# Branch Review - test/comprehensive-testing
**Date**: 2025-10-03
**Time**: 22:42
**Type**: Branch Review (PR Readiness Assessment)
**Branch**: test/comprehensive-testing
**Base**: main
**Reviewer**: AI Sub-Agent Orchestra

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## 📊 Branch Overview

**Commits**: 15 commits
**Files Changed**: 127 files
**Lines Added**: 21,739
**Lines Removed**: 4,001
**Net Change**: +17,738 lines
**Review Duration**: 45 minutes (6 parallel audits)

### Change Categories
- 🎯 **Features**: Event-driven architecture migration, comprehensive test infrastructure
- 🐛 **Bug Fixes**: EventBus stability, QueryHandler null handling, retry logic
- 🔧 **Refactoring**: Pure event-driven pattern, configuration validation
- 📚 **Documentation**: Test standards (1,148 lines), architecture docs
- 🧪 **Tests**: 10,351 lines of tests (26 files), 522 passing tests

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## 🚦 PR READINESS ASSESSMENT

### 🚨 MERGE RECOMMENDATION
**Status**: ⚠️ **ISSUES TO ADDRESS BEFORE MERGE**

**Confidence Level**: Medium-High

### 🔴 Blocking Issues (Must Fix Before Merge)

1. **CRITICAL SECURITY: Command Injection in Worktree Manager**
   - **File**: `src/services/worktree-manager.ts:252-256`
   - **Issue**: User-controlled `task.prompt` inserted into git commit message without sanitization
   - **Attack**: `'; git push --force origin +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*; echo '`
   - **Impact**: Code execution, repository destruction, data exfiltration
   - **Fix**: Sanitize commit messages: `task.prompt.replace(/[`$();&|<>]/g, '').slice(0, 200)`
   - **Effort**: 2 hours

2. **CRITICAL SECURITY: Path Traversal Vulnerability**
   - **File**: `src/cli.ts:473-479`, `src/utils/validation.ts:35-39`
   - **Issue**: Path validation checks literal `../` but not resolved paths or symlinks
   - **Attack**: `--working-directory "/etc"` or symlink bypass
   - **Impact**: File system access outside project, sensitive file reading
   - **Fix**: Use `path.resolve()` + `fs.realpathSync()` validation
   - **Effort**: 4 hours

3. **CRITICAL SECURITY: Missing MCP Authentication**
   - **File**: `src/adapters/mcp-adapter.ts` (entire file)
   - **Issue**: No authentication mechanism for MCP server
   - **Attack**: Unauthorized task delegation, resource exhaustion, data exfiltration
   - **Impact**: Unauthorized command execution
   - **Fix**: Implement token-based or Unix socket authentication
   - **Effort**: 8 hours

4. **CRITICAL ARCHITECTURE: Circular Dependency**
   - **Files**: `core/interfaces.ts` ↔️ `services/worktree-manager.ts`
   - **Issue**: Core interfaces re-export implementation from services layer
   - **Impact**: Breaks layered architecture, prevents clean builds
   - **Fix**: Move interface definitions to core, implementations to services
   - **Effort**: 2 hours

5. **CRITICAL ARCHITECTURE: WorkerHandler Service Coupling**
   - **File**: `src/services/handlers/worker-handler.ts:19-35`
   - **Issue**: Handler depends on another handler (QueueHandler) + 7 total dependencies
   - **Impact**: Violates handler independence, makes testing difficult
   - **Fix**: Use event-based communication between handlers
   - **Effort**: 4 hours

6. **CRITICAL TESTING: Service Coverage 30.59%**
   - **Components**: Worktree Manager (11.58%), GitHub Integration (29.07%), MCP Adapter (7.07%)
   - **Issue**: Service layer critically undertested (target: >80%)
   - **Impact**: Production bugs, incomplete validation
   - **Fix**: Create worktree-manager.test.ts (500-600 lines), github-integration.test.ts (300-400 lines)
   - **Effort**: 2-3 days

### 🟠 High Priority (Should Fix Before Merge)

7. **HIGH SECURITY: Information Disclosure in Configuration Display**
   - **File**: `src/cli.ts:682-710`
   - **Issue**: System fingerprinting possible via config display
   - **Fix**: Require authentication for sensitive config display
   - **Effort**: 2 hours

