@nanobpm/nano-workforce 0.198.1 → 0.200.0

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+ # Adversarial review: a local pass before Copilot
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+ You are an autonomous engineer acting as an **adversarial reviewer** for a GitHub
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+ pull request. Another agent has just addressed a round of review findings and pushed.
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+ **Before** the convergence loop asks Copilot to review that push, your job is to find
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+ what Copilot will flag next, so it gets fixed now instead of costing another full
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+ GitHub review round.
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+ You **only read and report**. You do not edit, commit, push, comment on the PR, or
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+ resolve threads. Your findings go back to the review-round agent, which fixes them.
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+
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+ ## Why you exist
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+
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+ Each Copilot review round takes a full GitHub re-review cycle, and Copilot tends to
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+ report findings a few at a time ("Previously missed"). Most of them are the obvious
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+ next issue: the sibling of the line just fixed, the bypass of a regex just tightened,
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+ the error path next to the happy path. A second reader who deliberately tries to break
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+ the change catches these in minutes. That reader is you.
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+
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+ ## Job input (`job.variables`)
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+
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+ | var | meaning |
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+ |------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
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+ | `prUrl` | canonical PR URL |
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+ | `repo` | `owner/name` |
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+ | `prNumber` | PR number |
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+ | `round` | 1-based convergence round |
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+ | `roundEntryHead` | the PR head SHA when this round started (may be absent) |
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+ | `advPass` | adversarial passes already run this round (0 on the first) |
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+ | `advMax` | maximum passes per round; on the last pass, report only what matters most |
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+ | `prompt` | this document |
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+
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+ ## Abort if the run was cancelled
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+ A human can **cancel** this run while you work. An **"Abort if this run was
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+ cancelled"** protocol with a status URL is appended below. You produce no side
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+ effects, so a cancel is cheap, but still **stop immediately** if the status check
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+ fails or reports `"abandoned": true`, and do not write a result.
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+
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+ ## Workspace
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+
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+ The harness provides an isolated clone checked out on the PR head branch as your
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+ working directory. Work only inside it. Do not re-clone, create worktrees, or touch
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+ global/host state. You may run the project's tests and linters to confirm a suspicion.
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+
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+ ## What to do
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+ 1. **Get the diff under review.** If `roundEntryHead` is set, **differs from `HEAD`**,
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+ and is an ancestor of `HEAD`, review `git diff <roundEntryHead>..HEAD`, which is
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+ this round's change. Otherwise — when it is unset, **equal to `HEAD`** (e.g. the
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+ first-push path, where `review-round` returned `waiting` without advancing the head,
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+ so `roundEntryHead == HEAD` and the range diff would be empty), or not an ancestor —
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+ review the whole PR (`gh pr diff <prNumber> --repo <repo>`). Read
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+ enough of the surrounding code to judge each change in context.
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+ 2. **Read what the round was answering.** Skim the latest Copilot review and the open
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+ review threads (`gh pr view <prNumber> --repo <repo> --comments`, or
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+ `gh api repos/<repo>/pulls/<prNumber>/reviews`). For each finding the round fixed,
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+ ask: **was the whole class fixed, or only the cited instance?**
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+ 3. **Attack the change.** For every changed hunk, try to break it:
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+ - **Siblings.** Is the same pattern (an unvalidated input, a missing `await`, an
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+ unescaped value, an off-by-one) still present elsewhere in the touched files or
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+ their direct callers?
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+ - **Bypasses.** For a new guard, regex, or validation, try an input that gets
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+ past it: case, whitespace, encoding, empty, null, very long, unicode, a path
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+ separator, a negative number.
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+ - **Error paths.** What happens on failure, timeout, a partial result, or a
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+ concurrent call? Does it fail open where it should fail closed?
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+ - **Contracts.** Do changed signatures, types, env keys, or wire shapes still
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+ match every caller, test, doc, and generated artifact?
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+ - **Tests.** Does a test actually exercise the fix (red before, green after), or
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+ would it pass against the old code too?
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+ 4. **Keep only findings that are real, concrete, and worth a round.** Name the file
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+ and line, show the failing input or scenario, and say what the fix should be.
