abcd's ruthless reviewer definition tells the reviewer to run the project's test and lint commands, and the docs-currency reviewer to run the tests that pin documented behaviour. On a machine several sessions share, every review then runs a go test that no load gate admits, beside the preflight the gate did admit. On 2026-10-27 the reviewers of three lanes did so: lane D's at 19:22Z, when the one-minute load reached 71.96 on 16 cores and then 97.61 at 19:24Z; lane C's at 20:26Z, at a load of 60.32; and lane A's step-1 review of the merge gate. Each of those times, the admitted preflight's test stage was running at go test -p 16. A reviewer reads a copy and judges it; the test run is the preflight's job.

abcd's ruthless reviewer definition tells the reviewer to run the project's test and lint commands, and the docs-currency reviewer to run the tests that pin documented behaviour. On a machine several sessions share, every review then runs a go test that no load gate admits, beside the preflight the gate did admit. On 2026-10-27 the reviewers of three lanes did so: lane D's at 19:22Z, when the one-minute load reached 71.96 on 16 cores and then 97.61 at 19:24Z; lane C's at 20:26Z, at a load of 60.32; and lane A's step-1 review of the merge gate. Each of those times, the admitted preflight's test stage was running at go test -p 16. A reviewer reads a copy and judges it; the test run is the preflight's job.

Grounds

• pursued: reviewer test runs outside the load gate overloaded the shared machine three times on 2026-10-27