Alex Verkhovsky
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* fix(review): gate routing on explicit review requests bmad-review's description matched any review-like phrasing, so coding agents entered the review workflow for requests that never asked for one — install commands, git operations, summary requests, build handovers, and questions, including a question about the review skill itself. A week of Codex session logs showed every invocation but one was unintentional. Rewrite the description around an explicit ask: - Trigger only when the user asks to review a diff, a pull request, or an artifact — code or documents — and actually says "review". - Acting on feedback from an earlier review is a change, not a review. - Never volunteer, including on the agent's own just-made edits. Validated with a 32-case routing eval, each case judged in an isolated context, on two agent platforms; ten cases come from the real over-trigger transcripts. The final wording scores 30/30 on both platforms; an earlier draft's 29/30 drove the artifact clause to name code explicitly. * fix(review): count forwarded skill directives as review asks Review-bot finding, confirmed by an isolated routing probe: with the gate reading "when, and only when, the user asks", a literal reader refuses the documented skill:bmad-review directive form that bmad-prd and bmad-retrospective use to forward reviews. Equate the directive with the ask instead of adding a second gate: an explicit skill:bmad-review directive from another skill counts as that ask. The forwarded-directive scenario joins the routing eval as a scored case; the full 33-case run scores 31/31 (two unscored probes), with no previously excluded case loosened.
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