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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a zero-prompt redesign for ChangesReview workflow redesign
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This design changes the review workflow to use ephemeral workspaces and a gated posting step, but the current proposal still permits write-capable GitHub tooling before approval and an unrestricted file writer, while also leaving manifest transport and path/identity validation gaps. These flaws could allow untrusted review content to alter user files or PR state, or cause incomplete reviews on large or adversarial inputs, so the proposal is not safe to merge without resolving the controls. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Pull request overview
Proposes a zero-prompt redesign of review-pr using ephemeral Git worktrees and head-anchored findings.
Changes:
- Defines the redesigned workspace, workflow, agents, and permission model.
- Documents implementation and validation requirements.
- Bumps the plugin patch version.
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pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md |
Adds the redesign proposal. |
pr-review-toolkit/.claude-plugin/plugin.json |
Bumps version to 1.13.1. |
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pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:244
- The merge-base is not guaranteed to remain identical for an arbitrary stale base tip. If the base is force-pushed or otherwise changes ancestry while the PR head is unchanged,
merge^2still matcheshead_sha, butmerge^1can produce the wrong manifest and line anchors. After metadata is fetched, verify this base tip against the authoritative current base and defer/refetch when it differs.
deferred): `merge_base=$(git merge-base "$base_sha" "$head_sha")`,
then emit the manifest per the output contract below. The merge-base
is the fork point, so a slightly stale `base_sha` (GitHub recomputes
test merges lazily) yields the identical merge-base and manifest.
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:258
remotecomes from local repository configuration andbase-reffrom PR metadata; valid values can contain shell metacharacters. Interpolating them verbatim into a model-issued Bash command permits argument splitting or command substitution beforeworkspace.shreceives them. Define a safe argv transport or reject values outside a conservative character set before constructing this command; ordinary double quotes do not neutralize$().
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bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/workspace.sh" manifest "$ws" <remote> <base-ref>
with arguments taken verbatim from setup provenance and
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:295**
* Because tabs delimit fields, a valid filename containing a tab is as unrepresentable as one containing a newline; `git diff -z` preserves that tab literally. As written, conversion would create extra fields and corrupt the manifest. Reject both characters before reformatting, or retain a NUL-safe encoding.
the script's guard. A path containing a newline cannot be represented
in this framing and fails the run with WORKSPACE_ERROR — an honest
refusal of a pathological case. Consumers never decode anything: the
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:358**
* Writing `context.json` with `Write` directly contradicts the invariant at lines 38–41 and the PR's stated key decision that every workspace mutation goes through a git subcommand. It also makes the later claim that everything above the approval gate is read-only inaccurate. Either declare this context-file write as an explicit exception and narrow those claims, or use a transport that satisfies the invariant.
- Write the shared context file (see Data Flow) into the workspace with
the Write tool, and launch the workflow.
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:524**
* The write boundary is not structural once specialists receive unrestricted `Bash`: they can invoke `git push` or mutate the shared repository metadata, and the documented SSH fetch confirms that credentials and network access are available. A disposable worktree does not bound those effects, and this conflicts with `PR_REVIEW_REQUIREMENTS.md:277-280`. Keep `Bash` denied and expose history through a genuinely read-only helper/tool, or explicitly weaken the claimed guarantee.
- The write boundary is structural; the specialist git allowance is
not, and the doc says so honestly. Both agent types deny GitHub
write tools, file mutation tools, andTaskviadisallowedTools—
enforceable because those are tool names. "Read-only git only" cannot
be expressed in agent frontmatter (Bash is all-or-nothing there); it
is instruction-level, backed by auto-mode evaluation and the sandbox,
and the residual risk is bounded by the workspace being disposable
and the user's checkout never being the working directory.
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| `FETCH_HEAD` volatility class, narrowed but not gone. Their entire |
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Maybe we don't name the refs then and just track via SHAs? Would that be more robust?
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Yes — strictly more robust, and verified against live GitHub PR refs just now: git ls-remote <remote> refs/pull/N/head refs/pull/N/merge returns both SHAs as one consistent snapshot (a missing merge ref is just a missing line, exit 0 — no fetch-failure semantics to interpret), and GitHub accepts a subsequent fetch by SHA (git fetch <remote> <head_sha> <merge_sha>), downloading the objects while creating zero local refs.
That removes the race at the root instead of namespacing around it: the SHAs are pinned in script variables before the fetch runs, so there is no shared mutable state at all — no destination refs, no update-ref -d, no exit trap, no nonce. merge^1/merge^2 resolve from the bare SHAs and the merge^2 == head consistency check works unchanged.
Two properties worth noting in the doc: this relies on GitHub's server accepting SHA wants (verified; a fast-forwarded ref keeps the old SHA reachable, and a force-push between ls-remote and fetch fails honestly as WORKSPACE_ERROR), and merge-ref absence detection actually gets simpler than today. Folding this into the next push, which will land as one commit once CodeRabbit finishes with the current head.
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In `@pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md`:
- Around line 180-187: Update the fetch-and-cleanup flow described in the
documentation to generate one invocation-unique ref namespace, use it for all
fetch destinations and rev-parse reads, and restrict the exit-trap cleanup to
that namespace. Remove the PR-keyed shared refs and avoid deleting all refs
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pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:1
- This docs-only plugin change does not bump
pr-review-toolkit/.claude-plugin/plugin.json, which remains at 1.13.0.CLAUDE.md:47-55requires every plugin-file edit other than README.md/CLAUDE.md to bump the plugin version; this change should carry a patch bump to 1.13.1.
# PR Review Toolkit: Zero-Prompt Redesign
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- Plain
git worktree pruneusesgc.worktreePruneExpire(three months by default), so a registration whose temp directory was just reaped will not be cleared on the next run as promised. Use--expire now; existing live directories and locked worktrees remain protected.
3. **Hygiene.** Run `git worktree prune` to clear registrations left
stale by temp-space cleanup of previous workspaces.
