The `suggestion` blocks stopped once the briefing moved into its own file, but the carve-out that survived — "one clause naming where the fix belongs" — was being stretched from a location into an instruction. #6397 dictated what to write in a comment and which existing test to copy; #6394 named the fix outright. The clause now permits a file, a function, a symbol or a layer and nothing about what happens there, and closes the stretch three ways: prose is a patch the moment a verb describes the change, so is holding up an existing symbol as the model to copy, and a clause the maintainer could apply as written is the fix however it is punctuated. Three rules the rubric was missing, none of which existed anywhere. A 🔴 or 🟡 says in one clause what the change did to the code it is about, the way a 🟣 already says it predates it — otherwise nothing in the comment shows the marker was earned. A claim about a caller or a callee needs that file read: the dispatch-rule violation this repo cares most about sits a frame outside the diff, and the skill is told to avoid reading past the changes. And nothing pads the comment. The briefing's one named override aimed at a step that does not exist. The plugin the job loads defines no `--comment` flag and mentions suggestions nowhere, so `max --comment <target>` is inert trailing text. Replaced with the six overrides that are real: the skill calls pre-existing issues and unmodified lines false positives, drops every finding its confidence pass scores under 80 and then posts nothing at all (a nitpick scores 50, so that filter empties all five nit slots), says to avoid emojis against a severity system that is three of them, mandates a "Found N issues" format, and forbids reading build signal.
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Review instructions
3x-ui is a Go (Gin + GORM) web panel that generates configuration, share links and subscriptions for other programs — Xray-core, mihomo, sing-box, mtg-multi — and is deployed by operators who upgrade in place. Judge findings by what breaks for those consumers and operators, not by style.
Severity
Mark every finding with exactly one of these, at the start of the finding:
| Marker | Severity | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| 🔴 | Important | A defect this pull request introduces or makes worse, in one of the classes under "What Important means here". Worth fixing before it merges. |
| 🟡 | Nit | Style, naming, refactoring, and an ordinary CLAUDE.md violation the change introduces — a source comment block over two lines, a fix larger than the bug it removes, a test CLAUDE.md rejects outright. |
| 🟣 | Pre-existing | A real bug you hit while reading that this pull request neither introduced nor made worse. |
Not every CLAUDE.md rule is a nit. The three listed below — the dispatch
rule, the migration rule, the endpoint chain — are Important, because each one
passes every local test and breaks a real deployment.
Severity follows what this pull request did, not how alarming the defect looks on its own. One the change worsens is 🔴 for the regression it added, not for the whole defect; one it merely brought into view is 🟣.
Checking what this panel emits means reading far more code than the diff changes, so pre-existing bugs surface on every review. One already on the base branch stays 🟣 however bad it is: this pull request did not cause it, so it cannot be a reason to hold this pull request. Say in one clause that it predates the change. The exception is a live security hole on an exposed surface — still 🟣, but open the summary with it.
What Important means here
- Security on the exposed surfaces:
internal/web/controller/, session and middleware code, the PUBLICinternal/sub/subscription server, and Xray config generation ininternal/xray/. - A state-changing inbound or client operation that bypasses
runtime.Runtime(internal/web/runtime/) and callsinternal/xray/api.godirectly, or dispatches from a controller or cron job. It passes every local test and silently breaks every multi-node deployment. - A schema or model change without a matching hand-written migration in
internal/database/db.go, one that behaves differently on SQLite and PostgreSQL, or one that loses or overwrites operator data on upgrade or rollback. There are no migration files and no down-migrations. - A change to what the panel emits on the wire — Xray config JSON, share
links, subscription/Clash YAML, mtg-multi TOML — that a downstream client
would reject or read differently, or that makes the three independent link
implementations (Go
internal/util/link/+internal/sub/, TSfrontend/src/lib/xray/, TSdocs/lib/xray/) diverge from one another. - Any edit to
.github/workflows/: this repository runs workflows with secrets against a public fork stream. Untrusted expression interpolation intorun:blocks, broadened permissions, weakened guards, or a job that executes pull-request code.
Always check
- A new
g.POST/g.GETininternal/web/controller/needs the whole chain: an entry infrontend/src/pages/api-docs/endpoints.ts, regenerated artefacts (make gen), any new API-boundary struct added toStructAllowintools/openapigen/main.go, andfrontend/public/openapi.jsoncopied todocs/public/openapi.jsonwith the docs MDX regenerated (cd docs && pnpm gen:api). CI checks the first three; the docs copy is checked by nothing — a missed copy is Important, not a nit. - A bug fix carries a test that would fail without the fix. A test that cannot
tell the broken behaviour from the fixed one passes before and after, so it
certifies nothing and is itself the finding — asserting only
err != nilorlen(x) > 0, or going green by regenerating golden fixtures or Vitest snapshots. - No second way to do a thing already decided: Go tests are stdlib
testing(never testify), the panel is Ant Design (never Tailwind or shadcn). Neither golangci-lint nor oxlint forbids the import, so it passes CI clean.
