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Step 07 · Inspect
adjudicate
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Go through a review point by point: accept, reject, partly accept, or can't verify.
- On site
The second review: the foreman goes through the outside reviewer's findings, and the accepted fixes go to the builder as a work order.
Every point is checked against the code first. How sure the reviewer sounded doesn't count as evidence.
- When
When the outside reviewer's findings come back.
Not forReviewing (xreview, f-inspect) and not for a review this session wrote itself.
It's working if
- It restates the original goal and hard constraints from this session before judging any claim.
- It reads the reviewer's Independence statement first and says in one line if the reviewer was not blind.
- Every claim gets one verdict, ACCEPT, REJECT, PARTIAL or CANNOT VERIFY, with evidence from the code, tests or spec.
- There is no global agree or disagree.
- It produces an apply list ordered blocker, major, minor, a reject list with the risk if wrong, and a needs-evidence list carrying the reviewer's questions verbatim.
- With you present, it edits nothing until you answer: apply the accept list, apply a subset, or hold.
Common questions
- Does it trust the reviewer?
- No. The reviewer is not an authority. Its confidence is not evidence and its severities are not the adjudicator's own; each claim is checked against the real artifact.
- Will it meet the reviewer halfway?
- No. A wrong critique is discarded, not half-applied. Taste items default to REJECT unless they prevent a real defect.
- What if the reviewer judged against the wrong goal?
- It checks the reviewer's goal line against this session's goal first. If they differ, it says so and treats every claim as judged against the wrong spec.
- What happens when no one is watching?
- In an unattended run it applies the accept and partial list in order, drops the rejects but keeps them in the report, and sends the needs-evidence list to the run's existing human channel. A claim it can't resolve to one of the four verdicts is never applied.
- Who makes the fixes in Topping Out?
- The builder. When adjudicating and fixing are separate jobs, "apply" means handing the apply list, in order, to whoever makes the fixes, and this session edits nothing.
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