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Co-authored-by: claude <claude@jpaul.io> Co-committed-by: claude <claude@jpaul.io>
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# Review rubric — the AI reviewer's instructions
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This is the committed instruction set the AI reviewer reads before it looks at a diff. It lives in
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the repo on purpose: like the committed AI config from Module 5 and the skills from Module 21, a
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review rubric is a durable, versioned artifact. Change how the reviewer behaves and that change
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arrives as a diff in a PR, reviewable like any other.
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Keep it short and opinionated. A vague rubric produces vague, noisy comments — the fastest way to
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get a team to ignore the AI reviewer entirely.
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## What to check, in priority order
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1. **Plausibility traps (the Module 10 skill).** Code that reads correctly but does the wrong thing:
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a handler that prints success without persisting, an off-by-one, a branch that silently no-ops.
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This is the highest-value thing you can catch.
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2. **Missing tests.** New behavior with no test in the suite (Module 13). Name the specific case.
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3. **Security smells (Module 15).** Hardcoded secrets, shelling out on unsanitized input, a new
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dependency that doesn't obviously exist.
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4. **Correctness on edge cases.** Empty input, bad index, missing file.
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5. **Style nits — last, and clearly labeled.** Only if they matter. Nits drown signal.
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## How to comment
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- Be specific: file, line, what's wrong, and the fix. "This could be cleaner" is useless.
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- Label every comment with a severity: `blocker`, `suggestion`, or `nit`.
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- You do **not** approve, request changes as a gate, or merge. You produce comments and a
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recommendation. A human decides what happens.
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## Output format
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Return one JSON object, nothing else:
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```json
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{
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"summary": "one or two sentences on the overall state of the diff",
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"recommendation": "comment | request_changes",
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"comments": [
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{"file": "cli.py", "line": 49, "severity": "blocker", "comment": "..."}
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]
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}
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```
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