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:177
- This fetch still writes the shared
.git/FETCH_HEADby default, so concurrent sessions can contend despite lines 169-171 claiming no shared mutable state. It can also auto-follow tags and create local tag refs. Disable both behaviors for SHA-only transport.
git fetch <remote> "$head_sha" [ "$merge_sha" ]
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:390
- The only head-SHA check occurs before analysis, but the interactive review/drafting loop can last long enough for the PR to be force-pushed. Posting afterward can target shifted lines or a different diff, so the approved preview is no longer exact. Revalidate immediately before preview and again before the first write, aborting if the head moved.
7. Preview and approval: unchanged from today. Exact preview of every
line comment, thread reply, review body, and review event, then
explicit approval via `AskUserQuestion`.
8. Post via GitHub MCP write tools. This is the only step in the entire
system that performs a write outside the workspace.
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:267
- The deferred-manifest fetch must also suppress
FETCH_HEADand tag updates; otherwise this path reintroduces the shared state and possible ref creation that SHA-only transport is intended to eliminate.
`git ls-remote <remote> "refs/heads/<base-ref>"`, fetches it by SHA
(same discipline as setup — no local refs), computes the merge-base,
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| when metadata `base.sha` differs from setup's `baseSha`, fetch | ||
| `base.sha` by SHA and check `git -C <workspace> merge-base | ||
| --is-ancestor <setup-baseSha> <base.sha>`. If setup's base is not | ||
| an ancestor of the current base, the base was force-pushed and | ||
| setup's manifest is invalid — discard it and recompute. An | ||
| ordinary fast-forward leaves the fork point unchanged and needs no | ||
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| write tools, file mutation tools, and `Task` via `disallowedTools` — | ||
| enforceable because those are tool names. "Read-only git only" cannot | ||
| be expressed in agent frontmatter (Bash is all-or-nothing there); it | ||
| is instruction-level, backed by auto-mode evaluation and the sandbox, | ||
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| The **shared context file** (`context.json`, written into the workspace | ||
| by the skill with the Write tool) carries what is known *before* the | ||
| workflow starts: PR metadata, the raw manifest, and provenance. Review |
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pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:175
git fetchwrites.git/FETCH_HEADby default. Both entry points therefore overwrite shared state in the user's repository, contradicting the stated “fetched objects and worktree registrations only” footprint and potentially clobbering a user's own pendingFETCH_HEAD. Add--no-write-fetch-headto every fetch in both setup and manifest, and update the output/invariant text accordingly.
variables from birth — no destination refs, and nothing the design
ever reads from shared state (`FETCH_HEAD` is written by git on
every fetch but never read by the toolkit) — so concurrent sessions
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:1
- This new file changes content inside the
pr-review-toolkitplugin, but the PR does not update its plugin version. Repository convention requires a version bump for every plugin-file change other than README.md or CLAUDE.md (CLAUDE.md:47-55). Add the appropriate bump inpr-review-toolkit/.claude-plugin/plugin.json.
# PR Review Toolkit: Zero-Prompt Redesign
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- A shallow clone can satisfy this remote precondition but still lack the ancestry required by
git merge-base; fetching the pinned tip SHAs without deepening does not guarantee that existing shallow boundaries are removed. That can make setup fail or compute incomplete history in common CI/depth-1 clones. Either reject shallow repositories here with an actionableWORKSPACE_ERROR, or specify a no-ref deepening strategy and include it in the footprint/validation criteria.
2. **Locate the source remote.** Scan *all* remotes of the current
repository for any remote whose URL resolves to the PR base
repository. No match (or not in a git repository) is a precondition
failure: emit `WORKSPACE_ERROR` and stop.
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| Because these arguments ride in a model-issued command line, the script | ||
| validates them before use: remote names and refs against a conservative | ||
| character set (`[A-Za-z0-9._/-]`), the workspace as an existing | ||
| directory — anything else is `WORKSPACE_ERROR`. Git ref names may | ||
| legally contain shell metacharacters such as `$()`, and quoting alone | ||
| does not neutralize them; the skill must likewise refuse to pass a ref | ||
| outside that set. This is the one sanctioned model-issued invocation of | ||
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| Design Decision 6, a deliberate deviation, not an oversight. If the |
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- Resolving the base branch again with
ls-remotecreates a race after metadata was fetched: if the base advances in between, the manifest is built against a different snapshot than the metadata used by the workflow. Pass and fetch the already returned metadatabase.shainstead (with SHA validation), so head and base are pinned from one API snapshot.
and does not re-verify it (the skill verified it against GitHub before
calling). It runs `git -C "$ws/checkout"` throughout, resolves the base
tip with `git ls-remote <remote> "refs/heads/<base-ref>"`, fetches it
by SHA (same discipline as setup — `--no-tags --no-write-fetch-head`,
no local refs), computes the merge-base, and emits per the output
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:165
git worktree prune --expire nowis repository-wide, not scoped to toolkit worktrees. It can immediately delete an unrelated registration whose directory is temporarily unavailable (for example, on an unmounted volume), overriding Git's normal grace period and violating the promise not to alter user-owned state. Avoid forcingnow, or redesign cleanup so only registrations known to belong to the toolkit are removed.
3. **Hygiene.** Run `git worktree prune --expire now` to clear
registrations left stale by temp-space cleanup of previous
workspaces. The `--expire now` is required: plain `prune` honors
`gc.worktreePruneExpire` (default three months), which would leave a
just-reaped registration in place despite this design's promise to
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:189
- This fetch still inherits
fetch.recurseSubmodulesfrom the user's configuration. When enabled, setup can contact unrelated submodule remotes, prompt for additional credentials, and mutate populated submodule object stores, contradicting the single-remote and zero-prompt guarantees. Explicitly disable recursive submodule fetching for both setup and manifest fetches.
git fetch --no-tags --no-write-fetch-head <remote> "$head_sha" [ "$merge_sha" ]
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:1
- This adds plugin documentation without updating the plugin version. Repository convention requires any plugin-file change other than README.md or CLAUDE.md to bump that plugin's
.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonversion (CLAUDE.md:47-52); add the appropriate semver bump to this PR.
