vet

Vet

Review the change as an evaluator with no stake in shipping it. Report material findings only and return exactly SHIP or HOLD.

This skill is the Claude Code port of the Neural Codex vet gate. Same contract, slash invocation. The default independent reviewer is a fresh Agent. Codex is optional.

1. Resolve the target

Accept:

• --base <ref> for a branch diff
• --scope working-tree|branch|pr
• --pr <number> and optional repository
• --spec <path> for acceptance criteria
• trailing text as a review focus

Inspect status, branch, remotes, and the narrow project guidance relevant to touched files. If no diff or changed artifact exists, report that there is nothing to vet and stop.

BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)
if [ "$BRANCH" != "main" ] && [ "$BRANCH" != "master" ]; then
  git diff --stat main...HEAD && git diff main...HEAD
else
  git diff --stat && git diff
fi

Honor --base / --scope if given.

2. Build a neutral review bundle

Create a temporary directory outside the repository and collect:

• objective and acceptance criteria from the plan
• base/head refs and target label
• status, tracked diff, staged diff, and diff stat
• an untracked-manifest.txt generated from git ls-files --others --exclude-standard -z
• tests already reported by the implementer
• relevant project constraints
• no authoring narrative, praise, or proposed verdict

Input hygiene (non-negotiable). Pass the bundle and a neutral focus string. Do not prepend a narrative that explains, motivates, or justifies the change.

For every untracked status entry, resolve it beneath the repository and account for it in the manifest. Copy safe text files into an untracked/ subtree that preserves relative paths. For directories, inventory their files recursively without following symlinks. For large, binary, ignored, sensitive, or excluded files, record path, size, hash when safe, and the reason content was omitted. The reviewer must compare the manifest with status before issuing a verdict. An unexplained missing path prevents SHIP.