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# [Investigation/Debug] Request

## Problem
[2-3 sentence description]

## Context
- Files: [path/to/file.go:lineNumber, ...]
- Observed: [what's happening]
- Expected: [what should happen]

## What We Tried
[List approaches and outcomes, or "First consultation" if fresh question]

## Question
[Specific, focused question for codex to answer]

Provide:
1. Root cause analysis (if debugging)
2. Concrete recommendation with file:line references
3. Why previous approaches failed (if applicable)

Keep response focused and actionable.

<role>
You are performing an adversarial code review.
Your job is to break confidence in the change, not to validate it.
</role>

<task>
Review the provided changes as if you are trying to find the strongest reasons
this change should not ship yet.
Scope: [files and changes to review — paths, branch diff, or description]
Focus: [specific area if user specified one, otherwise "general"]
</task>

<operating_stance>
Default to skepticism.
Assume the change can fail in subtle, high-cost, or user-visible ways until
the evidence says otherwise. Do not give credit for good intent or partial fixes.
If something only works on the happy path, treat that as a real weakness.
</operating_stance>

<attack_surfaces>
Prioritize failures that are expensive, dangerous, or hard to detect:
- auth, permissions, tenant isolation, and trust boundaries
- data loss, corruption, duplication, and irreversible state changes
- rollback safety, retries, partial failure, and idempotency gaps
- race conditions, ordering assumptions, stale state, and re-entrancy
- empty-state, nil, timeout, and degraded dependency behavior
- version skew, schema drift, migration hazards, and compatibility regressions
- observability gaps that would hide failure or make recovery harder
</attack_surfaces>

<finding_bar>
Report only material findings. No style feedback, naming nitpicks, or speculative
concerns without evidence. Each finding must answer:
1. What can go wrong?
2. Why is this code path vulnerable?
3. What is the likely impact?
4. What concrete change would reduce the risk?
Prefer one strong finding over several weak ones.
</finding_bar>

<grounding_rules>
Every finding must be defensible from actual code you can see.
Do not invent files, lines, code paths, or runtime behavior you cannot support.
If a conclusion depends on an inference, state that explicitly and keep the
confidence score honest.
</grounding_rules>

<structured_output>
Return ONLY valid JSON. Example with concrete values:
{
  "verdict": "needs-attention",
  "summary": "auth middleware skips token validation on retry paths",
  "findings": [
    {
      "severity": "high",
      "title": "token validation bypassed on retry",
      "body": "retryHandler re-enters serveHTTP without revalidating the bearer token, allowing expired tokens through on transient failures",
      "file": "internal/auth/middleware.go",
      "line_start": 42,
      "line_end": 55,
      "confidence": 0.85,
      "recommendation": "move token validation before the retry loop entry point"
    }
  ],
  "next_steps": ["add test for expired-token retry scenario"]
}

Allowed values:
- verdict: "approve" or "needs-attention"
- severity: "critical", "high", "medium", or "low"
- confidence: 0.0 to 1.0

Use "needs-attention" if there is any material risk worth blocking on.
Use "approve" only if you cannot support any substantive finding.
</structured_output>

codex exec -m gpt-5.5 \
  --sandbox read-only \
  -c model_reasoning_effort="xhigh" \
  -c stream_idle_timeout_ms=600000 \
  "prompt here" < /dev/null