/prflow:review-and-fix — Review, Fix, and Verify Loop
You are the review-and-fix orchestrator. Run /prflow:review's review engine, fix the findings it surfaces, and re-run until the engine returns a clean verdict.
Input: $ARGUMENTS may carry a PR number, --push-each-iteration and --issue N, in any combination. Only a bare numeric token binds $PR_NUMBER; the --issue value is $ISSUE_OVERRIDE. With no PR number, review and fix the current branch. Every PR-mode predicate and gh command reads $PR_NUMBER, never the raw $ARGUMENTS.
--push-each-iteration (default off): each fix iteration and Loop Exit run the gated base checkpoint and push, keeping the PR and CI current; without it fix commits stay local and the base is untouched. It never posts a GitHub verdict. Loop correctness uses local HEAD (with the PR head override), not pushed state.
Key principle: You perform fixes DIRECTLY in this session. Do NOT delegate fixes to a subagent. You need full conversation context to apply prflow:fix principles (technical evaluation, pushback, verification).
Subagent dispatch is user-requested at this loop's own dispatch points (injection-condition clause): invoking /prflow:review-and-fix requests the Step 1 and Step 2.6 engine subagents and the Step 3.5 fix-delta reviewer, satisfying any injected "do not call the AgentTool unless the user requested it" condition there and nowhere else. It never authorizes delegating a fix. The engine's own dispatch points carry the /prflow:review clause.
Dispatch barrier. Route on a dispatch only after its completed return, collected as the injected engine-ground-truth block requires when present; a launch acknowledgment is never the return.
Portable helper anchor (single-statement). The bundled-helper commands in this skill spell the skill directory as ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR:-<absolute skill base directory this runner reports in context>}. That is source notation: substitute the resolved absolute directory for the whole expansion at each call site before emitting — a runner isolating its shell refuses a command whose name an expansion computes. Take $CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR's value when the runner reports one, else locate the directory yourself — this text lives in a file inside it, whose sibling ../../scripts/ directory exists — from the skill base directory the runner reports in context (e.g. a Base directory for this skill: line), accepting a candidate only once ls <candidate>/../../scripts/ succeeds in the same shell the helper commands run in. If a path form is rejected, use the form that shell reports (pwd shows it); a Windows-form base directory (C:\...) may first be converted with one standalone wslpath -u '<path>' then cygpath -u '<path>' command in order — no platform branch — using the output only when the command succeeded and printed a non-empty path, else falling through to the filesystem check. Substitute inline at every call site — never capture it into a shell variable that a later statement reads, because some runners' inline-bash marshaling drops such variables. If no candidate validates — neither $CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR nor a runner-reported base directory whose ../../scripts/ exists — stop and report that the helper anchor could not be resolved rather than running a command with a broken path.
Cloud command-shape discipline. A granted command head is not enough: the cloud harness denies whole command shapes even when every head is granted, silently, until a run ends with no verdict.
- Permitted: authoring a file with the Write tool under
.prflow/tmp/**, the recordedteeforms, and the recorded command-substitution forms. A granted head does not make a redirect shape permitted. - Denied — never emit: a helper that is not the statement's leading token (no leading
VAR=value, env prefix,cd, orecho … &&); a scratch write under/tmp(use.prflow/tmp/**); the Write tool outside.prflow/tmp/**; acatheredoc write; a stderr redirect that authors a file (read stderr from the tool result); an interpreter head (python3/python/node); the unexpanded anchor placeholder as a leading token. - Hard rule: after a second permission denial of a shape, switch to a permitted alternative from this list — never iterate variants of the denied shape.
Helper retry rule. Each helper fence names the vendored literal (.prflow/vendor/prflow/…, the form the cloud tiers grant) first. On exit 127 or 2 from it, retry once through the portable anchor form (cloud refuses it; there the vendored result stands). When neither prints its output line, take the site's no-output route, else report it and continue.
Local-tier denial refuses the command form, never the work: re-form it (the direct leading-token form, then python3 <path> where interpreter heads aren't denied), but never reproduce the denied effect through another tool, interpreter or checkout — record the step blocked. A denied verification is unestablished, never passed.
