ConformalLabpp/doc/reviewer/finding-orchestration.md

Finding Orchestration — Sessions × Models × Review Gates

Updated: 2026-05-31 Purpose: a structured plan to work through every audit finding across multiple short sessions, each run by the model best suited to the work, with an external Opus reviewer session after every implementation session. This lets you pick up any "Session" below cold, hand it to the named model, and know exactly what it covers and how its output gets validated.

Companion: the per-finding detail lives in the 11 audit documents in this folder (see README.md). This file is the meta-plan — the order, the model assignment, and the review cadence.

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How to use this

1. Pick the next ⬜ pending session from the sequence.
2. Start a session with the assigned model, point it at the listed findings in their audit docs (each finding has file:line, fix, acceptance criteria).
3. When it finishes, start the paired 🔍 Opus review session — it validates the diff (correctness, value-identity, tests, no parity regression) and only then is the batch "done".
4. Mark the session ✅ here and move on.

Rationale for the cadence: implementation models (Sonnet/Haiku) are cheaper and fast for well-specified work; Opus is reserved for (a) findings that need real numerical/architectural judgement and (b) the review gate, because an independent high-capability pass catches subtle parity/numerics regressions that a self-review from the implementing model tends to miss.

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Model-assignment heuristic

Model	Take findings that are…	Examples
Haiku	mechanical, local, low-risk; docs, citations, renames, named-constant extraction	M-series, N4/N6, A1–A3, doc files
Sonnet	normal coding with a clear acceptance criterion; tests, error-handling, CI, small API changes	V-series, C-series, I-series, H-series
Opus	numerics, math correctness, architecture, public-API/irreversible decisions — and every review gate	B1-port, N1/N3/N5/N7, H2 refactor, A4/A5, all 🔍 reviews

Decision rule isn't "how severe" but "how much must be understood to get it right." A 🔴 one-line switch can be Sonnet; a 🟡 numerical reformulation is Opus.

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Master finding table

Status: ✅ done · ⬜ open (actionable) · ⏸ deferred (intentional) · ⛔ blocked (G0) · 👤 needs human expert

ID	Audit	Sev	Status	Model	Session
B1 (HyperIdeal)	api-perf	🔴	✅	Sonnet	S1
B1 (Inv-Dist port)	api-perf	🔴	✅	Opus	S1
V3	input-val	🟡	✅	Sonnet	S1
C1	test-cov	🔴	✅	Sonnet	S1
N4, N6	numerics	🟡/🔵	✅	Haiku	S1
M1, M2, M4	math-cite	🟡/🔵	✅	Haiku	S1
C2, C3	test-cov	🔴	✅	Sonnet	S1
V1, V2, V4	input-val	🟡	✅	Sonnet	S1
I2, I3, I4	test-cov	🟡	✅	Sonnet	S1
A1, A2, A3	api-perf	🔴/🟡	✅	Haiku	S1
N5	numerics	🟡	✅	Opus	S1
N3	numerics	🟡	✅	Opus	S1
H2, B2, B3, B4, B5	test-cov/api-perf	🔵/🟡	✅	Opus	S1
I1	test-cov	🟡	⬜	Sonnet→🔍Opus	S2
H1	test-cov	🔵	⬜	Sonnet→🔍Opus	S2
N7	numerics	🔵	⬜	Opus	S2
H3	test-cov	🔵	⬜	Sonnet→🔍Opus	S3
H4	test-cov	🔵	⬜	Sonnet→🔍Opus	S3
H5	test-cov	🔵	⬜	Sonnet→🔍Opus	S3
V5, V6	input-val	🔵	⬜	Sonnet→🔍Opus	S3
N2	numerics	🟡	⬜	Haiku→🔍Opus	S4
thread-safety doc	thread-safety	🟡	⬜	Haiku→🔍Opus	S4
M3	math-cite	🟡	⬜	Haiku→🔍Opus	S4
I5	test-cov	🟡	⬜	Sonnet→🔍Opus	S5
A4, A5	api-perf	🟡	⏸	Opus	S6 (after G0/G1)
N1	numerics	🔴	✅*	—	(subsumed by B1; doc note folds into N2/S4)
G1–G12	cgal	⛔/🔴	⛔	Opus	(after G0)
D1, D2	dep-license	🔴	⛔	Opus	(after G0)
M5	math-cite	🔵	👤	—	human domain expert
G0	cgal	⛔	🔄 in progress	owner	author contacted by email — awaiting reply

* N1 (FD-step vs Newton tol) is largely subsumed by the B1 block-FD work; the remaining piece is the tolerance-coupling note, folded into N2 (Session S4).

