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Module D's first PR, following the plan approved on Slack ("no plan doc needed, feel free to go ahead"). The Reviewer is the human-in-the-loop stage of the OIE pipeline: Module C writes every decision to decision_queue, and the rows it could not decide alone arrive as status='review_required' with a full RFC ReviewItem envelope. Nothing has ever read those rows. This PR is the reader.

What this ships

piece file what it does
Read side application/utils/reviewer/review_source.py DbReviewSource yields PendingReview rows: status='review_required' AND consumed_at IS NULL, run-scoped, stable order, envelope validated back through the SAME pinned RFC model C emitted it with (librarian.schemas.ReviewItem), so C and D cannot drift silently
Write-back application/utils/reviewer/queue_consumer.py mark_reviewed stamps consumed_at: idempotent (IS NULL filter), chunked, naive-UTC, and filtered on status='review_required' so the human path is STRUCTURALLY unable to retire a linked row, even handed the right id
Verdict log application/utils/reviewer/corrections_log.py JsonlCorrectionsLog + ReviewVerdict: append-only JSONL, fsync'd, per the founding RFC's "simple human oversight without db bloat". Loss warehousing falls out free: records join back to the never-deleted decision row by id
Click-speed gate docs/gsoc_2026_module_d/click_speed_prototype.html The RFC's mandated pre-code experiment: ten realistic items, y/n keybinds, measures seconds-per-verdict against the RFC's 3-second bar. The D1 UI is not allowed to be slower than this page
Docs application/utils/reviewer/README.md (+1 gitignore negation) The two rules, the D0 scope, the D1-D3 roadmap

The two rules (from docs/gsoc_2026_module_c/module_d_contract.md)

  • linked rows are not D's. They belong to the graph writer. Enforced in the read AND the write-back, with a test proving a linked row's own id cannot be stamped through this path.
  • Verdict before retirement. The corrections log is fsync'd first, consumed_at second. A crash between the two leaves the row unconsumed and the verdict re-recordable, never the reverse. Same rule C follows against B's queue, one handoff upstream.

One deliberate inversion of C's policy

A knowledge_queue row C could not model is retired: C's refusal IS the decision. A decision_queue row D cannot parse is left UNCONSUMED and surfaced in unreadable_row_ids, because that row is C's audit record of a decision, and retiring it would hide a C-side contract breach from the one queue a human watches. Tested.

Tests

14 new tests in application/tests/reviewer/, all hermetic (in-memory SQLite, no API key, no model download). Rows are seeded through the REAL DbEnvelopeSink, so the tests exercise the actual C -> D handoff: what C persisted validates back on D's side, or the suite fails.

Not in scope (D1-D3, one PR each)

  • D1: review endpoints in the existing /admin/ pattern, wiring source -> human -> corrections log -> mark_reviewed.
  • D2: the graph writer behind review; approved rows go to a staging changeset (per docs/designs/easier-importing.md) and apply through the same accept/apply pattern the imports admin API already uses. A human verdict is the safety evaluation the W8 rule requires.
  • D3: the SafetyGuard detector, which lets high-confidence linked rows earn the right to skip the human. Automation earns autonomy last.

Notes for reviewers

  • Independent of feat(librarian): Module C retrieval upgrades (stack base) #1088 (wip/oie-pipeline-eval-harness): this PR targets decision_queue on main and shares no files with the eval-harness branch. When that branch lands, D reads whatever its Module C writes to the same table under the same contract.
  • application/tests/librarian/dataset_test.py::TestDatasetDeterminism::test_build_check_matches_committed_dataset fails on current main with or without this PR (verified on a clean checkout); not touched here.

…-speed gate

Module D is the human-in-the-loop stage of the OIE pipeline. Module C writes
every decision to decision_queue; the rows it could not decide alone arrive as
status='review_required' with a full RFC ReviewItem envelope. Nothing has ever
read those rows. This commit is the reader.

DbReviewSource yields PendingReview rows (review_required AND consumed_at IS
NULL, run-scoped, stable order), validating each envelope back through the SAME
pinned RFC model Module C emitted it with, so C and D cannot drift silently.

mark_reviewed stamps consumed_at: idempotent, chunked, naive-UTC, and filtered
on status='review_required' so the human path is structurally unable to retire
a linked row, even handed the right id. linked rows belong to the graph writer.

JsonlCorrectionsLog records each human verdict append-only and fsync'd, per the
founding RFC's "simple human oversight without db bloat". Verdict before
retirement: the log write is the persistence the consumed_at stamp is gated on,
the same rule C follows against B's queue one handoff upstream.