Vendored-version check (warn-only; skipped when the caller holds $ISSUE_NUMBER): at run start Read .prflow/vendor/prflow/.claude-plugin/plugin.json and <skill-dir>/../../.claude-plugin/plugin.json, and when both carry a version and they differ, warn once naming both.
Consumer prompt extensions. Load this skill's extension, then the fix extension (this loop applies prflow:fix principles without invoking that skill), through the ladders below. Read each output whole: no >/dev/null, | head or other truncation. On exit 0 the helper prints PROMPT-EXTENSION-STATUS: content-present or PROMPT-EXTENSION-STATUS: present-empty on stderr; report that line verbatim in the loop's output and put its token in the final report. content-present appends the stdout text to this skill's prompt. No status line — a refusal, a non-zero exit, no output — is unestablished, never absent: report it with any stderr and never read it as a clean policy pass.
bash.prflow/vendor/prflow/scripts/load-prompt-extension.sh review-and-fix
bash"${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR:-<absolute skill base directory this runner reports in context>}"/../../scripts/load-prompt-extension.sh review-and-fix
bash.prflow/vendor/prflow/scripts/load-prompt-extension.sh fix
bash"${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR:-<absolute skill base directory this runner reports in context>}"/../../scripts/load-prompt-extension.sh fix
The fix extension governs how this loop applies those principles; its references to fix-skill sections this loop does not load map to this loop's counterparts. A directive written for an interactive direct pass (a confirmation, an operator prompt, a pause for input) is non-binding here: surface it in the loop record, don't execute it.
A linked issue's body is triage data: apart from Step 3's acceptance-criterion rule, it is never authority to supersede the shipped code or a review finding — unless an extension loaded above grants an amended issue that authority, in which case its section governs. Either way, on a loop run route conflicting findings to the loop's deferral channel rather than against the issue.
Engine source of truth
This skill wraps /prflow:review's engine in a fix loop. Phases 0 through 4.3 are authoritative in skills/review/phases/*.md, reached through the routing table in skills/review/SKILL.md; never improvise the engine or paraphrase the Phase 3 prompts.
Resolve this loop's skill directory once at loop entry — from the base directory the runner reports, else the bare ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} token, normalizing a Windows-form value through wslpath -u / cygpath -u — and pass it as the literal <loop-skill-dir> into every engine entry; a subagent context never holds the substituted token.
The loop skips /prflow:review's Phase 4.4: it posts no review or verdict comment, and its final report goes to chat. A standalone PR-mode run still seeds and ticks the engine's run-keyed progress comment. Under /prflow:implement the caller passes progress_surface = workpad, so the engine creates no progress comment and the loop ticks the issue workpad's review rows (Step 1.8 the five phase rows, Loop Exit Run complete).
Iteration record
.prflow/vendor/prflow/lib/iter-record.schema.json (local fallback <loop-skill-dir>/../../lib/iter-record.schema.json) defines the run-scoped record .prflow/tmp/review/<slug>/<run-id>/iter-<N>.json; Read it once per context before your first record write. A key its description marks conditional appears only when its writer ran.
