reflection

Investigating a bug or failure — find the root cause with evidence, grade it at the RCA gate, escalate uncertain RCA to an independent specialist, recover Git…

Cherry-pick, backport, or apply commits/PRs onto another branch with safety gates and per-change validation; also release audits — "what's on master that…

Manual QA work — triage a loose bug report into a repro plan, validate a fix or feature, assess change impact, run PR smoke scenarios in a real environment…

Addressing GitHub PR review feedback — triage reviewer comments, decide which to fix or skip, draft replies, and resolve review threads.

Use for reviewing implemented code: one independent review of a local diff or PR, conditional deep lenses on flagged risk, delta re-review after fixes, batch…

Use for product scoping before technical planning when requirements truly need it: a feature brief with goals, non-goals, acceptance criteria and, when…

Use when a goal workflow needs to run its required checks, decide PASS / RETRY / ESCALATE / RECLASSIFY / USER_DECISION / BLOCKED, and drive fix-and-recheck…

Use when implementing one accepted plan slice, phase, or RCA fix as a bounded patch with its tests, returning a compact handoff for parent verification and…

Use for standardized end-to-end summaries and continuation checkpoints.

Move completed-phase PROJECT.md content to PROJECT_ARCHIVE.md, or remove a stale PLAN.md after a workflow is done.

Use for pre-work readiness checks and environment preparation before implementation or QA.

Use for Shortcut story, epic, iteration, comment, evidence, and PR-link operations.