Relay Review

Use when

• relay-recover inspect derives the single lifecycle action review.
• For local delivery, fresh clean Git HEAD/tree and the latest passed verification bind to the same commit; no PR or forge observation is required.
• For GitHub delivery, the durable PR fact, live PR head, passed verification, and frozen Done Criteria all bind to the same commit.
• An independent primary reviewer should produce the next blocking lifecycle fact.

The selected route is inherited from the immutable run evidence. Local review does not fetch, call gh, or require forge credentials. GitHub review requires the exact live PR observation plus the reviewer's ordinary ambient CLI authentication and network availability.

Do not use this skill to plan work, dispatch an executor, repair publication, or merge. Use relay-plan, relay-dispatch, relay-recover, or relay-merge respectively.

Run

node skills/relay-review/scripts/review-runner.js \
  --repo . \
  --run-id <run-id> \
  --json

Optional inputs are --model <opaque-model> and --timeout <seconds>. CLI authentication and HOME/XDG configuration remain ambient; credential selector flags are unknown. --reviewer may only repeat the immutable run.json reviewer binding; Relay does not implement mutable reviewer swaps or routing precedence.

Supported primary-review bindings are Codex, Claude, OpenCode, Pi, Antigravity, and Cursor. Cline remains dispatch-only because it has no registered structured primary-review output contract. The same flat adapter descriptor used for dispatch declares this capability.

The immutable binding can be repeated explicitly as --reviewer codex, --reviewer claude, --reviewer opencode, --reviewer pi, --reviewer antigravity, or --reviewer cursor. These flags validate the existing binding; they never replace it.

Runtime contract

The runner:

1. Reads the immutable Relay run.json and frozen Done Criteria.
2. Calls canonical inspect and requires the derived action review.
3. Requires either the exact fresh local Git head/tree and passed verification proof, or the exact durable/live PR identity, PR head, and passed verification proof, for the frozen Done Criteria hash.
4. Builds one review bundle containing only the immutable contract, exact diff, delivery identity, and verification fact. It never includes the dispatch prompt, executor transcript, session id, or mutable lifecycle state.
5. Stages that bundle in a private temporary directory and asks the bound adapter for a direct structured-output invocation; immutable staged bytes are checked before and after it runs.
6. Re-enters the per-run lock, repeats inspection, and appends exactly one review_recorded fact.
7. Re-inspects and returns the next derived action.

The reviewer returns only:

{"verdict":"pass|changes_requested|escalated","summary":"...","issues":[]}

pass is stored as lgtm; changesrequested derives redispatch; reviewer invocation or result errors are durably recorded as escalated. A runtime invocation failure permits one explicit review retry bound to its fact; a second failure fails closed. Model-returned escalation is not retryable. Rounds are derived from prior reviewrecorded facts. There is no automatic loop, review budget, mutable round state, manual verdict application, detached review supervisor, PR-comment authority, or lifecycle transition.

Execution and failure behavior

• Authentication and HOME/XDG configuration are ambient user-local CLI state.

Relay does not copy credential files, rewrite HOME/XDG, or serialize auth values or source paths. The review input bundle is still separately staged.

• GitHub-route reviewers use --network-access enabled (the default); selecting disabled fails before invocation. Enabled transport is unrestricted reviewer-process network and does not claim provider-only or tool-network separation. Local review has no forge transport requirement.
• Relay runs directly on the trusted local host. It requests the adapter's native filesystem isolation where available; absent or declaration-only isolation is returned as a non-durable filesystem_isolation diagnostic and does not reject review.
• The staged prompt, diff, criteria, schema, and executable bindings are rechecked after invocation. Any mutation or drift yields no review fact.
• A stale PR head, missing verification, changed action, unsupported adapter, or reviewer-binding mismatch writes no review fact.

See [runner notes](references/runner-notes.md) and the [adapter platform](../relay-dispatch/references/agent-adapter-platform.md).