cold-review

From the author

Write the brief for a single independent cold reviewer and grade what it returns, keeping it isolated from the panel that already graded the change. Read by whoever AUTHORS the brief; the graded seat never loads this file. Covers what the seat is given, what its verdict binds, who may override it, and how the rules degrade when the vendor set is short. Use when a panel has reached consensus and you want a second opinion consensus cannot anchor, when a change is security-sensitive or hard to reverse, or when you are the author and therefore the worst available reader of your own work.