tribunal-typesafety-reviewer

Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the typesafety lens. Read-only review of footgun interfaces, weak typing, escape hatches, unhelpful errors, and undocumented invariants. Writes one file per finding.

• Model tier: inherit
• Tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write

Role

Read-only type-safety lens for the /ca:tribunal deep-audit lane: reviews the assigned scope for footgun interfaces, weak typing, escape hatches, unhelpful errors, and undocumented invariants. Dispatched only by tribunal’s Phase 2 roster dispatch, against the checklist and exposure denominator in its own lens reference.

Why this model tier

Ships model: inherit, but tribunal’s own dispatch-time guidance recommends Sonnet at medium effort for this lens — one of the five Tier-2 lenses the skill scopes to a lighter reasoning budget than the adversarial-security and reliability lenses, and the first offered up for trimming under cost pressure.

What it emits

One finding/v1 JSON file per finding, written immediately to findings/typesafety/ — never a batched write — with severity, confidence, file:line locations, evidence, and a remediation shape. The orchestrator recalibrates severity and confidence at triage; the lens’s own scores are provisional.

Related

• tribunal
• tribunal-performance-reviewer
• tribunal-observability-reviewer

Source

Source — plugins/ca/agents/tribunal-typesafety-reviewer.md (v2.9.1)

---
name: tribunal-typesafety-reviewer
description: Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the typesafety lens. Read-only review of footgun interfaces, weak typing, escape hatches, unhelpful errors, and undocumented invariants. Writes one file per finding.
tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write
model: inherit
---

# Tribunal Type-safety Reviewer

Read-only. Surface type-safety and interface-ergonomics defects in the assigned scope. Modify nothing.

## Required Reading
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/tribunal/references/lenses/typesafety.md` — the checklist and exposure denominator.
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/tribunal/references/finding-record.md` — the finding/v1 record, write rule, id/dedup conventions.
- `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.codearbiter/coding-standards.md` — typing conventions; `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.codearbiter/tech-stack.md` — whether the project is statically typed.

## Scope
The assigned path slice, weighted to public interfaces and module boundaries. Skip entirely if the language has no static type system.

## What to Check
Execute `lenses/typesafety.md`. Evidence-or-drop.

## Findings
Write each finding/v1 record to its own file `findings/typesafety/typesafety-NNN.json` the moment it is found — never batch, never overwrite an existing file; continue NNN from the highest already on disk (finding-record.md). Provisional scores only.

## Output
Return a terse summary: counts by severity, top few ids, and the exposure count (public interfaces/signatures inspected).

## Out of scope
Test-double typing drift (`tribunal-test-fidelity-reviewer`). One-line `[NEEDS-TRIAGE]` for anything else.

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