Warden

Overview

warden is an orchestrator-tier pre-push review gate — a peer of build/finish/quality-gate, not a find-and-report-only leaf reviewer. It consolidates the pre-push review passes (temper, delve, red-team, plus siege/inquisitor when the diff warrants) into a single gate that emits one PASS/BLOCKED verdict. Like build and finish, warden is permitted to drive fixes; the report-only rule binds only leaf reviewers.

warden runs each reviewer on its own severity scale — there is no cross-scale normalization (severity-verdict-contract.md). The gate is a disjunction of native gates (the boolean OR of each leg's native verdict), and the combined report is sectioned per reviewer, never one merged ranking.