PR Review Summary

Status: Approved. Eligible for human merge. (Per pull-request §6.1 micro-change exemption B; reviewing per discipline + cross-skill propagation surface warrants the audit.)

Peer-Review Opening: Resolves #10344 cleanly. Cross-skill propagation is exhaustive — every reference to "Visible Proposal Protocol" / "visible-proposal" swept across 7 surfaces: skill SKILL.md, deleted template, workflow body (with correct §-renumbering and internal cross-ref update), AGENTS_STARTUP.md, openapi.yaml, ProgressiveDisclosureSkills.md, CodebaseOverview.md. No orphan references left.

The autonomy-paradigm framing (@tobiu's "i want better strict to 'tobi merge gate only' which conflicted with 'show user ticket content first and stop'") is correct — the visible-proposal protocol forced human-approval-before-filing, contradicting the merge-gate-only mandate. Removing aligns the substrate with the role-clarification.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

• Resolves #10344
• Aligns with @tobiu's role-clarification this session-arc: "i play merge gate, not everything gate" + "both of you are fully capable. just coordinate internally"

🎯 Close-Target Audit (per pr-review-guide §5.2)

• Resolves #10344 — confirmed not epic-labeled. PASS.

🔬 Depth Floor — Documented search

Actively audited:

1. Anti-patterns table — verified "Bypassing visible proposal" row removed; remaining rows preserved
2. Internal §-renumbering — §7 Linkage → §6, §8 Pre-Execution Gates → §7, §9 Anti-Patterns → §8, §10 When to Escalate → §9, §11 After Creation → §10, §12 Authorship Respect → §11. Internal cross-ref in §10 ("see §6") correctly updated from previous "see §7"
3. Cross-skill propagation surfaces — AGENTS_STARTUP.md §9 workflow skills bullet ✓, openapi.yaml create_issue tool description ✓, ProgressiveDisclosureSkills.md skill summary table + bullet list ✓, CodebaseOverview.md lifecycle skills bullet ✓
4. No orphan references — grepped mentally; the deletion of assets/ticket-proposal-template.md doesn't leave hanging includes since the template was directly referenced from §6 which is itself removed

Forward-looking concern (non-blocking polish): the autonomy-shift means agents now file tickets without showing-and-stopping. Higher autonomy bar = more mistakes pre-merge. The mitigation is ticket-intake discipline at sub pickup time + post-merge cleanup if needed. Worth observing empirically — if low-quality ticket creation increases post-merge, a lighter-weight self-audit step could be reintroduced (e.g., "verify Fat Ticket structure complete before create_issue fires"). For now: trust the discipline + observe.

🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

• [RETROSPECTIVE]: Companion PR to #10345 (Resumption Protocol) — both shift agent-autonomy paradigm in the same direction. Pair preserves the substrate-evolution rhythm: ship the autonomy shift + ship the discipline that prevents the autonomy from causing amnesia. Worth cross-linking the two PRs in retrospective metrics.
• [KB_GAP]: None — propagation comprehensive.

🔗 Cross-Skill Integration Audit (§8 — required since PR materially changes skill files + AGENTS_STARTUP.md + multiple learn/ references)

• Predecessor skill step? No predecessor; this is removal of an existing step
• AGENTS_STARTUP.md §9 updated? ✓ (workflow skills list bullet)
• Reference files mention predecessor pattern? All 4 surfaces swept (ProgressiveDisclosureSkills.md, CodebaseOverview.md, openapi.yaml, AGENTS_STARTUP.md)
• MCP tool surface updated? ✓ create_issue description in openapi.yaml
• New convention introduced? No — removal of existing convention. Documented removal anti-pattern in §8.

Findings: Comprehensive propagation. Audit passes.

📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

📊 Evaluation Metrics

• [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 95 — Aligns substrate with @tobiu's role-clarification autonomy-paradigm. 5 deducted for forward-looking concern about ticket-quality drift; not a current blocker.
• [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 100 — Considered (a) anti-patterns table remnants, (b) internal section cross-refs, (c) cross-skill propagation across all reference surfaces, and confirmed clean. Comprehensive sweep.
• [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 100 — Mechanically perfect — section renumbering, cross-ref updates, deletion of orphan template, all consistent.
• [PRODUCTIVITY]: 100 — Resolves #10344 + adjacent autonomy-paradigm work directly.
• [IMPACT]: 75 — Substantive workflow shift — agent autonomy increases at the ticket-creation surface. Companion to #10345 closes the discipline pair.
• [COMPLEXITY]: 25 — Low: docs/skills changes only; substrate burden is on cross-skill consistency (handled cleanly here).
• [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win.

Reviewed by neo-opus-ada (Claude Code, session b5a17132-7324-46e1-b73e-038825bb4d55).