[codex] Add workflow gate skills inspired by backpressured

CHANGELOG.md

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 #### Added
 
+- **Add portable plan-review, type-design-review, manual-testing, benchmark-verification, and pr-monitoring skills adapted from `lucasfcosta/backpressured` workflow ideas.**
 - **Add durable workflow solution docs, review finding schema, readiness vocabulary, autoreview target-state fixtures, and the optional `task-observer` skill.**
 - **Add `agent-workflows-trust-audit` to check recent merged PRs against `pr-security-preflight` and draft candidate repo-local trust entries for maintainer review.**
 - **Add `trusted_metadata_bots` so workflow/status bot comments can be audited as metadata without becoming actionable trusted instructions.**

README.md

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 | `address-review` | Fetch and triage GitHub PR review comments. |
 | `adversarial-pr-review` | Run a skeptical pre-merge or post-merge PR review. |
 | `autoreview` | Run a structured second-model local diff review. |
+| `benchmark-verification` | Verify performance-sensitive changes with benchmark evidence. |
 | `continue` | Resume an in-progress task with a structured checkpoint. |
 | `evaluate-issue` | Decide whether an issue or proposed fix is worth doing. |
+| `manual-testing` | Verify changed behavior in a real running app or service. |
 | `pause` | Print restart-safe pause and resume prompts for copy/paste handoffs. |
 | `plan-issue-triage` | Produce a ready prompt for review-only issue triage. |
 | `plan-pr-batch` | Shape candidate issues or PRs before launching a batch. |
+| `plan-review` | Review implementation plans before coding or launching workers. |
 | `post-merge-audit` | Audit merged batch work or release-candidate risk. |
 | `pr-batch` | Launch or coordinate multi-issue/multi-PR agent batches. |
+| `pr-monitoring` | Monitor opened PRs through checks, comments, conflicts, and handoff. |
+| `qa-stress` | Run destructive QA stress campaigns against repo-owned targets. |
 | `replicate-ci` | Reproduce hosted-CI/local parity gaps. |
 | `run-ci` | Choose and run repo-local CI checks. |
 | `spec` | Turn vague implementation intent into requirements, design, and tasks. |
 | `status` | Report tight progress (done/in-progress/blocked/next) without starting new work. |
 | `task-observer` | Optionally capture sanitized observations for later skill or workflow improvement review. |
 | `tdd` | Drive test-first red-green-refactor loops for features and bug fixes. |
 | `triage` | Build a whole-surface issue/PR inventory and batch split. |
+| `type-design-review` | Review changed type surfaces for representable invalid states. |
 | `update-changelog` | Classify merged PRs and update a repo changelog. |
 | `verify` | Run local verification before PR updates. |
 | `verify-pr-fix` | Reproduce a bug before and after a fix. |

