Spec Completion Review Mode

Workflow is backend-split. Read workflow-common.md for Phase 0 (backend detection + philosophy), then read ONLY the file matching your active backend:

• BACKEND=codex → workflow-codex.md
• BACKEND=copilot → workflow-copilot.md
• BACKEND=cursor → workflow-cursor.md
• BACKEND=host → workflow-host.md
• BACKEND=rp → workflow-rp.md

Do not load the others — only the active backend's file is needed.

Verify that the combined implementation of all tasks in a spec satisfies the spec requirements. This is NOT a code quality review (that's impl-review's job) — this confirms spec compliance only.

Role: Spec Completion Review Coordinator (NOT the reviewer) Backends (branch on the Phase 0 RP_ELIGIBLE probe):

• When RP_ELIGIBLE=1: RepoPrompt (rp), Codex CLI (codex), GitHub Copilot CLI (copilot), Cursor CLI (cursor), or host-native (host)
• When RP_ELIGIBLE=0: Codex CLI (codex), GitHub Copilot CLI (copilot), Cursor CLI (cursor), or host-native (host) — rp is macOS-only; never list it in guidance you surface (--review=rp stays accepted)

Preamble — execute Phase 0 exactly once

The executable Phase 0 lives in workflow-common.md §"Phase 0: Backend Detection" — Read it and execute it ONCE, before any other bash in this skill. It defines $FLOWCTL (bundled — NOT installed globally; which flowctl fails, expected), probes RP_ELIGIBLE, resolves $BACKEND via the single flowctl review-backend call, and handles the ASK / none cases. Never invoke flowctl review-backend a second time in the same run.

Exception: a --review=<backend> argument (see Backend Selection below) wins — when present, set BACKEND from the flag and skip Phase 0's review-backend call + ASK handling (still run its $FLOWCTL / RP_ELIGIBLE setup lines).

When RP_ELIGIBLE=0 (not macOS, no supported RepoPrompt CLI), never steer the user toward rp: every backend summary, recommendation, or override hint you surface presents only the runnable configured backends codex, copilot, cursor, host (plus none). Suppression is not a ban: an explicit --review=rp, FLOW_REVIEW_BACKEND=rp, or review.backend=rp still resolves to rp and errors at runtime via require_rp_cli().

Backend Selection

Priority (first match wins):

1. --review=rp|codex|copilot|cursor|host|none argument
2. FLOW_REVIEW_BACKEND env var — bare backend (rp, codex, copilot, cursor, host, none) OR spec form (codex:gpt-5.4:xhigh, copilot:claude-opus-4.5, cursor:gpt-5.5-high); host is bare-only (host:<model> is rejected)
3. .flow/config.json → review.backend (same bare / spec forms)
4. Error - no auto-detection

Parse from arguments first

Check $ARGUMENTS for:

• --review=rp or --review rp → use rp
• --review=codex or --review codex → use codex
• --review=copilot or --review copilot → use copilot
• --review=cursor or --review cursor → use cursor
• --review=host or --review host → use host
• --review=none or --review none → skip review

If found, use that backend and skip all other detection.

Otherwise: Phase 0 resolves it

No --review flag → $BACKEND comes from workflow-common.md Phase 0 (executed once per the Preamble): the single flowctl review-backend "$SPEC_ID" call with ASK handling included. Do not re-resolve here.

Backend at a glance

The per-backend summary (models, env vars, --spec forms) and the backend[:model[:effort]] spec grammar live in references/backend-at-a-glance.md. Read it only when you surface backend guidance to the user (ASK branch, recommendation, override hint) — routing does not need it.

Critical Rules

Per-backend critical rules live in the backend file you route to (workflow-codex.md, workflow-copilot.md, workflow-cursor.md, workflow-rp.md) — each opens with its own Critical rules section. The host safety invariant and the all-backends rules stay here because they gate routing itself.

For host backend (fn-123 R5 / fn-126): host is bare-only. After selection, read workflow-host.md. The review must use a fresh, tool-enforced read-only reviewer from a different model family and fail closed when no cross-family pin is available.

For all backends:

• If REVIEW_RECEIPT_PATH set: write receipt after SHIP verdict (RP writes manually after fix loop; codex writes automatically via --receipt)
• Any failure → output <promise>RETRY</promise> and stop. No-verdict

transport failures are recorded and their reserved round refunded; never manually reset the review counter. Exit 5 / TRANSPORT_UNHEALTHY stops automatic retries until the backend is repaired.

The three hard invariants (never self-declare SHIP, never mix backends, never skip review silently) live with the shared anti-patterns in workflow-common.md §"Anti-patterns (all backends)".

