# Decision Gate — Pre-Delivery Test Verification Phase

**Branch:** `colonyos/when_you_should_run_the_cli_tests_before_deliver_4c1d93388a`
**PRD:** `cOS_prds/20260401_224904_prd_you_are_a_code_assistant_working_on_behalf_of_the_engineering_team_the_following.md`
**Date:** 2026-04-01

## Persona Verdicts

| Persona | Verdict | Critical | High | Medium | Low |
|---------|---------|----------|------|--------|-----|
| Andrej Karpathy | ✅ approve | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Linus Torvalds | ✅ approve | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Staff Security Engineer | ✅ approve | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Principal Systems Engineer | ✅ approve | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |

**Tally: 4/4 approve, 0 request-changes**

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```
VERDICT: GO
```

### Rationale
All four personas unanimously approve. All 9 functional requirements from the PRD are fully implemented with 621 lines of dedicated test coverage (55+ verify-specific tests) and zero regressions across the existing 3110-test suite. The core safety invariant — never open a PR with known test failures — is enforced through multiple redundant layers (runtime tool restriction, structured sentinel parsing, dual budget guards, hard-block delivery). The only finding above LOW severity is a non-blocking MEDIUM from the Security Engineer regarding missing untrusted-input security notes in instruction templates, which is consistent with the existing threat model and deferred to v2.

### Unresolved Issues
- (Non-blocking) `verify_fix.md` lacks explicit untrusted-input security notes present in analogous `thread_fix.md` — recommended for follow-up
- (Non-blocking) `Phase.FIX` reuse for verify-fix limits per-phase audit granularity — log ordering disambiguates, acceptable for v1
- (Non-blocking) No haiku default for `Phase.VERIFY` despite PRD suggestion — correct conservative choice; users can opt in via config

### Recommendation
Merge as-is. The implementation is clean, comprehensive, and follows every established pattern in the codebase. The three non-blocking items are all reasonable v1 trade-offs with clear paths to improvement in future iterations.
