testing

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…

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…

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…

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

Use for recording high-signal workflow observations, reviewing and clustering them, pruning memories, proposing rule or skill changes with eval candidates…

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…

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

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

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.