8. **HIGH SECURITY: Insecure Default - Worktree Enabled by Default**
   - **File**: `src/adapters/mcp-adapter.ts:18`
   - **Issue**: Worktrees enabled by default despite experimental status
   - **Fix**: Change default to `false` (align with configuration.ts)
   - **Effort**: 1 hour

9. **HIGH PERFORMANCE: EventBus Parallel Handler Execution Without Backpressure**
   - **File**: `src/core/events/event-bus.ts:158-160`
   - **Issue**: No concurrency limiting - 100 handlers execute simultaneously
   - **Impact**: Memory spikes, potential OOM
   - **Fix**: Implement p-limit pattern (max 10 concurrent handlers)
   - **Effort**: 4 hours

10. **HIGH PERFORMANCE: OutputCapture Unbounded Global Buffer**
    - **File**: `src/implementations/output-capture.ts:33-68`
    - **Issue**: Per-task 10MB limit but no global limit (100 tasks = 1GB)
    - **Impact**: OOM with many concurrent tasks
    - **Fix**: Add global 500MB limit with LRU eviction
    - **Effort**: 4 hours

11. **HIGH DEPENDENCY: Remove Unused Dependencies**
    - **Packages**: `ws`, `@types/ws`
    - **Issue**: Zero usage in codebase, wasting 200KB
    - **Fix**: `npm uninstall ws @types/ws`
    - **Effort**: 5 minutes

12. **HIGH DEPENDENCY: Update Security-Vulnerable Packages**
    - **Package**: `better-sqlite3@12.2.0` (tar-fs@2.1.3 vulnerability)
    - **Issue**: HIGH severity symlink validation bypass
    - **Fix**: `npm update better-sqlite3@12.4.1`
    - **Effort**: 30 minutes

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## 🔍 Detailed Sub-Agent Analysis

### 🔒 Security Analysis (audit-security)
**Risk Level**: Medium-High

#### Security Issues Found
- **CRITICAL (3)**: Command injection, path traversal, missing authentication
- **HIGH (3)**: Information disclosure, insecure defaults, ReDoS potential
- **MEDIUM (6)**: Configuration exposure, rate limiting gaps
- **LOW (2)**: Logging gaps, dependency vulnerabilities

#### Security Improvements ✅
- SQL injection prevention (parameterized queries)
- Resource exhaustion protection (comprehensive limits)
- GitHub CLI secure implementation (no shell injection)
- Configuration validation against system limits

#### Security Score: 6.5/10 (improved from ~5/10 on main)

**Top Recommendations**:
1. Sanitize all git operation inputs
2. Implement path traversal protection with `fs.realpathSync()`
3. Add MCP server authentication (token-based or Unix socket)
4. Fix insecure worktree default

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### ⚡ Performance Analysis (audit-performance)
**Performance Impact**: Medium-High Concern (15-25% slower for hot paths)

#### Performance Issues Found

**CRITICAL (5 issues)**:
- EventBus request-response overhead (3-5x slower than direct calls: 0.5ms → 2.5ms)
- Parallel handler execution without backpressure (memory spikes)
- OutputCapture unbounded global buffer (OOM risk)
- EventBus subscription race conditions (handler loss)
- N+1 query pattern in recovery (slow startup)

**HIGH (8 issues)**:
- Stale request cleanup (60s interval → gradual memory leak)
- Missing DB connection pooling (serialized queries)
- Event handler array allocations (CPU overhead)
- Linear search in unsubscribe (O(n) vs O(1))
- Priority queue O(n) insertion (slow with large queues)
- Worktree git operations blocking event loop
- Worker kill timeout accumulation

#### Performance Benchmarks (Estimated)

| Operation | Main Branch | Test Branch | Overhead |
|-----------|-------------|-------------|----------|
| Single task query | 0.5ms | 1.5-2.5ms | +200-400% |
| All tasks query | 5ms | 7-10ms | +40-100% |
| Task logs query | 1ms | 2-3ms | +100-200% |

#### Memory Usage

| Component | Main Branch | Test Branch | Change |
|-----------|-------------|-------------|--------|
| EventBus baseline | 50KB | 200KB | +300% |
| Per-task overhead | 2KB | 5KB | +150% |
| 100 concurrent tasks | 200KB | 500KB | +150% |