Input

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS Format: <spec-id> [--review=rp|codex|copilot|cursor|host|none]

• Spec ID - Required, e.g. fn-1 or fn-22-53k
• --review - Optional backend override

Workflow

bash
REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)"

Step 0: Parse Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS for:

• First positional arg matching fn-* → SPEC_ID
• --review=<backend> → backend override
• Remaining args → focus areas

Step 0.5: Resume terminal status persistence before dispatch

Run this checkpoint after parsing SPEC_ID and before loading or dispatching any backend. Run the same checkpoint again immediately after host/rp records a verdict. It recovers a terminal status write that failed after the verdict round was durably consumed, without reserving or dispatching another review. This shared step is the sole writer for host and rp terminal status.

bash
if ! TERMINAL_REVIEW_JSON="$($FLOWCTL review-rounds attempts "$SPEC_ID" \
  --kind plan --review-type completion --json)" \
  || ! SPEC_STATE_JSON="$($FLOWCTL show "$SPEC_ID" --json)"; then
  echo "<promise>RETRY</promise>"
  exit 0
fi

LATEST_OUTCOME="$(printf '%s' "$TERMINAL_REVIEW_JSON" \
  | jq -r '.attempts[-1].outcome // ""')"
LATEST_SUPERSEDED_BY="$(printf '%s' "$TERMINAL_REVIEW_JSON" \
  | jq -r '.attempts[-1].superseded_by // ""')"
VERDICT="$(printf '%s' "$TERMINAL_REVIEW_JSON" \
  | jq -r '.attempts[-1].verdict // ""')"
ATTEMPT_BACKEND="$(printf '%s' "$TERMINAL_REVIEW_JSON" \
  | jq -r '.attempts[-1].backend // ""')"
ATTEMPT_AT="$(printf '%s' "$TERMINAL_REVIEW_JSON" \
  | jq -r '.attempts[-1].timestamp // ""')"
REVIEW_ROUND="$(printf '%s' "$TERMINAL_REVIEW_JSON" \
  | jq -r '.review_rounds // 0')"
REVIEW_CAP="$(printf '%s' "$TERMINAL_REVIEW_JSON" \
  | jq -r '.review_rounds_cap // 0')"
CURRENT_STATUS="$(printf '%s' "$SPEC_STATE_JSON" \
  | jq -r '.completion_review_status // "unknown"')"
CURRENT_REVIEWED_AT="$(printf '%s' "$SPEC_STATE_JSON" \
  | jq -r '.completion_reviewed_at // ""')"

TERMINAL_STATUS=""
TERMINAL_EXIT=0
if [[ -n "$LATEST_SUPERSEDED_BY" ]]; then
  # A concurrent SHIP superseded this attempt: it reviewed a pre-SHIP artifact,
  # charged no round, and must never write a terminal status here.
  echo "review superseded by a newer SHIP — durable state unchanged; verdict recorded as evidence only" >&2
  echo "COMPLETION_REVIEW_STATUS=$CURRENT_STATUS"
  exit 0
fi
if [[ "$LATEST_OUTCOME" == "verdict" && "$VERDICT" == "SHIP" ]]; then
  TERMINAL_STATUS="ship"
elif [[ "$LATEST_OUTCOME" == "verdict" \
  && "$VERDICT" == "NEEDS_WORK" \
  && "$REVIEW_CAP" -gt 0 \
  && "$REVIEW_ROUND" -ge "$REVIEW_CAP" ]]; then
  TERMINAL_STATUS="needs_work"
  TERMINAL_EXIT=4
elif [[ "$LATEST_OUTCOME" == "verdict" && "$VERDICT" == "NEEDS_HUMAN" ]]; then
  # A reviewer-requested escalation is terminal at any round: persist it here
  # and exit, never fall through and reserve another paid round.
  TERMINAL_STATUS="needs_human"
  TERMINAL_EXIT=4
fi

# A matching status means the terminal already persisted. A newer terminal
# attempt means persistence is pending. A newer completion_reviewed_at is an
# explicit later status decision (for example `unknown` to request re-review);
# honor it instead of resurrecting the old verdict.
if [[ -n "$TERMINAL_STATUS" \
  && ( "$CURRENT_STATUS" == "$TERMINAL_STATUS" \
    || ( -n "$ATTEMPT_AT" \
      && ( -z "$CURRENT_REVIEWED_AT" \
        || "$ATTEMPT_AT" > "$CURRENT_REVIEWED_AT" ) ) ) ]]; then
  RECEIPT_PATH="${REVIEW_RECEIPT_PATH:-/tmp/completion-review-receipt-${SPEC_ID}.json}"
  RECEIPT_RECOVERY="$REPO_ROOT/.flow/tmp/completion-review-receipt-recovery-${SPEC_ID}.json"

  # A recovery payload belongs to exactly one durable attempt. Remove an older
  # attempt's artifact before deciding whether this attempt requires a receipt;
  # otherwise an optional RP receipt can become spuriously mandatory.
  if [[ -f "$RECEIPT_RECOVERY" ]] \
    && ! jq -e --arg id "$SPEC_ID" --arg verdict "$VERDICT" \
      --arg mode "$ATTEMPT_BACKEND" --arg attempt_at "$ATTEMPT_AT" \
      '.type == "completion_review"
       and .id == $id
       and .verdict == $verdict
       and .mode == $mode
       and .attempt_timestamp == $attempt_at' \
      "$RECEIPT_RECOVERY" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    if ! rm -f "$RECEIPT_RECOVERY"; then
      echo "<promise>RETRY</promise>"
      exit 0
    fi
  fi

