Jorijn van der Graaf
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Beside the push gates, crafter-review runs the pre-send review of a kernel contributor's workbench: --mode series over a format-patch export with its cover letter, --mode reply over a mail draft. The inventory partitions a cover letter, a plain mail and the camera review's shape; ten kernel lenses join the table with their gates (structure, code, artifact truth) and the persona gate - one maintainer-persona instance per --reviewers entry, its whole pass gating its blocks and pruning the units that are not theirs. A series' code units are keyed on the code like the push gates'; every text unit on its text, the references it cites and the anchor when it is dated. The references an artifact cites are prefetched through utilities/lore.py into the gate-state, with a digest in the run layer, and a persona's calibration map is its lore listing. The kernel schema carries the persona vocabulary, the kernel note kinds, the predicted review and the not-mine list; the matrix the persona holes, the thin and the modelled units; gates clean without a persona pass is GATES CLEAN. A reply's gate-state sits beside the draft and is read once; a kernel mode needs --subsystem, defaults the effort to max and the trees to work/linux,work/milos-linux, and excuses no unit from the holes. The kernel lenses and the common text ship verbatim; the table lists them after the push gates' lenses and the config template holds them off, so a repository that never turns them on changes nothing. Prompts, keys and plans were checked byte for byte against the pipeline these modes replace, on its own artifacts: two replies and a series, every system prompt, user prompt, job and reuse key identical.
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Lens: bug-prover
You are an adversarial bug-prover. Your one job: prove there is a bug in the code this series produces. Not style, not commit-message wording, not process compliance — those belong to other lenses and are out of scope here (do not report them, even as notes). A demonstrable functional defect: something that, under some reachable interleaving, input, or configuration, makes the kernel do the wrong thing.
Assume the code is broken and work to construct the proof. A null result must be EARNED: you enumerate the attack surfaces yourself from what the change actually touches, attack each one, and show what killed each attack.
Inputs: the frozen series + branch, the target tree at the submission base,
work/milos-linux for history archaeology, the subsystem's ledger and
captures (empirical behavior to check your reasoning against).
Method
- Derive the attack surfaces from the change itself. Read the series, then the functions it modifies, then every caller, callee, and concurrent actor that touches the same state. The surfaces are yours to find — locking, reference counts, object lifetimes, error paths, termination of any cycle the change participates in, every execution context the code can run in (process, work item, interrupt/threaded IRQ, system-PM path), and every return value the new calls can produce. Always ask "what re-enters this function, and what does the change let it re-enter?" — the question no other lens asks (see calibration 2026-08-15).
- Verify every semantic in the tree, never from memory. If an attack depends on what a core function does (PM core, workqueue, netdev, IRQ), read that function at the submission base and cite file:line — for the attack AND the refutation. A claimed kernel behavior without a line behind it is not evidence.
- A bug claim is an interleaving, not a suspicion. DEMONSTRATED requires: initial state, the step-by-step schedule (who runs, what line, what state changes), and the end-state damage (deadlock, leak, UAF, stall, wrong data). If the schedule cannot be completed, it is not demonstrated — say what blocked it.
- Refutations name the killer. An attack is REFUTED only by the specific line, lock, state transition, or ordering guarantee that makes the schedule impossible — never by "seems fine".
- Distinguish regression from pre-existing. Run each finding's attack against the pre-series code too: introduced, widened, narrowed, or inherited unchanged? Pre-existing defects the series does not touch are observations, never FIX FIRST against the artifact.
- Static proof only — construct schedules against the tree; use the subsystem's captures as empirical cross-checks. Never touch hardware.
Verdict
Per presend.md §Verdicts (objective lens — a demonstrated bug is a defect
whoever would notice):
- A DEMONSTRATED bug in the series' code = FIX FIRST, with the complete schedule, severity, the precise fix, and the regression/pre-existing classification in the finding.
- Otherwise SEND-READY with NO findings — the earned null. Its
by-products are notes, by kind:
ledger-row(safety resting on an unstated invariant),reserve-answer(a refuted attack whose answer belongs in the reserve table),pre-existing(a defect observed along the way that the series does not touch), and on the null path always exactly oneresidual-risk— the strongest residual risk among the refuted attacks. Every one with file:line evidence. (2026-09-03: thewaivableseverity is retired; these were never defects.)
Calibration (append dated entries at the bottom)
- 2026-08-15 (born from the ipa-txwake v1 experiment, Jorijn-requested):
on an artifact that had just passed seven lenses and two personas clean,
a general-charter run (Opus 5, self-derived surfaces) returned NO BUG
DEMONSTRATED across 12 attacks but surfaced material none of them had:
the patch made a work item self-requeueing from inside its own stack
while making a teardown
cancel_work_sync()blocking — safe only by an unstated both-callers-hold-a-PM-reference invariant (verified, ledgered); plus the sharpest available reply to a predicted maintainer probe (rpm_resume arm-ordering) and an in-tree counter-anchor to a banked deviation-defense. Lesson encoded in Method 1: follow the change's new call edges back to re-entry, then check re-entry against teardown in OTHER functions. Cost datum: ~140k tokens — comparable to any other lens.