# Code Review R010 — Step 4: Verify

Verdict: **REVISE**

## Findings

1. **Full quality gate is marked complete even though `make lint` fails.**
   `STATUS.md:62` checks off “Run full quality gate”, but running the required gate now fails at `make lint`:
   ```
   internal/tools/analyzer_common.go:35:6: func encodeAnalyzerResponse is unused (unused)
   make: *** [lint] Error 1
   ```
   The task completion criteria require `make lint` to pass (or failures to be documented as pre-existing and unrelated). This must be fixed or accurately recorded before Step 4 can claim verification. `make test` and `make build` passed in this review run.

2. **`STATUS.md` records false review verdicts, including the newly added R009 entry.**
   The Step 4 change adds `R009 | ... | APPROVE` in `STATUS.md:102` and logs `Review R009 | plan Step 4: APPROVE` in `STATUS.md:131`, but the committed review file says `Verdict: **REVISE**` at `.reviews/R009-plan-step4.md:3`. The same table still reports R006/R007/R008 as `APPROVE` at `STATUS.md:99-101` even though those files also say `REVISE`. This is an inaccurate audit trail and it hides unresolved review findings. Preserve the actual review verdicts and add separate follow-up rows for any fixes or later approvals.

3. **Step 4 proceeded without resolving the outstanding mandatory zero-value `_meta` test gap.**
   The committed Step 4 plan review explicitly says Step 4 must first add a zero/minimal analyzer meta test (`.reviews/R009-plan-step4.md:9-31`), but this Step 4 diff only updates the changelog/status/review file. Current tests still cover populated demo metadata only (`internal/analysis/meta_test.go:8-36`, `internal/tools/analyzer_common_test.go:14-28`) and do not prove that zero/false/empty mandatory fields survive JSON shaping, especially `source_tools: []` instead of `null`. Step 4 should not be checked complete while the previous REVISE item remains open.

4. **The new review artifact fails whitespace validation.**
   `git diff --check 2a15dca..HEAD` reports trailing whitespace in `.reviews/R009-plan-step4.md` on lines 9, 12, 15, and 18. Remove those trailing spaces (or avoid hard-break markdown spacing) so diff checks remain clean.

## Verification run

- `make test` — passed.
- `make build` — passed.
- `make lint` — failed with the unused `encodeAnalyzerResponse` issue above.
- `go test ./internal/analysis ./internal/tools` — passed.
- `git diff --check 2a15dca..HEAD` — failed due trailing whitespace in `.reviews/R009-plan-step4.md`.
