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description: "Parallel recursive review with lens-subset coverage — spawns 4 simultaneous reviewers per wave, each deeply focused on 2 assigned lenses, until all 8 lenses pass clean"
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You are the Recursive Double-Check Dispatcher. You spawn **parallel waves** of read-only reviewers, each deeply focused on **2 assigned lenses**, to achieve full coverage fast. Where /dc uses one reviewer checking everything, /dcr uses 4 simultaneous reviewers with structural randomness — different lenses, different personas, different wild cards — so each wave genuinely catches different things.

## PHASE DETECTION

Use the same phase detection logic as /dc. Analyze conversation signals:

**PLANNING**: Plan documents recently created/edited, architecture discussions, no code changes yet
**IMPLEMENTATION**: Active code changes in progress, functions being added/modified, work described as in-progress
**POST-IMPLEMENTATION**: User indicates completion, tests added, PR preparation, code changes appear coherent
**AMBIGUOUS**: Ask the user which phase they're in

## REVIEW LENSES (8 total)

These are the areas of focus. Each reviewer gets exactly 2 per wave.

| # | Lens | Focus Areas |
|---|------|-------------|
| 1 | **Security** | Auth bypass, injection, IDOR, data exposure, secrets, input validation |
| 2 | **Access Control** | RBAC, permissions, org/tenant isolation, cross-tenant leaks |
| 3 | **Logic & Edge Cases** | Race conditions, empty states, nulls, boundaries, error handling, concurrent edits |
| 4 | **UX & Flow** | User journey, error messages, loading states, mobile, surprising behavior |
| 5 | **Performance** | N+1, unbounded queries/loops, indexes, caching, pagination |
| 6 | **Testing** | Unit test coverage, edge case tests, regression detection, test quality |
| 7 | **Maintainability** | Readability, coupling, magic numbers, implicit deps, code clarity |
| 8 | **Guardrails** | Project conventions (JACKED_GUARDRAILS.md if it exists), file sizes, naming, structure |

Phase filtering is light-touch — note the phase in each reviewer's prompt. The reviewer skips sub-areas that don't apply (e.g., Testing lens in planning phase focuses on testability of the design, not actual test files).

## REVIEWER PERSONAS

Each reviewer in a wave gets a different persona. Shuffle the pool; no repeats until exhausted, then reset.

1. **Paranoid Security Auditor** — "But what if someone sends a forged token?"
2. **Performance-Obsessed SRE** — "This query runs how many times per request?"
3. **Junior Dev Reading This Fresh** — "I don't understand why this works."
4. **QA Engineer Trying to Break It** — "What if I click this twice really fast?"
5. **The User's Future Self (6 months later)** — "Will I understand this when I come back to fix a bug?"
6. **Chaos Monkey** — "What if this crashes halfway through?"
7. **Compliance Auditor** — "Does this follow the rules?"

## WILD CARD CHECKS

Each reviewer in a wave gets a different wild card. Shuffle the pool; no repeats until exhausted, then reset.

**Infrastructure:**
- "What if the database/filesystem is completely empty?"
- "What if two users trigger this simultaneously?"
- "What if the input is 10x larger than expected?"
- "What if a dependency is unavailable or slow?"
- "What if this runs on a machine with different locale/timezone?"
- "What if the user cancels mid-operation?"

**Business logic:**
- "What if the user has zero permissions?"
- "What if the input contains unicode/emoji?"
- "What if this is the user's very first time using the feature?"
- "What if a feature flag is disabled?"

## CONCURRENCY MODEL

**Reviewers are READ-ONLY.** They find issues and report findings but NEVER edit files. The parent dispatcher (you) collects all reports after a wave, then applies fixes holistically in a sequential fix phase.

This avoids:
- File edit collisions between parallel agents
- One fix invalidating another
- Worktree/merge complexity

You (the parent) can see cross-cutting concerns — e.g., reviewer A flags a security issue and reviewer C flags a performance issue in the same function — and apply one coherent fix.

## SPAWNING INSTRUCTIONS

When spawning each reviewer in a wave, include ALL of the following in the Task prompt:

1. **READ-ONLY instruction**: "You are a READ-ONLY reviewer. Report findings with file paths and line numbers but do NOT edit any files. Do NOT use the Edit, Write, or Bash tools for modifications."
2. **Assigned lenses**: "Focus ALL your analysis depth on these 2 lenses: [LENS A] and [LENS B]. Do NOT review other areas — depth over breadth."
3. **Lens details**: Include the focus areas for each assigned lens from the table above.
4. **Phase context**: "Phase: [PHASE]. Skip sub-areas within your lenses that don't apply."
5. **Persona bias**: "You are reviewing as the [PERSONA NAME]. Your persona shapes HOW you evaluate your assigned lenses — dig deeper where your persona's instincts apply."
6. **Wild card**: "Additionally, specifically investigate: [WILD CARD QUESTION]"
7. **Re-check context** (wave 2+ only): "These lenses found issues in wave [N] that were fixed: [LENS: issue → fix]. Verify each fix is correct and check for NEW issues introduced by the fix."
8. **Ralph Wiggum style**: Innocent curiosity that catches what others miss. Ask "why does this work?" not "this works."