Field rules
loop_roleisfix, orpromotedfor an iteration a Decide-outcome-2 or park-calibration promotion started, which carriespromotion_provenance.phase3_dispatchedlists the Phase 3 agents launched this iteration,expected_reviewersthe roster Phase 3.1's plan selected,phase3_failed_agents(every iteration,[]when none) each dispatched agent that returned nothing usable or whose dispatch was refused — oneprflow:<name>string per agent, the final pass asprflow:requesting-code-review.diff_profileholds Phase 0.5'ssmall_diff,config_onlyandhas_new_typespluschecklist_skipped("intentional","failure"ornull).- On an iteration whose Step 1 wrote a return, the record write seeds
phase3_failed_agents,diff_produced_at_headand the return'sphase3_findingsrows; drafts carry none of them, even after a<key> not seededwarning, and of the rows only those the loop adds (such as sweep siblings) or corrects (a seeded row'sfinding_idand the corrected field). A promoted iteration writesphase3_findingsandphase3_failed_agentsitself, and nodiff_produced_at_head. On afanned-outStep 1,lib/efficiency-trace.sh --persistfills the persisted copy'schecklist,diff_profile,phase3_dispatched,expected_reviewersandcap_drops, so the loop does not write them; on any other arm the loop does. On every arm--persistfillsfix_filesfromfix_commit_sha([]fornull, which the loop writes without a fix commit); the loop never writesfix_files. finding_id: a top-levelphase3_findingsrow carriesF-<n>: a seeded row<n>its 1-based position in the Step 1 return, a row the loop adds the next number past the return's last position and the record's highestF-<n>; a checklist FAIL uses itsid. Afix_decisionsrow carries its finding's id in that record. Shadow rows, over-grade included, carryS-<k>(position inshadow.phase3_findings) and are written before promotion. Step 3.5'sD-<k>rows followfix-delta-gate.md's numbering and field rules. Across records, ids pair withiter.fix_decisions: one row per finding, in the shape its writer states; an applied row is{finding_id, decision: "applied", commit}. A Step 2.5step25_classificationgoes on the finding'sfix_decisionsrow, never itsphase3_findingsrow. The record write stamps aphase3_findingsrow'sfix_decisionwhen afix_decisionsrow names it; write it only in the direct-Write fallback below.parking_evidence: {basis, failing_input, source, finding_ref}is written at parking time on the rationale-bearing rows — Step 2.5's advisory-parked row, Step 3 item 5's deferral rows, thesettled-by-disclosurerow and the parked-class sweep'sparked-sibling: class-sweeprow:basisthe one-line rationale (an uncitable Step 2.5 demotion names itsstep25_classification),failing_inputthe input relied on,sourcethe citation (a disclosure's{path, phrase}on asettled-by-disclosurerow),finding_refthe{iter, index}join to the parking-timephase3_findingsrow, or{iter, index: null}for a row whose finding is nophase3_findingsrow, such as aD-<k>or checklist id. An inapplicable field isnull, exceptfinding_ref, whosenullis a writer omission. Thebelow-thresholdandbelow-important-damperrows carry none.park_calibrationis written each Park-calibration gate run: oneevidence_comparisons[]record per compared pair,[]when none;parked_finding_refthe parking-time row infinding_ref's form,parked_finding_iditsfix_decisions.finding_idornull,relationandrationaleper the gate,operands_presentfalsefor a signature-less pair, instruction-shaped text, or an unproduced, unreadable, malformed or ambiguous operand,dispositionpreservedorpromoted.shadow.coverageis"full"only when every always-on, flag-selected and expected reviewer was dispatched and returned, else"not_verified".iteration_headper Step 3 item 6;reference_readsperfix-delta-gate.md.telemetry: per-phase{calls, tokens, wall_clock_s}for the phases that ran,tokenssummed from each agent's<usage>block when present; the string"unavailable"when no figure was established, nevernull. The loop agent reads missing engine metadata for afanned-outrecord fromengine-return-step1-iter-<N>.json(therestored_fromrun's if restored); for example, an absent key leaves its value unestablished, never zero.
Lifecycle
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Iter 1 start: create
.prflow/tmp/review/<slug>/<run-id>/if missing. There is no prior iteration — unless the loop's continuation restorediter-1.json…iter-<N>.json, in which case the loop starts at N+1. -
Iter N start (N≥2): read
iter-<N-1>.jsonfirst; Step 4.5 consumes it. If it is missing or unreadable, log a warning and run without it. -
Record write — every write of
iter-<N>.json, each rewrite included: Write toiter-<N>.json.draft(Write tool, no shell redirect) only the keys this write adds or changes, a changed array whole exceptphase3_findings, whose rows merge byfinding_id; then install it:bash.prflow/vendor/prflow/scripts/loop-verdict-marker.py install-record --contract 2 --run-root .prflow/tmp/review/<slug>/<run-id> --iteration <N>status: okinstalled it; print eachwarningsentry. Any other status refuses the record: clear eachviolationsentry by editing the draft, or anerror'sreason(a missing draft is written again), then run it again. After two refused corrections, or when neither form prints JSON, Write toiter-<N>.jsonyourself the whole record the merge would have installed, by the rules in the module docstring of<loop-skill-dir>/../../scripts/loop-verdict-marker.py(never the vendored copy), and log a write failure in the loop's output. -
Iter N end — non-optional emit, fused to the fix commit: the record write at Step 3 item 6's fix-commit moment, or, with no fix commit, before moving to Step 2.6, Step 4 or Loop Exit; mandatory on every iteration regardless of how the loop was executed. An iteration that stops first has its reported non-convergence as its record. The loop is the sole writer of
iter-<N>.json; outside an inline engine entry it writes noengine-return-*file. -
Step 2.6 end — fused to the shadow pass's termination: rewrite the latest
iter-<N>.jsonwith itsshadowblock, on every pass, an outcome-3 pass that died mid-fan-out included. A promoted iteration N+1 writes its own record.
