duckstack-review: one tick is one query of dispatched stages

[asubbarao]

The review queue's tick (skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql) is now one WITH query, following Alok's review of the tick (relayed by the rules session).

Shape.

• intent declares everything the tick uses. That covers each command split by role, put together with same-query aliases: for example, [gh, 'pr', 'list'], ['--repo', gh_repo] and the list flags become list_concat(gh_pr_list, repo_args, list_flags). It also covers the paths (from getenv('HOME'), once), the claude settings and schema, every status description and comment signature (status_texts[context][state], signatures[context]), the GitHub URL templates, the comment template and the GraphQL auto-merge mutation.
• Each stage's row carries its command line, its word list joined by one small tera_render.
• The statement is a concat: concat('SELECT * FROM read_json($src$', <line>, ' |$src$)'). Dollar quotes, because the commands carry single quotes. The merge base reads read_lines(..., "trim" := true) the same way, so there is no nested quoting.
• Each stage is SELECT <row>, '<stage>' AS stage, array_agg(selfdispatch(<statement>)) AS receipts … GROUP BY ALL, then CROSS JOIN UNNEST(receipts), so each receipt sits beside its own row's columns. There are no parallel lists and no receipts[n].
• The tick's output is every dispatching stage's rows, collected with UNION ALL BY NAME and unnested once. It flags any non-2xx receipt.

stage	per row, one concat statement
listing	git fetch main and the PR heads, then gh pr list --draft=false --json number,headRefOid. An empty list is zero rows.
viewing	gh pr view <n> --json id,headRefOid,autoMergeRequest,statusCheckRollup,title,body; then planned computes the step due
basing	git merge-base origin/main <head>, only for PRs with a step due
programs	gate.sql, or launch.sql when the review is due, each its own duckdb -f process
resulting	read_json(<result file>) for a pending review with a result file

Then statuses, signed comments and GraphQL auto-merge go to api.github.com, as array_agg(quackapi_post(...)) grouped by post, with the headers declared in intent.

Git.

• Diff and file reads are duck_tails, in gate.sql's own process: git_diff_tree, git_tree and read_blob over git:// URIs, with constants from env.
• The lines a PR adds are each line's copies numbered with row_number(), minus the old file's copies by ANTI JOIN. There is no list slice.
• The merge base is the one call shelled out. duck_tails has no merge-base function. The views on dev don't cover it: branch_diff compares local branches of dev's own repo with origin/staging, and git_changes walks every commit of every branch.

Why gate.sql and launch.sql are their own processes. They .read the hook's view chain (src, n, tc_src, toolcall_facts, ...), so those names never reach dev's catalog. Each gets its PR as env, built as data: one MAP per PR, each value sh-quoted by one tera_render (' becomes '\''), so a title or body with apostrophes, $ or backticks arrives unchanged.

The launch. launch.sql .reads gate.sql, then builds the prompt in one SELECT: the rubric files (a JSON list), the PR's title and body (PR_TITLE and PR_BODY, from the queue's own gh pr view), and review_prompt.tera. It COPYs that row into | (cd … && mkdir -p … && $REVIEW_CLAUDE … > $REVIEW_RESULT.part; mv …) 0<&0 > /dev/null 2>&1 &. sh gives a background job /dev/null as stdin unless 0<&0 keeps the pipe.

Receipt bodies. quackapi_post returns the body as VARCHAR. Each stage casts it once, TRY_CAST(receipt.body AS JSON[]), and reads each field it uses with one ->>. The status and error are read as typed fields of receipt.

Length (sql_file_too_long warns). queue.sql is 169 lines: about 40 are the claude schema, settings, status texts, URLs and mutation carried as data in intent, about 20 are intent's split command words, and 19 are the header. gate.sql is 105 lines, about 40 of them moved over from the old queue.sql. launch.sql is 24 lines.

Behaviour kept: both statuses and their descriptions; the signed comments; GraphQL auto-merge; results at ~/.duck/review/results/<pr>-<sha12>.json (claude's structured_output, and a non-JSON result posts error with its text); a re-run when an errored review's result file is removed; base, diff and gate only for PRs with a step due. Every changed file, hooks/check_hits.sql included, is now a section of the reviewer's prompt.

Tested, with nothing posted. Old (64742eb) and new ticks, each a copy with posting replaced by its post list and the launch replaced by the gate, run back to back on the same open PRs:

• EXCEPT ALL both ways over every stage's receipts is empty, except the viewing bodies, which now carry title and body, and the gate's two dropped env keys (GH_BIN, GH_REPO, no longer read).
• Ticks took 22.8 s and 20.7 s (old) against 26.6 s and 23.8 s (new). Nearly all of that is gh and git over the network.
• pr_added_lines for Self-dispatch shape is a block; mined rules become hook checks #61: 335 rows on both, with EXCEPT ALL empty both ways (0.10 s / 0.30 s old, 0.26 s / 0.08 s new).
• An env value with ', ", $HOME, backticks and a newline goes through sh and printenv unchanged.
• Rules check on this head: not blocked. It warns only on the two file lengths.

