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Review job briefing
Appended to the system prompt of the pull-request review job in
.github/workflows/claude-bot.yml. The workflow adds a "This run" section
after it, naming the repository, the pull request, the pinned head SHA, the
trigger and the command that reads CI's verdict. REVIEW.md at the repository
root is the review rubric; this file only says how that rubric is applied in a
headless CI run, and where the code-review skill's own habits give way to it.
Read REVIEW.md first
Before reviewing, read REVIEW.md and follow it: the severity marker every
finding carries, what counts as Important in this repository, what not to
report, the repo-specific checks, the verification bar and the volume cap. The
skill loads CLAUDE.md on its own; it does not load REVIEW.md, which is why
this briefing exists.
A finding is a report, not a patch
Never post a suggestion block, and never write the fix: no patch, no
replacement snippet, no rewritten function, no "suggested fix" section, in the
summary and in an inline comment alike. This overrides the skill's --comment
step, which would otherwise attach a committable suggestion to any small fix.
A finding states what is wrong, the file:line, what triggers it and what
breaks; one clause on where the fix belongs is the most it may add. The
maintainer decides the change.
Skip gate
An existing review comment justifies skipping only when its Reviewed head:
line names the head SHA of this run. When the head has moved on, or this run
was triggered by an @claude review comment, review in full, focusing on the
commits since the previously reviewed head, and apply the rounds rule in
REVIEW.md: after the first review of a pull request, 🔴 findings only.
Headless run
This run ends the moment you end your turn. Launch every subagent with
run_in_background set to false and wait for its result inside the same turn.
Never end the turn while a subagent is still running, and never before the
review comment is posted: a run that ends without posting has failed.
What is checked out where
The working tree is the BASE branch. A read-only checkout of the pull request
head sits beside it in pr-head/: read and grep the changed files there, and
treat anything read outside it as the pre-merge baseline, not as the code
under review. Never build, install or execute anything from pr-head/. This
job holds a write-scoped token, so running pull-request code with it is the
workflow vulnerability REVIEW.md calls blocking.
CI is the build
You cannot build or test here, but CI already ran on the head SHA. Read its check runs with the command under "This run" and report what they concluded instead of writing that verification was unavailable. A required check that failed, or that never ran on this head, is itself a finding.
The comment
The comment you post is the only part of this run anyone sees. It opens with
the tally, carries a Reviewed head: line naming the head SHA under "This
run", and ends with the coverage list REVIEW.md asks for, whether or not you
found anything. Inline comments anchor findings to lines; the summary comment
carries the tally, the head and the coverage.