# PR Review Toolkit: Zero-Prompt Redesign
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- The final guard checks only the head, but the document already recognizes that base movement can advance the merge-base and remove changes from the PR diff. If the base absorbs PR commits during the interactive loop, approved line comments may no longer have valid locations even though
headShais unchanged. Re-fetch and compare bothheadShaandbase.shawith the reviewed SHAs before posting, aborting on either change.
8. Post via GitHub MCP write tools — after one final guard: re-fetch
the PR's `headSha` and abort posting if it no longer matches the
reviewed head. The interactive loop can outlast a force-push, and a
moved head invalidates the approved preview's line anchors; abort
with an honest message rather than post against a diff the preview
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pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:457
- This is not the only step that writes outside the workspace: setup fetches objects and registers a linked worktree in the source repository. Narrow the claim to the intended boundary—this is the only GitHub write—so it agrees with lines 35-45.
proceeding otherwise — an ordinary base advance does not alter the
PR diff, and aborting on every one would make posting on a busy
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:229
- Disabling
post-checkoutalone does not make checkout prompt-free or side-effect-free. Checkout also runs.gitattributessmudge/process filters (notably Git LFS), which may execute configured programs, perform network authentication, write elsewhere, or fail after partially materializing files. The design needs to bypass filters or explicitly constrain supported repositories and failure handling.
ws=$(mktemp -d -p "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}" "pr-review-<owner>-<repo>-<N>.XXXXXXXX")
git -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null worktree add --detach "$ws/checkout" "$head_sha"
The core.hooksPath=/dev/null override is required: worktree add
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:4**
* This new plugin documentation is not accompanied by the required plugin version bump. The repository convention requires any plugin-file change other than README.md/CLAUDE.md to update the plugin's `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` (`CLAUDE.md:47-55`); for this docs-only PR, add the appropriate patch bump.
Status: design decisions resolved; ready for implementation. This document
supersedes WORKFLOW_REWRITE_PLAN.md and WORKFLOW_REWRITE_CONTEXT.md.
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:28**
* The absolute “only write action”/“everything ... read-only” contract contradicts the documented setup: fetching adds objects, `worktree add` changes shared git metadata and creates files, and the skill writes `context.json` (lines 35-45). Qualify this as the only GitHub write and explicitly exempt the stated ephemeral/git metadata footprint so implementers do not build against conflicting invariants.
This issue also appears on line 456 of the same file.
review board and the interactive drafting loop. The only write action the
toolkit ever takes is posting the approved review to GitHub, and that
action is gated behind an exact preview and explicit user approval in the
conversation. Everything before that gate is read-only, and must be
structured so the harness never needs to ask the user anything.
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:66**
* Reusing a working remote does not guarantee noninteractive authentication: an uncached HTTPS credential or an encrypted SSH key without an agent can still prompt. Because setup must fail rather than prompt, specify noninteractive Git/SSH invocation (or make noninteractive credentials an explicit precondition) and convert authentication failures to `WORKSPACE_ERROR`.
clone-from-scratch mode and no MCP bulk-data fallback. This precondition
also settles authentication by construction: the fetch uses a remote the
user already fetches from, so whatever credentials that remote uses (SSH
agent, credential helper) are inherited, and the toolkit never handles
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:363**
* Rejecting only tab/newline does not make this literal line protocol safe. Git paths can contain carriage returns, other control bytes, and invalid UTF-8; these can corrupt prompt/output framing or fail when the skill serializes `context.json`. Define and validate a representable encoding domain, failing honestly for all unsupported byte sequences.
2.43). The -z-to-lines reformat is deterministic IO shaping, within
the script's guard. A path containing a tab or a newline cannot be
represented in this framing (tabs delimit the fields, and git diff -z preserves both characters literally) and fails the run with
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:442**
* GitHub does not always know the mergeability result at metadata-read time: it can return an unknown/null state while the test merge is being computed. Require a neutral unknown/recomputing path (or a bounded retry) so an absent/stale merge ref is not incorrectly presented as a conflict.
- Present the review board; run the interactive loop (challenge, refine,
select, draft) exactly as the current SKILL.md specifies — that
section's requirements carry forward. WhenmergeRefis not
present, interpret it through the metadata's mergeability state —
absent or stale means *conflict, not yet computed, or recomputing
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:165**
* The PR description says cleanup uses `git worktree prune --expire now`, while this design explicitly rejects that option and uses the configured expiry schedule. Update the PR description to match the resolved decision so reviewers and implementers are not given opposite cleanup contracts.
them.
3. Hygiene. Run git worktree prune so git clears registrations
left stale by temp-space cleanup of previous workspaces, on git's
own expiry schedule (gc.worktreePruneExpire, default three
months). --expire now was considered and rejected: prune is
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:193**
* These flags do not reduce fetch side effects to the documented fetched objects: `git fetch` runs automatic maintenance/GC by default, which can repack existing objects and rewrite commit-graph or other shared repository metadata. Disable it on both setup and manifest fetches to preserve the stated shared-state footprint and avoid extra concurrent maintenance work.
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- This portability claim is incorrect:
-pis a GNU option and is unavailable in the BSD/macOSmktempsyntax. Document the portable full-template-path form used in the corrected command instead.
`-p` with a relative template behaves identically on GNU and
BSD/macOS `mktemp`; the `owner-repo-N` label is for human debugging
only — uniqueness comes from the template.
