Review Rubric

# Prompt doc — the senior-review rubric

**Source:** Chapter 8 · **File:** [`prompts/review-rubric.md`](../../prompts/review-rubric.md)
· **Catalog doc:** [ship-gate](../ship-gate.md)

## What it is

The prompt that turns a cheap executor's diff into a graded `verdict.md`, run once by a
fresh-context Fable judge told to try to prove the diff does *not* pass.

## Full prompt text (verbatim)

The complete rubric — including the two-line fresh-context judge preamble — is in
[`prompts/review-rubric.md`](../../prompts/review-rubric.md). The grading scale:

- **BLOCKER** — ships broken / security / data loss / breaks a done-criterion.
- **MAJOR** — a real bug under a plausible input the tests missed.
- **MINOR** — a missing edge case / weak error handling.
- **NIT** — style / naming, no behavior impact.

## Expected output schema

Ends with `VERDICT: SHIP` or `VERDICT: SEND BACK`, and lists findings as
`- BLOCKER|MAJOR|MINOR|NIT  file:line — why. Fix: …`. Worked verdicts:
[`examples/verdict.sample.md`](../../examples/verdict.sample.md) (1 blocker → SEND BACK)
and [`examples/verdict.clean.md`](../../examples/verdict.clean.md) (→ SHIP).

## How deterministic code consumes it