Themes

This page captures practical ways teams tune review behavior and interpretation standards.

What to Tune First Permalink for this section

1. Severity interpretation policy
2. Sensitive pattern policy (credentials, secrets, PII)
3. Cost-risk policy (cloud-heavy operations)
4. Critical-path policy (auth, billing, migrations)

Lightweight Team Policy Template Permalink for this section

Use this as a baseline in your internal docs:

Critical areas: auth, payments, access control, migrations
Always-review changes: permission checks, input validation, logging statements
Escalate when: behavior changes without explicit intent notes
Block until fixed: credential leakage, sensitive data logging

Practical Review Cadence Permalink for this section

• Small diffs: 1 to 2 iterations
• Medium diffs: 2 to 4 iterations
• Large diffs: split before final vouch when possible

Why This Matters Permalink for this section

Launch feedback repeatedly highlighted confidence and consistency concerns. A lightweight policy makes review output actionable and less subjective.