One deliberate inversion of C's poison-row policy: a decision row D cannot
parse is left UNCONSUMED and surfaced in unreadable_row_ids, because that row
is C's audit record of a decision, and retiring it would hide a C-side contract
breach from the one queue a human watches.

docs/gsoc_2026_module_d/click_speed_prototype.html is the founding RFC's
mandated pre-code experiment: ten realistic items, y/n keybinds, measured
against the 3-second-per-item bar. The D1 UI is not allowed to be slower than
this page.

14 hermetic tests; rows are seeded through the real DbEnvelopeSink so the tests
exercise the actual C -> D handoff. One .gitignore negation for the package
README, same pattern as the librarian's.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added support for retrieving pending review items and recording approved or rejected decisions with review details and timestamps.
    • Added a standalone prototype for reviewing sample items, tracking decision times, and undoing the latest decision.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on the review workflow, unreadable items, and running related tests.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for retrieving pending items, recording review decisions, and preserving correction logs.

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The pull request adds Module D components for reading pending review rows, recording verdicts, and marking rows reviewed. It also adds database and log tests, shared review-envelope fixtures, package documentation, and a click-speed prototype.

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Module D review workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Read pending review items
application/utils/reviewer/review_source.py, application/utils/reviewer/__init__.py, application/tests/reviewer/_envelopes.py, application/tests/reviewer/review_source_test.py
Adds a database-backed source for unconsumed review_required rows. It validates envelopes as ReviewItem, skips invalid envelopes, and supports run filtering, ordering, and limits. Shared fixtures and tests cover these behaviors.
Validate and append verdicts
application/utils/reviewer/corrections_log.py, application/tests/reviewer/corrections_log_test.py
Adds a verdict model and a JSONL log that normalizes timestamps and flushes each appended record. Tests cover verdict validation and serialized records.
Mark review rows consumed
application/utils/reviewer/queue_consumer.py, application/tests/reviewer/queue_consumer_test.py
Adds batched updates that stamp eligible review rows. Tests cover repeated updates, linked rows, timestamps, and empty IDs.
Document and prototype review
application/utils/reviewer/README.md, .gitignore, docs/gsoc_2026_module_d/click_speed_prototype.html
Adds Module D documentation and a click-speed prototype with approve, reject, and undo controls, timing, and completion results. Adds an ignore-rule exception for the README.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f48ac

The review queue and prototype changes show no identified merge-blocking issue. The PR appears ready to merge, subject to the normal test run.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f48ac

The review path can close a pending item without verifying that its human verdict was recorded. It is not connected to a user-facing endpoint in this change, but the gap affects the safety guarantee the future review flow will rely on.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The retirement API can mark any supplied, unconsumed review_required row as consumed without checking for a durable matching verdict or matching pipeline run. A caller that invokes it out of sequence could remove an item from the human inbox without the intended oversight record; no user-facing caller is introduced here.
  • Low · reliability · inferred: A failure after verdict append but before queue retirement leaves the row pending. Repeating the documented flow can append another verdict for that row because the log has no deduplication or shared transaction with retirement, making the oversight record ambiguous.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The current affected scope is the review_required portion of the decision queue and its verdict file, not linked rows. The inspected change defines utilities rather than a network entrypoint; future caller authority and run scoping remain unverified.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A caller with a database session and a review row ID can invoke retirement without supplying a verdict or run identity. Whether an attacker can influence such a caller is not established by this PR.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Run filtering is optional on reads and absent from the retirement predicate. Status and consumed-state predicates protect linked and already-retired rows, but the verdict-before-retirement rule remains a caller obligation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — File durability before return does not make the file append and database retirement atomic. Interruption and concurrent review attempts can leave a pending row with one or more recorded verdicts.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before wiring review endpoints, bind retirement to an authorized run and a durable verdict for the same row; define how retries or concurrent reviewers reconcile duplicate verdicts after partial failure.
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Review comments at @application/utils/reviewer/corrections_log.py:
- Around line 76-92: Update CorrectionsLog.record() to sync the log’s parent
directory and each ancestor after appending, so newly created directory entries
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…y auto-repeat

CodeRabbit's review caught both. The corrections log fsynced the file but not
its directory entry: a crash after creating the file could lose the file itself
unless the parent (and any directory makedirs created above it) is synced. The
chain is now synced on every record; which ancestors are new cannot be detected
without racing a concurrent record, and records are human-paced, so syncing the
whole chain is the simple correct choice. Platforms that refuse to fsync a
directory are skipped, leaving durability no worse than before the attempt.

The click-speed prototype now ignores key auto-repeat: a held y or n must not
verdict a run of items, or the measured average stops describing the workflow
the RFC's 3-second bar is about.

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