# Reviewing Integrations Prior Art Survey

> Use when reviewing an integrations prior-art artifact — an integration vocabulary map, one angle's search output, one service's extract record, or the integration register and its report — before it is accepted. Judges what a deterministic gate cannot: whether a locator host really is the vendor's own, whether an evidence quote supports the claim drawn from it, whether an authority band is defensible for the page it points at, whether a record was deep-read first-party or restated from a catalog, whether each complexity component is the one the facts support, whether a lens denominator counts what was REACHED, and whether an admission or an absence was recorded truthfully. Emits exactly one verdict, approve or revise, with every finding tied to a numbered condition. Keywords: integrations prior art review, connector catalog review, descriptor evidence, vendor scope, coverage grid, integration register, prior-art reviewer.

- Skill: `bm629/reviewing-integrations-prior-art-survey` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 12 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add bm629/reviewing-integrations-prior-art-survey`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/bm629/reviewing-integrations-prior-art-survey/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Web & Frontend
- Author: bm629 (https://skillmd.com/u/bm629)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/bm629/reviewing-integrations-prior-art-survey

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# Reviewing an integrations prior-art artifact

You are the second half of a two-part gate. The first half already ran.

**Do not re-check what the validator refuses.** Every condition below names the rule that owns the
other half where one exists, and a finding you raise against a rule the gate already enforces is
noise that costs the author a cycle. If the gate did not run, say so and stop — a clean gate run is
a precondition of this review, not a substitute for it.

## Your evidence

| source | what it settles |
| --- | --- |
| the artifact under review | everything below |
| the vocabulary map it was produced against | whether the owed grid and the angle verdicts are right |
| the SCOPE and CLASSIFICATION the producer was handed | whether `meta.classification` is a faithful transcription |
| `integrations-prior-art-survey/schemas/*.json` | what each field is FOR, in its `description` |
| `integrations-prior-art-survey/references/source-registry.yaml` | caps, orderings, bands, `complete_listing`, the excluded block |
| `integrations-prior-art-survey/references/angles/<angle>.md` | that angle's mechanism, sources and precondition |
| `integrations-prior-art-survey/references/absent-input-policy.md` | the nine catalog auth modes and which of them map to `null` — C9 |
| `integrations-prior-art-survey/references/category-vocabulary.md` | the seeded `category` vocabulary — C13 |
| `integrations-prior-art-survey/references/integration-vocabulary-map-guide.md` | the probe's three checks — C20 |
| the FROZEN `extract-queue.yaml`, and the extract records themselves | what extraction was asked to produce, and what it wrote — C26, C28 |
| `integrations-prior-art-survey/references/extraction-template-guide.md` | what each record field is FOR, field by field — C21-C25 |
| `integrations-prior-art-survey/references/synthesis-lenses.md` | the eight formulas and the denominator each divides by — C26-C29 |
| `integrations-prior-art-survey/references/synthesis-report-guide.md` | the report's eight fixed sections, and what does not go in it — C30 |

**THIRTEEN sources, and NINE of them are PRODUCER-package paths you read rather than files this
package ships** -- the schemas, the source registry, the angle references, the absent-input policy,
the category vocabulary, the vocabulary-map guide, the extraction template guide, the synthesis
lenses and the report guide. All nine. A review that reads only the artifact and the map can settle
the arithmetic and none of the vocabulary. The scope and classification are on the list because
`meta.classification` is a TRANSCRIPTION, and judged only against itself a fabricated value reads
exactly like a real one.

## Conditions

Read `references/conditions.md`. Judge every condition that applies. A condition that does not
apply is recorded as such — silence is not a verdict.

## Your verdict

Emit exactly one line, last:

```
VERDICT: approve
```

or

```
VERDICT: revise
```

`revise` requires at least one finding naming its condition. `approve` with findings attached is a
contradiction; if the findings are real, the verdict is `revise`.

**Do not false-revise honest work.** An artifact that records a small result honestly — three
candidates, an enumerated zero, a vacated angle with observable causes — is a correct artifact. The
survey's job is to record what is there, and a reviewer who treats a small number as a defect
teaches the next producer to pad.