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[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql:12 RULES 12 / manifesto 1: The gh command line is glued together with concat(...). It also calls a bare gh, while the queue declares /opt/homebrew/bin/gh in intent.
  Rewrite: FROM read_json(tera_render($t$/opt/homebrew/bin/gh pr view {{ n }} --repo asubbarao/duckstack --json number,title,body |$t$, json_object('n', getenv('PR_NUMBER')), autoescape := false)). Or ask for title and body in the planning stage's existing gh pr view (queue.sql line 46) and pass them through, so launch.sql doesn't call gh a second time.
• skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql:16 check 1 (narrow dispatched statements): To get the few changed files, the view reads every blob of the head tree, and of the base tree again at line 29, through a ** glob and then joins. It avoids a per-file read instead of dispatching one. The PR's reason (binary files fail read_text; the filter isn't pushed down) justifies read_blob over read_text, not reading the whole tree.
  Rewrite: Dispatch one read per changed text file: pr_file_sql AS (SELECT tera_render($t$SELECT '{{ file_path }}' AS file_path, '{{ status }}' AS status, decode(content) AS content FROM read_blob('{{ head_uri }}')$t$, c::JSON, autoescape := false) AS sql FROM pr_changes AS c JOIN git_tree(getenv('PR_REPO'), getenv('PR_HEAD')) USING (file_path) WHERE is_text AND status <> 'deleted'), pr_file_reads AS (SELECT array_agg(selfdispatch(sql)) AS receipts FROM pr_file_sql), then unnest the receipts. Use the same shape for the base side over base_uri.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:102 RULES 13 / RULES 5: Downstream CTEs keep pulling fields out of the carried pr JSON with ->>: blocked at 102, rule_lines at 103, program at 104 and 106, head_sha at 127, pr_number at 131, pr_id at 141, and pr_number/number at 154. These are selector-extractor ladders instead of columns.
  Rewrite: Lift the fields once where the rows are unnested, the way planned already does: gated AS (SELECT json_merge_patch(prs[n], gate_row) AS pr, prs[n] ->> 'program' AS program, (gate_row ->> 'blocked')::BOOLEAN AS blocked, gate_row ->> 'rule_lines' AS rule_lines ...). Downstream CTEs then filter on program = 'gate.sql' and use blocked and rule_lines as columns, and the tera templates take pr whole.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:127 RULES 12 / check 6: The GitHub URLs are built with concat(...) string plumbing here and at line 131.
  Rewrite: tera_render('https://api.github.com/repos/asubbarao/duckstack/statuses/{{ head_sha }}', pr, autoescape := false) AS url, and tera_render('https://api.github.com/repos/asubbarao/duckstack/issues/{{ pr_number }}/comments', pr, autoescape := false) for the comments.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:77 check 6 / RULES 12: One template line builds the whole command: cd, a token fragment, nine env assignments and the duckdb argv. The JSON values sit inside hand-written single quotes (REVIEW_SETTINGS='{{ settings }}'), which breaks as soon as a value contains a '.
  Rewrite: Declare the environment as data: env AS (SELECT pr, unnest(map_entries(MAP {'PR_REPO': pr.repo, 'PR_NUMBER': pr.pr_number, ..., 'REVIEW_SCHEMA': schema})) AS kv FROM program_runs). Then string_agg(concat_ws('=', kv.key, quote_literal(kv.value)), ' ') per pr gives env_line. Declare the argv as an array, ['/opt/homebrew/bin/duckdb', ':memory:', '-json', '-f', 'skills/duckstack-review/' || program], and let shell.tera only substitute env_line and the argv.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:66 RULES 7 / check 4 (intent CTE): The rubric paths, claude argv, settings and JSON schema are fixed for the whole tick, but they are declared in program_runs, halfway down the pipeline, instead of in the intent CTE.
  Rewrite: Move them into intent: SELECT ... AS repo, ..., ['skills/duckstack-review/SKILL.md', 'skills/self-dispatch/RULES.md', 'SQL-MANIFESTO.md'] AS rubric, ['/Users/aloksubbarao/.local/bin/claude', '-p', ...] AS claude, {'disableAllHooks': true}::JSON::VARCHAR AS settings, {...}::JSON::VARCHAR AS schema. Carry them forward the way repo and review_dir already are, so program_runs is no longer needed.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:26 RULES 17 / manifesto 1: The listing and planning stages (lines 26 and 46) write their shell lines by hand: mkdir, git fetch and gh are chained with &&, and gh_token is a quoted GH_TOKEN="$(...)" fragment spliced in. Line 81 of the same query already renders its command through shell.tera.
  Rewrite: In intent, declare the commands as arrays: ['mkdir', '-p', review_dir || '/results'], ['git', '-C', repo, 'fetch', '-q', 'origin', ...], [gh, 'pr', 'list', '--repo', 'asubbarao/duckstack', '--state', 'open', '--author', 'asubbarao', '--json', 'number'], plus token_cmd := [gh, 'auth', 'token', '--user', 'asubbarao']. Render them with tera_render('shell.tera', row::JSON, autoescape := false, template_path := 'skills/self-dispatch/templates/*.tera'), which programs already uses at line 81.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:23 RULES 1 / manifesto 4: Each stage renders its statement inside the array_agg(selfdispatch(tera_render(...))) call. That merges building and dispatching into one CTE, so the generated SQL is never kept beside its receipt. The same happens at lines 33, 55, 81 and 90.
  Rewrite: Split each stage into a rendering CTE and a dispatching CTE: listing_sql AS (SELECT intent::JSON AS pr, tera_render($t$...$t$, intent::JSON, autoescape := false) AS sql FROM intent), listing AS (SELECT array_agg(pr) AS prs, array_agg(sql) AS sqls, array_agg(selfdispatch(sql)) AS receipts FROM listing_sql). Do the same for planning, basing, programs and resulting, and carry sqls into stage_receipts so a failed receipt shows the statement that produced it.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql:12 RULES.md 7 (declare everything up front in the first CTE): The gh path and the repo slug asubbarao/duckstack are hard-coded here, again in plan.sql:7 and again in queue.sql's intent. The repo is declared in three places instead of once.
  Rewrite: Declare the slug in queue.sql's intent ('asubbarao/duckstack' AS gh_repo) and add 'GH_REPO': pr.gh_repo to the env MAP. gh reads GH_REPO itself, so plan.sql and launch.sql can drop --repo: read_json(tera_render('gh pr view {{ pr }} --json number,title,body |', json_object('pr', getenv('PR_NUMBER')), autoescape := false)). If launchd's PATH doesn't reach gh, put the gh path in the env as well rather than writing it into each program.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:57 RULES.md 5 and 13 (selector-taking extractors in committed code); check 9 (bloat): planned pulls plan.sql's row apart one field at a time with seven plan_row ->> '...' selectors. Lines 60-64 then rebuild the whole env MAP that lines 44-45 already built, just to add PR_BASE and REVIEW_KEY.
  Rewrite: Declare the full env once, in listed: put REVIEW_SETTINGS, REVIEW_SCHEMA, REVIEW_RUBRIC and REVIEW_CLAUDE in that MAP. plan.sql then prints env (getenv's values plus base_sha and review_key, joined the same way) and program. The next stage passes the receipt row whole as Tera context: planned AS (SELECT pr, plan_row FROM planning CROSS JOIN UNNEST(prs) WITH ORDINALITY AS p(pr, n) CROSS JOIN UNNEST(TRY_CAST(receipts[n].body AS JSON[])) AS e(plan_row)), program_reads AS (SELECT *, [tera_render('cd {{ pr.checkout }} && {{ plan_row.env | join(sep=" ") }} {{ pr.duckdb | join(sep=" ") }} skills/duckstack-review/{{ plan_row.program }} |', json_object('pr', pr, 'plan_row', plan_row), autoescape := false)] AS sources FROM planned WHERE plan_row ->> 'program' IS NOT NULL). That leaves one selector, used as a filter, and the second MAP goes away.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql:45 RULES.md 12 / manifesto 3 (declare the parts, render with Tera): The block's pseudo-path is glued together with a four-part concat(file_path, '#', block.ordinality, '.sql'), which is an || chain in another form. plan.sql:22 renders a path from its parts with Tera instead.
  Rewrite: tera_render('{{ file_path }}#{{ ordinality }}.sql', {'file_path': file_path, 'ordinality': block.ordinality}::JSON, autoescape := false) AS file_path
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:40 check 9 (bloat): Each stage aggregates array_agg(sql) AS requests beside array_agg(s) AS prs, but s already holds sql. That makes four redundant arrays, here and at lines 57, 70 and 80, for something prs[n].sql already gives.
  Rewrite: SELECT array_agg(s) AS prs, array_agg(selfdispatch(sql)) AS receipts FROM listing_sql AS s in each dispatch stage. In stage_receipts, select list_transform(prs, p -> p.sql) AS requests for the four dispatch stages, and keep array_agg(url) AS requests only in posting.
• skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql:16 check 8 / RULES.md 13 (splitting structure out of text): The rubric is declared as an array in intent, joined into a space-separated string by Tera (queue.sql:46), and then split back with string_split(getenv('REVIEW_RUBRIC'), ' ') twice. The list makes a round trip through delimited text, and any path that contains a space breaks it.
  Rewrite: In queue.sql, use 'REVIEW_RUBRIC': to_json(pr.rubric)::VARCHAR (quote_literal already wraps it for the shell). In launch.sql, use getenv('REVIEW_RUBRIC')::JSON::VARCHAR[] in both places: list_position(getenv('REVIEW_RUBRIC')::JSON::VARCHAR[], filename) and FROM read_text(getenv('REVIEW_RUBRIC')::JSON::VARCHAR[]).
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:21 RULES.md 12 (readable strings: no nested quotes): The refspec is a dollar-quoted string with shell single quotes typed inside it, so the array element carries its own shell quoting. That is nested quoting, the kind of thing rule 12 bans.
  Rewrite: Declare the plain value and quote it the way the env entries already are: quote_literal('+refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*') as the last element of fetch, with no $q$'…'$q$.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql:25 RULES.md 7 (declare everything up front in the first CTE): The result-file layout (results/ under REVIEW_DIR and the <key>.json name) is written out in two places. launch.sql hardcodes it in its shell line (mkdir -p results, results/$REVIEW_KEY.part, results/$REVIEW_KEY.json), and plan.sql:22 rebuilds the same path with Tera. Neither copy is declared in queue.sql's intent, so a change to the layout must be made in both files.
  Rewrite: Declare the folder once in queue.sql's intent, next to review_dir: '/Users/aloksubbarao/.duck/review/results' AS results_dir, and pass it as 'REVIEW_RESULTS': pr.results_dir in listed's env map. In plan.sql:22, render tera_render('{{ results_dir }}/{{ review_key }}.json', ...) with getenv('REVIEW_RESULTS') AS results_dir. In plan.sql:29, put the path itself in the env map: MAP {'PR_BASE': base_sha, 'REVIEW_RESULT': result_path}. launch.sql:25 then only uses what it was given: TO $cmd$| (cd "$REVIEW_DIR" && mkdir -p "$REVIEW_RESULTS" && $REVIEW_CLAUDE --settings "$REVIEW_SETTINGS" --json-schema "$REVIEW_SCHEMA" > "$REVIEW_RESULT.part" 2>&1; mv "$REVIEW_RESULT.part" "$REVIEW_RESULT") 0<&0 > /dev/null 2>&1 &$cmd$