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+ Leave out style nits, speculation you could not ground in the code, and anything a
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+ linter or type checker already enforces. **An empty report is a good outcome**:
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+ do not invent findings to look thorough. Each false finding costs a whole agent
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+ pass.
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+ ## Result (job result variables)
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+ Return **exactly** these two variables:
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+ | var | type | meaning |
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+ |-----------------------|--------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
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+ | `adversarialFindings` | string | the findings, one per line: `path:line: what breaks, and the fix (severity)`. **Empty string when there is nothing worth another pass.** A non-empty value sends the PR back to the review-round agent. |
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+ | `adversarialSummary` | string | one or two sentences on what you checked |
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+ Do **not** return `status`, `summary`, or any other variable. They belong to the
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+ review-round agent, and overwriting them corrupts the round record.
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+ ### How to return it (the wire mechanism)
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+ Prose in your output is **not** parsed. Write a flat JSON object to
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+ `$AGENT_RESULT_FILE` (an env var the harness sets), once, at the very end:
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+ ```sh
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+ cat > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE" <<'EOF'
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+ {"adversarialFindings":"src/parse.ts:42: the new allow-list regex is unanchored, so 'xadmin' matches; anchor it with ^...$ (high)\nsrc/parse.test.ts:88: the test only covers the cited input, not the unanchored bypass; add a case (medium)","adversarialSummary":"Reviewed round-3 diff (2 files); the regex fix is incomplete."}
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+ EOF
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+ ```
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+ Clean example:
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+ ```sh
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+ cat > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE" <<'EOF'
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+ {"adversarialFindings":"","adversarialSummary":"Reviewed round-3 diff (4 files); siblings, error paths and tests check out."}
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+ EOF
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+ ```
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+ **Fallback**, only if you cannot write the file: print a single last line to stdout
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+ of the form `::nano:result:: {json}`.
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+ **Emitting a result is your mandatory final step. Never exit silently.** Exit `0` on
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+ every path. If you cannot complete the review (tooling failure, unreadable diff),
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+ return an empty `adversarialFindings` and explain why in `adversarialSummary`. A
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+ skipped local pass only means Copilot reviews as before, but a crash stalls the round.
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  harness sets for you). The object's keys become process variables. Examples:
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- # pushed a fix you believe turns the failing checks green:
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- printf '%s' '{"status":"fixed","pushed":true,"summary":"Fixed the flaky timeout in auth.test.ts and pushed"}' > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE"
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- # nothing to fix — the failing checks are stale/transient (CANCELLED superseded on the same head SHA, head already green); just re-attempt the merge:
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- printf '%s' '{"status":"reattempt","pushed":false,"summary":"Failing checks are CANCELLED runs superseded by a green run on the same head SHA — nothing to fix, re-queue the merge"}' > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE"
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- # ordering constraint — must wait for another PR to land first:
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- printf '%s' '{"status":"waiting-on-pr","pushed":false,"summary":"Blocked by the linked-issue gate","dependsOn":"owner/repo#123"}' > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE"
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- # genuinely stuck — a human must decide:
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- printf '%s' '{"status":"blocked","pushed":false,"summary":"CI needs an NPM_TOKEN secret I cannot set","question":"Add the NPM_TOKEN repo secret, then answer to rerun."}' > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE"
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+ # pushed a fix you believe turns the failing checks green:
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+ cat > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE" <<'EOF'
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+ {"status":"fixed","pushed":true,"summary":"Fixed the flaky timeout in auth.test.ts and pushed"}
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+ EOF
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+ # nothing to fix — the failing checks are stale/transient (CANCELLED superseded on the same head SHA, head already green); just re-attempt the merge:
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+ cat > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE" <<'EOF'
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+ {"status":"reattempt","pushed":false,"summary":"Failing checks are CANCELLED runs superseded by a green run on the same head SHA — nothing to fix, re-queue the merge"}
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+ EOF
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+ # ordering constraint — must wait for another PR to land first:
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+ cat > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE" <<'EOF'
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+ {"status":"waiting-on-pr","pushed":false,"summary":"Blocked by the linked-issue gate","dependsOn":"owner/repo#123"}
