Restore Greybeard review checklist in Corbits idiom

Author: TheGreatAxios

src/agent/directors/greybeard/package.test.ts

@@ -22,14 +22,37 @@ describe("greybeardPackage", () => {
     expect(p).not.toMatch(/architecture director/i);
   });
 
-  test("systemPrompt teaches judgment for architecture approach", () => {
+  test("systemPrompt frames value as analysis via Corbits read tools", () => {
     const p = greybeardPackage.systemPrompt;
-    expect(p).toContain("Judge the approach");
+    expect(p).toMatch(/value is analysis/i);
+    expect(p).toContain("read_file");
+    expect(p).toContain("grep");
+    expect(p).toContain("ask_director");
+  });
+
+  test("systemPrompt carries an ordered review checklist", () => {
+    const p = greybeardPackage.systemPrompt;
+    expect(p).toMatch(/Review checklist/);
+    expect(p).toMatch(/architectural claim/);
     expect(p).toMatch(/constraint ownership|owns constraints/i);
-    expect(p).toMatch(/hold \/ revise \/ block|verdict/i);
+    expect(p).toMatch(/anti-patterns/);
+    expect(p).toMatch(/Rank risks/);
+  });
+
+  test("systemPrompt ends the checklist with the hold/revise/block verdict triad", () => {
+    const p = greybeardPackage.systemPrompt;
+    expect(p).toMatch(/hold \/ revise \/ block/);
     expect(p).toMatch(/backward-compatibility|backward compatibility/i);
   });
 
+  test("systemPrompt has no self-spawn language", () => {
+    const p = greybeardPackage.systemPrompt;
+    expect(p).not.toMatch(/spawn.*greybeard/i);
+    expect(p).not.toContain('agent="greybeard"');
+    expect(p).not.toMatch(/spawn yourself/i);
+    expect(p).not.toMatch(/spawn a (greybeard|reviewer)/i);
+  });
+
   test("systemPrompt allows limited spawn without fake caps or scheduler language", () => {
     const p = greybeardPackage.systemPrompt;
     expect(p).toMatch(/intern/);

src/agent/directors/greybeard/package.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ import { ORCHESTRATOR_TOOLS } from "../tool-sets.js";
 
 /**
  * Greybeard nested orchestrator (CL-7019).
- * Architecture judgment with limited spawn — never ships product code.
+ * Review checklist ported from the GaaS greybeard original (CL-7662) — the
+ * GaaS source was unavailable locally, so this is a Corbits-idiom restoration
+ * rather than a 1:1 copy. Self-read deviation: the GaaS delegate-for-review
+ * shape becomes read_file/grep/ask_director first, spawn only on a concrete
+ * unknown. Architecture judgment with limited spawn — never ships product code.
  */
 export const greybeardPackage: DirectorPackage = {
   id: "greybeard",
@@ -26,12 +30,16 @@ You are Greybeard — not a second Skywalker, not Critic (code defects with evid
 
 Follow style and philosophy conventions (baked into this prompt) when reviewing plans or approaches — skills are active constraints, not background docs.
 
-Judge the approach:
+Your value is analysis, not delegation: reach the judgment yourself with
+targeted reads (read_file, grep) and pointed questions (ask_director)
+before considering a spawn.
+
+Review checklist — work the list in order:
 1. Name the architectural claim under review (boundary, ownership, invariant, or BC surface).
 2. Decide whether the proposed approach owns constraints at the right layer — or only chases symptoms.
 3. Call out holes, anti-patterns, missing invariants, product/architecture/implementation misalignment, and duplication that should be refactor or API expansion instead.
 4. Rank risks for long-term maintainability and backward compatibility.
-5. Report a clear verdict: hold / revise / block — with the why, not a checklist theater.
+5. Report a clear verdict: hold / revise / block — with the why, not checklist theater.
 
 Spawn only when a concrete unknown blocks that judgment. Package spawn rules allow intern (mechanical shell), explorer (map/read), and critic (code evidence). When spawning critic, pass non-empty success_criteria (runtime fail-closes without it). intern and explorer remain optional. Prefer doing the review yourself with mounted read/search tools. Do not invent numeric spawn caps or act as a scheduler — width follows the unknown, not a soft ladder. Nested orchestrators collect with wait_agents — mailbox mail is the primary parent path.