Reviewing a DeepSeek-Harness PR

pnpm --silent run change-scope --base <verified-base-ref> --head <verified-head-ref>

Sources of truth

• AGENTS.md and packages/AGENTS.md: standing repository and package authoring rules.
• docs/defensive-patterns.md: subprocess, callback, async-state, and disposal bug classes.
• docs/AGENTS.md: documentation placement and prose discipline.
• dsh-prose-standard: required coverage and editorial judgment for comments, docs, prompts, and visible strings.
• dsh-ci-test-reliability: isolation and regression-proof rules for resource-owning, asynchronous, or flaky tests and fixtures.
• dsh-client-ui-ux: feedback-surface choice, overlay safety, platform window adaptation, and visual token discipline for product-user-visible GUI changes.
• docs/testing.md and the quality-gates reference: required test tiers and gates.
• Agent Notes: design rationale. Treat disagreement with an Agent Note as a design discussion, not an automatic veto.
• For bilingual changes, read translation-rules.md and terminology.md; the extended translation skill is outside automatic review and runs only on explicit user invocation.

Blocking requirements

1. New prose receives semantic review. Use dsh-prose-standard to critically review every added or changed Markdown passage, JSDoc, comment, prompt, description, diagnostic, and visible string. Verify required coverage, accuracy, placement, and editorial quality against the owning code or behavior; automated checks do not establish those properties.
2. Docs match the code. Config, defaults, errors, wire fields, events, and public behavior update the package README and JSDoc in the same diff. Comments state non-obvious contracts; flag implementation narration, test walkthroughs, review history, and duplicated rationale for deletion or a link to their one home.
3. Core type docs match. Changes to spine or seam vocabulary update the appropriate subsystems page and any

   type-equiv

   entry. Internal types need no catalog entry.
4. Registrations clean up. Verify each new registry contribution passes the disposal tests required by packages/AGENTS.md.
5. Required evidence exists. Verify the author ran the relevant local checks for the diff and that CI covers the exhaustive matrix; review the semantic gaps neither can detect.
6. Client UI copy is locale-owned. Reject product text embedded in JSX, templates, helper returns, accessibility attributes, or primitive defaults. Require typed dictionary keys, the standard

   t

   seat or explicit localized props,

   verify-client-ui-i18n

   , and behavior evidence in each affected locale; preserve user/model/wire data and code tokens verbatim.

Manual checks

• Intent and interface contracts: trace both sides of every changed interface. Confirm the implementation matches the PR and any Agent Note, including errors, cancellation, ownership, and disposal.
• Lifecycle and concurrency: for async setup, callbacks, processes, or teardown, apply defensive-patterns.md. Check races before publication, cancellation during awaits, independent error reporting, callback containment, ownership before reentry, complete detach cleanup, and quiescent disposal.
• Capability and consumer fit: trace every current consumer, then flag consumer-specific behavior leaking into the interface under the package rules. Flag the inverse too: a new public method on a generic service (registry, session, agent) whose only caller is one internal consumer is an unnecessary API expansion — require a private capability closure handed to that consumer at construction instead.
• Scope, ownership, and necessity: map each abstraction, state machine, option, defensive copy, and compatibility path to its current contract, production consumer, and owning plugin or service. Challenge unrelated features and speculative generality, then test the PR against the root rules.
• Configuration and public choices: ask what current-consumer evidence or prior art supports each default, public operation set, format, or imported external concept. Require an explicit choice or deferral when that evidence is absent.
• Model perspective: inspect the exact prompts, tool schemas, results, and diagnostics the model receives across affected modes. Flag concepts outside the model's task, then verify stable text verbatim and dynamic behavior through snapshots or end-to-end coverage.
• Enforcement: follow every denial path to the operation that executes it; exercise direct and alternate callers that can bypass schemas, prompts, facades, wrappers, or listener ordering.
• Borrowed and derived state: determine whether each retained value is borrowed or owned under the package contract, then trace notifications and every cache, prompt, UI echo, replay, and query view to the documented success point and authoritative source.
• Bounds cover the final operation: locate the owner of the complete emitted or retained result, including wrappers and metadata. Probe tiny and exact limits, oversized single chunks, and multibyte text for byte limits.
• Real entry path: tests exercise the shipped Loader, bin, worker, ACP bridge, or subprocess where relevant. A hand-mounted plugin does not catch invalid Loader exports; a function plugin must named-export its namespace and have no default export.
• Test strength: assertions fail on the intended regression and verify external state, logs, events, or disposal rather than restating the implementation or trusting an agent's report. Coverage is necessary but not evidence that the scenario is correct.
• Test reliability: for a resource-owning, asynchronous, platform-sensitive, or flaky test, apply dsh-ci-test-reliability to the real worker/job topology, resource allocation, global-state restoration, synchronization, timeout budget, and quiescent teardown.
• Negative controls: verify a deliberately invalid case fails through the real runner for each changed acceptance rule.
• Implemented Agent Notes match shipped reality: when a PR implements a proposed Agent Note, move and rewrite it as present-tense shipped state in the same diff, then verify paths, names, and mechanisms against the implementation.
• Transcript changes: editor-visible or model-visible changes update snapshots or explain why no snapshot applies. Review expected-output diffs as behavior changes, not formatting noise.
• Bilingual changes: compare meaning and terminology on both sides; a green pairing hash does not prove translation quality.

Reporting findings