[pelikhan]

Why

#74360 extracted PR Code Quality Reviewer publication guidance into the inline review-publication skill, leaving three Go contract tests asserting removed wording and obsolete step boundaries.

Changes

Update the contracts to check publication safeguards in the extracted skill and verify that the main workflow delegates to it only after the specialist completion barrier. Preserve bounded recovery, permission restrictions, comment-before-review ordering, and write-once submission coverage, with additional assertions for JSON/shell escaping and publication closure. Workflow behavior is unchanged.

Validation

• Reproduced all three contract failures before the change.
• go test ./pkg/cli -run '^TestPRCodeQualityReviewer' -count=1
• make build
• make fmt
• make agent-report-progress

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Outcome: reported_no_action

The agent completed and reported no action. A no-op output alone does not verify that all required work was completed or that publication was possible.

Agent messages are omitted from this comment. The category uses structured run status, not interpretation of agent prose.

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✅ PR Code Quality Reviewer completed the code quality review.

🔎 Code quality review by PR Code Quality Reviewer

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✅ Test Quality Sentinel completed test quality analysis.

Test Quality Sentinel

Outcome: reported_no_action

The agent completed and reported no action. A no-op output alone does not verify that all required work was completed or that publication was possible.

Agent messages are omitted from this comment. The category uses structured run status, not interpretation of agent prose.

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🧪 Test quality analysis by Test Quality Sentinel

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🟡 Changes recommended

The contract test no longer verifies that the recovery path emits the terminal incomplete signal through the required safeoutputs transport, allowing a broken fallback to pass.

1 open issue

• Restore assertion for safeoutputs recovery signal · New

What changed in this PR

Updates the PR Code Quality Reviewer’s Go contract tests to reflect publication guidance extracted into the inline review-publication skill, while preserving workflow sequencing and publication safeguards.

Changes:

• Scope publication assertions to the extracted skill.
• Verify specialist completion barriers and delegated publication.
• Add checks for escaping, recovery, publication closure, and write-once submission.
• Moderate review note (3 votes): Restore an explicit assertion that the incomplete signal is emitted through the permitted safeoutputs transport, such as | safeoutputs report_incomplete ..

File	Description
pkg/​cli/​pr_code_quality_reviewer_workflow_contract_test.go	Revises workflow contract tests for the extracted publication skill and updated sequencing safeguards.

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