# Principal Design Review Checklist and Record

Toolkit schema: `PAISEH-TK-1.0`
Source artifact: Chapter 12 **Reference Architecture Catalog**, design-review record

Complete `../common-artifact-header.md` and `../packet-manifest.md` first. This checklist creates evidence-indexed findings; it does not grant approval.

## 1. Review Charter

- Exact decision and consequence ceiling:
- Reviewed packet ID and artifact versions:
- Decision owner and authority:
- Reviewers, expertise, rights, and conflicts:
- Walkthroughs required and performed:
- Decision date and validity:

## 2. Inspection Record

| Area | Exact artifact/evidence | Inspection question | Finding/limitation | Blocking stage | Owner/due date | Verification/closure authority |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Responsibility and fit | | Is responsibility useful, bounded, and preferable to a simpler option? | | | | |
| Affected parties/consequence | | Are authority, blast radius, reversibility, correction, and residual risk explicit? | | | | |
| System/pattern boundary | | Are interfaces, identities, invariants, seams, and degraded modes coherent? | | | | |
| Prompt/context | | Are instruction and evidence contracts compatible, authorized, failure-aware, and versioned? | | | | |
| Harness/tools | | Are transitions enforceable and actions bounded, approved, reconcilable, cancellable, and receipted? | | | | |
| Evaluation | | Do claims and risks have valid population-specific evidence and limits? | | | | |
| Security/governance | | Are trust, data, access, misuse, dependencies, assurance, and acceptors addressed? | | | | |
| Release/recovery | | Is one candidate tied to exposure, compatibility, in-flight work, health, and recovery? | | | | |
| Operations | | Can operators detect evidence failure, contain, investigate, verify recovery, and close learning? | | | | |
| Change/lifecycle | | Are dependencies, expiry, supersession, findings, receipts, and reopening discoverable? | | | | |

## 3. Findings, Dissent, and Disposition

- Blocking findings and closure references:
- Non-blocking findings and accepted limitations:
- Residual risks and authorized acceptors:
- Dissent and unresolved uncertainty:
- Disposition: approve / approve with conditions / return for redesign / reject / defer for missing evidence
- Rationale:
- Conditions, owners, due dates, and stage limits:
- Decision authority and receipt:
- Effective date, expiry, and material-change triggers: