Reflect

Self-review current changes before committing, pushing, or requesting peer review.

Input

No primary argument required — automatically detects what to review. Optional: -- <additional context> for review focus guidance.

Process

Step 1: Identify Changes

Detect the review scope by checking, in order:

1. PR for current branch:

gh pr view --json number,title,url 2>/dev/null

If a PR exists, note its number and URL for the report.

2. Branch diff vs default branch:

DEFAULT_BRANCH=$(git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null | sed 's@^refs/remotes/origin/@@')
CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)

If on a branch different from default with commits ahead, use $DEFAULT_BRANCH...HEAD.

3. Uncommitted changes (staged + unstaged):

git diff --name-only          # unstaged
git diff --name-only --cached # staged

If there are uncommitted changes, review those.

Use the first scope that has changes. If nothing to review, tell the user.

Collect the full diff and changed file list for the detected scope:

# PR or branch diff
git fetch origin
DEFAULT_BRANCH=$(git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD | sed 's@^refs/remotes/origin/@@')
git diff origin/$DEFAULT_BRANCH...HEAD
git diff --name-only origin/$DEFAULT_BRANCH...HEAD

# Uncommitted changes (staged + unstaged combined)
git diff HEAD
git diff --name-only HEAD

Step 2: Review Changes (delegate)

Follow the review-delegation process: collect materials, prefer one inline review pass for tiny low-risk diffs, otherwise run one fresh-context review pass by default, add a second pass only when risk justifies it, and aggregate findings.

Expected output: Deduplicated findings grouped by file with severity tags (P0/P1/P2).

Step 3: Quality Gates

Run the project's lint, format, type check, and test commands. Fix issues and commit fixes.

Step 4: Report

Aggregate findings from all review passes (Step 2) with quality gate results (Step 3) into the summary format below. Deduplicate any findings flagged by multiple passes — keep the highest severity.

Step 5: Triage Deferred Items

Present each deferred improvement to the user and ask whether to fix now or defer as a follow-up issue.

Bias hard toward fix now. Recommend deferral only when the finding is truly out of scope, materially expands the PR, or needs separate design/review.

For each item, recommend one of:

• Fix now — default for in-scope findings and small follow-up work (e.g., missing tests, stale docs, duplicated lines, modest refactors that fit the current change)
• Defer — only for larger or truly out-of-scope changes (e.g., a cross-cutting refactor, a new feature, a separate migration strategy)

State your recommendation and let the user decide. Then:

• Fix now items: apply the fix and commit it
• Deferred items: create an Issue in the project's Issue tracker (see issue-operations) with context and proposed solution

Output Format

## Reflection Summary

**Scope:** <PR #N | branch <name> vs <default> | uncommitted changes>

### Findings
#### <file>
- [P0/P1/P2] <finding>

### Deferred Items
- Fixed: <what was addressed>
- Created #<num>: <title>
- (or: None identified)

### Quality Gates
- Lint: ✓/✗
- Format: ✓/✗
- Types: ✓/✗
- Tests: ✓/✗

(Use severity tags: P0, P1, P2. Omit P3 — see [review rubric](../_shared/review-rubric.md).)

Guidelines

• Pattern consistency is the highest-value check
• Tiny low-risk diffs stay inline — avoid fresh-context overhead when the change is obviously small
• Keep review lean — one reviewer by default, second only when risk justifies it
• Skip noise — see review rubric
• Bias toward fixing in the same PR — only create Issues for confirmed deferrals that are truly larger or out of scope
• Aggregate and deduplicate — merge overlapping findings, keep highest severity

Related Skills

After review: Use forge-address-pr-feedback to address reviewer feedback. Single invocation: Use forge-ship to implement and review in one step.

Example Usage

/forge-reflect
/forge-reflect -- pay extra attention to migration safety and missing regression tests