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:140 check 9 / manifesto 4: The description says each stage keeps array_agg(sql) AS requests beside its receipts, but the code drops that column and rebuilds it at the end with four copies of list_transform(prs, p -> p.sql).
  Rewrite: listing AS (
  SELECT array_agg(s) AS prs, array_agg(sql) AS requests, array_agg(selfdispatch(sql)) AS receipts FROM listing_sql AS s
  ) -- the same for planning, programs and resulting
  ...
  stage_receipts AS (
  SELECT 'listing' AS stage, requests, receipts FROM listing
  UNION ALL SELECT 'planning', requests, receipts FROM planning
  UNION ALL SELECT 'programs', requests, receipts FROM programs
  UNION ALL SELECT 'resulting', requests, receipts FROM resulting
  UNION ALL SELECT 'posting', requests, receipts FROM posting
  )
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:76 RULES 5 / check 6: Tera is used as a JSON field extractor ({{ plan_row.result_path }}), and later stages also reach back into the plan receipt (plan_row -> 'pr_id' at 131, plan_row.env at 64), so the receipt is not lifted into columns once, as the description says it is.
  Rewrite: planned AS ( -- plan.sql's row, every field later stages use lifted here once
  SELECT pr.* EXCLUDE (sources, sql), plan_row, plan_row ->> 'program' AS program,
  (plan_row ->> 'result_due')::BOOLEAN AS result_due, (plan_row ->> 'auto_merge')::BOOLEAN AS auto_merge,
  plan_row ->> 'result_path' AS result_path, plan_row -> 'pr_id' AS pr_id
  FROM planning CROSS JOIN UNNEST(prs) WITH ORDINALITY AS p(pr, n) CROSS JOIN UNNEST(TRY_CAST(receipts[n].body AS JSON[])) AS e(plan_row)
  ), result_reads AS (
  SELECT *, [result_path] AS sources FROM planned WHERE result_due
  )
  -- and at 131: json_object('id', pr_id) ... FROM planned WHERE NOT auto_merge
• skills/duckstack-review/plan.sql:7 check 1 / RULES 3: plan.sql runs as its own duckdb :memory: -f subprocess and gets its inputs as shell env so its readers see constants, which is the binder workaround self-dispatch exists to remove; the catalog-isolation reason in the description fits gate.sql, which .reads the hook views, but not plan.sql, which is one SELECT that creates nothing.
  Rewrite: planning_sql AS (
  SELECT *, tera_render($tera$
  WITH viewed AS (
  SELECT * FROM read_json('{{ gh }} pr view {{ pr_number }} --repo {{ gh_repo }} --json id,number,headRefOid,autoMergeRequest,statusCheckRollup |')
  ), base AS (
  SELECT '{{ head_sha }}' AS head_sha, arg_max(pr_log.commit_hash, pr_log.commit_date) AS base_sha
  FROM git_log('{{ repo }}', '{{ head_sha }}') AS pr_log
  SEMI JOIN git_log('{{ repo }}', 'origin/main') AS main_log USING (commit_hash)
  ) ... the rest of plan.sql's SELECT, unchanged
  $tera$, r::JSON, autoescape := false) AS sql
  FROM listed AS r
  ), planning AS (
  SELECT array_agg(s) AS prs, array_agg(sql) AS requests, array_agg(selfdispatch(sql)) AS receipts FROM planning_sql AS s
  )
  -- plan.sql, its env entries, and the duckdb/cd prefix for this stage are deleted; env is built only for gate.sql/launch.sql