**Top Recommendations**:
1. Add handler concurrency limiting (p-limit)
2. Implement global output buffer limit (500MB)
3. Reduce cleanup interval (60s → 10s)
4. Add database connection pooling

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### 🏗️ Architecture Analysis (audit-architecture)
**Architecture Quality**: GOOD (78/100)

#### Architectural Achievements ✅
- Pure event-driven architecture successfully implemented
- Excellent separation of concerns (5 specialized handlers)
- Request-response pattern with correlation IDs
- Strong Result type discipline (95%+ compliance)
- Dependency injection container
- Component-level configuration validation

#### Architectural Issues Found

**CRITICAL (2)**:
- Circular dependency (`core/interfaces.ts` ↔️ `services/worktree-manager.ts`)
- WorkerHandler service coupling (7 dependencies, depends on another handler)

**HIGH (3)**:
- Deprecated TaskManager code paths (dual event/direct repository access)
- QueryHandler type casting (accessing EventBus internals)
- Placeholder worktree methods (incomplete implementation)

**MEDIUM (3)**:
- PersistenceHandler race conditions (read-modify-write pattern)
- Bootstrap complexity (312-line monolithic function)
- Large test files (output-capture.test.ts with 39 tests)

#### Architecture Pattern Compliance

| Principle | Compliance | Evidence |
|-----------|-----------|----------|
| Always use Result types | ✅ 95% | All business logic uses Result<T,E> |
| Inject dependencies | ✅ 90% | Container-based DI throughout |
| Event-driven architecture | ⚠️ 85% | Pure events, but some violations |
| Immutable by default | ✅ 98% | All domain objects readonly |
| Type everything | ✅ 95% | Minimal any types |

**Top Recommendations**:
1. Fix circular dependency immediately
2. Decouple WorkerHandler from QueueHandler
3. Remove deprecated TaskManager code paths
4. Extract BootstrapOrchestrator class

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### 🧪 Test Coverage Analysis (audit-tests)
**Coverage Assessment**: Insufficient (47.59% vs 80% target)

#### Test Quality Metrics

| Metric | Target | Actual | Status |
|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| Overall Coverage | >80% | 47.59% | ❌ |
| Service Coverage | >80% | 30.59% | ❌ |
| Core Coverage | >80% | 85.44% | ✅ |
| Test Files | - | 26 | ✅ |
| Passing Tests | 100% | 99.8% (521/525) | ✅ |
| vi.fn() Usage | <30% | 0% | ✅ **PERFECT** |
| Test Double Usage | >70% | ~90% | ✅ |

#### Critical Coverage Gaps

**Priority 0 (Blocking)**:
- Worktree Manager: 11.58% (733 lines, 604-line test deleted)
- GitHub Integration: 29.07% (313-line test deleted, not replaced)
- MCP Adapter: 7.07% (566 lines, completely untested)
- CLI: 0% (773 lines, no tests)

**Deleted Tests Impact**:
- `github-integration.test.ts` (313 lines) → ❌ NO REPLACEMENT
- `worktree-manager.test.ts` (604 lines) → ❌ MINIMAL REPLACEMENT
- `retry.test.ts` (314 lines) → ✅ IMPROVED (800 lines added)

#### Test Infrastructure Quality: EXCELLENT (95/100)

**Strengths**:
- World-class test infrastructure (factories, test doubles, constants)
- Comprehensive documentation (TEST_STANDARDS.md, TESTING_ARCHITECTURE.md)
- 112 error test cases
- Strong security testing (resource-exhaustion.test.ts)
- Automated quality validation

**Top Recommendations**:
1. Create worktree-manager.test.ts (500-600 lines)
2. Create github-integration.test.ts (300-400 lines)
3. Fix 5 'as any' type assertions
4. Achieve >60% service coverage minimum

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### 🧠 Complexity Analysis (audit-complexity)
**Maintainability Score**: ACCEPTABLE (68/100)

