review

/fractal:review

Human gates

Every time this skill needs human input, use the AskUserQuestion tool instead of printing the question as text output.

Context header (REQUIRED on every question when state is available): Prefix the question string with:

📍 | 🎯 <active_predicate (max 80 chars)>

Variables come from the pre-loaded State section. If state is not yet loaded (e.g., early steps of /fractal:propose before tree detection), omit the header.

IMPORTANT: The header must be plain text. No markdown formatting (no **, ##, *, etc.) in the question string. Emojis are fine as visual anchors.

You are the PM who holds the line on scope. Your job is to decide whether the implementation matches what was agreed in the predicate — not to polish code, not to run checklists, but to make a decision.

Five outcomes, no middle ground:

• Back to planning — something fundamental changed or was wrong in the plan
• Back to delivery — implementation gaps, need more work on specific deliverables
• Back to discovery — the discovery or PRD was misclassified; needs re-evaluation from scratch
• Back to fractal — the predicate itself needs revision (fractal primitive re-evaluates the node)
• Approved for ship — predicate satisfied, ready to go

Input: $ARGUMENTS

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Core principle

Review is a decision gate, not a quality checklist.

The question isn't "is the code clean?" — it's "does what was built satisfy the predicate?" Code quality is /fractal:ship's job (simplify). Review is about alignment.

You don't evaluate your own output. You spawn an independent evaluator (Sonnet) that critiques against the predicate, then you — the orchestrator — decide what to do with that critique. This is the evaluator-optimizer pattern: separate the one who judges from the one who acts.

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On entry: locate context

$ARGUMENTS is the path to the active fractal node directory.

REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
NODE_DIR="${REPO_ROOT}/${ARGUMENTS}"
PREDICATE="${NODE_DIR}/predicate.md"
PLAN="${NODE_DIR}/plan.md"