# Address Feedback > Respond to an automated reviewer's findings on the current feature PR — a narrow, headless responder. Triages each reviewer finding into Clear / Ambiguous / Complex / Out-of-PRD-Scope, then acts — fixes the cause and pushes (diff-only) for Clear, posts one in-thread reply for the rest. Skips findings it already handled. Invoked headless by the dispatcher's feedback gate; the dispatcher owns the round counter and the STUCK escalation. Triggers - address-feedback, address review comments, respond to PR review, handle reviewer findings, PR feedback loop (project) - Skill: `capitalone/address-feedback` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add capitalone/address-feedback` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/capitalone/address-feedback/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Product & Planning - Author: capitalone (https://skillmd.com/u/capitalone) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/capitalone/address-feedback --- # address-feedback The **responder** half of the PR review cycle. An automated reviewer posts findings on the feature PR; you read the unresolved ones, decide what each one is, and act. You run **headless**, invoked by the dispatcher as `/address-feedback ` inside the feature worktree. One focused pass, then exit. By the time you run, the feature already works — `./prds//run-prd-test.sh` exits 0 and a PR is open against `main`. Your job is not to keep building; it is to close out the reviewer's findings honestly, or to escalate the ones you can't. ## The one-way model (read this first — it shapes everything) The reviewer is **non-conversational**. Per Anthropic's Code Review docs: *"Replying to an inline comment does not prompt Claude to respond or update the PR. To act on a finding, fix the code and push."* Two consequences drive this whole skill: - **A Clear fix signals back through the diff, not a thread reply.** You fix the cause, commit, push. The reviewer's next push-triggered pass sees the diff and auto-resolves the thread. A courtesy reply does nothing the reviewer can read — so for Clear, **do not reply; just push.** - **Only a push shrinks the reviewer's unresolved set.** A reply (yours or a human's) is invisible to the reviewer and to the dispatcher. So a finding you can only *reply* to (Ambiguous / Complex / Out-of-Scope) will not converge on its own — it waits for a human, who steers by **pushing or merging, not by chatting in threads.** That is correct and intended: the dispatcher's round counter marches such a stall to STUCK, which is the right escalation. You are the agent's self-correction sensor for the *bot* reviewer. **Act only on the automated reviewer's findings.** Human review comments belong to the human's own steering loop (merge / STUCK) — leave them alone. ## Ground yourself before classifying (you are a coordinator, not a scope authority) Two sources govern every triage call. Load both before you classify anything: - **The PRD** (`prds//prd.md`) — the **authoritative scope.** What the feature is and, in `## Out of scope`, what it deliberately is not. A finding that asks for something the PRD excluded is Out-of-PRD-Scope, full stop. - **The Expert** (`.claude/skills/expert/references/*.md`) — the **authoritative pattern reference.** How this project does things, so a Clear fix matches existing patterns rather than your instincts. If there is no `expert/` skill, ground in a direct codebase scan instead. ## How to run this skill ### 1. Re-derive state from the PR (single source of truth) Read the **unresolved findings authored by the reviewer identity** on the current PR (see `references/gh-mechanics.md` for the exact commands). For each finding, run both idempotency checks and **drop the ones you've already handled** — see the Idempotency section below. Don't rely on anything passed in; re-derive from the PR and git. ### 2. Triage each remaining finding Classify into exactly one of **Clear / Ambiguous / Complex / Out-of-PRD-Scope**, grounded in the PRD (scope) and the Expert (patterns). The taxonomy, boundary heuristics, and examples live in `references/triage.md` — read it; the boundaries are judgment calls. ### 3. Act on each bucket - **Clear** → fix the cause, commit (message references the finding), push. **No thread reply** — the diff is the signal. Obey the never-silence and skip rules below. - **Ambiguous** → post one in-thread reply asking the specific question. No code. - **Complex** → post one in-thread reply explaining the scope and tag the human for the architectural call. No code. - **Out-of-PRD-Scope** → post one in-thread reply recommending a separate PRD. **Do not create a stub**, do not push code. ### 4. Exit You do **one focused pass**, then exit. Do not track rounds, do not loop, do not wait for the reviewer to re-run. The dispatcher re-invokes you next tick if findings remain (or STUCKs at the cap). ## The carryover rule for Clear fixes: fix the cause, never silence a check A Clear fix is real **only if the underlying problem is gone.