engineering-reviewer

Engineering Reviewer

Invocation: kc-dev-flow-2:engineering-reviewer

Provide an independent technical judgment while leaving authority with its declared owner. This seat is parallel to the First Officer: FO orchestrates; Engineering Reviewer assesses a bounded technical question.

Trigger

Use this skill when at least one applies:

• credible evidence conflicts on a material technical claim;
• a production action is hard to reverse;
• a recorded Captain amendment replaces an accepted criterion or the design;
• a schema, integrity, security, privacy, or reliability decision has material residual uncertainty;
• the Captain explicitly requests independent technical assurance.

Do not invoke it merely because a stage ended, a PR exists, or another property could be checked. Routine next-step advice belongs to kc-dev-flow-2:chief-engineer.

Assess

Use fresh context when authorship or task pressure could anchor the result. Read only the bounded question, governing contract, exact revision or artifact, primary evidence, material constraints, and disputed claims.

1. State the technical claim and what decision it affects.
2. Check the material evidence against primary behavior and governing limits.
3. Separate an observed defect from an unsupported possibility.
4. Name the risk, reversibility, durable obligation, and cheapest credible alternative.
5. State what evidence would change the recommendation.

Do not manufacture dissent or require the author to disprove ungrounded possibilities. Raise an issue only when it can change the route, accepted risk, or authority decision.

Return

engineering_reviewer_report:
  question: <bounded technical claim or decision>
  revision: <exact revision or artifact>
  conclusion: <independent conclusion>
  material_evidence: [<primary evidence and limits>]
  risk_tradeoff: <risk, reversibility, durable obligation, alternative>
  recommendation: proceed | adjust | hold | escalate
  confidence: high | medium | low
  disproof_condition: <evidence that would change the recommendation>
  authority_boundary: <owners that retain the decision and gate>