# Resolve Review > Close out review findings — adjudicate each one, fix what deserves fixing, then reply on the PR threads or in the task's review file. - Skill: `blockscout/resolve-review` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add blockscout/resolve-review` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/blockscout/resolve-review/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Productivity - Author: blockscout (https://skillmd.com/u/blockscout) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/blockscout/resolve-review --- # Resolve review Work through a change's review findings and close them out. The hard part is not fixing — it is deciding *which* findings deserve a fix. So the centre of this skill is **adjudication**: every finding gets a **verdict**, reached skeptically, by checking the claim against the real code and the project's intent rather than by trusting how confidently it was worded. In the product-task workflow this runs at **land**, against the whole-task PR, and mid-ticket against the review file `review-changes` wrote for uncommitted work. ## Inputs Mirrors `review-changes`: the same output, first and required, decides where the findings are read from and replied to. | Input | Values | Default | Meaning | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `output` *(positional)* | `pr` · `md` | **required** | where the findings live | | `target` *(positional)* | PR url, comment url, or review-file path | the current branch's PR / its review file | scopes the run | | `--scope` | `branch` · `uncommitted` | `branch` | which review file: the task's, or the in-flight ticket's. `md` only | | `--ticket ` | ticket number | inferred | `--scope uncommitted` only | ``` /resolve-review pr every open finding on the current branch's PR /resolve-review pr that single comment, scoping the whole run to it /resolve-review md the task-level review file /resolve-review md --scope uncommitted the in-flight ticket's review file /resolve-review md that review file — one reviewer's, where several ran ``` Contradictory inputs stop the run: `--scope` or `--ticket` with `pr`, or `--ticket` with `--scope branch`. `--scope` and `--ticket` are `review-changes`' own, and the file resolves off them exactly as it does there ([`../review-changes/output-md.md`](../review-changes/output-md.md)) — `branch` is the task-level `review.md`, `uncommitted` the ticket's. An explicit `target` path settles the file outright and makes both redundant. Several review files side by side means several reviewers ran: resolve them in one pass, and where two raise the same defect, fix once and reply on both. ## Verdicts, by source Which verdicts are even available depends on who raised the finding, so establish the source first. In `md` mode every finding came from `review-changes`, so the question does not arise — `fix` or `reject`. | Source | How you know it | Verdicts | | --- | --- | --- | | This workflow's review | a PR comment ending in a `— Reviewed by …` footer | `fix` · `reject` | | A bot | `user.type == "Bot"` | `fix` · `reject` | | A human | anything else | `fix` · `answered` | Test the rows in that order. The footer is what separates this workflow's own review from a colleague's — why, in [`../review-changes/gh-commands.md`](../review-changes/gh-commands.md). Bots are then caught by GitHub's own `user.type`, **not** by a list of logins: this repo still runs CodeQL and Copilot, so `github-advanced-security[bot]` and `Copilot` (no `[bot]` suffix, capitalised) both reach a PR, and a name list goes stale the moment the tooling around the repo changes. Miss either test and an agent's or a bot's finding is silently promoted to human, whose comments may never be rejected. - **fix** — the concern is real *and* the fix belongs in this change. - **reject** — invalid premise, contradicts design intent, already addressed, or out of scope. Closes with an explanation. - **answered** — *only* for a human's comment, and the only alternative to fixing one. Reply with the reasoning: why it was done this way, what alternatives were considered, why this path won. Then **leave the thread unresolved** and let the human decide whether they still insist. A human comment is never rejected — they may be wrong, but that call is theirs, not yours. Two further rules on verdicts: - **No repeat rejection.