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feat(review): frontload PR context into the prompt
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‎.github/workflows/claude-pr-review.yml‎

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contents: read
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pull-requests: write
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id-token: write
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# actions: read for the failing-job log excerpts, issues: read for the PR
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# conversation (/issues/{n}/comments is the PR's own comment thread). The job
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# declares permissions explicitly, so anything not listed here is `none` and both
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# reads 403 -- silently, into "(log unavailable)" and "Could not read PR
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# conversation comments.", since every block in the context step is guarded.
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actions: read
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issues: read
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steps:
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- uses: actions/checkout@v6.0.2
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with:
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if: github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'dependabot[bot]'
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run: jq --version
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# Frontloads what a week of tool-usage artifacts showed the reviewer fetching for
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# itself, one denied command at a time. Over 109 runs it averaged 19.5 Bash calls and
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# 5.2 permission denials, and 86% of runs hit at least one; runs with no denials
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# averaged 14 turns and 98s against 37 turns and 270s for runs with five or more, and
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# that gap holds inside every PR-size band. The four blocks below are the four things
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# it kept reaching for: the diff (re-fetched up to 10x in one review, usually as a
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# compound `gh pr diff | head` that the allowlist cannot match), CI status (it cannot
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# run tests, so it approved PRs saying "reviewed statically"), the diff since its own
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# last review (attempted as `git diff <prior-sha>..HEAD`, impossible under
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# fetch-depth: 1), and the PR conversation.
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- name: Gather review context
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if: github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'dependabot[bot]'
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id: context
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# Eight API reads feed the prompt now. A failure in this step *skips* the review
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# step, and with it the notify step's failure check, so the PR would get no review
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# and no explanation. Every command below is guarded individually; this is the
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# backstop that keeps a bug in one block from costing the PR its review, at the cost
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# of the prompt losing whichever blocks had not been written yet.
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continue-on-error: true
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run: |
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PR_NUMBER=${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
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REPO=${{ github.repository }}
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# Caps. The median PR reviewed across the org is 161 changed lines and the largest
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# in a week was 3,448, so 3,000 patch lines covers the corpus; the cap exists so
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# one generated-file PR cannot blow up the prompt.
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DIFF_MAX=3000
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SINCE_MAX=2000
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LOG_WINDOW=120
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CTX_MAX_BYTES=600000
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CTX="${RUNNER_TEMP}/pr-context.md"
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: > "$CTX"
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# Count distinct commits already reviewed, never review state: the org ruleset
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# sets dismiss_stale_reviews_on_push, so a push flips a prior APPROVED to
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echo "$THREADS"
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echo "${DELIMITER}"
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} >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
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# Title and body reach the shell through env, never a ${{ }} interpolation: both
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# are attacker-controlled text and would otherwise be spliced into this script.
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{
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echo "## Pull request"
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echo "Title: ${PR_TITLE}"
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echo "Base branch: ${BASE_REF}"
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echo "Head SHA: ${HEAD_SHA}"
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echo
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echo "### Description"
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if [ -n "${PR_BODY}" ]; then printf '%s\n' "${PR_BODY}"; else echo "(no description)"; fi
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} >> "$CTX"
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# Each block: read, project, and fall back to a sentence saying what is missing.
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# A missing block must read as missing, never as "there are no commits".
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COMMITS_JQ='[.[][]] | if length == 0 then "No commits reported." else map("\(.sha[0:8]) \(.commit.message | split("\n")[0])") | join("\n") end'
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if COMMITS_JSON=$(gh api "repos/${REPO}/pulls/${PR_NUMBER}/commits" --paginate); then
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COMMITS=$(printf '%s' "$COMMITS_JSON" | jq -s -r "$COMMITS_JQ" 2>/dev/null) \
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|| COMMITS="Could not parse commits."
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else
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echo "::warning::Could not read commits."
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COMMITS="Could not read commits."
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fi
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{ echo; echo "## Commits"; printf '%s\n' "$COMMITS"; } >> "$CTX"
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# status carries added/modified/removed/renamed, which the raw patch does not spell
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# out for renames, and the per-file counts let the reviewer budget its reading.
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FILES_JQ='[.[][]] | if length == 0 then "No changed files reported." else "\(length) files, +\([.[].additions] | add) -\([.[].deletions] | add)", (.[] | "\(.status) +\(.additions)/-\(.deletions) \(.filename)") end'
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if FILES_JSON=$(gh api "repos/${REPO}/pulls/${PR_NUMBER}/files" --paginate); then
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FILES=$(printf '%s' "$FILES_JSON" | jq -s -r "$FILES_JQ" 2>/dev/null) \
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|| FILES="Could not parse changed files."
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else
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echo "::warning::Could not read changed files."
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FILES="Could not read changed files."
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fi
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{ echo; echo "## Changed files"; printf '%s\n' "$FILES"; } >> "$CTX"
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# The reviewer cannot run tests -- no dependencies are installed and the allowlist
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# would refuse anyway -- but CI already ran them. Whether they passed is the one
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# fact it was asserting without evidence.
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CHECKS_JQ='(.statusCheckRollup // []) | if length == 0 then "No checks reported." else map(if .__typename == "CheckRun" then "\(.conclusion // .status // "UNKNOWN") \(.workflowName // "") / \(.name)" else "\(.state // "UNKNOWN") \(.context // "status")" end) | sort | join("\n") end'
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# Actions check runs carry the job id in detailsUrl; scan rather than capture so a
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# non-Actions check with no job id drops out instead of erroring.