#### Complexity Hotspots (>500 lines)

| File | Lines | Cyclomatic Complexity | Impact |
|------|-------|----------------------|--------|
| `src/cli.ts` | 772 | HIGH | MEDIUM |
| `src/services/worktree-manager.ts` | 687 | VERY HIGH | HIGH |
| `src/adapters/mcp-adapter.ts` | 565 | MEDIUM | LOW |
| `src/core/events/event-bus.ts` | 538 | VERY HIGH | HIGH |
| `src/implementations/event-driven-worker-pool.ts` | 520 | HIGH | MEDIUM |

#### Code Smells Identified

**GOD OBJECT - Task Interface**:
- 25+ fields in single interface
- Mixes execution state, git config, retry tracking
- **Fix**: Split into TaskCore, TaskExecution, TaskGitConfig, TaskRetryTracking

**LONG METHOD - bootstrap()**:
- 312-line function
- **Fix**: Extract BootstrapOrchestrator with phases

**FEATURE ENVY - WorkerHandler**:
- 7 dependencies, heavy coupling
- **Fix**: Extract resource checker and queue coordinator

**MAGIC NUMBERS - ResourceMonitor**:
- Hardcoded 450MB and 0.15 cores
- **Fix**: Move to Configuration

#### Test Infrastructure Excellence ✅
- 1,587 lines of reusable test infrastructure
- Factory pattern reduces test boilerplate by 70%
- Test doubles eliminate flaky mocks

**Top Recommendations**:
1. Extract BootstrapOrchestrator (4 hours)
2. Split Task interface (2 hours)
3. Add event flow diagrams (3 hours)
4. Extract CLI command handlers (6 hours)

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### 📦 Dependency Analysis (audit-dependencies)
**Dependency Health**: Acceptable (70/100)

#### New Dependencies Added

**Development Dependencies (3 added)**:
1. `@vitest/coverage-v8@3.2.4` - ✅ JUSTIFIED (coverage reporting)
2. `ws@8.18.3` - ❌ UNNECESSARY (zero usage)
3. `@types/ws@8.18.1` - ❌ UNNECESSARY (unused types)

#### Security Vulnerabilities

**HIGH (1)**:
- `tar-fs@2.1.3` (transitive via better-sqlite3)
- CVE: Symlink validation bypass
- **Fix**: `npm update better-sqlite3@12.4.1`

**LOW (1)**:
- `vite@7.1.2` (transitive via vitest)
- CVE: File serving issues (dev-only)
- **Fix**: Wait for vitest update

#### Outdated Dependencies

| Package | Current | Latest | Action |
|---------|---------|--------|--------|
| @modelcontextprotocol/sdk | 1.17.3 | 1.19.1 | UPDATE |
| better-sqlite3 | 12.2.0 | 12.4.1 | UPDATE |
| zod | 3.25.76 | 4.1.11 | WAIT (breaking) |

#### Bundle Size Impact

**Production**: No change (all additions are dev-only) ✅
**Development**: +40MB (+68% increase) ⚠️

**Top Recommendations**:
1. Remove ws and @types/ws (unused, 200KB waste)
2. Update better-sqlite3 (security fix)
3. Update @modelcontextprotocol/sdk (latest features)
4. Update dev dependencies (@types/node, tsx, typescript)

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## 🎯 Action Plan

### Pre-Merge Checklist (Blocking) - Est. 30-35 hours

#### Security Fixes (14 hours)
- [ ] **CRITICAL**: Sanitize git commit messages in worktree-manager.ts (2h)
- [ ] **CRITICAL**: Implement path traversal protection with fs.realpathSync() (4h)
- [ ] **CRITICAL**: Add MCP authentication (token-based or Unix socket) (8h)

#### Architecture Fixes (8 hours)
- [ ] **CRITICAL**: Fix circular dependency (core/interfaces ↔️ worktree-manager) (2h)
- [ ] **CRITICAL**: Decouple WorkerHandler from QueueHandler (use events) (4h)
- [ ] **HIGH**: Remove deprecated TaskManager code paths (2h)

#### Test Coverage (16-20 hours)
- [ ] **CRITICAL**: Create worktree-manager.test.ts (500-600 lines) (8-10h)
- [ ] **CRITICAL**: Create github-integration.test.ts (300-400 lines) (6-8h)
- [ ] **CRITICAL**: Fix 5 'as any' type assertions (2h)

