Use when someone points at a named durable doc (ADR, spec, plan, design doc, runbook, GH issue body) and says it is too long, over the page cap, bloated, or asks to cut it down, trim it, or fit it in 12 pages — and before publishing any ADR, so the length check happens ahead of review. Enforces the 12-page ceiling and…
Run a cold adversarial pass over a document's claims. Use when a piece of writing needs its assertions torn at before it ships — "verify the claims", "claims check", "try to refute this", "adversarial claims review" — and before publishing anything that carries facts, statistics, or an argument chain. Spawns a fresh…
Use when opening, reviewing, or rebasing a pull request and you want to know what else is in flight against the same code — "what else touches this", "what PRs relate to this one", "will anything conflict", "am I stale". Finds the PRs that impact or are impacted by one PR, including PRs that share no files with it…
Use when reviewing a pull request, a diff, or a code change (triggers "review this PR", "code review", "senior review", "review the change"). Runs four complementary passes over the change (correctness, structural craft, minimalism, house standards), reads the actual checked-out code rather than just the diff…
Run a cold Gate-1 spec review against a GitHub work-item issue. Use when a GH issue body needs reviewing AS A SPEC (not as code, not as a build request) — "spec review", "Gate 1", "review the issue as a spec", "/spec-review ". Spawns a fresh subagent that reads only the published issue, reports findings, and never…