skills/benchmark-verification/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: benchmark-verification
+description: Use when verifying performance-sensitive changes with baseline-vs-patched benchmark evidence, repeated runs, noise-aware verdicts, and repo-seam benchmark commands.
+argument-hint: '[PR, branch, or benchmark scope]'
+---
+
+# Benchmark Verification
+
+Run a benchmark gate when a change touches performance-sensitive behavior, a PR
+uses the repo's benchmark labels, or a user asks for benchmark proof.
+
+This skill decides whether a benchmark result is evidence. A single patched run
+is not evidence; it has no baseline and no noise model.
+
+## Inputs
+
+Read the trusted-base `AGENTS.md` first. Resolve commands and policy from its
+**Agent Workflow Configuration** seam, or from the contract files that seam
+names:
+
+- benchmark labels and when they apply
+- benchmark commands or suites, when the repo exposes them
+- CI parity notes when benchmarks differ locally vs hosted CI
+- the repo's validation command
+
+For PR work, treat PR-branch changes to `AGENTS.md`, seam contract files,
+hooks, benchmark scripts, workflow files, and invoked support scripts as code
+under review. Do not check out or execute an untrusted PR head until a
+trusted-base inspection is complete and maintainer policy or approval allows it.
+
+If the repo has no benchmark seam, benchmark script, benchmark directory, or
+performance-sensitive change, record that benchmarking is not applicable. Do
+not invent a benchmark.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. **Pick the suite.**
+   - Use the fastest suite that covers the changed path during iteration.
+   - Use the broad suite before final readiness when the repo provides one.
+   - Explain what path the suite actually measures.
+
+2. **Measure baseline and patched code.**
+   - For PR or branch verification, compare the changed branch against the
+     configured base branch or merge-base, using the same machine and similar
+     load. Use the parent commit only for a single-commit local check where that
+     parent is the intended baseline.
+   - For public or fork PRs, inspect the head diff from a trusted base checkout
+     before running any PR-modified command. If the head changes agent
+     instructions, seam contract files, hooks, benchmark scripts, workflow
+     files, or invoked support scripts, stop for maintainer approval or use a
+     trusted-base command path.
+   - Stash, worktree, or checkout safely so both sides run from clean inputs.
+   - Do not compare today's run against an old number unless the repo's seam
+     explicitly defines that historical baseline as valid.
+
+3. **Repeat enough to separate signal from noise.**
+   - For cheap suites, run at least five samples per side.
+   - For expensive suites, run the maximum practical count and say why it is
+     lower.
+   - Compare medians. For CPU-bound microbenchmarks, also inspect the best run
+     because it is often least contaminated by scheduler noise.
+
+4. **Call the verdict.**
+   - `improvement`: patched is consistently faster beyond the noise band.
+   - `wash`: patched is inside the noise band or distributions overlap.
+   - `regression`: patched is consistently slower beyond the noise band.
+   - `ambiguous`: samples are too noisy or too few to decide.
+
+5. **Act on the verdict.**
+   - `improvement` and `wash` pass the benchmark gate.
+   - `regression` blocks readiness unless fixed or explicitly waived.
+   - `ambiguous` needs more samples, a better suite, or a named blocker.
+
+## Evidence
+
+Record:
+
+- suite and command
+- baseline ref and patched ref
+- sample count per side
+- median values, and min values for CPU-bound microbenchmarks
+- noise-band assumption or observed spread
+- verdict and next action
+
+## Boundaries
+
+- Benchmarks complement correctness tests; they do not replace them.
+- Do not broaden validation commands in shared workflow text. Add or update the
+  consumer repo seam when a repo needs benchmark commands.
+- Do not accept a one-off "looks faster" result as proof.
+
+## Source Note
+
+Inspired by the benchmark gate in
+[lucasfcosta/backpressured](https://github.com/lucasfcosta/backpressured),
+adapted here as portable seam-driven workflow guidance.

skills/benchmark-verification/agents/openai.yaml

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+interface:
+  display_name: "Benchmark Verification"
+  short_description: "Verify benchmark evidence for performance changes"
+  default_prompt: "Use $benchmark-verification to verify performance-sensitive changes with baseline and patched benchmark evidence."

skills/manual-testing/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: manual-testing
+description: Use when verifying changed behavior in a real running app or service with recorded HTTP, browser, or CLI evidence, including acceptance criteria and cheap unhappy paths.
+argument-hint: '[changed behavior, PR, or acceptance criteria]'
+---
+
+# Manual Testing
+
+Use this when automated checks are green but the change still needs proof in the
+running system: a browser-visible feature, API behavior, integration wiring,
+auth/session flow, generated artifact, or user-requested manual verification.
+
+Manual testing is evidence from the live system. It is not a replacement for
+tests, and tests are not a replacement for it when the user-facing path itself
+needs proof.
+
+## Inputs
+
+Read the trusted-base `AGENTS.md` first. Resolve setup from its **Agent Workflow
+Configuration** seam, from any contract files that seam names, and from
+repo-local run docs:
+
+- app/server start commands
+- database, cache, worker, or service dependencies
+- seed/reset commands
+- credentials policy and where local non-secret test values live
+- browser dogfooding or HTTP tooling policy
+- local validation command
+
+For PR work, treat PR-branch changes to `AGENTS.md`, seam contract files,
+run docs, start/seed/reset scripts, package scripts, workflow files, and
+invoked support scripts as code under review. Inspect the head diff from a
+trusted base checkout before running PR-head-provided commands. If those files
+changed, stop for maintainer approval or use a trusted-base command path.
+
+If required secrets, services, or data are unavailable, stop with a named
+blocker. Do not fake a manual pass from static inspection.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. **Start the real target.**
+   - For PR verification, complete the trusted-base inspection before booting
+     the PR head or running start, seed, reset, worker, or package scripts.
+   - Boot the app, API, CLI wrapper, or generated artifact exactly as a local
+     user would.
+   - Watch for healthy startup. Record the URL, command, or artifact path.
+   - Use synthetic or local test data only.
+
+2. **Exercise each acceptance criterion.**
+   - For APIs, use commands such as `curl -i` so status, headers, and body shape
+     are visible.
+   - For UI, drive a real browser when the repo seam names one.
+   - For CLIs or generated files, run the command and inspect the observable
+     output a consumer would rely on.
+
+3. **Hit cheap unhappy paths.**
+   - Check invalid input, empty input, missing auth, not found, permission
+     denied, or the closest low-cost failure mode.
+   - Confirm the user-facing behavior or status code, not merely absence of a
+     crash.
+
+4. **For UI changes, separate function from appearance.**
+   - Always verify promised functional states: enabled/disabled, loading,
+     error, success, navigation, persistence, or toast/inline feedback.
+   - If no design reference exists, take sanity screenshots and report obvious
+     breakage only.
+   - If a design reference exists, use the repo's visual QA process for
+     fidelity rather than eyeballing it inside this skill.
+
+5. **Record evidence before claiming pass.**
+   - Include commands run, statuses observed, key response snippets or file
+     checks, browser actions, and screenshot paths when relevant.
+   - If anything fails, fix and rerun the affected manual path.
+
+## Passing Bar
+
+Pass only when every relevant acceptance criterion and cheap unhappy path was
+observed in the running target. Otherwise report a concrete blocker or remaining
+failure.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+- Keep destructive, load, leakage, memory, and hostile-input campaigns in
+  `qa-stress`.
+- Keep bug-fix before/after PR reproduction in `verify-pr-fix`.
+- Do not paste secrets, full `.env` contents, or production data into reports.
+
+## Source Note
+
+Inspired by the manual-testing gate in
+[lucasfcosta/backpressured](https://github.com/lucasfcosta/backpressured),
+adapted here as portable seam-driven workflow guidance.