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- Emitting both complete manifest sections through dynamic preprocessing puts the entire manifest into the main conversation before the model can cap or offload it; the model then has to duplicate that bulk into
context.json. A sufficiently large PR can exhaust context before the workflow launches, contrary to the large-PR requirement to keep large intermediates out of the main conversation (PR_REVIEW_REQUIREMENTS.md:297). Have the deterministic builder persist the manifest as a workspace artifact and emit only bounded provenance/path metadata, or otherwise bound this channel without losing completeness.
- Success: `WORKSPACE_OK`, then `key value` lines — `workspace` (the
workspace root; the PR checkout is at `<workspace>/checkout`),
`remote`, `headSha`, `baseSha`, `mergeBase`, `mergeRef`
(`present`/`absent`/`stale`), `manifest` (`complete`/`deferred`) —
then, when the manifest is complete, `NAME_STATUS` and `NUMSTAT`
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:165
- The PR description says cleanup uses
git worktree prune --expire now, but this design explicitly rejects that behavior and retains Git's default expiry. The rationale here indicates the design is intentional, so update the PR description's “Git-native-only mutations” decision to avoid documenting the opposite cleanup policy.
months). `--expire now` was considered and rejected: prune is
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:1
- This adds plugin documentation without the required plugin version bump. Repository convention requires every plugin-file edit other than README.md or CLAUDE.md to update that plugin's
.claude-plugin/plugin.jsononce per branch (CLAUDE.md:47-55); add the appropriate semver bump to this PR.
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- The preprocessing command interpolates the user-supplied skill argument into shell source before
workspace.shcan validate it. A value containing command substitution (for example,$()inside the quoted value) can execute during prompt assembly, so the validation in step 1 is too late. Pass the URL through a harness-provided argument/environment channel that does not perform textual shell interpolation, or otherwise make it shell-safe before this command is parsed.
- Workspace: !`bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/workspace.sh" setup "$pr-url"`
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:401
- This still sends the complete manifest through the main model context:
Readreturns the file contents to the skill, and the skill then serializes all records into the Workflowargs(also stated at lines 750–754). For a large PR, that can truncate or exceed tool/context limits and contradicts the PR's bounded-output claim. Pass onlymanifestFile/workspace provenance and have deterministic workflow code load and parse the artifact directly.
and out of the model's rewrite path. Specialists Read the file
directly; the skill reads it once to pass the file list to the
workflow via `args` — the single inline transit.
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:168
- Rejecting only shallow clones misses partial/promisor clones. Such a repository can report non-shallow while still lacking blobs;
fetchmay preserve its partial-clone filter, andworktree add, later diffs, or specialist reads can then trigger an implicit fetch from the configured promisor remote. That breaks the pinned single-remote/zero-prompt model. Add a partial-clone precondition failure, or explicitly materialize and verify all objects using the matched remote under the same non-interactive environment.
failure: emit `WORKSPACE_ERROR` and stop. A shallow repository
(`git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository` reports true) is also a
precondition failure, with the actionable reason "shallow clone —
run `git fetch --unshallow`": merge-base needs ancestry that shallow
boundaries cut off, and fetching pinned tip SHAs does not deepen
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:27
- The headline read-only invariant is contradicted by the design's own pre-gate operations:
mktemp,manifest.tsv,context.json, fetched objects, and worktree registrations are all writes. Lines 44–46 and the component table also describe these writes inconsistently. Scope this claim consistently to GitHub/the user's checkout and explicitly enumerate the permitted workspace and git-metadata writes so the implementation has a satisfiable invariant.
review board and the interactive drafting loop. The **only write action the
toolkit ever takes is posting the approved review to GitHub**, and that
action is gated behind an exact preview and explicit user approval in the
conversation. Everything before that gate is read-only, and must be
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:3
- This PR edits files inside
pr-review-toolkitbut does not update its plugin version. The repository convention requires a semver bump for every plugin-file change other than README.md or CLAUDE.md (CLAUDE.md:47-55). Add the appropriate.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonbump for this docs-only release; the major bump described later belongs to the future implementation that actually renames agents.
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| **read-only git commands against the workspace checkout** — `git -C | ||
| <workspace>/checkout log`, `blame`, `show`, `diff` (the `-C` form; | ||
| specialists do not `cd`). |
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- This check misses
GIT_SSH. Git gives a newly setGIT_SSH_COMMANDprecedence overGIT_SSH, so users whose wrapper or identity is configured only throughGIT_SSHwill have it clobbered and may fail authentication. Treat a non-emptyGIT_SSHas another existing SSH configuration before installing the BatchMode default.
Every network-touching git command in both entry points runs with
`GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0`; `GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -oBatchMode=yes"` is
set only when neither `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` nor `core.sshCommand` is
already configured, so a user's SSH wrapper or identity setup is
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:429
- The checkout also consults non-versioned attribute sources:
$GIT_DIR/info/attributes,core.attributesFile, and system attributes. These can applyeol,ident, orworking-tree-encoding, so transforms are not limited to tracked, deterministic.gitattributesand workspace bytes can differ by clone. Neutralize or reject those sources—including the shared repository'sinfo/attributes—or weaken the stated fidelity invariant.
empirically) — specialists would then review an incomplete tree;
`-c core.sparseCheckout=false` forces a complete checkout for the
analysis worktree regardless of the user's sparsity settings.
- **Text conversion**: a user's `core.autocrlf` setting rewrites
line endings at checkout, making the bytes specialists `Read`
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:686
- Re-pairing
A/Drecords fixes file count but does not by itself fix churn. A pure N-line rename has N additions and N deletions under--no-renames, while its rename-aware churn is 0/0. Require paired-file stats and aggregate totals to be recomputed from the full-diff hunks (with binary handling), or disclose the raw split stats; otherwise the promised additions/deletions reconciliation remains incomplete.
per-file numstat detail, disclosed in `reviewMeta` — completeness
lives in the artifact, not the transit.
Manifest file encoding: the script derives the `NAME_STATUS` and
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:123
- This PR changes plugin-owned files but leaves
pr-review-toolkit/.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonunchanged at 1.13.0.CLAUDE.md:47-55requires one semver bump whenever plugin files other than README.md or CLAUDE.md change, so include the appropriate version bump in this PR.