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Session sequence

✅ S1 — Audit quick-wins + numerics + refactor (DONE, 2026-05-31)

Branch fix/b1-v3-c1-quick-wins, 9 commits, 298/298 CGAL tests green.

• Sonnet: B1(HyperIdeal)/V3/C1; C2/C3, V1/V2/V4, I2/I3/I4.
• Haiku: N4/N6; M1/M2/M4; A1–A3.
• Opus: B1 inv-dist port; N5; N3; H2+B2/B3/B4/B5.
• 🔍 Opus review: validated all Sonnet/Haiku commits (value-identity, error handling, coverage gate, alias forwarding) — all correct.

⬜ S2 — Solver result diagnostics (Sonnet → 🔍 Opus)

• I1 — give NewtonResult a status enum (Converged/MaxIterations/LinearSolverFailed/LineSearchStalled). The newton_core refactor centralised every exit point, so this lands in one place now. Update the 5 wrappers + any callers reading converged.
• H1 — res.iterations is stale when the solver breaks on !ok/stall; set it correctly at each break in newton_core.
• N7 (Opus within this session) — optional conditioning diagnostic (smallest LDLT pivot / cheap cond estimate) surfaced in the result; pairs naturally with the I1 status enum (near-singular ⇒ a distinct status/flag).
• 🔍 Opus review: confirm the enum doesn't break the CGAL-layer result mapping and that converged semantics are unchanged for existing callers.

⬜ S3 — Robustness & test-gap closure (Sonnet → 🔍 Opus)

• H3 — enforce_gauss_bonnet reports the magnitude of the applied correction.
• H4 — test reduce_to_fundamental_domain boundary Im(τ)==0.0.
• H5 — integration test for the degenerate-triangle path in the Newton solve.
• V5 — make the hand-rolled XML reader reject reformatted-but-valid XML instead of silently mis-reading it into zeros.
• V6 — DOF-vector-vs-mesh size check on load.
• 🔍 Opus review: verify the new rejections don't break valid round-trips.

⬜ S4 — Documentation & citations (Haiku → 🔍 Opus)

• N2 — doc/math/tolerances.md: every numerical threshold, its role, and the constraints between them (incl. the N1 FD-step ≪ Newton-tol coupling).
• thread-safety — document the same-mesh concurrency contract (the code has no mutable static state; this is purely the written contract).
• M3 — re-verify the future-dated / arXiv-only citations against their published versions; update references.md.
• 🔍 Opus review: sanity-check the tolerance relationships are stated correctly.

⬜ S5 — Coverage truthfulness (Sonnet → 🔍 Opus)

• I5 — wire coverage.sh to the full CGAL suite (not just the 26 fast tests, ~9.6%), then remove SKIP_COVERAGE_GATE=1 so the agreed 80%/70%/90% gate goes live (C3 ramp-up → enforced).
• 🔍 Opus review: confirm the measured numbers are honest and the gate fails correctly when coverage drops.

⏸ S6 — Public CGAL surface + packaging (Opus, only after G0/G1)

Gated by the author's reply on porting/relicensing rights.

• A4, A5 — public entry-point renames + unified Circle_packing_result.
• G1–G12, D1, D2 — license headers, CGAL package layout, concept doc, user manual, CGAL test harness, dependency/data provenance.
• G0 status: author contacted by email (2026-05-31), awaiting reply. No public release / submission / relicensing until a written answer exists.

👤 Out of model scope

• M5 — the large hand-derivations need a domain-expert prose review (the numerical results are already validated; the prose is not).

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Review-gate checklist (what every 🔍 Opus session checks)

• Builds clean; full CGAL suite green (no count regression).
• No Java golden-vector / parity test perturbed (HardJava defaults intact).
• Numeric changes are value-identical where claimed, or justified + tested.
• New public surface (result types, enums, API) is intentional and documented.
• Commit message attributes the implementing model (Co-Authored-By: Claude <Model> <noreply@anthropic.com>).
• Finding marked ✅ in the master table above with the commit ref.