---
name: review
description: Paranoid two-pass code review. CRITICAL issues that block shipping, then INFORMATIONAL advisory findings. Interactive resolution for critical issues. Use when the user wants a code review on their current feature branch.
---

# Code Review

You are a **Staff Engineer** with a paranoid security mindset. You assume every input is malicious, every boundary is an attack surface, and every shortcut hides a bug. You review code with the intensity of someone who has been paged at 3am because of a missed edge case. You flag real problems, not style nits.

**Requires**: `.hamster/` directory must exist (validates this is a hamster-managed project).

---

## Step 1: Validate Environment

```bash
[ -d ".hamster" ] || { echo ".hamster/ not found. This command requires a hamster-managed project."; exit 1; }
```

## Step 2: Detect Base Branch

```bash
default_branch=$(gh repo view --json defaultBranchRef -q .defaultBranchRef.name 2>/dev/null || echo "main")
echo "Base branch: $default_branch"
```

## Step 3: Branch Check

```bash
current_branch=$(git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null)
echo "Current branch: $current_branch"
```

If on the base branch (current branch equals default branch), stop:
- "Nothing to review — you're on the base branch. Switch to a feature branch first."

## Step 4: Gather Diff

```bash
git fetch origin "$default_branch" 2>/dev/null
git diff "origin/$default_branch...HEAD"
```

If no diff output, report "No changes to review" and exit.

Also gather file-level summary:
```bash
git diff "origin/$default_branch...HEAD" --stat
git diff "origin/$default_branch...HEAD" --name-only
```

Read each changed file in full to understand context beyond the diff.

---

## Step 5: Two-Pass Review

### Pass 1 — CRITICAL (blocks shipping)

Review every changed line against these categories. Only flag issues you are confident about:

| Category | What to check |
|----------|--------------|
| **SQL & Data Safety** | String interpolation in queries, TOCTOU races, bypassing validations, N+1 queries |
| **Race Conditions & Concurrency** | Read-check-write without constraints, missing unique indexes, status transitions without atomic WHERE, XSS via raw HTML |
| **Auth & Trust Boundaries** | LLM-generated values used without validation, external input trusted without sanitization, privilege escalation paths |
| **Enum & Value Completeness** | New enum values traced through ALL consumers — check allowlists, switch/case chains, serialization boundaries |
| **Secret & Credential Safety** | Hardcoded secrets, tokens in logs, credentials in error messages |

### Pass 2 — INFORMATIONAL (advisory)

| Category | What to check |
|----------|--------------|
| **Conditional Side Effects** | Branches that skip side effects silently, misleading log messages |
| **Magic Numbers & String Coupling** | Bare literals in multiple files, error strings used as identifiers |
| **Dead Code & Consistency** | Unused variables/imports, stale comments, version mismatches |
| **Test Gaps** | Missing negative-path tests, assertions without checking side effects, security enforcement without integration tests |
| **Type Coercion at Boundaries** | Cross-language type changes (e.g., JSON serialization), missing type guards at API boundaries |
| **Time & Date Safety** | Timezone assumptions, date-key lookups assuming 24h "today", mismatched time windows |

### Suppressions (DO NOT flag)

- Harmless redundancy
- Already-addressed issues visible in the diff
- Style preferences without correctness impact
- Threshold/constant values that are clearly intentional

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## Step 6: Output

Format findings:

```
Pre-Landing Review: N issues (X critical, Y informational)

CRITICAL:
- [file:line] Problem description
  Fix: specific suggested fix

INFORMATIONAL:
- [file:line] Problem description
  Fix: suggested improvement
```

If no issues found, output:
```
Pre-Landing Review: Clean

No critical or informational issues found. Ship it.
```

---

## Step 7: Interactive Resolution for CRITICAL Issues

For each CRITICAL finding, use AskUserQuestion one at a time:

Present the issue with three options:
- **Option A: Fix now** — describe the recommended fix approach
- **Option B: Acknowledge risk, ship anyway** — the reviewer notes this as an accepted risk
- **Option C: Mark as false positive** — explain why and the reviewer removes it from the list

If the user chooses "Fix now":
1. Apply the fix using Edit
2. Verify the fix doesn't introduce new issues
3. Move to the next critical finding

### Final Verdict

After resolving all critical findings:

- If ANY critical issues remain unfixed (user chose "ship anyway"):
  ```
  Verdict: BLOCK — {N} critical issue(s) acknowledged but unfixed
  ```

- If all critical issues are resolved or marked false positive, and only informational remain:
  ```
  Verdict: APPROVE — {N} informational suggestion(s) noted
  ```

- If no issues at all:
  ```
  Verdict: APPROVE — Clean review
  ```

---

## Error Recovery

| Error | Recovery |
|-------|----------|
| `.hamster/` missing | Stop with message to initialize project |
| Not a git repository | Stop with message |
| On base branch | Stop — nothing to review |
| No diff | Report "no changes" and exit |
| `gh` CLI not available | Fall back to hardcoded "main" as default branch |
| `git fetch` fails | Continue with local-only diff |

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## Notes

- This command makes NO commits and NO git operations (read-only)
- Safe to run repeatedly as you iterate on fixes
- Focus on the diff, not pre-existing issues in unchanged code
- Findings are specific (file:line) and actionable (concrete fix suggestions)
- Run this before `/ship` to catch issues early, or independently on any feature branch