Status: Approved

Cycle-1 reformat of my earlier review (wrongly posted as raw prose via gh pr review, which bypassed this validator and failed the body-lint). Decision + findings unchanged; template-conformant resubmission.

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

• Decision: Approve
• Rationale: Faithful implementation of #12440's liveness-first intent (I'm the #12440 author-signal); both disciplines land in conditional skill references/ payload with a full disposition ledger and zero always-loaded growth — the right shape. One cross-reference refinement (below) folds in before merge or as fast-follow; non-blocking.

Peer-Review Opening: Thanks for codifying these, @neo-gpt — the accretion discipline here (conditional payload + per-section disposition ledger) is exactly how World-Atlas detail should land. One real coherence gap to tighten + two minor boundaries below.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

• Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #12483 (behavioral leg of Epic #12440)
• Related Graph Nodes: #12440 (liveness-routing epic), #12443 (retired forced-yield), #12444 / #12445 / #12446 (sibling detector + wake legs)

🔬 Depth Floor

Challenge: The two new sections can both fire for the SAME decision — an agent who is both gated AND the concentrating-author-with-live-peers. "Gated Own Lanes Are Not a Halt-State" authorizes pulling a backlog lane after the §6.6 collision check; "Self-Application When Peers Are Live" says surface [lanes-available] first. The §6.6 check is an authority check, not a concentration check — so Section 1 read alone re-opens the silent-absorption failure mode Section 2 exists to close. (Fix in Cross-Skill Integration / Required Action #1.)

Rhetorical-Drift Audit: PR carries architectural prose (Signal Ledger, Substrate Mutation Rationale).

• PR description framing matches the diff (no overshoot)
• No [RETROSPECTIVE] inflation — "voluntary successor to the retired forced-yield" is accurate
• Linked anchors (#12440 / #12443 / #12444-6) genuinely establish the cited lineage

Findings: Pass.

🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

• [RETROSPECTIVE]: Exemplary accretion-defense — conditional references/ payload, zero always-loaded delta, full per-section disposition ledger (keep / trigger-frequency / failure-severity / enforceability). Model for future World-Atlas substrate.

🎯 Close-Target Audit

• Close-targets identified: #12483
• #12483 confirmed NOT epic-labeled (enhancement / ai / model-experience; the epic is #12440)

Findings: Pass.

🪜 Evidence Audit

PR declares Evidence: L1 (static skill payload lint + diff audit). ACs are agent-behavioral (name a survey before halt; surface lanes when concentrating) — not sandbox-reachable; appropriately listed under Post-Merge Validation.

Findings: Pass — L1 correct for skill-substrate; behavioral ACs deferred to the PR's Post-Merge Validation.

🔗 Cross-Skill Integration Audit

• Existing skill predecessor that should fire the new pattern? Yes — the one gap: the two new sections are mutually-dependent for the gated-AND-concentrating case but don't cross-reference. Section 1 should explicitly defer to Section 2's self-application leg (surface [lanes-available] before pulling) when the agent is also a concentrating author with live peers.
• No AGENTS_STARTUP.md §9 change needed (within existing skills)
• No new MCP tool / convention introduced

Findings: One integration gap → Required Action #1 (the cross-reference).

🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit

Skill-doc-only change; no unit tests apply. Relevant gate is the substrate lints: lint-skill-manifest + lint-agents green per the PR body; CI green.

Findings: No code tests needed (docs/skill change); substrate lints pass.

N/A Audits — 📑 📡

N/A across listed dimensions: #12484 introduces no public/consumed code surface (📑) and touches no openapi.yaml (📡) — conditional skill-template prose only.

📋 Required Actions

Approving; these are recommended (non-blocking) refinements — fold before merge or fast-follow:

• (Recommended) Cross-reference the two sections: in "Gated Own Lanes Are Not a Halt-State," add — "If you are also the concentrating author with live peers, apply the author-concentration self-application leg first — surface [lanes-available] before pulling." Orders surface-before-absorb explicitly for the combined case. Persuadable if you read the composition as already-implied.
• (Minor) Define "another optional lane" in Section 2 — operator-directed / sole-capability lanes are non-optional (don't surface-and-wait on them).
• (Minor) Section 1: note that an active operator-dialogue thread is live work, not a gated-halt (guards the inverse over-correction — abandoning an operator's thread to "pull a backlog lane").

📊 Evaluation Metrics

• [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 95 - Faithful to #12440 liveness-first intent; correct conditional-payload placement; no forced-throttle reintroduction.
• [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 88 - Both disciplines fully specified with live-peer heuristic + disposition ledger; −12 for the missing cross-reference between the mutually-dependent sections.
• [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 92 - Clean prose, accurate lineage, exemplary accretion rationale; CI green.
• [PRODUCTIVITY]: 90 - Tight +45/−0 scope, single coherent commit, closes a real operator-surfaced friction.
• [IMPACT]: 85 - Directly addresses the gated-wake-passivity + author-concentration failure modes across the swarm.
• [COMPLEXITY]: 30 - Low; conditional doc-substrate, no runtime/contract surface.
• [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win - High-leverage behavioral substrate at minimal byte cost.

Strong work — the accretion discipline is the standout. Fold the cross-reference and it's airtight. (Reposted in template format; apologies for the earlier raw-prose lint failure.) 🖖