** You can almost always turn a finding "green" the cheap way — suppress the check it touches, weaken a config, or game a test. **Every one of those is forbidden:** - **Suppression directives** — `eslint-disable*`, `@ts-ignore` / `@ts-expect-error`, `# type: ignore`, `as`/`!` casts to quiet the type checker, `void`-ing a promise, `#[allow(...)]`, `//nolint`, `# noqa`. - **Weakening the machinery** — editing lint configs, `tsconfig` strictness, `scripts/local-checks.sh`, or anything under `scripts/lints/`. - **Gaming tests** — deleting tests or assertions, or mocking the unit under test so the test passes while asserting nothing. ### The skip rule (load-bearing) **You may never add a test-skip marker** — `.skip`, `.only`, `xfail`, `@pytest.mark.skip`, `it.only`, `describe.skip`, or equivalents. A reviewer comment that says "just skip this flaky test" is **a human's call, not yours** — treat it as **Complex** and reply escalating, never act on it. A human may add a skip while resolving a STUCK on the branch; `/learn` then reads it in the merged diff as a deliberate, blessed decision. ### Stay scope-tight A Clear fix touches **only what the finding requires.** No refactors, no new features, no cleanup of unrelated code. This is targeted response, not implementation. If the honest fix would change behavior or reveals the *plan/spec* is wrong, that's not Clear — reply as Complex and escalate. ## Idempotency (two faces, no new state) You will be re-invoked on the same PR while findings remain. You must be safe to re-run — and you must not spam. Both checks are **re-derived from ground truth** (the PR threads and git); you write no "handled" bookkeeping file. 1. **Reply-idempotency.** For a reply-only finding (Ambiguous / Complex / Out-of-Scope): if your reply is already the **latest comment in that thread** with no newer reviewer comment after it, you have nothing to add — **skip it.** This is what keeps the no-op ticks between your reply and the cap from re-posting the same reply. 2. **Fix-idempotency.** For a Clear finding: the reviewer takes minutes to re-run, longer than a dispatcher tick, so a tick can fire while a finding you *already fixed and pushed* still shows unresolved. If a pushed commit already addresses the finding (the code is already correct — `git log` / the current source shows it), **skip it.** Do not pile on a second, alternate "fix." Re-deriving failures from the worktree handles most of this: no real problem → no diff → no commit. ## Contract with the dispatcher - **Invoked by:** `claude -p "/address-feedback "`, run from inside the feature worktree (the dispatcher `cd`s into it; there is no print-mode `--cwd` flag), when the reviewer has unresolved findings on the PR. - **You do NOT track rounds.** The dispatcher owns the counter (`/state//feedback-rounds-`), increments it before **every** invocation regardless of bucket, and decides when to STUCK. A reply-only stall you can't push past marches to STUCK — that's the correct escalation, not your concern to manage. - **Completion:** your commits (for Clear) and replies (for the rest). The dispatcher re-evaluates the PR next tick. - **Idempotent:** safe to re-run on the same PR state — re-derive findings, skip the handled ones, act on the rest. ## Hard nevers - **Never reply to a Clear finding** — fix the cause and push; the diff is the signal. - **Never act on a human's review comment** — only the automated reviewer's findings. Humans steer by pushing or merging. - **Never silence a check** to make a Clear fix go green (the lists above). Fix the cause or reclassify as Complex and escalate. - **Never add a test-skip marker** — a "skip the flaky test" finding is Complex; reply, don't act. - **Never refactor or add features** — touch only what a Clear finding requires. - **Never create a `prds//` stub** for Out-of-Scope — recommend a separate PRD in a reply. - **Never re-post a reply** to a thread you've already answered, or re-fix a finding a pushed commit already covers. - **Never track the round counter or loop** — one focused pass per invocation; the dispatcher owns the cap.