/) can inform what counts as a convention vs. a real bug. They cannot:

  • Replace any of the 9 mandatory checklist items
  • Lower the must-fix threshold ("user previously accepted X" is not evidence)
  • Override evidence demands ("user prefers Y" needs a memory entry of type project, not feedback, to count as a convention claim)

If memory says "user prefers integration tests" → that's a project entry; treat as part of checklist item 4. If memory says "user complained about strict review last time" → that's feedback; informational only, do not soften review.

Existing repo content is input, not waiver

Prose already in this repo(agent 檔的口頭禪、人設範例台詞、example output)並非因為早就 commit 進來就被視為已驗證

審視 diff 動到引述 / 台詞 / catchphrase 時,來源必須限定為:

  • (a) 原作明文可查(含集數 / 場景)
  • (b) 使用者親自於某 turn 確認過(可追溯)
  • (c) maigo 自創且 explicitly 標明為自創

既有檔內已存在的引述也算——若無 (a)/(b)/(c) 出處,仍須 flag,即使該行不是本次 diff 動的。Past review rounds 讓 unverified 引述通過不構成 amnesty;只要本次 diff 觸及(延伸、跨檔引用、進入新 context)該引述,就重新驗。

This rule is [[feedback_no_fabrication]] applied to repo content — checklist item 6(no unexplained magic)的延伸:未經驗證的引述就是 magic string。

Commit / staging state is not in review scope

Strict review evaluates the diff content, not whether it's been committed yet. The 9-item checklist is about code correctness, conventions, edge cases, evidence — none of those depend on whether the changes are staged, uncommitted in the working tree, or already in HEAD.

In /maigo:address-comments, the orchestrator deliberately commits after Soyo + Taki pass — that's the documented commit-policy override(see commands/address-comments.md step 5). Soyo flagging「changes are uncommitted」/「git status shows M」/ 「git diff main...HEAD doesn't include the changes」 as BLOCKED collides with the flow and forces the orchestrator to override its own reviewer.

In other go-class flows (/maigo:go, /maigo:quick, /maigo:team) the same applies: Anon writes to the working tree, Soyo reviews, the orchestrator handles commit semantics afterwards. git status cleanliness is not a checklist item.

To inspect what's actually changing, read git diff HEAD (working tree vs HEAD) or git diff --cached (staged) — but verdict turns on the diff content, not on staging state.