fix(review-graph): resolve preflight tools in uv project environments

[acgetchell]

Preflight incorrectly blocks locked uv validation when Python is absent from ambient PATH but available in the project environment. Add a validated uv_projects prerequisite template for inspected uv commands and nested Just recipes, so coordinators can declare environment tools by name without reconstructing executable paths.

Inspect project and lock metadata, the existing virtual environment, its interpreter, declared tools, and any configured interpreter path without launching uv, syncing, downloading, or starting validation. Missing environments and invalid interpreter paths remain blockers. The report records host and uv discovery separately while preserving native availability, cache access, command policy, and hosted obligations.

Coordinators still inspect recipe resolution and supply the effective environment explicitly. These observations establish executable discovery; they do not certify lock freshness, interpreter versions, dependency consistency, or later sync success.

Validation

• 48 targeted preflight and operation-schema tests passed.
• just test-review-contracts: 17 tests passed.
• just python-check: formatting, lint, and type checks passed.
• just markdown-check and just check-skills passed.
• git diff --cached --check passed.

Closes #127

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Preflight checks now verify required tools and Python environments for validation tasks, including commands that use locked uv projects and nested recipes.
  • Results identify unavailable or invalid prerequisites for each task, helping surface readiness blockers before validation runs.
  • Checks inspect project configuration, lockfiles, and environment tools without launching executables or modifying the workspace.

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Walkthrough

Preflight prerequisites now support declared uv project environments. The validator inspects project metadata and environment executables without launching them, then reports executor observations and blockers for each unit.

Changes

UV Executor Preflight

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Declare uv prerequisites agents/.agents/skills/review-graph/references/schemas/runtime-operation-inputs-v1.schema.json, agents/.agents/skills/review-graph/references/runtime-operation-examples-v1.json, agents/.agents/skills/review-graph/references/validation-preflight.md	The schema and example define uv project directories, environment paths, and executable names. The guidance describes how to declare and inspect these prerequisites.
Inspect project environments agents/.agents/skills/review-graph/scripts/review_graph_preflight.py	Preflight checks project metadata, virtual environment configuration, and declared executables. It reports missing or invalid items as blockers and does not launch executables.
Return executor observations agents/.agents/skills/review-graph/scripts/review_graph_runtime.py, agents/.agents/skills/review-graph/scripts/test_review_graph_preflight.py	Validation preflight includes executor observations and blockers in each unit’s result. Tests cover environment resolution, blocking conditions, separation from other prerequisites, and workspace immutability.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ValidationPreflight
  participant ExecutorPreflight
  participant ExecutableInspector
  participant ProjectEnvironment
  ValidationPreflight->>ExecutorPreflight: Check unit prerequisites
  ExecutorPreflight->>ExecutableInspector: Inspect declared host tools and uv projects
  ExecutableInspector->>ProjectEnvironment: Read project metadata and resolve environment executables
  ProjectEnvironment-->>ExecutableInspector: Metadata and executable observations
  ExecutableInspector-->>ExecutorPreflight: Observations and blockers
  ExecutorPreflight-->>ValidationPreflight: Unit observations and blockers

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The reported invalid lockfile is now blocked. Confirm that other malformed project metadata cannot produce a ready result before merging.

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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: resolving preflight tools in uv project environments.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the uv preflight changes, their constraints, and reported validation. It is directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #127 requires environment-aware executable discovery without running uv or validation. review_graph_preflight.py reads project and lock metadata, checks pyvenv.cfg, requires the environment’…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The schema, preflight checks, guidance, and tests support issue #127. Lock metadata checks and executable-name deduplication apply to project inspection and tool discovery. No unrelated changes are ev…

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Review comments at
@agents/.agents/skills/review-graph/scripts/review_graph_preflight.py:
- Line 28: Update the TOML parsing in the preflight flow to validate the parsed
`uv.lock` and `pyproject.toml` contain their essential expected fields before
accepting them; keep parsing successful but structurally unrelated TOML from
marking the unit ready, without checking lock freshness.

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@agents/.agents/skills/review-graph/scripts/test_review_graph_preflight.py:
- Around line 34-35: Update the uv fixture setup in the ready-case tests to
create its host-tool stubs in Scripts on Windows and bin on other platforms,
using executable names that _inspect_uv_project can discover on Windows,
including the required Windows executable suffix.

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