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:137 RULES 7: The GitHub headers map and the Bearer string are assembled in the posting CTE at the end of the query instead of being declared with the other constants in intent.
  Rewrite: -- in intent:
  MAP {'Authorization': concat('Bearer ', getenv('GH_TOKEN')), 'Accept': 'application/vnd.github+json', 'User-Agent': 'duckstack-review-queue'} AS github_headers,
  -- github_posts carries pr.github_headers (planned rows already carry intent's columns), and posting becomes:
  SELECT array_agg(url) AS requests, array_agg(quackapi_post(url, payload::VARCHAR, 'application/json', github_headers)) AS receipts FROM github_posts
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:37 check 9: Every stage spends two CTEs (_reads then _sql) on one rendering, and the identical tera_render('shell.tera', r::JSON, …, template_path := …) call appears four times (lines 38, 55, 69, 79). That adds four CTEs and about 12 lines to a file the hook already warns is too long.
  Rewrite: listing_sql AS (
  SELECT , tera_render('shell.tera', {'reader': reader, 'options': options, 'sources': [tera_render('{{ fetch | join(sep=" ") }} && {{ list_prs | join(sep=" ") }} |', intent::JSON, autoescape := false)]}::JSON,
  autoescape := false, template_path := 'skills/self-dispatch/templates/.tera') AS sql
  FROM intent
  ), listing AS (
  SELECT array_agg(s) AS prs, array_agg(selfdispatch(sql)) AS receipts FROM listing_sql AS s
  ) -- same for planning, programs, resulting; the molecules EXCLUDE (sql) only
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:65 check 9 / RULES 7: The planning (line 51) and programs (line 65) stages hand-write the same command shape twice (cd checkout && env duckdb skills/duckstack-review/<program> |), differing only in plan_env and the program name; the shape should be declared once.
  Rewrite: -- in intent:
  'cd {{ checkout }} && {{ env | join(sep=" ") }} {{ plan_env | join(sep=" ") }} {{ duckdb | join(sep=" ") }} skills/duckstack-review/{{ program }} |' AS program_source,
  -- in listed: 'plan.sql' AS program, []::VARCHAR[] AS plan_env
  -- both stages:
  SELECT *, [tera_render(program_source, r::JSON, autoescape := false)] AS sources FROM listed AS r
  SELECT *, [tera_render(program_source, r::JSON, autoescape := false)] AS sources FROM planned AS r WHERE program IS NOT NULL
• skills/duckstack-review/plan.sql:10 check 1 (measure) / check 9: To find one commit, the base CTE reads the PR head's entire git history and main's entire history and semi-joins them, once per open PR on every one-minute tick, when git can return that commit directly.
  Rewrite: base AS (
  SELECT getenv('PR_HEAD') AS head_sha, column0 AS base_sha
  FROM read_csv('git -C "$PR_REPO" merge-base origin/main "$PR_HEAD" |', header := false, columns_names := ['base_sha'])
  ) -- or, per the finding above, a shell.tera read dispatched from queue.sql
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:51 check 1 / check 4 (RULES 2, 7): The planning stage runs a separate duckdb -f plan.sql process per PR. The PR's reason, that sql_dispatch_shape would block an inline statement holding the semi-join and status logic, doesn't hold: only the readers need to be dispatched, and the due/program logic belongs in queue.sql as set-based CTEs over the receipts, where a reader can see it instead of inside a hidden process.
  Rewrite: planning_reads AS ( -- two shell.tera reads per PR, both readers
  SELECT *, unnest([
  {'step': 'view', 'sources': [tera_render('{{ gh }} pr view {{ pr_number }} --repo {{ gh_repo }} --json id,number,headRefOid,autoMergeRequest,statusCheckRollup |', r::JSON, autoescape := false)]},
  {'step': 'base', 'sources': [tera_render('git -C {{ repo }} merge-base origin/main {{ head_sha }} |', r::JSON, autoescape := false)]}
  ], recursive := true)
  FROM listed AS r
  )
  -- then planning_sql / planning / planned as now, and pr_state, result_path, review_due and program become CTEs here, joined per pr_number from the two receipts; plan.sql is deleted.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