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| command run on a TTY; `--find-renames` pins rename detection on, | ||
| honoring the manifest section's promise that the full diff keeps it | ||
| regardless of the user's `diff.renames`. This yields the same content and line | ||
| numbers as the diff GitHub renders, so every line number is directly | ||
| postable. The 200K-character cap gates prompt inclusion only, and |
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- This contingency contradicts the PR's zero-permission-prompt requirement: under the condition that activates it, setup becomes model-issued and an EPERM is explicitly allowed to surface as a harness prompt. Define a fail-closed no-prompt outcome or another shell-safe pre-approved argument channel instead; an accepted prompt cannot satisfy the Design Goal and success criterion 1.
trade-down: the checkout step's sandbox-EPERM-to-`WORKSPACE_ERROR`
property holds only for pre-approved preprocessing commands, so under
the contingency an EPERM in the model-issued setup call may surface as
a harness prompt instead — accepted only because it activates only
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:809
- The Bash tool can truncate large command output before the skill sees it, so the skill cannot reliably apply its own 200K limit or guarantee a hunk-boundary cut; a middle-truncated response can also feed malformed diff text to the workflow parser. Produce the bounded diff in a bundled helper/artifact and read it in chunks, or otherwise cap it before it crosses the Bash-result boundary.
-c diff.interHunkContext=0 -c diff.orderFile= \
-c diff.renameLimit=32767 diff \
--no-ext-diff --no-textconv --no-color -U3 --find-renames \
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**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:706**
* Re-pairing the A/D records fixes `fileCount`, but `rename from`/`rename to` headers contain no numstat values, so the emitted additions/deletions remain full-file deletion plus full-file addition. Because the workflow payload also omits GitHub's aggregate totals, rename-heavy PRs remain overstated even when pairing is complete. Derive replacement rename numstat and recompute totals, or carry a separate rename-aware/API aggregate.
empty inline path followed by two NUL-separated paths — both traps
for a naive splitter), and it makes the manifest independent of the
user's diff.renames configuration, which would otherwise yield
different manifests for the same PR on different machines. Renames
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:3**
* This PR changes plugin files under `pr-review-toolkit/docs`, but the plugin version remains 1.13.0. The repository convention requires a semver bump for every plugin-file change other than README.md or CLAUDE.md (`CLAUDE.md:47-55`), so add the appropriate version change before merging.
Status: design decisions resolved; ready for implementation. This document
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:826**
* This conditional suppresses the base-advance note whenever `mergeRef` is `present`, even though `baseAhead` can be positive for a clean synthetic merge. That conflicts with the Merge-Result Awareness contract at lines 991-1003 and hides the warning that the head-only checkout does not show how the PR lands on the advanced base.
command run on a TTY; --find-renames pins rename detection on,
honoring the manifest section's promise that the full diff keeps it
regardless of the user's diff.renames. The -c diff.* pins hold
the output shape still against user config: diff.algorithm,
diff.indentHeuristic, and diff.interHunkContext each move hunk
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- The manifest diff is still affected by
diff.ignoreSubmodules/submodule.<name>.ignore; a localignore=allsetting can omit a changed gitlink entirely, so the supposedly complete manifest varies by clone. Require--ignore-submodules=noneon both manifest diff invocations.
`NUMSTAT` sections from `git diff -z --no-renames` and writes
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:808
- Pin submodule handling here too. User configuration can hide gitlink changes, and
diff.submodule=log|diffcan reshape the full diff (including nested headers that the workflow may parse as top-level files), contradicting the machine-independent output contract. Use--ignore-submodules=noneand a fixed--submodule=shortformat.
--no-ext-diff --no-textconv --no-color -U3 --find-renames \
--src-prefix=a/ --dst-prefix=b/ <merge-base> HEAD
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- The main flow reads
manifest.tsv, butReadis absent from this exhaustive frontmatter list. That makes the documented claim that the main path remains prompt-free under stricter permission modes false (and conflicts with a skill constraint to use onlyallowed-tools). IncludeReadalongsideWrite.
`Write` (for the context file), the GitHub read/write tools the
skill itself uses, and `AskUserQuestion`/`Workflow`/`ExitPlanMode` —
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:3
- This adds and amends files under
pr-review-toolkit, but the plugin manifest remains at version 1.13.0. CLAUDE.md:47-55 requires a semver bump whenever plugin files other than README.md or CLAUDE.md change; please include the appropriate one-time bump for this PR.
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- Using the same endpoint trees guarantees head-file line numbers, but not that GitHub considers the same lines commentable: Git's diff algorithm/indent heuristic can produce different hunks from GitHub for ambiguous edits. Since lines 442–444 also remove the current
get_fileshunk validation, a comment accepted by the local diff can be rejected during posting rather than moved to the review body. Retain GitHub-patch hunk validation before preview/posting, or define and validate another source of GitHub's commentable positions.
`diff.renames=false`) from reshaping the output. What must hold is
line-anchor equivalence with GitHub: both sides diff the same two
trees, so head line numbers are directly postable. The 200K-char
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:79
- This plugin change has no corresponding manifest version bump:
pr-review-toolkit/.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonremains at1.13.0, whileCLAUDE.md:47-55requires every plugin-file change other than README/CLAUDE to bump once per PR. The future implementation may warrant the documented major bump, but this docs-only PR still needs its own semver bump.
`pr-review-collector` renames `pr-review-github-collector` (update the
workflow's `agentType` reference); `pr-review-specialist` replaces
`pr-review-analysis-readonly`; `pr-review-synthesis` is new. Renamed
agents make this a major version bump.
pr-review-toolkit/docs/PR_REVIEW_REQUIREMENTS.md:75
- The PR description says
PR_REVIEW_REQUIREMENTS.mdchanges its Safety Requirements “in exactly one place,” but this clause is under Safe And Predictable Tooling, in addition to the two amended Safety clauses at lines 280–289. The design document correctly calls these three clauses; update the PR description so its claimed scope matches the diff.
