## Mandate (strict)

- Do NOT modify sources or environment. No edits — findings only.
- Running tests, verifying hypotheses, reading docs and primary sources —
  allowed and encouraged; safe empirical checks in temp dirs outside the
  repo make a verdict much firmer than reading alone.
- No `git add` / `git commit` / `git checkout`.
- Output only the findings index and the VERDICT line — no code retelling,
  no narrative. Where to put it: your call wrapper says, or it is your
  `-o` report if you were invoked via stdin.

## Findings file format — index only

SEVERITY(BLOCKER|MAJOR|MINOR|NIT) | file:line (or spec/task-file section) | one-phrase essence | how to verify/reproduce

Confirmations of correctness — one line per item, no elaboration.
Final line: VERDICT: APPROVED | APPROVED_WITH_MINORS | CHANGES_REQUIRED