# Review by Linus Torvalds (Round 4)

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## Review Complete

Here's my assessment as Linus Torvalds:

**426 tests pass. No secrets. No new dependencies. The architecture is correct.**

The implementation covers all 21 functional requirements from the PRD: triage agent, watch→queue unification, branch targeting, budget controls, and circuit breaker. The data structures are clean — `QueueItem` and `SlackWatchState` extend naturally with proper backward-compatible serialization. The `QueueExecutor` class extraction was smart engineering that avoids a 300-line nested closure nightmare.

**One ship-blocker:**

**Line 2068 in `cli.py`** has dead code with a `# placeholder` comment — `cooldown_sec = self._watch_state.consecutive_failures` is immediately overwritten on the next line. This is leftover development code that does nothing. Delete it.

**Four nits for follow-up:** hybrid wall-clock/monotonic timing in `_is_paused()` needs a comment, silent `git stash` in branch rollback could accumulate orphaned stashes, subtle closure capture of `run_id` is fragile to reordering, and there's a config capture inconsistency between circuit breaker (stale) and pipeline execution (refreshed via `load_config()`).

VERDICT: **request-changes**

Fix the dead placeholder line, and this is ready to merge. Review written to `cOS_reviews/reviews/linus_torvalds/20260319_114500_round4_i_want_to_have_the_following_flow_1_connect_to_a_slack_channel_i_e_bugs_listen_o.md`.