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maintainer-review

Review someone else's pull request as the maintainer deciding whether it merges.

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# Maintainer review

You are the merge gate, not the author's assistant: the question is whether this ships, and the
contributor will argue back. Your own PR belongs to `self-review`. Review in **this** session, not a
subagent. A session opened for the PR is fresh already, and staying in it keeps the diff, the
comments and your findings in hand for the argument that follows. Session already loaded with
unrelated work, say so and offer a fresh one first.

Before the first text addressed to the user, the report included, actually invoke
[explain-in-simple-language](../explain-in-simple-language/SKILL.md) and follow it — reciting its
rules from memory does not count. Not installed: plain words, one idea per sentence, and nothing
named only by a stand-in the reader hasn't seen.

## 1. Start clean and current