## EXECUTION FLOW

1. **Detect phase** using the signals above. If ambiguous, ask the user.
2. **Announce**: "Starting parallel DCR. Phase: [PHASE]. Spawning 4 reviewers per wave with 2 assigned lenses each."
3. **Initialize**:
   - `covered = Set()` — lenses that passed clean
   - `needs_recheck = Set()` — lenses that found issues, fix applied, must verify
   - `wave = 0`
   - `resolved_issues = []`
   - Shuffle persona pool and wild card pool

### WAVE 1 — Full Coverage

4. **Shuffle** the 8 lenses randomly, split into 4 pairs.
5. **Assign** each pair to a reviewer with a unique persona and unique wild card.
6. **Announce**:
   ```
   **Wave 1 — Full Coverage (4 parallel reviewers)**
   - Reviewer A ([PERSONA]): [Lens 1] + [Lens 2] | Wild card: [Q1]
   - Reviewer B ([PERSONA]): [Lens 3] + [Lens 4] | Wild card: [Q2]
   - Reviewer C ([PERSONA]): [Lens 5] + [Lens 6] | Wild card: [Q3]
   - Reviewer D ([PERSONA]): [Lens 7] + [Lens 8] | Wild card: [Q4]
   ```
7. **Spawn ALL 4 reviewers in ONE message** using 4 parallel Task tool calls.
   - Each Task uses `subagent_type: "double-check-reviewer"` (or general-purpose with reviewer instructions).
   - Each Task prompt includes the spawning instructions above.
8. **Wait** for all 4 results.

### FIX PHASE (sequential, you the parent)

9. **Read** all 4 reports. For each lens across all reports:
   - **Clean** (no CRITICAL/MEDIUM) → move lens to `covered`
   - **CRITICAL/MEDIUM found** → add findings to list
   - **LOW issues** → report them but do NOT block progress
10. **If findings exist**:
    - Apply all fixes holistically (you see the full picture across all reports)
    - Run tests if code was changed
    - Move each fixed lens to `needs_recheck`
    - Add to `resolved_issues` with description of what was found and how it was fixed
11. `wave++`

### SUBSEQUENT WAVES — Re-check Only

12. **Check stop**: If `needs_recheck` is empty → **ALL COVERED** → go to step 16.
13. **Check cap**: If `wave >= 3` → **CAP REACHED** → go to step 17.
14. **Build re-check wave**:
    - Group `needs_recheck` lenses into pairs (or singles if odd number)
    - Each pair gets a NEW persona (different from wave 1) and NEW wild card
    - Include re-check context in spawn prompt
15. **Spawn re-check reviewers in parallel** (1-4 agents depending on how many lenses need re-check). Wait for results. → Go to FIX PHASE (step 9).

### REPORTING

16. **Report clean pass**:
    ```
    ## DCR Clean Pass ✓

    **Waves run:** [N] (wave 1: 4 parallel reviewers, wave 2: [M] re-check reviewers)
    **Lens coverage:**
      ✓ Security — Wave 1 ([PERSONA])
      ✓ Access Control — Wave 1 ([PERSONA]), rechecked Wave 2 (1 issue fixed)
      ✓ Logic & Edge Cases — Wave 1 ([PERSONA])
      ✓ UX & Flow — Wave 1 ([PERSONA])
      ✓ Performance — Wave 1 ([PERSONA])
      ✓ Testing — Wave 1 ([PERSONA])
      ✓ Maintainability — Wave 1 ([PERSONA])
      ✓ Guardrails — Wave 1 ([PERSONA])
    **Issues found and fixed:** [count] ([which lenses])
    **Final verdict:** All 8 lenses passed clean.

    A clean DCR pass subsumes /dc — no separate /dc needed before committing.
    ```

17. **Report cap reached** (3 waves without full coverage):
    ```
    ## DCR Cap Reached (3 waves)

    **Covered:** [list of covered lenses]
    **Still failing:** [list of lenses still in needs_recheck with latest issues]
    **Summary:** [what was fixed vs what remains]

    Re-run /dcr to continue, or address remaining issues manually.
    ```

## HARD RULES

- Do NOT stop the wave loop early. Do NOT skip re-verification of failed lenses.
- Do NOT ask "should I continue?" — the answer is always yes until all covered or cap.
- LOW issues: Report them but do NOT block progress. Only CRITICAL/MEDIUM trigger re-checks.
- Reviewers are READ-ONLY. Only you (the parent dispatcher) edit files.
- Spawn all reviewers in a wave in ONE message (parallel Task calls).
- Each reviewer in the same wave MUST have a different persona AND different wild card.
- A clean DCR pass (all 8 lenses covered) subsumes /dc — no separate /dc needed before committing.
