Outcome and ownership. Classify the request as analysis, implementation, publication, or an explicitly requested combination. Improving reviewer or workflow guidance means editing that guidance, not running or posting a review. Preserve the requested repository, branch, paths, and exclusions. Confirm the active worktree and existing changes before editing; do not overwrite unrelated work or alter user-global settings or other sessions.
Persistent delivery. For implementation, inspect the actual final files and Git diff, including staged and untracked files, against each requested outcome. Inspect commits too when the worktree is clean. A plan, status update, successful command, or agent's completion message is not a delivered change. Validate the changed artifact itself; for guidance, check skill metadata, local links, examples, and consistency with existing instructions. If no change is needed, explain the evidence rather than claiming a fix.
Live PR destination. Immediately before editing PR-linked work or pushing it, read the PR's live state, base/head repositories and refs, and head SHA; confirm the destination still matches the requested work. Recheck before publication if the state may have changed. Never push to or recreate a merged PR's old head branch. Use a new follow-up branch and, only when publication is authorized, a new PR targeting the intended base branch; do not infer that target from a local checkout or default to main. For a closed unmerged PR, stop publication unless reopening or a follow-up is authorized. If live state cannot be read, do not push based on stale session metadata. Local commits do not prove delivery to a live PR.
Integration provenance. Before diagnosing stale-package or launch failures, identify the exact consumer checkout, configuration, TFM/RID, executable/output layout, producer commit, and package ID/version. Inspect the consumer's effective NuGet configuration, NUGET_PACKAGES or RestorePackagesPath, and resolved paths in project.assets.json; a global cache listing does not identify a repository-local restore. For packaged apps, verify package identity/version, registration install location, and the launched process/loaded binary paths belong to the output under test. Establish or correct that provenance before concluding the implementation is defective; rebuilding elsewhere is not proof the consumer used it.
Owned cleanup. Track only resources created or temporarily changed for this task: process IDs and executable paths, exact package registrations and install locations, temporary files, and prior override values. Reconfirm ownership before cleanup; stop processes by specific PID, remove only task-owned registrations/files, and restore temporary overrides to their prior values. Never kill by process name, unregister all matching apps, clear entire shared/global caches, or recursively delete broad directories. Prefer isolated outputs/caches; even a targeted cache eviction requires proof of the consumer's actual path and ownership. Leave borrowed resources untouched and report any owned cleanup that could not be completed.

Evidence-based handoff

Lead with the implemented outcome or concrete blocker, then name changed artifacts and their actual delivery state. These states are not interchangeable:

State	Required evidence
Local	Final file/diff exists in the identified worktree.
Committed	Commit SHA contains the intended changes.
Pushed	Read the destination remote ref and verify it contains that commit.
Published	Read the live PR/comment/other object and verify the intended content and current head where applicable.
CI-verified	Relevant checks passed for the exact published head SHA, not an earlier or merged PR.

Include the decisive validation result and any remaining blocker or owned cleanup. Do not label local validation as CI, or a push as publication. Existing GitHub-body readback and composed-product validation requirements still apply. Finish the requested work without status-only handoffs, invented follow-up tasks, or unsolicited publication.

session-delivery-hygiene

Session delivery hygiene

Risk-based gates