independent-review-loop

Operational spec for the **team lead**. This skill runs an independent review pass at delivery: a reviewer that fails differently from the author reads the whole PR against the approved outcome, the lead fixes what is in scope, and the loop repeats until the reviewer finds no more in-scope functional issues. It is the automated form of "ship, then loop the PR through Codex until it stops finding edge cases" — with the lead acting as the operator who keeps findings on-scope. What distinguishes this from the team's own review and the recursive-refinement ladder is **independence and exhaustiveness**: the reviewer is a different model (Codex) or a fresh-context agent that fails differently from the authors, and it runs to exhaustion — until no in-scope functional finding remains — rather than the bounded rung ladder. (The ladder hunts bugs too, as it drives the work to the full scope of the outcome; the new axis here is the *independent eye run to clean*, not bug-hunting per se.) It is a distinct pass; it never replaces the ladder. Only the lead runs this. Reviewers (Codex, or fresh subagents) are read-only; the lead is the sole writer, same as every other phase. ## When this runs Invoked from the **unified pre-ship gate** in code-mode's Refine/Deliver (and `/swarm:refine`) — the gate the lead presents once the team reaches 9/10+, offering (thoroughness-descending): *recursive refinement + independent review* / *recursive refinement only* / *independent review loop only* / *...