- GitHub API operations — metadata and review-thread reads, and review
posting — should go through GitHub MCP tools; repository content may
come from read-only local git transport. (Amended by the zero-prompt
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- Around line 393-397: Update the manifest handling described near the workflow
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deterministic workflow code streaming or offset-reading records as needed.
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| - **The user's checkout is never mutated.** `git status`, branch, and | ||
| index are identical before and after a review, including failed ones. | ||
| No refs or branches are ever created in the user's repository. The | ||
| toolkit never prunes; stale worktree registrations are inert and the |
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Why do we not prune anymore? Was it causing issues?
| - **Every git-state mutation goes through a git subcommand.** Never | ||
| `rm -rf` (the permission layer blocks it everywhere; git subcommands | ||
| run prompt-free). Non-git writes are confined to the workspace: the | ||
| `mktemp` root, `manifest.tsv`, `context.json`. |
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are the manifest and context files held outside the worktree? is holding these as files the best thing to do? can the agents not use diffs to derive this?
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| | `agents/pr-review-collector.md` | GitHub MCP reader: review threads | Nothing | | ||
| | `agents/pr-review-specialist.md` | Read-only analysis in the workspace | Nothing | | ||
| | `agents/pr-review-synthesis.md` | Tool-denied board synthesis from prompt JSON | Nothing | |
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Would any of these agents be better replaced with a built in agent like plan or explore?
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| violate the single-remote model), or git older than 2.29 (the | ||
| `--no-write-fetch-head` floor). |
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what is this and why do we need to care?
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| 3. **No hygiene.** The toolkit never runs `git worktree prune`: prune | ||
| is repository-wide and can destroy a user's own registration whose | ||
| directory is temporarily unavailable. Stale toolkit registrations | ||
| are inert at mktemp-unique paths; the user's own git maintenance | ||
| clears them. (Settled ruling — see Decision 2.) |
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This goes against our original design
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| GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS=1 GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 \ | ||
| git ls-remote <remote> "refs/pull/N/head" "refs/pull/N/merge" |
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Why do we need the env vars?
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| GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS=1 GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 \ | ||
| git -c maintenance.auto=false -c gc.auto=0 \ | ||
| -c fetch.writeCommitGraph=false fetch --no-tags \ | ||
| --no-write-fetch-head --recurse-submodules=no \ | ||
| <remote> "$head_sha" [ "$merge_sha" ] |
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Why did this command get so complex?
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| GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS=1 GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 \ | ||
| git -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null -c core.fsmonitor=false \ | ||
| -c core.symlinks=false -c core.sparseCheckout=false \ | ||
| -c core.autocrlf=false <filter-disable overrides> \ | ||
| worktree add --detach "$ws/checkout" "$head_sha" |
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| `git worktree remove --force` on the path just attempted (the one |
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GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1suppresses LFS materialization/network access, but it does not disable filter execution;worktree addcan still launch LFS and any other configured smudge/process filter selected by the PR's.gitattributes. This contradicts the stated “no filter execution” guarantee and permits configured programs to run during preprocessing. Either design a way to neutralize all active filters or explicitly remove that security guarantee and document the execution risk.
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null \
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worktree add --detach "$ws/checkout" "$head_sha"
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- Reading every manifest record and serializing it into workflow
argsmakes the main transcript/tool input grow without bound. Offset reads only bound each read, not the final payload; the cited 29k-file case can exceed context or tool-input limits, contradicting the PR's claim that the manifest is never inlined. Keep deterministic categorization outside model arguments or provide a bounded/file-based workflow transport.
5. Read `manifest.tsv` once for the workflow `args` (its single inline
transit — compare records read against `fileCount` and continue
with offset reads until complete; path+status records are never
truncated, only per-file numstat detail may be dropped, disclosed
in `reviewMeta`); launch the workflow. The skill writes no files —
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:624
- This validation expectation conflicts with the chosen plain-prune policy: a newly stale registration is retained until
gc.worktreePruneExpire, not guaranteed to be pruned at the immediately following setup. Update the scenario to assert retention until normal expiry and later pruning.
setup (honest error); re-invocation (fresh workspace; old
registrations pruned at next setup); two concurrent sessions on the same
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:474
- The worktree command disables hooks and skips LFS smudging, but it does not disable arbitrary configured filters. This flow label should not claim that all filters are off.
| -> mktemp -> worktree add (hooks+filters off)
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- This test expectation cannot pass with the documented
worktree add:GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGEdoes not prevent other configured filters from executing (and can still launch the LFS filter process itself). Align this scenario with the filter-security decision rather than asserting “no filter execution.”
shallow/partial clone (precondition error); LFS/filtered repo (raw
pointers, no filter execution); sparse-checkout clone (complete
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:1
- This adds a plugin documentation file, but the PR does not update
pr-review-toolkit/.claude-plugin/plugin.json. Repository convention requires every plugin-file change other than README.md/CLAUDE.md to bump the plugin version once per PR (CLAUDE.md:47-55); add the appropriate documentation-only version bump.
# PR Review Toolkit: Zero-Prompt Redesign
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git worktree prunehonorsgc.worktreePruneExpire(three months by default), so a registration whose temp directory was just reaped will not necessarily be removed by the next run. Describe pruning as occurring after Git's normal expiry rather than at the next setup.
belongs to the OS temp reaper and stale registrations to the next
run's prune (step 3). `worktree remove` is the documented
pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:308
- The manifest is kept out of the preprocessing output, but lines 373-379 later require the skill to read all records and place them in workflow arguments. Calling it absent from prompts is therefore inaccurate even before the unbounded-payload issue is resolved.
This issue also appears on line 373 of the same file.
