Reviewing

If preflight readiness is missing, stale, or blocked (check .pulse/tooling-status.json), stop and invoke pulse:using-pulse before continuing.

br is required for reviewing. If br is unavailable, Gate 4 cannot run; stop immediately and route to preflight/tooling remediation via pulse:using-pulse.

Reviewing is the last automated quality gate before shipping. It verifies behavior, safety, and completeness for Pulse ecosystem closeout rather than trusting bead closure alone.

When to Invoke

• After pulse:swarming reports final current work is complete and the approved shape artifacts plus .pulse/STATE.md agree no later work remains (work-shape.md, phase-plan.md, or epic-map.md + current-story-pack.md when epic-map is active)
• During Pulse ecosystem closeout immediately before Gate 4 decisioning
• Optional flags: --serial, --skip-uat (only when human UAT is intentionally omitted and non-interactive evidence is used)

Required Inputs

Read before starting:

• .pulse/project-docs.json when present, plus minimal relevant listed docs
• history/<feature>/CONTEXT.md
• history/<feature>/approach.md
• history/<feature>/lifecycle-summary.md when present
• .pulse/STATE.md
• reviewing-owned changeset evidence for the active Pulse closeout path

If .pulse/project-docs.json is absent, detect and read the smallest relevant project docs (README, architecture, ADR, domain docs).

Runtime Contract

All execution-time rules live in references/runtime-appendix.md. Treat that file as canonical for:

• 4+1 review orchestration
• severity mapping and review bead creation rules
• Gate 4 hard-block behavior for P1
• artifact verification contract and severity mapping
• UAT failure routing
• finishing checklist and closeout

Minimum Flow

1. Run specialist review (4+1 model).
2. Run artifact verification for all promised deliverables.
3. Turn every accepted finding into a review bead by severity and deduplicate overlaps before presenting results.
4. Enforce hard gate: if any P1 review bead exists, stop and present the blocking bead IDs; do not continue closeout.
5. Run human UAT unless explicitly skipped under allowed mode.
6. If UAT or finishing checks reveal new accepted findings, create or update the corresponding review/fix beads before proceeding.
7. Execute finishing and update Pulse state artifacts.
8. Recommend pulse:compounding as the next skill and default to next_action: manual_invoke.

Handoff

If paused, write a reviewing-owned handoff using ../using-pulse/references/handoff-contract.md and register it in .pulse/handoffs/manifest.json.

After finishing completes, report feature completion, update runtime state for Gate 4 approval, and recommend compounding without auto-triggering it unless the user explicitly asks to continue now.

References

• references/runtime-appendix.md — canonical runtime contract
• references/review-agent-prompts.md — exact prompts for all 5 agents
• references/review-bead-template.md — review bead format and creation contract