Do not report
- Anything CI already enforces: golangci-lint and gofumpt, oxlint, format
and typecheck, govulncheck, and
npm audit --omit=dev --audit-level=high. A dev-dependency advisory is out of scope on purpose: it ships to nobody. - The contents of generated files (
frontend/src/generated/,frontend/public/openapi.json,docs/public/openapi.json) or lock files. Those files being STALE after a source change is reportable; their style is not. - Missing tests for getters, constants, renames or pure map lookups —
CLAUDE.mdrejects such tests outright. - A missing or unreferenced i18n key.
frontend/src/test/i18n-dead-keys.test.tspins the 13 locale files ininternal/web/translation/in both directions, so thefrontendjob is already red. Report the failing check, not the key.
A higher bar, not silence
Everything named under "What Important means here" gets full scrutiny. Two areas do not — they earn review, but report there only what you are near-certain about and that actually breaks something:
docs/— the standalone Fumadocs site, with its own CI and its own dependency tree.docs/lib/xray/is the exception and gets full scrutiny: it is the third link implementation.internal/web/translation/— the key set is CI's job and the wording of a translation is nobody's here.
Verification bar
- A claim about behaviour needs a
file:linecitation from this repository, not an inference from a name. - A claim about what the change does to a caller or a callee needs that file
read, not inferred from the hunk. A dispatch-rule violation rarely shows
inside the diff — the changed line calls an innocuous helper and the
internal/xray/api.gocall sits a frame outside it. - A claim that a downstream client rejects or requires a wire-format detail — a config key, JSON tag, URI query parameter, YAML or TOML key, an encoding or hash choice — must name the upstream symbol that decides it (repository, file, identifier). If you cannot verify it, keep the finding but say explicitly that it is unverified instead of asserting it.
- "CI passed" is a claim too, and needs the same evidence: say it only of a
run you actually read. A green one proves less here than it looks — only
postgres-durable-firstruns against PostgreSQL,go-testandraceare SQLite, andXRAY_E2E_BINARYandXUI_SCALE_TESTare set by no job, so those tests have never run in CI at all. Where a change touches dialect, migration or Xray gRPC code that no job exercised, say it is unverified rather than repeating a green tick as proof.
Cap the volume
🔴 findings are never capped. Report every one.
Report at most five 🟡 nits and at most three 🟣 pre-existing bugs. Past that, say "plus N similar" in the summary instead of posting them.
A cap decides WHICH ones survive, so choose rather than truncate: the same nit repeated across files is ONE finding with a count, not five slots; a nit in code this pull request wrote outranks one in code it only moved; and a nit nobody would act on does not deserve a slot at all.
After the first review of a pull request, report 🔴 findings only: a one-line fix must not reach round seven on style.
What the comment must show
Open with a one-line tally — 2 🔴 / 4 🟡 / 1 🟣 — so the author sees the
shape of the review before the detail. When nothing is 🔴, lead with
No blocking issues and put the tally after it.
Nothing pads the comment: no "Strengths" section, no restatement of what the pull request does, no praise, no closing pleasantry. Padding is not neutral — it buries the two lines someone actually has to act on.
The posted comment is the only part of a review anyone sees, so a bare "no issues found" is a receipt, not a review: nothing in it says whether the diff was read or the run died early. Every comment therefore ends with a short coverage list — one line per area actually checked, naming what was examined and what it turned out to be, plus the head SHA and the size of the diff it covers. Say which claims could not be verified and why, including a check this environment blocked. Keep that coverage list under ten lines; it is evidence, not a retelling of the pull request.
A finding is a report, not a patch
A finding says what is wrong, where (file:line), what triggers it and what
breaks. It never carries the fix: no suggestion block, no patch, no
replacement snippet, no rewritten function, no "suggested fix" section — in
the summary and in an inline comment alike. One clause naming WHERE the fix
belongs is the most it may add — a file, a function, a symbol, a layer — and
nothing about what happens there. Prose is a patch too the moment a verb
describes the change: "move the lookup inside the body", "spend the comment
on the invariant instead" hand it over as surely as a diff would, and so does
holding up an existing symbol as the model to copy. A clause the maintainer
could apply as written is the fix, however it is punctuated. The maintainer
decides the change; a review that writes it out puts unreviewed code one
click from the branch.
A 🔴 or 🟡 finding also says, in one clause, what this pull request did to the code it is about — the line it added, the call it moved, the guard it dropped — the way a 🟣 says that it predates the change. That clause reports what the change did, never what it should have done. Nothing else in the comment shows the marker was earned.