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Review fortress

The review fortress is the eleven-phase quality-assurance sweep (Phases 15-25) that every project passes through before the Phase 26 completion attestation. Each phase runs a dedicated audit command against one quality axis.

The eleven axes

Phase Command Axis Standard
15 /code-review Code quality Per-file craft review
16 /code-audit Code corpus Cross-file forensics
17 /security-audit Security OWASP ASVS v4 + Top 10
18 /perf-audit Performance Core Web Vitals + USE method
19 /architecture-review Architecture Design artifact conformance
20 /ux-review Dev experience CLI ergonomics + onboarding
21 /a11y-audit Accessibility WCAG 2.2 AA
22 /docs-review Documentation Ten-dimension quality
23 /dependency-audit Dependencies License + CVE + freshness
24 /supply-chain-audit Supply chain SLSA + Sigstore + SBOM
25 /threat-model-audit Threat model STRIDE + PASTA

Three-tier convergence

The fortress contributes to the three-tier green-card discipline:

  • TIER 1 (Phase 07): Local conformity gate — all fifteen M-bars pass locally.
  • TIER 2 (Phase 13): GitHub-side verification — CI workflows green on every commit, every check.
  • TIER 3 (Phase 25 exit): Full review fortress complete — all eleven axes audited, findings dispositioned, watch items documented.

Amend-and-push loop

Each fortress phase follows the iterate-until-green pattern: findings are triaged, fixes are applied, the audit is re-run, and the loop continues until the phase's REPORT.md records a PASS attestation.

Why a fortress

Software quality degrades along predictable axes. A single-axis review misses the 90% of defects that live at the intersection of axes. The fortress forces eleven orthogonal lenses on the same codebase, surfacing defects that any single reviewer would miss.