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REVIEW — TFW-32 / Phase B: Naming & Templates

Date: 2026-04-10 Author: AI (Reviewer) Verdict: ✅ APPROVE RF: RF Phase B TS: TS Phase B


1. Review Checklist

# Check Status Notes
1 DoD met? (all TS acceptance criteria) All 16 acceptance criteria verified against actual file content (see §1.1 below)
2 Code quality (conventions, naming, type hints) Template markdown follows existing conventions. Section numbering is consistent
3 Test coverage (tests written and passing) pytest docs/scripts/test_gen_docs.py: 55/55 passed
4 Philosophy aligned (matches HL design philosophy) Naming = Prompting principle (D28) applied throughout. Per-template WHERE modes differ, unified WHERE they don't
5 Tech debt (shortcuts documented?) No shortcuts taken. No observations reported (clean execution)
6 Security (no secrets exposed, guards in place) N/A Template-only changes, no security surface
7 Breaking changes (backward compat, migrations) Backward compatible: new sections are additive, renamed §11 won't affect existing HL files (those keep their original names)
8 Style & standards (code style, conventions) Consistent instruction pattern across all templates: Cognitive mode → Scope → Human-Only Test → Before writing
9 Observations collected (executor reported findings) "No observations" — acceptable for template-only changes with no code

1.1 DoD Verification (line-by-line)

# Acceptance Criterion Verified Evidence
1 HL §11 heading reads "Strategic Insights (Planning)" HL.md line 122
2 HL §11 instructions include "Cognitive mode: Deep analytical synthesis" + §6 cross-ref HL.md lines 124-128
3 HL §3.1 includes "Working Backwards" + "NOT a process diagram" HL.md lines 26-36
4 HL has §3.2 "Value Flow" HL.md lines 38-48
5 RF has §7 "Strategic Insights (Execution)" with Human-Only Test + fallback RF.md lines 73-90
6 RF has §8 "Diagrams" RF.md lines 92-101
7 RF §6 includes "Cognitive mode: Pure reporting" + out-of-scope RF.md lines 52-63
8 RES has "Strategic Insights (Research)" with Human-Only Test RES.md lines 55-71
9 RES has "Findings Map" RES.md lines 73-82
10 RES Fact Candidates sharpened (cognitive mode + scope + before-writing) RES.md lines 38-48
11 REVIEW §5 includes "Cognitive mode: Pure reporting" + reviewer scope REVIEW.md lines 56-67
12 conventions.md "Visual Sections (per-template)" table — 5 rows conventions.md lines 77-88
13 conventions.md "Knowledge Capture Sections" table conventions.md lines 90-95
14 conventions.md FC definition includes "Cognitive mode" conventions.md line 75
15 glossary.md Strategic Insight updated with qualifiers + contrast glossary.md lines 47-48
16 glossary.md has Value Flow, Findings Map, Per-template Naming glossary.md lines 50-57

2. Verdict

✅ APPROVE

All 16 acceptance criteria met. Changes are consistent, additive, and follow the empirically validated naming decisions from RES3/RES4. The executor followed the TS exactly with no deviations. The instruction pattern (Cognitive mode → Scope → Human-Only Test → Before writing) is consistent across all four templates.

Notable quality: the executor correctly used heading-only naming for RES sections (no § numbers) while using numbered §7/§8 for RF — consistent with the different structural conventions of each template type.

3. Tech Debt Collected

No tech debt. RF reported no observations.

4. Traces Updated

  • [ ] README Task Board — status updated
  • [ ] HL status — Phase B marked complete in master HL
  • [ ] PROJECT_CONFIG.yaml — initial_seq: no change needed
  • [ ] Other project files — no stale info found
  • [ ] tfw-docs: N/A (template and convention changes, no architectural decisions for KNOWLEDGE.md §1-§3)
  • [ ] tfw-knowledge: N/A (no fact candidates requiring consolidation in this review cycle)

5. Fact Candidates

Cognitive mode: Pure reporting — record factual observations without interpretation or synthesis.

Scope: Reviewer-observed project patterns discovered during the review process.

Before writing: review the conversation history. The human's messages are the primary source.

# Category Candidate Source Confidence
1 convention TFW template instruction blocks follow a 4-part structure: (1) Cognitive mode, (2) Scope, (3) Human-Only Test, (4) Before writing. This pattern emerged from Phase B and could be codified as a template-writing standard RF Phase B FC1, verified in HL/RF/RES/REVIEW templates High
2 convention RES template uses heading-only section names (no § numbers) for new sections, while RF uses sequential § numbers. This reflects a design difference: RES = synthesis document (flexible), RF = phase report (structured). Not yet documented in conventions.md RES.md vs RF.md template comparison during review Medium

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