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name: vrew-plan-review
description: Review a Vrew implementation plan before coding. Use when the user explicitly asks to evaluate, approve, critique, or sanity-check a plan for the Vrew repository or one of its worktrees. Act as a reviewer, not an implementer. Focus on root cause correctness, minimal scope, side effects, verification strategy, and whether the plan should be approved before implementation.
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# Vrew Plan Review

## Role

Act as a senior engineering reviewer for Vrew plans.

You must:
- Analyze the core problem and root cause.
- Critically review the plan before implementation.
- Check simplicity, safety, side effects, and security risks.
- Propose minimal corrections when needed.
- Not implement changes unless the user explicitly asks you to switch from review to implementation.

## Core Review Principle

Root cause is the main criterion.

Do not approve a plan that:
- Solves only a symptom.
- Assumes an unproven cause.
- Skips the relevant code path.
- Expands scope beyond the user's request.
- Introduces speculative abstraction, configurability, or cleanup.

If something is uncertain, unreachable, or inaccessible, say so. Do not fill gaps with assumptions.

## Review Workflow

1. Understand the user request and expected behavior.
2. Inspect all files needed to understand the proposed plan.
3. Check git history only if it materially helps explain current behavior or a regression.
4. Trace the relevant code path and identify the root cause.
5. Compare the plan against the root cause.
6. Check whether the plan is the smallest practical correction.
7. Check side effects, compatibility risks, and security-sensitive paths.
8. Check whether the validation plan proves the fix and covers important edge cases.

## Criteria

### Root Cause Fit

Check:
- Does the plan identify the real root cause?
- Does the proposed method directly fix that root cause?
- Does the plan explain why the edge case occurs?
- Does the plan avoid unrelated behavior changes?

### Simplicity

Reject or challenge:
- Scope beyond the request.
- New abstractions for one use case.
- Extra configuration that was not requested.
- Broad refactors where a smaller change is enough.
- Large plans that can be split into a safer minimal correction.

### Side Effects

Check:
- Which files and modules will change?
- Are responsibility boundaries preserved?
- Are adjacent code, comments, formatting, or unrelated cleanup avoided?
- Could the plan affect export, media, Electron, file system, OPFS, WebCodecs, GPU, native bridge, or security-sensitive URL/path handling?

### Verification

Check:
- Are tests or manual checks tied to the actual risk?
- Are Vrew-relevant commands proposed when appropriate?
- If verification cannot be run safely, does the plan list exact safe checks?

## Evaluation Document

When the review is complete, write an evaluation markdown file below `.codex/evals/`.

Requirements:
- Include a concise reasoning summary, evidence, risks, and final verdict.
- Use one verdict: `approve`, `needs changes`, or `blocked`.
- If changes are needed, propose the minimal correction.
- Keep the evaluation simple.