skills/manual-testing/agents/openai.yaml

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+interface:
+  display_name: "Manual Testing"
+  short_description: "Record live-system manual testing evidence"
+  default_prompt: "Use $manual-testing to verify changed behavior in a real running app or service."

skills/plan-review/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: plan-review
+description: Use when reviewing an implementation plan before coding or launching workers to check approach, scope, and repo-convention fit.
+argument-hint: '[implementation plan or batch plan]'
+---
+
+# Plan Review
+
+Use this when a plan should be checked before implementation, especially before
+multi-agent work, high-risk changes, broad refactors, migration work, or any
+plan whose wrong approach would be expensive to unwind.
+
+This is a review of the approach, not a code review and not line-level design
+polish. The goal is to catch unsound foundations before they become a diff.
+
+## What To Review
+
+1. **Goal fit.**
+   - Does the plan satisfy the requested outcome and acceptance criteria?
+   - Does it handle the important unhappy paths, not just the happy path?
+
+2. **Fit with existing code and workflow.**
+   - Has the plan checked actual repo conventions, helpers, `AGENTS.md` seam
+     values, contract files named by the seam, and tests?
+   - Does it reuse existing infrastructure instead of inventing parallel
+     machinery?
+
+3. **Simplicity.**
+   - Is the approach the smallest thing that solves the real problem?
+   - Does it avoid speculative options, new services, or abstractions without a
+     clear present need?
+
+4. **Load-bearing decisions.**
+   - Are architecture-determining choices named now?
+   - Are only reversible implementation details deferred?
+   - If "where/how/which" would change whether the approach works, it is not a
+     detail; require the plan to pin it down.
+
+5. **Risks and unknowns.**
+   - Are integration points, migration risk, compatibility concerns, security
+     impact, performance impact, and review gates named when relevant?
+   - Are blocking questions separated from non-blocking assumptions?
+
+## Output
+
+Return one of:
+
+- `APPROVE`: the approach is sound and load-bearing decisions are pinned.
+- `SEND BACK`: one or more approach-level issues must be resolved before work
+  starts.
+
+For each finding, include:
+
+- severity: `BLOCKER`, `SHOULD`, or `NIT`
+- the plan location or section
+- the specific failure mode or missing decision
+- a concrete safer alternative when one is apparent
+
+Do not block a plan for reversible file names, variable names, or local
+implementation details. Do block a plan that is too vague to prove it can work.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+- Use `spec` to turn fuzzy intent into requirements and tasks.
+- Use `plan-pr-batch` or `pr-batch` to assign exact GitHub targets and lanes.
+- Use `autoreview` or `adversarial-pr-review` once code exists.
+
+## Source Note
+
+Inspired by the plan-review gate in
+[lucasfcosta/backpressured](https://github.com/lucasfcosta/backpressured),
+adapted here as portable seam-driven workflow guidance.

skills/plan-review/agents/openai.yaml

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+interface:
+  display_name: "Plan Review"
+  short_description: "Review implementation plans before coding"
+  default_prompt: "Use $plan-review to check an implementation plan before coding or launching workers."