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Rubber duck reviews leave no verifiable record: independence and findings are unauditable after the session

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Description

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Rubber duck reviews leave no verifiable record. The critique, the model that produced it, and what the session did with each finding all die with the session. #4380 and #4432 show why this matters: the independence guarantee (complementary family) can fail silently, and today the only way users can even detect that is by hand-extracting evidence from process logs and events.jsonl. The review's most valuable properties, who reviewed whom and what remained unresolved, are currently unauditable after the fact.

Proposed solution

Persist a small structured record per rubber duck invocation, next to the session or exportable to the repo: orchestrator model and family, reviewer model and family, how the reviewer was selected (complementary, inherited, explicitly overridden, and by whom), a hash of the review prompt, and the findings with their disposition (addressed, dismissed, left open).

Benefits: silent independence failures like #4380 and #4432 become visible in the record instead of requiring log forensics; teams can sample reviews after merge; and what the review left OPEN (unverified assumptions, accepted tradeoffs) survives as provenance instead of dying in the terminal.

Example prompts or workflows
  1. After a rubber duck pass, /rubber-duck export writes the review record to a file the user can commit alongside the change.
  2. A team samples merged PRs weekly and checks the records: which reviews ran cross-family, which findings were dismissed without evidence.
  3. CI warns when a PR's rubber duck record shows reviewer and orchestrator from the same family (the #4380 case, caught at review time instead of never).
  4. An auditor asks "what did the review leave open?" and gets an artifact, not a chat scrollback.
Additional context

Open disclosure: I maintain disensor (https://github.com/NicolasRocchia/disensor, MIT), a provider-neutral CLI and Action that formalizes exactly this record for adversarial review rounds (schema residue/v0.4: reviewer family and declared independence, prompt hash, findings with terminal states, residue declaration, CI gate). The method behind it is documented with data from 91 review events (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21633495). Happy for any part of the schema to serve as reference or prior art; the point of this request is that the review record should exist, whoever implements it.

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by tracing rubber-duck invocations and reviewing the process logs and events.jsonl evidence mentioned in the issue. Define how each invocation records the models, selection reason, prompt hash, findings, and dispositions, then examine how /rubber-duck export should emit the artifact. Done means the record persists after the session and supports checking independence and unresolved findings.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli, observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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