The manifest itself is never inlined in the output block — it lives at
`<workspace>/manifest.tsv`, keeping large-PR bulk out of preprocessing
and prompts. Format: two sections over `merge_base..head`, literal
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- This command still rewrites the repository-wide
FETCH_HEAD, so the claimed SHA-only transport is not free of shared mutable state and concurrent reviews/user fetches can overwrite one another's value. It also contradicts the PR description's explicit--no-write-fetch-headguarantee; apply the flag to this fetch so the later manifest fetch inherits it via “the same flags as setup.”
git fetch --no-tags --recurse-submodules=no \
<remote> "$head_sha" [ "$merge_sha" ]
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:222**
* Allowing configured content filters means an untrusted checkout can execute arbitrary `filter.<driver>.smudge`/`process` commands and LFS can perform network access. This directly contradicts the PR description's “content filters disabled—no configured code execution, no filter network access” boundary; the design must either disable all checkout filters or explicitly revise that security boundary and its threat model.
Content filters (LFS included) run exactly as they would for the
user's own checkout, with the user's own configuration and
credentials.
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:362**
* The full diff is still affected by user configuration that these flags do not reset: `diff.algorithm`/`diff.indentHeuristic` reshape hunks, `diff.interHunkContext` can fuse them, and `diff.ignoreSubmodules`/`diff.submodule` can omit or reshape gitlink changes. That breaks the stated deterministic hunk-boundary cap and can produce anchors unlike GitHub's default diff; explicitly reset these settings on the command line.
git -C /checkout --no-pager diff
--no-ext-diff --no-textconv --no-color -U3 --find-renames
--src-prefix=a/ --dst-prefix=b/ HEAD
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:454**
* The required verbatim hygiene never forbids output-writing options or shell redirection, even though the Permission Model later acknowledges that these nominally read-only subcommands accept `--output`. Implementing this text as written therefore leaves the write-denied specialist able to modify shared/workspace files; explicitly prohibit output-writing options and redirection (or deny Bash).
command hygiene, stated verbatim in the agent definition: hardened
diff flags (--no-ext-diff --no-textconv --no-color), pagers off;
PR-controlled
paths go after a literal --, and a path may appear as a shell
operand only if it matches ^[A-Za-z0-9._/ -]+$ — otherwise inspect
it with Read/Grep, which pass paths outside the shell. The definition
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:4**
* This docs-only PR changes plugin files but leaves `pr-review-toolkit/.claude-plugin/plugin.json` unchanged. The repository convention requires every non-README/CLAUDE plugin change to bump that plugin's version (`CLAUDE.md:47-55`); add the appropriate docs-only version bump here, leaving the documented major bump for the later breaking implementation.
Status: design decisions resolved; ready for implementation. This document
supersedes WORKFLOW_REWRITE_PLAN.md and WORKFLOW_REWRITE_CONTEXT.md.
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:184**
* This contradicts the PR description, which says missing credentials fail without prompting via `GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0`. As designed, either `ls-remote` or `fetch` can stop for interactive credential input during preprocessing and only fail after the harness timeout, rather than returning an immediate actionable `WORKSPACE_ERROR`; specify noninteractive authentication for both network calls.
No prompt-suppression or timeout machinery: this is an interactive
flow, credentials come from the remote the user already fetches
from, and a hung network command is bounded by the harness's own
command timeout, surfacing as an honest failure.
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:322**
* A user's `diff.ignoreSubmodules` or per-submodule ignore configuration can make these manifest diffs omit a changed gitlink, so `fileCount` and reviewer selection are no longer complete. Override it on both NAME_STATUS and NUMSTAT derivations.
Derive both sections from git diff -z --no-renames and reformat:
core.quotePath=false is not sufficient (git still C-quotes quotes,
backslashes, and control bytes — verified; only -z fully unquotes).
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Design document for the next iteration of review-pr, replacing the WORKFLOW_REWRITE_* docs as implementation direction. The design goal: fully automated review with zero permission prompts from invocation through the interactive board, with posting the approved review as the only write action ever, gated on exact preview plus explicit approval. Key decisions, each backed by empirical tests recorded in the doc: - Ephemeral workspace: a fresh mktemp-unique git worktree of the PR head per invocation (checkout/ beside toolkit artifacts), in sandbox-writable temp; the user's checkout is never mutated and recovery is never git reset --hard - Head-anchored findings by construction; the line-number translation step is deleted entirely, with a pre-posting head revalidation guard - SHA-only transport: ls-remote pins both PR SHAs before any fetch, objects are fetched by SHA with --no-tags --no-write-fetch-head, and nothing is written to the shared ref store — no shared mutable state between concurrent sessions; merge^1 resolves the base with no API dependency, and absent/stale merge refs or any base movement defer the manifest to a script entry point driven by pull_request_read's base branch name - MCP bulk-file fallback and clone-from-scratch mode deleted; matching remote (unshallow) or honest error; credentials inherited from working remotes - Git-native-only mutations (the permission layer blocks rm -rf everywhere; git subcommands run prompt-free); no environment detection (TMPDIR-then-/tmp verified against both local and web harness contracts) - Script-owned output contract (WORKSPACE_OK/WORKSPACE_ERROR, literal paths derived from git diff -z) with layered argument validation on the model-issued manifest entry point - Enforcement honesty: disallowedTools covers GitHub writes, file mutation, Task, web; specialist read-only git is instruction-level, and PR_REVIEW_REQUIREMENTS.md's safety clause is amended in the same change so requirement and design agree Validated by two independent cold-read comprehension passes and three review rounds (Copilot, CodeRabbit, and maintainer feedback); all findings resolved. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jok39zoTctC4dBJEAfjYEZ
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pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:163
- This fetch still rewrites the repository-wide
FETCH_HEAD, contradicting the PR's SHA-only/no-shared-state contract and allowing concurrent reviews to overwrite shared metadata. Use--no-write-fetch-headand update the following explanation accordingly.
git fetch --no-tags --recurse-submodules=no \
<remote> "$head_sha" [ "$merge_sha" ]
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:284**
* The deferred-base fetch also writes the shared `FETCH_HEAD`, so it does not use the same side-effect-free transport promised for setup. Add the suppression flag here too.
git fetch --no-tags --recurse-submodules=no <base.sha>
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:216**
* This contradicts the PR description's guarantee that checkout disables content filters. Smudge/process filters can execute configured programs, access the network (including LFS), and write caches outside the workspace, so the stated no-configured-code/no-filter-network boundary is not met. Specify how filters are disabled or revise the security contract consistently.
