PR Review Summary

Status: Approved

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

• Decision: Approve
• Rationale: Approve because the PR delivers the leaf objective for #12445 in the lowest-load substrate shape: a new conditional post-review-pickup reference payload plus one predecessor pointer. The remaining threshold detail for "too long" / "sustained window" is intentionally not a gate here and belongs in later capability-transfer or telemetry implementation work, not another cycle on this docs-only floor definition.

Peer-Review Opening: Reviewed PR #12492 at head 36094c206964fb318c54b8bce2193672e3b6fb7e. This is a narrow substrate documentation PR; I verified the branch locally and checked the governing ticket, epic, and Discussion authority before approving.

🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot

• Inputs Read Before Patch: #12445, #12440, Discussion #12429, changed-file list, current origin/dev author-concentration-detector.md, /turn-memory-pre-flight workflow, /pr-review guide/template, and a KB query for placement precedent.
• Expected Solution Shape: Correct delivery should define the OQ2 capability floor in a conditional post-review-pickup reference payload, update the existing author-concentration detector to point to it, and avoid hardcoding central assignment, author throttling, or a PR-count fairness gate. Test isolation should be static substrate validation: skill manifest lint, agent substrate lint, diff whitespace, close-target audit, and CI state.
• Patch Verdict: Matches. The new file defines the floor, detector, and risk framing; the predecessor payload links to it; the body and diff preserve "telemetry, never a gate"; and no always-loaded Map file changed.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

• Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #12445
• Related Graph Nodes: #12440, Discussion #12429, #12444, #12446, post-review-pickup, author-concentration-detector, turn-memory-pre-flight

🔬 Depth Floor

Challenge OR documented search (per guide §7.1):

Challenge checked: whether the new floor quietly reintroduces FAIR-band-as-policy by making concentration a gate. The checked-out payload says the detector is per (family × critical-area), read from existing provenance, and "telemetry, never a gate"; the predecessor detector still says no quota, no throttle, no yield gate. That resolves the concern.

Second challenge checked: whether the new substrate belongs in a turn-loaded Map. /turn-memory-pre-flight marks .agents/skills/**/references/*.md as in-scope but conditional, and this PR adds only a 2479-byte reference file plus one pointer. No SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, or startup Map surface changed.

Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4):

• PR description: framing matches what the diff substantiates.
• Anchor & Echo summaries: N/A — no code JSDoc added.
• [RETROSPECTIVE] tag: N/A — no author tag added.
• Linked anchors: #12445, #12440, and Discussion #12429 establish the OQ2 floor and liveness-first target.

Findings: Pass. The prose does not over-claim implementation of machine telemetry; it stays at definition / detector-contract level.

🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

• [KB_GAP]: None.
• [TOOLING_GAP]: None blocking. Reviewer-side note: gh pr checks does not expose a conclusion JSON field in this harness; rerun with bucket/state succeeded.
• [RETROSPECTIVE]: The PR preserves the liveness-first distinction: author concentration is useful as a capability-risk detector, while raw contribution imbalance remains explicitly non-risk.

🎯 Close-Target Audit

• Close-targets identified: #12445 via newline-isolated Resolves #12445 in the PR body.
• #12445 confirmed not epic-labeled (enhancement, ai, model-experience).
• Commit message checked at head 36094c2; no stale magic close-target in the branch commit body.

Findings: Pass.

📑 Contract Completeness Audit

• #12445 contains a Contract Ledger for authorship-capability-floor.md and author-concentration-detector.md.
• Implemented PR diff matches the ledger exactly: new sibling floor payload + concrete pointer replacement.

Findings: Pass.

🪜 Evidence Audit

• PR body contains an Evidence: declaration line: L1 substrate-only.
• Achieved evidence matches the close-target scope: this PR defines conditional documentation/protocol surfaces, with no runtime AC.
• Evidence-class collapse check: review language does not promote L1 static evidence to runtime behavior.

Findings: Pass. Local verification: lint-skill-manifest OK, lint-agents OK, git diff --check origin/dev clean, new file size 2479 bytes. GitHub checks are green: CodeQL, lint, unit, lint-pr-body, Analyze, integration-unified.

📜 Source-of-Authority Audit

• #12445 is the leaf ticket and contains the exact floor / detector / risk-framing ACs.
• #12440 is the parent epic and carries OQ2 as the capability-floor leg.
• Discussion #12429 contains the liveness-first graduation target and OQ2 framing.
• Current origin/dev predecessor payload expected a sibling leg and the PR changes that reference to the concrete file.

Findings: Pass.

🛂 Provenance Audit (§7.3)

Internal origin is declared and verifiable: Discussion #12429 → Epic #12440 → sub-ticket #12445. The PR does not import an external framework pattern or algorithm; it codifies the internally graduated OQ2 objective.

Findings: Pass.

🔗 Cross-Skill Integration Audit

• Existing predecessor step updated: author-concentration-detector.md now points to ./authorship-capability-floor.md.
• AGENTS_STARTUP.md §9 does not need an update because this is a conditional reference payload under an existing skill, not a new workflow skill.
• The new convention is documented in the new payload: trigger signal, amber condition, no-dedicated-substrate rule, and telemetry-never-gate boundary.
• No MCP tool, wire format, or startup convention is introduced.

Findings: All checks pass — no integration gaps.

🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit

• Branch checked out locally via checkout_pull_request.
• Canonical Location: N/A — no tests added or moved.
• If a test file changed: N/A.
• If code changed: N/A — docs / skill-reference payload only.

Findings: No tests needed for docs-only change; related lints and CI checks pass.

N/A Audits — 📡 🔌

N/A across listed dimensions: PR does not touch OpenAPI/MCP tool descriptions and does not alter wire formats, event payloads, schemas, or tool signatures.

📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

📊 Evaluation Metrics

• [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 95 - 5 points deducted because the sustained-window threshold remains qualitative; acceptable here because #12445 is the definition/floor leaf and the payload explicitly prevents it from becoming a gate.
• [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 100 - I actively checked the #12445 ACs, Contract Ledger, PR Evidence line, predecessor pointer, and risk framing; all are present and aligned.
• [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 95 - 5 points deducted because the verification ceiling is static L1 substrate evidence, not runtime execution; appropriate for this docs-only PR, and all related lints/CI checks pass.
• [PRODUCTIVITY]: 100 - The diff satisfies all #12445 goals: floor definition, family-going-cold detector, and primary/secondary/non-risk framing.
• [IMPACT]: 70 - 30 points below foundational because this is a conditional payload in the larger #12440 liveness substrate, not the full detector or wake-substrate implementation.
• [COMPLEXITY]: 25 - Low complexity: two Markdown surfaces, one new 23-line payload, one pointer replacement, no runtime or multi-surface migration.
• [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win - High ROI for low complexity: it turns the OQ2 objective into a discoverable substrate anchor without adding always-loaded bytes.

Eligible for human merge. I did not and will not execute the merge gate.