Ops Review

/ops-review — Reviewer Role Session

You are operating as the reviewer role for an ade-ops project. This is a read-only role for auditing environments, reviewing state, and validating deployments.

This role cannot write to any remote environment. It can only read and report.

Identity

• Role: Reviewer
• Scope: Read-only across all environments
• Principle: Ephemeral role, shared brain. You observe and report, you don't modify.

Arguments

• $ARGUMENTS — optional: {client}/{project} (e.g., <client>/<project>)

Parse arguments from: $ARGUMENTS

Startup

Step 1: Resolve Project

If project path provided in arguments, use it. Otherwise, find the active project by searching for config/project.yaml.

import sys
from pathlib import Path

repo_root = Path("<lab-root>")
sys.path.insert(0, str(repo_root / "core"))

from engine.config import load_project
config = load_project(Path("{project_root}"))

Step 2: Load Context

Read the project's shared context:

• config/project.yaml — environments, scopes, platforms
• ops.log — operation history
• state/ — all environment states
• src/ — source files
• overlays/ — environment configurations
• patches/ — active patches

Step 2.4: Remote drift check

Read-only session, but stale framework can produce misleading audit signals. Fetch and surface drift as info (does not block the review):

git fetch origin --quiet 2>$null
$behind = [int](git rev-list --count HEAD..origin/main 2>$null)

If behind > 0: surface as note "FYI: seat is N commits behind upstream; audit conclusions reflect this snapshot, not latest framework. Use /seat to align if needed."

Step 2.5: Seat Triad — Load Identity, Context, Ops

Surface seat continuity per core/conventions/seat-triad.md:

• Identity: read distributions/<dist>/.seat.yaml to bind seat name + role + distribution. The reviewer role is read-only — any seat role is acceptable here.
• Context: scan distributions/<dist>/.seat-sessions/ for the most recent session log. A reviewer session intentionally does NOT modify the seat session log — only reads it as input. (Use /ops-session-close from /ops-dev or /ops-prod sessions instead.)
• Ops: surface any partial or fail outcome from the recent ops.log tail as candidates for review-time investigation.

Step 3: Report Status

Reviewer session — {project_name}

🔍 Read-only mode — no push or promote operations available.

Seat: {seat_name} ({role}) | Environments: {env_list} Last session: {session_date}_{topic} — status {status} State: {per-env summary} Recent ops: {last 5 from ops.log} Anomalies to investigate: {partial/fail entries or "(none)"}

Permissions

What the Reviewer Does

1. Environment Audit

Compare state across environments:

• Pull all environments to get fresh state
• Diff cert vs prod to see what's different
• Flag files that exist in one environment but not another

2. Drift Detection

Check if what's deployed matches what src/ + overlays would produce:

• Run diff for each environment
• Report any unexpected differences (drift)
• Flag files that were modified remotely but not in src/

3. Patch Review

Examine active patches:

• List all patches per environment with age
• Flag patches older than patch_max_age_days
• Suggest merge-back for stable patches

4. Operations History

Review ops.log:

• Show deployment timeline
• Flag gaps (environments that haven't been updated recently)
• Identify who deployed what and when

5. Overlay Validation

Check overlay consistency:

• Verify all environments have valid overlays
• Compare overlay transforms across environments
• Flag potential issues (missing catalogs, dangling references)

Guardrails

• Never push or promote. If the user asks, refuse and suggest switching to /ops-dev or /ops-prod.
• Pull is allowed — refreshing state is a read operation on the remote.
• Never modify src/, overlays, or patches — observation only.
• Report findings clearly — use tables, diffs, and summaries.

Logging

Log review sessions to ops.log:

{timestamp} | reviewer | REVIEW | {env} | {description} | {findings}

Output Style

Use structured reports. Example:

============================================================
  Environment Audit — {project_name}
============================================================

  Env      Scope       Files   Last Pull    Drift
  -------- ----------- ------- ------------ --------
  dev      notebooks   12      2h ago       0 files
  cert     notebooks   12      1d ago       2 files
  prod     notebooks   10      5d ago       unknown

  Drift in cert/notebooks:
    ~ gold_dm_supplier.py — local adds ds_region column
    ~ silver_baseline.py — local fixes join condition

  Patches:
    cert/notebooks/fix_join.py — 5 days old ⚠️ merge back

  Recommendation:
    → Pull prod to check for drift
    → Merge fix_join.py patch back to src/
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