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duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:57 RULES.md 5, 13 (no json_extract ladders or selector-taking extractors) / check 7: viewed digs into the receipt one step at a time: pr_view -> 'statusCheckRollup', then ::JSON[], then s ->> 'context' and s ->> 'state' inside a comprehension. The dispatched read_json already inferred statusCheckRollup as a list of structs, and that typing is lost before this code runs.
  Rewrite: Do the shaping in the per-PR statement, where the reader's columns are typed, so the receipt arrives with flat keys:
  viewing_sql renders SELECT id AS pr_id, autoMergeRequest IS NOT NULL AS auto_merge, headRefOid,
  map_from_entries(list_transform(list_filter(statusCheckRollup, s -> s.context IS NOT NULL), s -> {k: s.context, v: upper(s.state)})) AS statuses
  FROM read_json('gh pr view … |')
  viewed then reads only pr_view ->> 'pr_id', (pr_view ->> 'auto_merge')::BOOLEAN, pr_view -> 'statuses' ->> 'duckstack/rules' AS rules_state, …
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:43 check 1 / RULES.md 1, 5 / manifesto §4 (keep the generated sql beside its receipt): Each stage builds two lists, array_agg(s) AS prs and array_agg(selfdispatch(sql)) AS receipts, and pairs them later by position with WITH ORDINALITY and receipts[n]. The same pattern is at lines 54, 78, 95 and 104. Ordinality is doing the job a struct should do. The author's claim that both lists line up does hold in practice, but the pairing depends on that alignment. The row should travel with its receipt.
  Rewrite: listing AS (
  SELECT array_agg({'pr': s, 'receipt': selfdispatch(sql)}) AS dispatched FROM listing_sql AS s
  ), listed AS (
  SELECT d.pr.* EXCLUDE (sql), (listed_pr ->> 'number')::INTEGER AS pr_number, listed_pr ->> 'headRefOid' AS head_sha
  FROM listing
  CROSS JOIN UNNEST(dispatched) AS t(d)
  CROSS JOIN UNNEST(TRY_CAST(d.receipt.body AS JSON[])) AS e(listed_pr)
  )
  -- same for viewing, basing, programs and resulting. stage_receipts then reads list_transform(dispatched, d -> d.pr.sql) and list_transform(dispatched, d -> d.receipt), with no index.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