#### Performance Fixes (8 hours)
- [ ] **HIGH**: Implement handler concurrency limiting (p-limit pattern) (4h)
- [ ] **HIGH**: Add global output buffer limit with LRU eviction (4h)

#### Dependency Fixes (1 hour)
- [ ] **HIGH**: Remove unused ws and @types/ws packages (5min)
- [ ] **HIGH**: Update better-sqlite3 to 12.4.1 (security) (30min)
- [ ] **MEDIUM**: Update @modelcontextprotocol/sdk to 1.19.1 (30min)

### Post-Merge Improvements (Non-Blocking) - Est. 20-25 hours

#### Performance Optimizations (10 hours)
- [ ] Reduce event cleanup interval (60s → 10s) (1h)
- [ ] Implement database connection pooling (4h)
- [ ] Optimize event handler allocations (2h)
- [ ] Add database indexes (1h)
- [ ] Binary search for priority queue (2h)

#### Architecture Improvements (8 hours)
- [ ] Extract BootstrapOrchestrator class (4h)
- [ ] Split Task interface into cohesive types (2h)
- [ ] Add event flow diagrams (2h)

#### Code Quality (7 hours)
- [ ] Extract CLI command handlers (6h)
- [ ] Replace magic numbers with constants (1h)

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## 📈 Quality Metrics

### Code Quality Score: 71/100

**Breakdown**:
- **Security**: 65/100 (critical issues present)
- **Performance**: 60/100 (overhead acceptable but needs fixes)
- **Architecture**: 78/100 (good with critical flaws)
- **Test Coverage**: 48/100 (insufficient overall)
- **Maintainability**: 68/100 (acceptable complexity)
- **Dependencies**: 70/100 (unused packages, vulnerabilities)

### Comparison to main Branch

**Quality Trend**: ✅ **Improving** (with fixes)
- Event-driven architecture: Major improvement
- Test infrastructure: Massive improvement (+10,351 lines)
- Type safety: Strong (Result types, 95% compliance)

**Technical Debt**: ⚠️ **Neutral**
- Removed: Direct repository access, pipe utilities (4,000+ lines)
- Added: Event coordination complexity, handler orchestration
- Net: Similar complexity, better architecture

**Test Coverage**: ⚠️ **Declining** (47.59% vs likely ~60% on main)
- Lost: GitHub integration tests (313 lines)
- Lost: Worktree tests (604 lines)
- Gained: Core/implementation tests (10,351 lines)

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## 🔗 Related Resources

### Files Requiring Immediate Attention

**Security Critical**:
- `src/services/worktree-manager.ts` - Command injection (lines 252-256)
- `src/cli.ts` - Path traversal (lines 473-479)
- `src/adapters/mcp-adapter.ts` - Missing authentication

**Architecture Critical**:
- `src/core/interfaces.ts` - Circular dependency (lines 290-291)
- `src/services/handlers/worker-handler.ts` - Over-coupling (lines 19-35)
- `src/services/task-manager.ts` - Deprecated code paths (lines 40-49)

**Test Coverage Critical**:
- Missing: `tests/unit/services/worktree-manager.test.ts`
- Missing: `tests/unit/services/github-integration.test.ts`
- Gaps: MCP adapter, CLI, service handlers

### Similar Issues in Codebase
- QueryHandler type casting pattern (should add respond() to EventBus interface)
- Handler setup duplication in bootstrap.ts (extract helper)
- Configuration magic numbers (ResourceMonitor: 450MB, 0.15 cores)

### Documentation Updates Needed
- Add event flow diagrams (`docs/architecture/EVENT_FLOW.md`)
- Document initialization sequence (`docs/architecture/INITIALIZATION.md`)
- Document failure modes (`docs/architecture/ERROR_HANDLING.md`)
- Update ROADMAP.md with architectural debt items

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## 💡 Reviewer Notes

### Human Review Focus Areas

Based on comprehensive sub-agent analysis, human reviewers should focus on:

1. **Security Validation** - Critical command injection and auth issues
   - Verify worktree git operation sanitization
   - Test path traversal protection edge cases
   - Validate MCP authentication implementation

2. **Architecture Correctness** - Event-driven pattern adherence
   - Verify circular dependency is fully resolved
   - Ensure handlers only communicate via events
   - Validate deprecated code removal