** A finding you rejected once, where the reviewer came back and disagreed, may not be rejected again on the same grounds. Fix it, reject it on genuinely **new** grounds (once), or mark it `needs-human`. - **Nits are `deferred`**, not fixed. The developer may promote one at Gate 1. ## 1. Scope Establish what you are resolving: - in `pr` mode derive `owner/repo` and the PR number, and confirm `gh auth status` succeeds (commands: [`../review-changes/gh-commands.md`](../review-changes/gh-commands.md)) - in `md` mode resolve the review file and read it; a path that does not exist stops the run rather than becoming a fresh review. **Done when**: you know the unit of work and whether the scope is every open finding or one specific finding. ## 2. Gather In `pr` mode, collect every **actionable** finding — inline review comments, PR-level reviews, and issue comments ([`../review-changes/gh-commands.md`](../review-changes/gh-commands.md)). Keep only unresolved, actionable threads. Drop already-resolved threads and your own prior replies. Tag each with its **source** per the table above. A footer-bearing issue comment titled `### 📎 Findings without a diff anchor` holds several findings at once, one per `** F · **` title, the tag prefix present exactly when that reviewer ran under `--as`. Split them and adjudicate each on its own. They have no resolved flag, so read one as open unless a later footer-bearing comment already rules on that id. In `md` mode, collect every finding whose `**Status:**` is `open` or `disputed`. The file's reply blockquotes carry the exchange history — read them, so a finding you already rejected once is not rejected again on the same grounds. Either way, open the code each finding points at — `path` + `line`, or the `diff_hunk` — so the next step judges against reality rather than against the comment text. **Done when**: every actionable finding is listed with its source, its location, and the current code it refers to. Exhaustive, not a sample. ## 3. Adjudicate The heart of the skill. Reason hard here; do not rush toward the gate. - **Investigate before judging.** Verify the claim against the actual code. Check whether it still applies — it may be stale or already fixed. Weigh it against the spec and the conventions in `.agents/rules/`. - **Decompose multi-point findings.** One comment can be part-`fix`, part-`reject`. Adjudicate each point. - **Give the reviewer no deference.** A plausible-sounding finding is not automatically correct; a review agent or a bot can contradict the author's intent or argue from the wrong docs. - **When a verdict turns on design intent you cannot settle from the code and the spec, mark it `needs-human`.** Do not guess. For each finding record the verdict, the reasoning, and the proposed action — the fix sketch, or the reply text for a `reject` or an `answered`. **Done when**: every gathered finding has a verdict, reasoning, and a proposed action, or is `needs-human`. ## 4. Gate 1 — confirm **A hard stop.** Present a table — finding (id, `file:line` + short quote), source, verdict, reasoning, proposed action — and list the `needs-human` items as questions. Then **stop and wait**. Edit no code until the developer confirms; they may re-categorise anything or answer the open questions. This is the cheapest steering point in the whole process, which is why it comes before any edit. **Done when**: the developer has confirmed. ## 5. Fix Implement the confirmed `fix` items only, following the conventions in `.agents/rules/`. Run the checks those files define for the code you touched. Leave `reject`, `answered`, `deferred` and `needs-human` findings untouched. **Done when**: every confirmed fix is applied and locally verified. ## 6. Gate 2 — review the diff **A hard stop.** Show `git diff` plus a per-finding summary of what changed, and wait for approval before anything is pushed or replied to. In `pr` mode the developer commits and pushes the fixes — the reviewer's next follow-up round reads them from the PR. In `md` mode the fixes stay uncommitted, which is what the reviewer's follow-up round reads. ## 7. Close out Reply to every finding; **who closes it depends on the source.** - `fix` → what changed, plus the commit sha once it exists. - `reject` → the explanation. - `answered` → the reasoning, the alternatives, why this path won. - `deferred` → that it is a nit left as it stands, so the reviewer's follow-up round can rule `deferred` rather than wait on a fix that is not coming. **This workflow's own findings — reply, never close.** The reviewer raised them and owns their close: it verifies the fix (or agrees the reject) and closes them in its next follow-up round, which is what lets it confirm the work landed and post the final all-clear. Closing here would end the loop before the reviewer ever checked it. In `pr` mode that means replying on the thread and leaving it unresolved. **Bot findings** — resolve on `fix` or `reject`; a bot has no arbitration round, so your verdict is the last word on its thread. **Human findings** — resolve on `fix`, and leave `answered` open for the human. Leave every `needs-human` thread open. Non-anchorable findings have no thread. Reply to all of them in **one** new issue comment, each line naming its id, so the reviewer's follow-up round can match the ids it raised. In `md` mode, append a reply line under the finding — `> **resolve-review, round :** fix — ` — and leave its `**Status:**` alone. **Done when**: every adjudicated finding has been replied to and (where settled) resolved. Then report: counts per verdict, every `reject`/`answered` with its one-line reason, and anything left for a human.