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FAILING_JOBS_JQ='[(.statusCheckRollup // [])[] | select(.__typename == "CheckRun") | select((.conclusion // "") | test("FAILURE|TIMED_OUT|ACTION_REQUIRED")) | (.detailsUrl // "") | [scan("/job/([0-9]+)")] | flatten | .[0] // empty] | unique | .[0:3] | join(" ")'
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if ROLLUP=$(gh pr view "$PR_NUMBER" --repo "$REPO" --json statusCheckRollup); then
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CHECKS=$(printf '%s' "$ROLLUP" | jq -r "$CHECKS_JQ" 2>/dev/null) \
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|| CHECKS="Could not parse checks."
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JOB_IDS=$(printf '%s' "$ROLLUP" | jq -r "$FAILING_JOBS_JQ" 2>/dev/null) || JOB_IDS=''
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else
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echo "::warning::Could not read check status."
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CHECKS="Could not read check status."
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JOB_IDS=''
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fi
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{
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echo
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echo "## CI checks as of $(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)"
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echo "This workflow runs on the same push as the rest of CI, so checks are often"
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echo "still queued or in progress here. A check that is not reported as passing"
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echo "has not passed yet -- it has not necessarily failed."
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echo
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printf '%s\n' "$CHECKS"
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} >> "$CTX"
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# Two windows, not a tail. Across five real failed job logs the informative text
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# sat immediately above the first ##[error] in four of them (a rustfmt diff, an
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# npm parity error, a docker push failure, a build error body). In the fifth --
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# a Django suite whose later steps kept running -- "FAILED (failures=1)" was 670
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# lines above ##[error] and a tail returned docker cleanup, so the summary lines
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# get collected separately from wherever they landed.
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LOG_SUMMARY_RE='FAILED \(|FAIL: |ERROR: |test result: FAILED|panicked at|Tests:.*failed|Ran [0-9]+ tests?'
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for JOB_ID in $JOB_IDS; do
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JOB_LOG="${RUNNER_TEMP}/job-${JOB_ID}.log"
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{ echo; echo "### Failing job ${JOB_ID}"; } >> "$CTX"
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# --allow-escape-sequences or gh refuses the body and writes nothing at all:
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# job logs carry ANSI colour, and without the flag this is always "unavailable".
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if ! gh api --allow-escape-sequences \
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"repos/${REPO}/actions/jobs/${JOB_ID}/logs" > "$JOB_LOG" 2>/dev/null; then
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echo "(log unavailable)" >> "$CTX"
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continue
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fi
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SUMMARY=$(grep -E "$LOG_SUMMARY_RE" "$JOB_LOG" | tail -n 20) || SUMMARY=''
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if [ -n "$SUMMARY" ]; then
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{ echo "Summary lines:"; printf '%s\n' "$SUMMARY"; echo; } >> "$CTX"
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fi
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# The *first* error marker: later steps in the same job add their own, and the
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# failing step's is the one with the cause above it.
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ERR_LINE=$(grep -n '##\[error\]' "$JOB_LOG" | head -1 | cut -d: -f1) || ERR_LINE=''
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if [ -n "$ERR_LINE" ]; then
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START=$((ERR_LINE - LOG_WINDOW + 1))
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if [ "$START" -lt 1 ]; then START=1; fi
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{
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echo "Log lines ${START}-${ERR_LINE}, ending at the first error:"
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sed -n "${START},${ERR_LINE}p" "$JOB_LOG"
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} >> "$CTX"
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else
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{ echo "Last ${LOG_WINDOW} log lines:"; tail -n "$LOG_WINDOW" "$JOB_LOG"; } >> "$CTX"
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fi
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done
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# The diff since the reviewer's own last round. REVIEWS is already in hand for the
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# cycle counter, and the last commit_id it submitted against is exactly the base
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# for "what changed since I looked". Ordered by submitted_at, not array order,
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# because inline comments and the round's verdict are separate review objects.
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LAST_REVIEW_JQ='[.[][] | select(.user.login == "claude[bot]") | select(.submitted_at != null) | {commit_id, submitted_at}] | sort_by(.submitted_at) | last | (.commit_id // "")'
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LAST_SHA=$(printf '%s' "$REVIEWS" | jq -s -r "$LAST_REVIEW_JQ" 2>/dev/null) || LAST_SHA=''
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if [ -n "$LAST_SHA" ] && [ "$LAST_SHA" != "null" ] && [ "$LAST_SHA" != "$HEAD_SHA" ]; then
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SINCE_FILE="${RUNNER_TEMP}/since-last-review.diff"
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# The compare API, not git: the checkout is fetch-depth 1, so no base branch and
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# no prior commit exists locally to diff against.
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if gh api "repos/${REPO}/compare/${LAST_SHA}...${HEAD_SHA}" \
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-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.diff" > "$SINCE_FILE" 2>/dev/null; then
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# awk, not `wc -l`: wc pads its count with spaces on BSD and the number
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SINCE_LINES=$(awk 'END {print NR}' "$SINCE_FILE")
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echo
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echo "## Diff since your last review (${LAST_SHA} to ${HEAD_SHA})"
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head -n "$SINCE_MAX" "$SINCE_FILE"
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if [ "$SINCE_LINES" -gt "$SINCE_MAX" ]; then
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fi
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ISSUE_COMMENTS_JQ='[.[][]] | if length == 0 then "No PR conversation comments." else sort_by(.created_at) | map("--- \(.user.login) at \(.created_at)\n\((.body // "")[0:3000])") | join("\n") end'
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--allowedTools "mcp__github_inline_comment__create_inline_comment,Bash(gh pr comment:*),Bash(gh pr diff:*),Bash(gh pr view:*),Bash(gh pr review:*),Bash(rg:*),Read,Grep,Glob"
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‎README.md‎

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### Frontloaded review context
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The workflow gathers the PR into the prompt before the reviewer starts: title and description,
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