  RECEIPT_REQUIRED=false
  # Bind evidence requirements to the durable attempt being resumed, never
  # the backend selected for this invocation (which may have changed).
  case "$ATTEMPT_BACKEND" in
    codex|copilot|cursor|host) RECEIPT_REQUIRED=true ;;
    rp)
      [[ "$VERDICT" == "SHIP" \
        && ( -n "${REVIEW_RECEIPT_PATH:-}" || -f "$RECEIPT_RECOVERY" ) ]] \
        && RECEIPT_REQUIRED=true
      ;;
  esac

  # Every receipt-owning backend preserves the complete payload here before
  # writing the caller-selected path. Restore it before status so a transient
  # receipt-path failure never consumes another review or loses Ralph evidence.
  if [[ -f "$RECEIPT_RECOVERY" ]]; then
    if ! mkdir -p "$(dirname "$RECEIPT_PATH")" \
      || ! cp "$RECEIPT_RECOVERY" "$RECEIPT_PATH"; then
      echo "<promise>RETRY</promise>"
      exit 0
    fi
    if ! jq -e --arg id "$SPEC_ID" --arg verdict "$VERDICT" \
      --arg mode "$ATTEMPT_BACKEND" --arg attempt_at "$ATTEMPT_AT" \
      '.type == "completion_review"
       and .id == $id
       and .verdict == $verdict
       and .mode == $mode
       and .attempt_timestamp == $attempt_at' \
      "$RECEIPT_PATH" >/dev/null; then
      echo "<promise>RETRY</promise>"
      exit 0
    fi
  fi

  if [[ "$RECEIPT_REQUIRED" == true ]] \
    && ! jq -e --arg id "$SPEC_ID" --arg verdict "$VERDICT" \
      --arg mode "$ATTEMPT_BACKEND" --arg attempt_at "$ATTEMPT_AT" \
      '.type == "completion_review"
       and .id == $id
       and .verdict == $verdict
       and .mode == $mode
       and .attempt_timestamp == $attempt_at' \
      "$RECEIPT_PATH" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "<promise>RETRY</promise>"
    exit 0
  fi

  if [[ "$CURRENT_STATUS" != "$TERMINAL_STATUS" ]]; then
    TERMINAL_WRITE_JSON="$($FLOWCTL spec set-completion-review-status "$SPEC_ID" \
      --status "$TERMINAL_STATUS" --json)"
    TERMINAL_WRITE_EXIT=$?
    printf '%s\n' "$TERMINAL_WRITE_JSON"
    if [[ "$TERMINAL_WRITE_EXIT" -ne 0 ]]; then
      echo "<promise>RETRY</promise>"
      exit 0
    fi
  fi
  if ! rm -f "$RECEIPT_RECOVERY"; then
    echo "<promise>RETRY</promise>"
    exit 0
  fi

  if [[ "$TERMINAL_EXIT" -eq 4 ]]; then
    if [[ "$TERMINAL_STATUS" == "needs_human" ]]; then
      echo "ESCALATE: reviewer requested human review"
    else
      echo "ESCALATE: completion-review did not converge in ${REVIEW_CAP} verdict rounds"
    fi
    exit 4
  fi
  echo "VERDICT=SHIP"
  exit 0
fi

An exit-4 cap refusal before this run has delivered a completion verdict is non-terminal for completion status: surface ESCALATE: / NEEDS_HUMAN and do not invent a needs_work write. More than ${MAX_REVIEW_TRANSPORT_FAILURES:-2} consecutive transport failures stop separately with TRANSPORT_UNHEALTHY + exit 5; never write completion status or reset the verdict counter for transport health.

Unchanged-artifact terminal: NOT_RETRYABLE: artifact unchanged since last verdict exits 1 before dispatch. Stop for human action; never refund, reset, use --force, or redispatch autonomously. A human may edit the exact artifact, explicitly reset, or deliberately apply --force.

Step 1: Load Backend Workflow

1. $BACKEND was already resolved by workflow-common.md Phase 0 (Preamble) — do NOT re-run it.
2. Read only the file for that backend, per the routing table at the top of this file.

Do not read the other backend files. Each is self-contained for its backend; loading the others wastes context.

Step 2: Execute the backend workflow

Follow the phases in the per-backend file end-to-end. Each file owns its own Identify → Execute → Verdict → Receipt steps (and, for RP, the full Phase 1-4 setup-review (5-15 min, DO NOT RETRY) / chat-send (2-10 min, DO NOT RETRY) / receipt build).

Step 3: Fix loop and terminal status

Both are backend-agnostic and live in workflow-common.md — already in context from Phase 0:

• §"Fix Loop (INTERNAL - do not exit to Ralph)" — the round cap, the anti-patterns, and the parse → fix → commit → re-review cycle.
• §"Record the terminal verdict exactly once" — who writes completion_review_status, and when host/rp re-run the Step 0.5 checkpoint above.