Content filters (LFS included) run exactly as they would for the
user's own checkout, with the user's own configuration and
credentials.
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:307**
* These two outputs do not expose renames under the same key: `--name-status` emits separate old/new tab fields, while non-`-z` `--numstat` uses its compact rename pathname form. A destination-path join can therefore lose churn for renamed files. Define a rename-aware parser or use one unambiguous record format.
Join into {path, status, additions, deletions} records for the
workflow args (rename records carry old and new paths; numstat
shows - for binary files — categorization maps those).
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:178**
* This explicitly reverses the PR description's `GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0` decision. Missing HTTPS credentials can therefore open an interactive credential prompt or wait until the harness timeout rather than failing immediately. Either restore non-interactive credential handling for every network Git command or update the stated zero-prompt contract and PR description.
No prompt-suppression or timeout machinery: this is an interactive
flow, credentials come from the remote the user already fetches
from, and a hung network command is bounded by the harness's own
command timeout, surfacing as an honest failure.
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:302**
* Only `--name-status` disables path quoting. With the default `core.quotePath=true`, a non-ASCII path is literal in the first output but C-quoted in `--numstat`, so the join described below misses its additions/deletions.
This issue also appears on line 305 of the same file.
git -C /checkout --no-pager
diff --numstat --find-renames HEAD
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:518**
* Routing the complete O(files) manifest through the main conversation and workflow `args` is unbounded; the documented 29k-file case can exhaust context or argument limits before the workflow can summarize it. This also contradicts the PR description's bounded artifact-based manifest contract. Keep bulk records outside prompts or define a bounded transport that still lets deterministic code categorize every file.
There are no artifact files at all: metadata and the file list ride
args, and the workflow builds specialist prompts from them plus the
workspace path. Threads are collected inside the workflow
**pr-review-toolkit/docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md:3**
* This adds plugin documentation without updating `pr-review-toolkit/.claude-plugin/plugin.json`. Repository convention requires a semver bump whenever plugin files other than README.md or CLAUDE.md change (`CLAUDE.md:47-55`); add the appropriate version change to this PR.
Status: design decisions resolved; ready for implementation. This document
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Summary
Design document for the next iteration of
review-pr(docs/ZERO_PROMPT_REDESIGN.md), superseding theWORKFLOW_REWRITE_*docs as implementation direction.PR_REVIEW_REQUIREMENTS.mdstays authoritative, with its Safety Requirements amended in exactly one place so requirement and design agree (see Resolved Design Decision 6). Docs-only change.Design goal: fully automated review with zero permission prompts from invocation through the interactive review board; posting the approved review is the only write action the toolkit ever takes, gated behind an exact preview and explicit approval.
The current implementation was built for manual permission mode (pre-approved checkout script mutating the user's worktree, merge-ref checkout requiring manual line-number translation, MCP as the bulk-data channel). With auto permission mode available, those compensations become liabilities — this redesign removes them.
Key decisions
mktemp-unique root per invocation in sandbox-writable temp (${TMPDIR:-/tmp}, no environment detection), holding a detachedgit worktreeof the PR head atcheckout/beside toolkit artifacts (manifest.tsv,context.json) so tracked files can't collide with them. Checkout runs with hooks and content filters (LFS included) disabled — no configured code execution, no filter network access. The user's checkout is never mutated; recovery is nevergit reset --hard.git ls-remotepins both PR SHAs into script variables before any fetch; objects are fetched by SHA with--no-tags --no-write-fetch-head --recurse-submodules=no(GitHub accepts SHA wants — verified). No refs, tags, orFETCH_HEADwrites, so concurrent sessions share no mutable state.merge^1resolves the base with no API dependency; absent/stale merge refs or any base movement defer the manifest to a script entry point driven bypull_request_read'sbase.sha(same API snapshot as head verification), with layered anchored-pattern argument validation.GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0turns missing credentials into honest errors, not hangs); the toolkit never touches tokens.rm -rfeverywhere while git subcommands run prompt-free, so every git-state mutation goes through git; cleanup is temp-reaper plusgit worktree pruneon git's own expiry schedule (forcing immediate expiry was rejected as unsafe to user-owned registrations).WORKSPACE_OK/WORKSPACE_ERRORwith a bounded block regardless of PR size — the manifest is a workspace artifact (manifest.tsv, literal paths fromgit diff -z --no-renames), never inlined into the prompt, keeping large-PR bulk out of the main conversation. The model never parses C-quoted paths again.disallowedToolsstructurally covers GitHub writes, file mutation,Task, and web access; specialist read-only git (log/blame/show/diffin the workspace checkout) is instruction-level, stated as such, with re-denyingBashdocumented as the fallback lever and the requirements doc amended to match.Evidence
Decisions are backed by empirical tests recorded in the doc: permission-layer behavior (
rm -rfdenied everywhere;git worktree add/remove, SSH fetch, and a 29k-file checkout prompt-free), SHA-only transport against live GitHub PR refs (ls-remotesnapshots tolerating missing refs; fetch-by-SHA creating zero local refs), gitquotePathand-zsemantics,mktemp -pon both GNU and modern BSD/macOS, and both harness temp-root contracts (localTMPDIRvs web/tmp).The doc has survived three independent cold-read comprehension passes and five bot/maintainer review rounds; all findings were resolved or answered with evidence.
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