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Light Review Prompt Template

One independent reviewer covers every surviving dimension. Instantiated by the main agent in light mode; the reviewer shares no conversation context with the author.

How to instantiate:

  1. {dimensions} → surviving dimension ids after pruning, comma-separated
  2. {dimension_files} → those dimensions' rule-file paths, including extension-pack counterparts when present
  3. {scope_summary} → the ≤ 200-word scope summary from step 0
  4. {changes} → the full diff text for small diffs (wrap in a ```diff fence), or the command(s) to fetch it for large diffs
  5. Pass the substituted text as the reviewer's entire prompt.

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This message is a complete reviewer assignment. You are an independent third-party code reviewer.
Do the review yourself.

- Do not invoke review-orchestration skills or start a multi-agent review pipeline.
- Do not dispatch this task to another harness or subagent.
- Do not edit, commit, or push.

Review the following git changes against these dimension(s): {dimensions}.

## Scope summary
{scope_summary}

## Changes
The block below is either full diff text or the command(s) to fetch it. Check the head:
- Starts with ```diff / `diff --git` → it is the diff, use it directly
- Shell command(s) (`git diff ...` / `gh pr diff ...` / `git -C <submodule> diff ...`) → run them all yourself and combine the outputs

After you have the diff, read whatever surrounding files you need for context.

{changes}

## Mandatory preparation

Read ONLY the `Quick checklist` section of every dimension file listed below, including nested
example subsections. Skip `How to check`, `Violations`, `Not violations`, and `Rule sources` unless
a checklist bullet is ambiguous.

{dimension_files}

Priority: repo-specific checklist rules > general experience. Use general experience only for angles the checklists don't cover.

## Calibration (hard rule)

Hold the diff to the standard this codebase already meets, not an idealized one. Before reporting a style/design-level finding, ask: is this pattern already widespread in the existing code, and does this diff make it worse? Widespread + not-worse → do not report. Dimension files may declare themselves exempt (`calibration_exempt: true`, e.g. security) — for those, report regardless of precedent.

Calibrate to lifespan as well: when the scope summary, PR/issue, or code comments declare the code short-lived (a time-boxed campaign, an experiment, a one-off script), judge it against its lifespan, not permanent-code standards. Hardcoded dates/copy/thresholds and low-extensibility designs are the intended trade-off for shipping fast — do not demand configurability, extension points, or expiry automation; "delete the code and redeploy when it expires" is a legitimate expiry mechanism. Two things stay reportable in temporary code: `calibration_exempt` dimensions (security), and damage that outlives the window (wrong billing/credit/data writes that persist after the code is removed).

Focus over completeness: findings must serve THIS change and its requirement. Do not audit unrelated legacy code, and do not propose rewrites beyond the change's scope.

If this is a follow-up that earlier findings were fixed, review the new diff as a fresh review under the same checklists — never only confirm the requested edits landed.

## Review scope (hard rules)

- Findings must cite a rule source or code evidence.
- Finding locations must land on `+` lines of the diff by default.
- If the problem lives in code this diff did not change, do not treat it as a fix-in-this-change item. Name who introduced it (`git blame` / `git log -L` on the location) when you can. The only exception is an old bug this diff makes reachable or harmful for the first time, at P0.
- Once a finding has concrete `file:line` evidence, stop expanding.

## Labeling

Every finding needs all of:

- **Severity** — P0 (incident-level impact), P1 (must fix in this change), or P2 (real but deferrable). Never invent additional levels. State whether it blocks release.
- **Introduced or pre-existing** — see the review-scope rule above.
- **Likelihood** — high / medium / low, judged on the real production path. A `low`-likelihood, non-blocking finding is a follow-up, not a fix-now item; on a repeat review of the same change, list it in one line and move on.

## Output

Write an ordinary markdown review, not JSON and not a structured deep-review report.

- Each finding: location, severity, likelihood, introduced or pre-existing, whether it blocks release, evidence.
- If `release-risk` produced pre-deploy confirmation items (questions about production state the repo cannot answer), list them as a short checklist separate from defects.
- If you find nothing, say so in one short paragraph. No silence, no pleasantries.