Design critic review: Make the CLI/TUI experience seamless
Written only when the work item selected the opt-in
design-critic-reviewphase (issue-188). A different model or harness reads the completeddesign.mdagainst the requirements, before the testing plan and the task DAG are derived from it. The node blocks until this section is filled in.
Design critic review
| Round | Critic (<harness>/<model>) | Outcome | Findings → disposition | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [codex/gpt-6.1-sol] | 8 findings (4 high, 4 medium). All 8 are will-fix, applied with one commit each | see table below | PR #26 comment |
- Runtime. Round 1 ran in 75.8 s. Usage: input 69,251, output 2,798 and cache read 348,160 tokens.
- How it ran. It ran in-process (
THE_LOOP_SERVICE_LOCAL=1, 900 s timeout) to avoid the control-plane service's fixed 120 s client timeout. - Scope. The prompt named
requirements.md,design.mdand the prototypes, and allowed readingtiny_harness/andrenderers/web/src/to check the design's claims about existing code.
Findings and dispositions
| # | Finding | Severity | Disposition → commit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New-task envelopes bypass the model allowlist (executor.py:73) | high | will-fix → cdcac27 |
| 2 | A refused completion can already interrupt the task (workflows.py:341, :500) | high | will-fix → b083edc |
| 3 | Plugin command bodies remain registered without name filtering (loader.py:315) | high | will-fix → 36ba123 |
| 4 | Command-only messages have no defined path around the core loop (workflows.py:414, loop.py:190) | high | will-fix → bd11246 |
| 5 | Leaving participant workflows unchanged makes commands complete them (workflows.py:536) | medium | will-fix → 48bc8a9 |
| 6 | Compaction and help ignore the task's chosen settings | medium | will-fix → 403a10d |
| 7 | Agent-spawned children do not inherit model settings (workflows.py:798) | medium | will-fix → 8711924 |
| 8 | The /sub-task handler cannot reply with the generated id (workflows.py:768) | medium | will-fix → fb97264 |
Convergence.
- The operator's policy is one critic round (
criticReviewCount: 1, fromthe-loop critic policy). - Every finding is dispositioned, and none is won't-fix.
- No finding needs a human decision.
- The design goes to
design-approvalwith all eight resolved.