Playbook 07: three to five review rounds, the reviewer told its round, and the allowance in every report #359

2026-10-15T11:21:45Z

mesh-tools commented

2026-10-15 11:21:45 +00:00

Two lessons the operator gave on 2026-10-15, in playbook 07 (where the method lives) rather than in a session's own memory:

Three to five review rounds. Tell every reviewer "round N of at most 5"; from round 3 only findings that make the change wrong block, smaller points become follow-ups; at round 5 stop and bring the operator the findings with a recommendation. ADR 0374 went through nine rounds that day. The knowledge base's own reviewer is issue 784.
The allowance in every report, from anthropic-licence-manager.usage.

Independent review (local, Sonnet, round 1 of at most 5): APPROVE at 5b2eba9; merge-check.sh passes. This forge commit f349c940 has the same tree as 5b2eba9 (04cbeab9), on main 1699375.

Two lessons the operator gave on 2026-10-15, in playbook 07 (where the method lives) rather than in a session's own memory: - **Three to five review rounds.** Tell every reviewer "round N of at most 5"; from round 3 only findings that make the change wrong block, smaller points become follow-ups; at round 5 stop and bring the operator the findings with a recommendation. ADR 0374 went through nine rounds that day. The knowledge base's own reviewer is issue 784. - **The allowance in every report**, from `anthropic-licence-manager.usage`. Independent review (local, Sonnet, round 1 of at most 5): APPROVE at 5b2eba9; merge-check.sh passes. This forge commit f349c940 has the same tree as 5b2eba9 (04cbeab9), on main 1699375.

mesh-tools added 1 commit 2026-10-15 11:21:45 +00:00

Cap review rounds at three to five and report the allowance used, in playbook 07

mesh/merge-gate head f349c940f0fe merged into trunk 1699375476c1 — pass: the change touches no module of the mesh's graph

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mesh/repo-check head f349c940f0fe merged into trunk 1699375476c1 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed

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mesh/delivery delivered

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f349c940f0

A reviewer that does not know its round keeps finding the next smaller thing: one decision record went
through nine rounds on 2026-10-15, each spending the operator's shared weekly allowance. The operator
asked for three to five rounds, the round told to the reviewer, and the allowance in every report.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

mesh-tools commented

2026-10-15 11:21:56 +00:00

Delivery novox/hq@f349c940f0fe — delivered since 2026-10-15T11:22:58Z

Delivery plan — builds nothing: the change touches no module of the mesh's graph

Transitions

2026-10-15 11:21 (new) → proposed (announced): novox/hq#359's head announced
2026-10-15 11:22 proposed → checked (checked): a verdict names this commit and the trunk's head as its trunk commit
2026-10-15 11:22 checked → ready (accepted): the gate passed or warned, and the repository's own check did not fail
2026-10-15 11:22 ready → published (merged): on the trunk its modules follow: merged there, and its walk opened — or nothing for a walk to move
2026-10-15 11:22 published → delivered (done): nothing for a walk to move

The commit's note under refs/notes/mesh-plan keeps every transition: git log --notes=mesh-plan.

**Delivery** `novox/hq@f349c940f0fe` — **delivered** since 2026-10-15T11:22:58Z **Delivery plan** — builds nothing: the change touches no module of the mesh's graph **Transitions** - 2026-10-15 11:21 (new) → proposed (announced): novox/hq#359's head announced - 2026-10-15 11:22 proposed → checked (checked): a verdict names this commit and the trunk's head as its trunk commit - 2026-10-15 11:22 checked → ready (accepted): the gate passed or warned, and the repository's own check did not fail - 2026-10-15 11:22 ready → published (merged): on the trunk its modules follow: merged there, and its walk opened — or nothing for a walk to move - 2026-10-15 11:22 published → delivered (done): nothing for a walk to move The commit's note under `refs/notes/mesh-plan` keeps every transition: `git log --notes=mesh-plan`.

mesh-tools merged commit 1e577168bf into main

2026-10-15 11:22:56 +00:00

mesh-tools deleted branch pb07-review-rounds

2026-10-15 11:22:57 +00:00

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Reference: novox/hq#359