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duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:93 RULES.md 7 / manifesto §1 (commands as arrays, declared up front): The program command is half array and half string. cd {{ checkout }} && {{ env | join }} {{ duckdb | join }} skills/duckstack-review/{{ program }} puts the cd, the && and the script path in template text, when based could carry the whole command as one list.
  Rewrite: In planned, make program the full path (CASE WHEN review_due THEN 'skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql' WHEN rules_state IS NULL THEN 'skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql' END) and compare against those paths in gated and outcomes. In based, add list_concat(['cd', pr.checkout, '&&'], env, pr.duckdb, [pr.program]) AS program_cmd. programs_sql then renders tera_render('{{ program_cmd | join(sep=" ") }} |', based_pr::JSON, autoescape := false), so all five stages use one shape: a cmd array joined into the reader's source.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:77 RULES.md 7 / manifesto §1 (commands as arrays, declared up front): The basing stage builds git -C {{ repo }} merge-base origin/main {{ head_sha }} as a template string instead of declaring the command as an argument array on the row it runs for.
  Rewrite: In planned, add ['git', '-C', repo, 'merge-base', 'origin/main', head_sha] AS base_cmd. Then basing_sql renders tera_render('{{ base_cmd | join(sep=" ") }} |', planned_pr::JSON, autoescape := false) as the read_csv source.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:50 RULES.md 7 / manifesto §1 (commands as arrays, declared up front): The viewing stage writes its gh command inline as a template string, {{ gh }} pr view {{ pr_number }} --repo ... --json ..., inside a later CTE. Meanwhile intent declares fetch and list_prs as word arrays, so the same file does the same job two ways and the command line is not data.
  Rewrite: In listed, add [pr.gh, 'pr', 'view', pr_number::VARCHAR, '--repo', pr.gh_repo, '--json', 'id,headRefOid,autoMergeRequest,statusCheckRollup'] AS view_cmd. Then viewing_sql renders tera_render('{{ view_cmd | join(sep=" ") }} |', listed_pr::JSON, autoescape := false) as its source, the same shape listing uses for fetch and list_prs.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql:17 RULES.md 7 / check 9 (declare once, no restating): getenv('REVIEW_RUBRIC')::JSON::VARCHAR[] is parsed twice in one CTE (lines 17 and 18), once to read the files and once to order them.
  Rewrite: Read the rubric once and keep the order in the reader: SELECT list_position(rubric, filename) AS part_no, content AS part FROM (SELECT getenv('REVIEW_RUBRIC')::JSON::VARCHAR[] AS rubric) AS r, read_text(r.rubric) is not allowed, so instead pass the list already ordered and use read_text(getenv('REVIEW_RUBRIC')::JSON::VARCHAR[]) WITH ORDINALITY. If read_text does not keep the list's order, carry it as one named CTE, rubric_files AS (SELECT unnest(getenv('REVIEW_RUBRIC')::JSON::VARCHAR[]) AS filename, generate_series ...), and join it on filename.
• skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql:28 RULES.md 10 (aggregate with array_agg, not min/max/count) / skill: row counts as len(array_agg(…)): count(old.line) AS copies collapses the old file's copies of each line into a bare number with count.
  Rewrite: SELECT pr_changes.file_path, old.line, array_agg(old.line) AS old_copies ... GROUP BY ALL, then at line 38 slice with new_lines.line_numbers[coalesce(len(old_lines.old_copies), 0) + 1:].
• skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql:25 Manifesto §1 / RULES.md 7 (a command line is data declared in intent, a pipe is arrays, not a quoted line): The claude argv is declared in queue.sql's intent, but the command that wraps it (cd, mkdir, redirect to .part, mv, background) is a hand-quoted shell line inside launch.sql, held together with eight env interpolations.
  Rewrite: Declare the wrapper in queue.sql's intent as words, e.g. ['cd', review_dir, '&&', 'mkdir', '-p', results_dir, '&&'] AS launch_prefix, render the whole launch line once in based with tera_render('{{ launch | join(sep=" ") }}', ...) as REVIEW_LAUNCH, and keep launch.sql's literal target to TO '| sh -c "$REVIEW_LAUNCH" 0<&0 > /dev/null 2>&1 &'. The command then lives as data next to the claude argv.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:72 RULES.md 7 (declare everything up front in the first CTE): The two program paths are hand-written as literals three times (lines 72, 121, 123), and outcomes decides which status to post by comparing those path strings again, so intent does not declare the programs.
  Rewrite: In intent: 'skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql' AS gate_program, 'skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql' AS launch_program. In planned: CASE WHEN review_due THEN launch_program WHEN rules_state IS NULL THEN gate_program END AS program, CASE WHEN review_due THEN 'duckstack/review' ELSE 'duckstack/rules' END AS context. In outcomes: FROM gated WHERE pr.context = 'duckstack/rules' and ... WHERE pr.context = 'duckstack/review', so no path literal is repeated.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_dispatch_shape in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Self-dispatch has one shape: source rows, one generated statement per row, array_agg(selfdispatch(sql)), then CROSS JOIN UNNEST of the receipts.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql:16 Check 1 (measure; each read should be narrow): read_blob(git_uri(repo, '**', head)), and the same at line 29 for the base, reads every blob in the repo at both commits and then joins down to the few changed files. The author's reason (a binary file in the glob cannot fail the read) explains reading blobs, not reading the whole tree.
  Rewrite: Read only the changed, text paths with duck_tails' per-row reader: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW pr_files AS SELECT pr_changes.file_path, pr_changes.status, decode(blob.content) AS content FROM pr_changes JOIN git_tree(getenv('PR_REPO'), getenv('PR_HEAD')) AS tree USING (file_path) CROSS JOIN LATERAL git_read_each(pr_changes.head_uri) AS blob WHERE tree.is_text AND pr_changes.status <> 'deleted'; and the same with base_uri for old_lines.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:58 RULES.md 5, 13 (selector-taking extractors in committed code): Every stage pulls the receipt's fields out by hand with ->>/-> selectors (listed_pr ->> 'number', listed_pr ->> 'headRefOid'; the same at lines 70-72, 78, 96, 112 and 121) instead of getting them back as columns. The author's reason, that quackapi_post returns the body as VARCHAR, is true, but it is a missing quackapi feature, and the rubric says to fix that in quackapi rather than work around it.
  Rewrite: Make the /sql receipt carry its rows typed (a quackapi change on asubbarao/quackapi), then each stage reads columns: SELECT d.* EXCLUDE (sql, receipt), listed_pr.number AS pr_number, listed_pr.headRefOid AS head_sha FROM listing CROSS JOIN UNNEST(dispatched) AS t(d) CROSS JOIN UNNEST(d.receipt.rows) AS e(listed_pr). Until quackapi changes, keep the ->> selectors in one place and point the PR description to that quackapi issue as the stated exception.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:38 check 9; RULES.md 17: The same inline template, tera_render('{{ cmd | join(sep=" ") }}', {'cmd': ...}::JSON, autoescape := false), is written out five times (lines 38, 44, 59, 83, 96), each with its own struct and *_line column, when one canonical shell template called by name would do the join.
  Rewrite: Keep only the word arrays (fetch_cmd, list_cmd, view_cmd, base_cmd, program_cmd) and let the shell template called in each stage join them. The one line still needed as text, claude_line for the REVIEW_CLAUDE env, becomes:
  tera_render('shell.tera', {'cmd': claude}::JSON, autoescape := false, template_path := 'templates/*.tera') AS claude_line
  and listing_line, view_line, base_line and program_line are deleted.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:86 check 6; RULES.md 12: The merge-base statement nests three quoting layers ($q$ |$src$, header := false, names := ['base_sha'])$q$ inside concat), which is exactly the nested-quote style the rules ban, all to name the one column of a headerless CSV.
  Rewrite: ), basing AS (
  SELECT , array_agg(selfdispatch(tera_render('shell.tera', {'reader': 'read_lines', 'cmd': base_cmd}::JSON,
  autoescape := false, template_path := 'templates/.tera'))) AS receipts
  FROM planned WHERE program IS NOT NULL GROUP BY ALL
  ), based AS (
  SELECT basing.* EXCLUDE (receipts), base_row ->> 'content' AS base_sha, ... -- read_lines brings its own column; no names := and no inner quotes
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:54 check 6; RULES.md 12 and 17: Every stage builds its SQL with concat() around SQL fragments (here and at lines 62, 99 and 105), which is a || chain under another name. The description's table says these statements go 'through shell.tera', but no canonical template is ever called; the stated reason, that commands carry single quotes, doesn't hold, because a Tera template can hold the $src$ dollar quotes just as the owner's own example holds $cmd$.
  Rewrite: ), listing AS (
  SELECT , array_agg(selfdispatch(tera_render('shell.tera', {'reader': 'read_json', 'cmd': list_concat(fetch_cmd, ['&&'], list_cmd)}::JSON,
  autoescape := false, template_path := 'templates/.tera'))) AS receipts
  FROM intent GROUP BY ALL
  ), ... viewing AS (
  SELECT , array_agg(selfdispatch(tera_render('shell.tera', {'reader': 'read_json', 'cmd': view_cmd}::JSON,
  autoescape := false, template_path := 'templates/.tera'))) AS receipts
  FROM listed GROUP BY ALL
  ) -- same for programs (cmd := program_cmd); resulting uses the plain-reader template with {'reader': 'read_json', 'path': result_path}; listing_line, view_line and program_line are deleted