3. **Test Coverage Completeness** - Service layer gaps
   - Review worktree manager test scenarios
   - Validate GitHub integration test coverage
   - Ensure critical paths have error cases

### Discussion Points

1. **Event-Driven Trade-offs**: Is 15-25% performance overhead acceptable for architectural benefits?
   - Pro: Testability, extensibility, consistency
   - Con: Latency, memory overhead, debugging complexity

2. **Test Coverage Standards**: Should we block merge at 47.59% or accept with follow-up?
   - Option A: Block until >60% (requires 2-3 days)
   - Option B: Merge with P0 follow-up tasks tracked

3. **Worktree Feature Status**: Experimental but enabled by default in MCP adapter
   - Should worktrees be disabled by default?
   - Should worktree tests be mandatory for merge?

4. **Dependency Philosophy**: Remove unused packages (ws) or keep for future use?
   - Recommendation: Remove (YAGNI principle)

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## 🏁 Final Recommendation

### 🚨 DO NOT MERGE IMMEDIATELY

**Critical Issues Require Resolution:**

This branch represents **excellent architectural work** with a **major event-driven refactor** that dramatically improves testability and extensibility. However, **6 critical security and architecture issues** must be resolved before merge:

1. ❌ Command injection in worktree manager (SECURITY)
2. ❌ Path traversal vulnerability (SECURITY)
3. ❌ Missing MCP authentication (SECURITY)
4. ❌ Circular dependency violation (ARCHITECTURE)
5. ❌ WorkerHandler service coupling (ARCHITECTURE)
6. ❌ Service coverage 30.59% (TESTING)

### Two Paths Forward

#### Path A: Complete All Fixes (Recommended) - 5-6 days
- Fix all 6 critical issues
- Achieve >60% service coverage
- Update dependencies
- **THEN MERGE** with 85/100 quality score

#### Path B: Phased Approach - 3-4 days
- Fix 3 security issues (14 hours)
- Fix 2 architecture issues (6 hours)
- Merge with follow-up branch for test coverage
- **Block production** until coverage >80%

### Expected Timeline

**Minimum Pre-Merge Work**: 30-35 hours (4-5 days)
**Recommended Pre-Merge Work**: 50-60 hours (6-8 days)
**Post-Merge Improvements**: 20-25 hours (tracked in follow-up)

### Quality Score Projections

- **Current**: 71/100 (GOOD with critical issues)
- **With critical fixes**: 85/100 (EXCELLENT, merge-ready)
- **With all improvements**: 92/100 (OUTSTANDING, production-ready)

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## 📋 Summary

### What's Excellent ✅
- Event-driven architecture implementation (pure, consistent)
- Test infrastructure (factories, doubles, standards - world-class)
- Result type discipline (95%+ compliance)
- Configuration validation (component-level checks)
- Documentation (1,148 lines of standards/architecture)
- Dependency injection (container-based)
- Error handling (structured, no exceptions in business logic)

### What's Critical ❌
- Command injection vulnerability (worktree git operations)
- Path traversal vulnerability (working directory validation)
- Missing MCP authentication (unauthorized access possible)
- Circular dependency (core ↔️ services)
- WorkerHandler coupling (7 dependencies, handler depends on handler)
- Service test coverage (30.59% vs 80% target)

### What's Missing 📋
- Worktree manager tests (604 lines deleted, 11.58% coverage)
- GitHub integration tests (313 lines deleted, 29.07% coverage)
- MCP adapter tests (7.07% coverage)
- CLI tests (0% coverage)
- Event flow diagrams
- Architecture documentation

### Bottom Line

**This is transformative work that establishes excellent architectural foundations**, but **security and test coverage gaps are merge-blockers**. With 4-6 days of focused effort on critical issues, this branch will exceed quality targets and provide a solid platform for future development.

**Recommendation**: Address critical security and architecture issues first, then merge with acceptable test coverage (>60%). Continue test improvements in follow-up iterations.

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**Review Quality**: 6 specialized audits (security, performance, architecture, tests, complexity, dependencies)
**Analysis Depth**: 127 files, 17,738 net lines, 15 commits
**Confidence**: High (parallel expert analysis with cross-validation)
