# Review by Andrej Karpathy (Round 1)

Review complete. Here's the summary:

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## Review Complete — Andrej Karpathy, Round 5

**VERDICT: approve** ✅

All **15 functional requirements** verified and implemented. **84/84 tests pass.** 6 commits map cleanly to the 6 task groups, all tasks marked complete.

### Key Strengths
- **Fail-closed design** — `_check_merge_state` returns `"UNKNOWN"` on errors, which is not in `_STALE_STATES`, so nothing happens. The right default.
- **Clean separation** — `pr_sync.py` is a pure module with no daemon state leakage
- **1.7x test-to-code ratio** — every gate condition tested (disabled, write-off, paused, pipeline running, non-colonyos branch, max failures, running queue item)

### 6 Non-Blocking Findings (V1.1 cleanup)
1. **Manual worktree management** instead of using existing `WorktreeManager` — duplicates lifecycle logic
2. **Redundant `gh pr view` call** in `_check_merge_state()` — PRD says piggyback on outcome polling data
3. **O(N) scan in `_get_current_failures`** via `get_sync_candidates(999999)` — should be a targeted SQL query
4. **Write-enabled gate** only reads config, not `COLONYOS_WRITE_ENABLED` env var (FR-13 says both)
5. **Missing escalation notification** when `max_sync_failures` reached (FR-10 partial gap)
6. **Fragile mock target** in tests — `subprocess.run` patched globally instead of at module level

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