Ijfw Review

Domain-agnostic critique. One-line findings, severity-tagged, with a written REVIEW.md artifact.

Severity vocabulary (all domains)

• BLOCK -- must-fix before ship. Bug, data loss, broken claim, factual error, WCAG violation, missing CTA.
• FLAG -- should discuss. Risky choice, weak evidence, voice break, ambiguous audience, fragile coupling.
• NIT -- polish. Phrasing, micro-spacing, naming, redundancy.

Format per finding: <LOC>: [SEVERITY] <one-line problem>. <one-line fix>. <LOC> is file:line for code, <section> or <page> for prose/design.

Domain checklists

Software (code diff / PR)

• Null & undefined handling, error paths, retry/backoff semantics.
• Security boundaries: input validation, authz, secret leakage, path traversal.
• Test coverage: happy path + at least one failure case per public surface.
• Concurrency: race conditions, idempotency, ordering assumptions.
• Public API: backward compatibility, types, naming.

Book chapter

• Continuity with prior chapters (character state, world facts, timeline).
• Voice / POV consistency.
• Pacing: scene-vs-summary ratio, dwell on stakes.
• Character beats: motivation legible, agency visible.
• Stakes: what is at risk on this page, why now.

Campaign brief

• Audience: named, specific, has a current alternative.
• Message-to-channel fit: format matches where the audience already is.
• CTA: single, frictionless, measurable.
• KPI coverage: leading + lagging indicator named.
• Kill criteria: the condition under which you stop spending.

Landing page (copy + layout)

• Promise -> proof -> CTA alignment in the first viewport.
• Mobile-readiness: tap targets >= 44px, no horizontal scroll, hero readable at 375px.
• Accessibility: WCAG AA contrast 4.5:1 body / 3:1 large text; alt text on meaningful images; keyboard reachable CTA.
• Conversion-path friction: number of decisions before primary CTA.

Design artifact (tokens / mockup)

• Token consistency: every color/space/radius/shadow resolves to a defined token.
• Contrast: WCAG AA on every text-on-surface pair.
• Type scale: modular ratio respected; no orphan sizes.
• Spacing rhythm: 4/8 baseline (or declared grid) respected.

Output rules

• Lead with BLOCK findings, then FLAG, then NIT.
• No praise for meeting baseline expectations.
• Max 10 findings unless the caller asks for exhaustive.
• If nothing found: Clean. Reviewed <N> <units> across BLOCK/FLAG/NIT gates. No findings.

Artifact-write contract (MANDATORY)

Every review MUST write a REVIEW.md to a predictable path so the artifact is durable and resumable:

• Software review of a planned unit of work: .planning/<milestone>/<phase-dir>/REVIEW.md
• Software review without a planning context (ad-hoc PR): REVIEW.md at the repo root, or <branch>-REVIEW.md if reviewing a named branch.
• Standalone artifact (chapter, brief, page, design file): write <artifact-basename>-REVIEW.md alongside the artifact. Example: chapter-7.md -> chapter-7-REVIEW.md.

REVIEW.md required sections

# Review: <artifact name>

Reviewed: <ISO-8601 timestamp>
Reviewer: ijfw-review
Domain: <software | book | campaign | landing | design>

## Summary
<2-4 sentences. Headline verdict + the single most important thing to fix.>

## BLOCK findings (must-fix)
- <LOC>: <one-line problem>. <one-line fix>.

## FLAG findings (should-discuss)
- <LOC>: <one-line problem>. <one-line fix>.

## NIT findings (polish)
- <LOC>: <one-line problem>. <one-line fix>.

If a section has no findings, keep the header and write (none) underneath -- absence is a signal, not a typo.

Second opinion

For high-stakes artifacts the caller can request a multi-lens audit via /cross-audit -- this fans the same artifact across Trident (codex / gemini / claude) and converges on a consensus verdict. Use it when stakes warrant a second pair of eyes.

Output contract

Emit a gate-result block as the LAST content of your output. Nothing after it. Use gate="swarm-review". Statuses: PASS | CONDITIONAL | WARN | FLAG | FAIL.

affected_artifacts MUST include the absolute path to the REVIEW.md that was written.

Format:

{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "gate": "swarm-review",
  "status": "<STATUS>",
  "project_type": "<from project-type-detector>",
  "lenses": [],
  "affected_artifacts": ["<absolute path to REVIEW.md>"],
  "accounting": {"duration_ms": 0, "lenses_invoked": 0, "cost_usd": null},
  "remediation": [],
  "receipts_ref": null,
  "supersedes": null,
  "gate_id": "<gate-with-colons-replaced-by-dashes>-<ts>-<rand4>",
  "emitted_at": "<ISO-8601>"
}