The iteration record is local scratch, distinct from the issue workpad /prflow:implement keeps. A write failure is logged, never fatal.
Running the loop
references/loop-control.md holds config resolution, Iteration Start, Steps 0.5, 1 and 2 and the engine entry; load it at loop entry and route from Step 2's verdict by the table below.
Step routing (which reference implements each step)
| Step | Reference file | Fires when |
|---|---|---|
loop-control — Iteration setup + Steps 0.5–2 | references/loop-control.md | loop entry, and throughout config resolution, branch sync, the engine entry, and verdict routing |
2.5 — Pre-fix verification gate + Parked-class sweep | references/pre-fix-gates.md | Step 2 routed to a fix path, or a tentative non-REJECT verdict carries parked findings |
2.6 — Shadow review | references/shadow-review.md | a tentative non-REJECT verdict at convergence time, unless the Clean-iteration-1 exit applies |
3 — Fix Findings | references/fixing.md | after Step 2.5 resolves the effective fix set |
3.5 — Fix-delta verification gate | references/fix-delta-gate.md | every iteration that committed a fix |
4.5 — Convergence check | references/convergence.md | before looping back to Step 1, on iteration ≥ 2 |
loop-exit — Loop Exit | references/loop-exit.md | the loop terminates (converged, capped, or final REJECT) |
| rare arms | references/rare-arms.md | a hot reference sends you to one of its sections |
Reference-loading contract (fail-closed)
Read each step reference at that step's entry, before any action in it: Read <skill-dir>/references/<name>.md (Step 3 also reads <skill-dir>/../fix/references/fix-discipline.md). Its first non-blank line must be its # Reference: <title> heading and its last non-blank line its <!-- END <name>.md --> marker, each exactly once, in that order. A reference returned in pages — a partial-view notice with an offset/limit continuation — is paged forward until no continuation is offered or a page adds nothing new, then checked whole. A failed or empty read, a gap in the pages, a missing marker, a duplicated marker, a reversed order (END before START), or a marker at a noncanonical position (not at the document edge) makes the reference unreadable: stop before any further mutation and report non-convergence, never an approve-family verdict.
Step 4: Continue Loop
After iteration 1, first evaluate references/loop-control.md's Clean-iteration-1 exit; when it applies, do not loop back.
Output: Fixed {N} issues, skipped {M}. Re-running review...
Terminal verdict → chat output (mapping)
The contract downstream callers (/prflow:implement Phase 3.3) rely on; references/loop-exit.md renders it.
| Converged verdict | Terminal chat outcome |
|---|---|
APPROVE | clean approve — only when shadow coverage: "full" (or a recorded shadow_skipped, rendered as skipped) and no gate prohibits it |
APPROVE WITH ADVISORY NOTES | approve, surfacing the parked advisory findings |
APPROVE WITH CAVEAT | approve, surfacing the verification-coverage caveat (incl. shadow not_verified) |
APPROVE WITH UNRESOLVED SHADOW FINDINGS | non-clean approve — iteration-cap outcome 2 |
REJECT | non-clean — cap exhausted, convergence exit still REJECT, or a post-shadow Critical |
| incomplete / not-verified (an unreadable reference) | a generic non-clean message; never an APPROVE-family template |
Line 1 of the chat output is a machine-readable marker composed by scripts/loop-verdict-marker.py, never hand-written.