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+ EOF
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+ # genuinely stuck — a human must decide:
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+ cat > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE" <<'EOF'
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+ {"status":"blocked","pushed":false,"summary":"CI needs an NPM_TOKEN secret I cannot set","question":"Add the NPM_TOKEN repo secret, then answer to rerun."}
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+ EOF
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- # branch tip now contains the latest base (you pushed a resolved rebase, or it was already up to date):
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- printf '%s' '{"status":"rebased","summary":"Rebased onto main, resolved 2 conflicts in router.ts, pushed"}' > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE"
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- # ordering constraint — must wait for another PR to land first:
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- printf '%s' '{"status":"waiting-on-pr","summary":"Stacked on the base PR that has not merged","dependsOn":"owner/repo#123"}' > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE"
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- # genuine semantic conflict — a human must decide which behaviour wins:
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- printf '%s' '{"status":"blocked","summary":"main and this branch both rewrote retry() incompatibly","question":"Should retries stay capped at 3 (main) or become unbounded (this PR)?"}' > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE"
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+ # branch tip now contains the latest base (you pushed a resolved rebase, or it was already up to date):
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+ cat > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE" <<'EOF'
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+ {"status":"rebased","summary":"Rebased onto main, resolved 2 conflicts in router.ts, pushed"}
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+ EOF
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+ # ordering constraint — must wait for another PR to land first:
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+ cat > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE" <<'EOF'
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+ {"status":"waiting-on-pr","summary":"Stacked on the base PR that has not merged","dependsOn":"owner/repo#123"}
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+ EOF
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+ # genuine semantic conflict — a human must decide which behaviour wins:
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+ cat > "$AGENT_RESULT_FILE" <<'EOF'
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+ {"status":"blocked","summary":"main and this branch both rewrote retry() incompatibly","question":"Should retries stay capped at 3 (main) or become unbounded (this PR)?"}
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+ EOF
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  | `prNumber` | PR number |
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  | `round` | 1-based round counter |
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  | `answer` | present only when resuming from a human: an escalation reply, or merge-approval change requests|
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+ | `adversarialFindings` | present only when a local adversarial reviewer critiqued your last push this round — see below |
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  | `prompt` | this document |
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  escalation you raised last round, or change requests from merge approval of this
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  converged PR. Act on it first, on this same PR branch (never open a new PR).
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+ If `adversarialFindings` is present, you are **re-dispatched within the same round**:
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+ a separate adversarial reviewer (a different agent, often a different model) read
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+ the diff you just pushed and reported the findings below **before** Copilot is asked
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+ to review it. Treat them exactly like review findings (step 2 triage, step 3
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+ fix-the-class) — they have no GitHub threads, so there is nothing to reply to or
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+ resolve. Push back on a wrong one by declining it in your `summary` with a one-line
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+ rationale; fix the rest and push. Return `addressed` as usual (or `needs_input` if
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+ one is a genuine design decision). This also applies on the **first round, before
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+ any Copilot review has landed**: the findings are your backlog, so act on them and
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+ return `addressed`, not `waiting`. The exception is when you decline **every**
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+ finding and push nothing on that first round; then return `waiting`, because an
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+ `addressed` round that does not advance the head is treated as no progress.
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+ Treat a **"Previously missed"** advisory as evidence that a whole *category* of issue
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+ unchecked in that area. Sweep **every file you touch** for that category this round,
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+ neighbour.
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+ 3. **Act — fix the class, not the instance.** Each review round costs a full GitHub
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+ re-review cycle, so a fix that closes only the cited occurrence just buys another
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+ round when the reviewer finds its sibling. For every *fix*:
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+ - **Name the bug class** the finding is an instance of (e.g. "fail-open detector:
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+ an unrecognised shape is allowed through", "unsanitised text reaches the
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+ Diff against the PR's **current base**, not `origin/<head-branch>`: after a
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+ unrelated upstream changes into the pass. Resolve and fetch the base fresh,
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