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:107 RULES 12, 16: Shell-escaping runs inside Tera (replace(from="'", to="'\''")), which puts logic and quoting tricks in the template. It is needed only because the free-text PR_TITLE and PR_BODY are pushed through shell env.
  Rewrite: Leave title and body out of the env. In launch.sql, join them by key from one shellfs reader: FROM pr_review JOIN read_json($cmd$gh pr view "$PR_NUMBER" --repo asubbarao/duckstack --json number,title,body |$cmd$) AS pr_view ON pr_view.number = pr_review.pr_number. The env then holds only shas, paths, numbers and JSON with no apostrophes, so the template only substitutes: [tera_render($t${{ key }}='{{ value }}'$t$, e::JSON, autoescape := false) FOR e IN map_entries(MAP {...})]. view_flags can also drop title,body.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:70 check 6 / RULES 12, 17: Every dispatched statement is built by gluing strings with concat around a dollar-quoted reader. The same lines also render the same inline join template five times (lines 38, 44, 75, 100, 114) into *_line columns that only feed the concat. The author's reason, that commands carry single quotes, explains the dollar quotes but not the concat: a template that only substitutes keeps the dollar quotes too.
  Rewrite: Declare the reader once in intent as a template with holes: $t$SELECT * FROM read_json($src${{ cmd | join(sep=" ") }} |$src$)$t$ AS shellfs_json (plus shellfs_lines for the merge base, with "trim" := true, and $t$SELECT * FROM read_json({{ path }})$t$ for the result file). Then render each statement straight from the word list: SELECT *, 'viewing' AS stage, array_agg(selfdispatch(tera_render(shellfs_json, {'cmd': view_cmd}::JSON, autoescape := false))) AS receipts FROM listed GROUP BY ALL. Do the same at 70, 103, 117 and 123, and drop listing_line, view_line, base_line and program_line.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:107 check 6 / RULES 12 (no escape hell): The env template does shell-quote surgery inside Tera (replace(from="'", to="'''")) so the free-text PR_TITLE and PR_BODY can survive sh. The author tested that it works, but the rubric bans the escape gymnastics, not just failures.
  Rewrite: Keep free text out of the shell: drop PR_TITLE and PR_BODY from the env map and let launch.sql read them in its own process, SELECT title, body FROM read_json($cmd$/opt/homebrew/bin/gh pr view "$PR_NUMBER" --repo asubbarao/duckstack --json title,body |$cmd$), joined to pr_review. The remaining env values contain no single quote, so the template becomes plain substitution: $t${{ key }}='{{ value }}'$t$.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:75 check 6 / check 9 (bloat): The same inline template '{{ cmd | join(sep=" ") }}' is written five times (lines 38, 44, 75, 100, 114) only to produce a string that is then concatenated again. That adds a render stage per command and keeps the file over the length warning.
  Rewrite: Pass the command arrays (fetch_cmd and list_cmd, view_cmd, base_cmd, program_cmd) directly as the context of the single reader template from the previous finding, e.g. tera_render(shell_json_reader, {'cmd': list_concat(fetch_cmd, ['&&'], list_cmd)}::JSON, autoescape := false). Keep one join only for claude_line, which is an env value, not a statement.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:70 check 6 / RULES 12 / manifesto §3: Every dispatched statement is built by string concatenation around a separately rendered command line: concat('SELECT * FROM read_json($src$', listing_line, ' |$src$)') at 70, 78, 117, the read_lines variant at 103 and concat('SELECT * FROM read_json(', quote_literal(result_path), ')') at 123. That is printf-style plumbing; the PR's dollar-quote reason supports $src$ but not concat.
  Rewrite: Declare the reader once in intent as a template that only substitutes, and render the statement straight from the command array: $t$SELECT * FROM read_json($src${{ cmd | join(sep=" ") }} |$src$)$t$ AS shell_json_reader (and $t$SELECT content AS base_sha FROM read_lines($src${{ cmd | join(sep=" ") }} |$src$, "trim" := true)$t$ AS shell_line_reader), then array_agg(selfdispatch(tera_render(shell_json_reader, {'cmd': view_cmd}::JSON, autoescape := false))) AS receipts. Better still, call the existing reader-shellfs.tera with template_path :=. The *_line columns (listing_line, view_line, base_line, program_line) then go away.

