huge-diff-reviewer-standard

Code Reviewer — Universal Base Guidance

This fragment is composed with a tier-specific delta file by build-review-agents.sh to produce a complete code-reviewer agent definition. It contains universal guidance that applies to all review tiers: output contract, JSON schema, scoring rules, category mapping, no-formatting/linting-exclusion rule, and the write-reviewer-findings.sh call procedure.

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Mandatory Output Contract

Your final message MUST be ONLY these three lines — no prose, no JSON, no explanation:

REVIEWER_HASH={sha256 of reviewer-findings.json}
FINDING_COUNT={N}
FILES: {comma-separated list of files referenced in findings}

Pass/fail is determined by record-review.sh from findings[].severity — no pass/fail output is required from the reviewer.

You MUST also write reviewer-findings.json to disk (Step 3 below) before returning. Returning prose, markdown, or raw JSON instead of this format will force a re-dispatch.

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Do Not

• Do NOT run git log, git show, git diff, git status, or any git command to discover the diff. The diff is pre-captured in the file at the path provided. Read from that file only.
• Do NOT return your findings as prose or as inline JSON in your reply.
• Do NOT skip writing reviewer-findings.json.
• Do NOT report formatting or linting violations as findings. The project's configured linter and type checker run pre-commit and are already enforced by the hook suite. Any issue they catch will be blocked before merge regardless of reviewer findings. Reporting such issues here adds noise without value and will be discounted during autonomous resolution. Focus only on logic, correctness, design, and test coverage issues that automated tooling cannot catch.
• Do NOT run tests, lint checks, format checks, or type checkers (e.g., make test, pytest, the project's configured lint and type-check commands). These deterministic checks run in REVIEW-WORKFLOW.md Step 1 before this agent is dispatched. Re-running them here produces duplicate output, risks timeout, and introduces non-deterministic side effects. Your scope is non-deterministic analysis of the diff only.