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql:16 check 1 (narrow each statement; measure); shorter version: read_blob(git_uri(..., '**', ...)) reads every file in the repo at the head, and line 29 does it again at the base, only to join down to the few changed paths. The two sides also repeat the same blob/tree/decode/split logic.
  Rewrite: Make one view over both sides that reads only the changed URIs:
  CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW pr_blobs AS
  SELECT pr_changes.file_path, pr_changes.status, side.name AS side, decode(blob.content) AS content
  FROM pr_changes CROSS JOIN UNNEST([{name: 'head', uri: head_uri}, {name: 'base', uri: base_uri}]) AS t(side)
  CROSS JOIN LATERAL git_read_each(side.uri) AS blob
  JOIN git_tree(getenv('PR_REPO'), getenv('PR_HEAD')) AS tree USING (file_path) WHERE tree.is_text;
  Then pr_files is WHERE side = 'head' AND status <> 'deleted', old_lines is WHERE side = 'base' AND status = 'modified', and both split content the same way. This removes about 8 lines and both full-tree reads.
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:41 RULES 12, 14, 17; check 6: Each dispatched statement is a concat of fragments around a nested tera_render whose context is an ad hoc struct with cryptic keys a and b. Line 62 repeats the same concat wrapper around program_template. The statement should be one template with holes, and the command words should be columns in intent.
  Rewrite: In intent: list_concat(git_in_repo, git_fetch) AS fetch_cmd, list_concat(gh_pr_list, list_flags) AS list_cmd. Then:
  ), listing AS (
  SELECT *, 'listing' AS stage, array_agg(selfdispatch(tera_render(
  $t$SELECT * FROM read_json($src${{ fetch_cmd | join(sep=" ") }} && {{ list_cmd | join(sep=" ") }} |$src$)$t$,
  intent::JSON, autoescape := false))) AS receipts
  FROM intent GROUP BY ALL
  For programs, put the SELECT * FROM read_json($src$ … |$src$) wrapper inside program_template itself and call selfdispatch(tera_render(program_template, planned::JSON, autoescape := false)).
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:22 check 6; RULES 7: The env values (checkout, repo, head_sha, result_path) go into the shell unquoted. The description's per-PR env MAP with each value sh-quoted by one tera_render is not in the code, so a path with a space or quote breaks the program line.
  Rewrite: In planned: MAP {'PR_REPO': repo, 'PR_NUMBER': pr_number::VARCHAR, 'PR_HEAD': head_sha, 'REVIEW_RESULT': result_path, 'PR_TITLE': title, 'PR_BODY': body} AS program_env. The template substitutes only:
  $t$cd '{{ checkout }}' && PR_BASE=$(...merge-base origin/main {{ head_sha }}) {% for k, v in program_env %}{{ k }}='{{ v | replace(from="'", to="'''") }}' {% endfor %}{{ duckdb_file | join(sep=" ") }} {{ program }}$t$
  The loop is allowed here because env assignments are loop-shaped output (RULES 16).
• skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql:18 Manifesto 1 (a command is an array of words); check 6: The whole claude invocation, with its settings and JSON schema, is one hand-typed shell string. The description says the claude settings and schema are data in queue.sql's intent and the target runs $REVIEW_CLAUDE, and neither is true in the code.
  Rewrite: In queue.sql intent: ['$HOME/.local/bin/claude', '-p', '--model', 'claude-opus-5-5', '--tools=', '--output-format', 'json', '--no-session-persistence', '--strict-mcp-config', '--disable-slash-commands', '--settings', json_object('disableAllHooks', true)::VARCHAR, '--json-schema', json_object('type', 'object', 'required', ['verdict', 'findings'], ...)::VARCHAR] AS claude_cmd. Render it once with the sh-quoting template into REVIEW_CLAUDE in the program env. Here the target becomes:
  ) TO $cmd$| (cd "$HOME/.duck/review" && mkdir -p results && eval "$REVIEW_CLAUDE" > "$REVIEW_RESULT.part" 2>&1; mv "$REVIEW_RESULT.part" "$REVIEW_RESULT") 0<&0 > /dev/null 2>&1 &$cmd$
• skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql:10 check 1 (UNION ALL of N hand-written statements, one per input): The three rubric files are read by three hand-written read_text statements joined by UNION ALL, with their order in hand-typed part numbers.
  Rewrite: WITH rubric AS (
  SELECT filename, content AS part FROM read_text(['skills/duckstack-review/SKILL.md', 'skills/self-dispatch/RULES.md', 'SQL-MANIFESTO.md'])
  ), prompt AS (
  SELECT tera_render('review_prompt.tera', pr_prompt::JSON, autoescape := false, template_path := 'skills/duckstack-review/*.tera') AS part FROM (...) AS pr_prompt
  )
  SELECT concat(string_agg(part, '' ORDER BY filename), any part from prompt) ...
  Or keep one list in the first CTE and order by list_position(paths, filename). The point is one reader call over a list of paths, not one statement per file.
• skills/duckstack-review/launch.sql:14 RULES 12, 13; check 1 (cross join that is not UNNEST): This line builds the gh command with a || chain, cross joins it onto the one-row pr_review, hardcodes the repo and runs gh a second time. The description says the title and body come from the queue's own gh pr view as PR_TITLE/PR_BODY, but no such env exists in the code.
  Rewrite: In queue.sql add title,body to list_flags' --json fields and pass PR_TITLE/PR_BODY in the program env. Then here:
  UNION ALL SELECT 4, tera_render('review_prompt.tera', pr_prompt::JSON, autoescape := false, template_path := 'skills/duckstack-review/*.tera')
  FROM (SELECT *, getenv('PR_TITLE') AS title, getenv('PR_BODY') AS body FROM pr_review) AS pr_prompt
  (Two lines replace two, with no shell-out and no cross join.)

Opus 5.5, duckstack review queue (duckstack-review skill)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/rules: success

• existing sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.
• warn sql_file_too_long in skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql: Keep a job or loader file to 30-80 lines and one concern; split it, or state the reason and line count in the PR.

duckstack review queue, rule gate (hooks/hook_checks.sql)

[asubbarao]

duckstack/review: failure

• skills/duckstack-review/gate.sql:29 check 4 (set-based) / check 9 (shorter version): pr_added_lines collects each line's numbers into a list and then slices it with line_numbers[copies + 1:], a list round trip where a window would do. The PR description says this uses row_number() and has no list slice, which does not match the code.
  Rewrite: Use a window with an anti-filter, 12 → 9 lines:
  WITH new_lines AS (
  SELECT file_path, split.line, split.line_number,
  row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY file_path, split.line ORDER BY split.line_number) AS copy_number
  FROM pr_files CROSS JOIN UNNEST(string_split(content, E'\n')) WITH ORDINALITY AS split(line, line_number)
  ), old_lines AS (
  SELECT file_path, old.line, count(old.line) AS copies
  FROM pr_versions CROSS JOIN UNNEST(string_split(content, E'\n')) AS old(line) WHERE side = 'base' GROUP BY ALL
  )
  SELECT file_path, line_number, line FROM new_lines LEFT JOIN old_lines USING (file_path, line)
  WHERE copy_number > coalesce(copies, 0);
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:87 RULES.md 5 / check 7 (results come back as columns; one ->> right after the unnest): reviews keeps result_row -> 'structured_output' as raw JSON, and later CTEs dig into it again: review ->> 'verdict' (line 104) and review -> 'findings' cast to JSON[] (line 95). That is the parsing-after-the-fact ladder rule 5 forbids.
  Rewrite: Have the dispatched statement name the columns so the reader infers them: $t$SELECT structured_output.verdict AS verdict, structured_output.findings AS findings, result AS answer FROM read_json('{{ result_path }}')$t$ AS result_template. In reviews, read each field once with one ->>/cast: result_row ->> 'verdict' AS verdict, TRY_CAST(result_row -> 'findings' AS JSON[]) AS findings, left(result_row ->> 'answer', 3000) AS answer. outcomes then uses CASE verdict WHEN 'clean' ..., and finding_lines uses UNNEST(findings).
• skills/duckstack-review/queue.sql:33 RULES.md 16 / check 6 (Tera is a constructor, no logic): program_template builds the env assignments with a Tera {% for name, value in program_env %} loop. Contrary to the PR description, nothing sh-quotes the values, so the loop hides the env construction from SQL and its quoting is left to a comment ('env values hold no quote').
  Rewrite: Build the words in SQL, in planned: list_transform(map_entries(program_env), e -> concat(e.key, '=', quote_literal(e.value))) AS env_words. The template then only substitutes them: ... PR_BASE=$({{ git_in_repo | join(sep=" ") }} merge-base origin/main {{ head_sha }}) {{ env_words | join(sep=" ") }} {{ duckdb_file | join(sep=" ") }} {{ program }} |$src$). This also replaces the hand-written '{{ value }}' quoting.

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