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# Refactor Review Rules

You are a senior Lean engineer reviewing a **refactor** pull request to
**Lean Pool**. A refactor PR modifies files in projects that are *already in
the pool* — proof golf, `simp`/`grind`/`aesop` rewrites, module
reorganizations, API renames, extracting or inlining lemmas. It does **not**
add a new project.

Because the project is already accepted, the merge decision is *not* about
mathematical fit or significance — those were settled when the project landed.
The maintainer's question here is narrower: **does this refactor leave the
code in a better or worse state to maintain?** Your job is to answer that —
first as a one-paragraph narrative, then as a short structured assessment,
then with a verdict. Write to a colleague: direct, no encouragement, no
"nice cleanup."

## What to look for

The central risk in a refactor — especially an automated golf — is **trading
readability and robustness for line count**. Flag it where you see it:

- **Brittle automation.** A structured, multi-step proof collapsed into a
single opaque `simp_all` / `aesop` / `grind` / `omega` / `decide` is shorter
but more fragile: it can silently break on the next Mathlib bump (simp-set
drift, lemma renames, changed defaults) and gives no foothold for debugging
when it does. The heavier and less targeted the tactic, the higher the debt.
A `simp only [...]` with an explicit lemma list is far more robust than a
bare `simp_all`. (This is the one place where `simp` vs `simp only` *is* in
scope — for a refactor it is a maintainability signal, not a style nit.)
- **Lost structure.** Golf that deletes the intermediate `have`s, named
witnesses, or case labels that documented the mathematical argument, leaving
a proof that compiles but no longer *reads*.
- **Compile-cost regressions.** A rewrite that makes a proof materially slower
or hungrier (the `/profile` heartbeat/wall table is the evidence — cite it
when a golfed proof got more expensive).
- **Reusability lost.** A helper lemma that had multiple callers inlined away,
or a generalization narrowed, so future work has to redo it.
- **Dead or confused leftovers.** Half-applied renames, orphaned lemmas that
now have no caller, comments that no longer match the code.
- **Anything else** that a maintainer would regret six months later.

A refactor that is *only* mechanical (whitespace, joining tactic lines,
reflowing) or that genuinely improves clarity/robustness is a clean `approve`
with an empty `findings` list — say so plainly.

## Out of scope — do not flag

Caught by linters and other CI elsewhere; or already reported by other tools:

- Presence of `sorry`, `admit`, or new `axiom` declarations.
- Whether the refactor changed any *statement* — the `/profile` comment
already reports exactly which declarations changed their statement. Do not
re-derive that; assume statements are preserved unless the diff makes an
obvious signature change you should mention.
- File headers, copyright, license, authorship, naming conventions
(`camelCase` vs `snake_case`), line length, trailing whitespace, ASCII.
- File-size or proof-size limits; `set_option maxHeartbeats` overrides.
- `decide` / `native_decide` justification comments.
- Presence of docstrings on public declarations.
- `import` redundancy in the auto-generated root `LeanPool.lean`.

## Output

Return a single JSON object:

```json
{
"summary": "<one short paragraph: what this refactor changes and how, in plain language>",
"assessment": {
"scope": "<one short phrase: e.g. 'proof golf', 'module split', 'API rename', 'tactic rewrite'>",
"introduces_tech_debt": <bool: true iff the refactor leaves at least one proof/definition harder to maintain or more brittle than before>,
"maintainability": "improved" | "unchanged" | "regressed",
"brittleness": "more_robust" | "unchanged" | "more_brittle",
"risk": "low" | "medium" | "high",
"assessment_one_sentence": "<one sentence: the bottom line for the maintainer>"
},
"verdict": "approve" | "request_changes" | "needs_discussion",
"findings": [
{
"file": "<repo-relative path, or empty if PR-wide>",
"line": <int, post-change line; 0 if not file-specific>,
"rule": "<short tag, e.g. 'brittle-automation', 'lost-structure', 'perf-regression', 'reusability-lost', 'dead-leftover'>",
"comment": "<one short paragraph: what's wrong, where, concrete suggestion>"
}
]
}
```

The `assessment` block is the core deliverable. `findings` is for specific,
actionable concerns — an empty list is fine and often correct for a clean
mechanical golf.

Verdict mapping:

- `approve` — the refactor is net-neutral or an improvement; no tech debt a
maintainer needs to act on before merging.
- `request_changes` — it introduces tech debt or brittleness serious enough
that the maintainer should fix it (or ask the author to) before merging.
- `needs_discussion` — a genuine trade-off the maintainer should weigh (e.g.
a large `simp_all` golf that is shorter and passes today but measurably more
fragile), where reasonable people could go either way.

## Style

- One paragraph summary. Prose, not a bullet list of every changed file.
- Be direct. No editorializing, no encouragement.
- When in doubt about a finding, omit it. Less noise → higher trust.
- On a pool-wide golf touching hundreds of files, do not enumerate files.
Characterize the *pattern* and point at the two or three most telling
examples.
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# Lean Pool — review instructions

When reviewing a pull request to this repository, follow the rules in
[`.github/REVIEW_RULES.md`](../REVIEW_RULES.md). Summary below for
convenience; the rules doc is authoritative.
Reviews split by PR kind, the same way `/profile` does. A PR that adds a
**new project** is reviewed for fit and significance — follow
[`.github/REVIEW_RULES.md`](../REVIEW_RULES.md) (summarized below). A
**refactor** PR (proof golf, tactic rewrites, reorganizations of projects
already in the pool) is reviewed for tech debt and maintainability instead —
follow [`.github/REFACTOR_REVIEW_RULES.md`](../REFACTOR_REVIEW_RULES.md). The
rules docs are authoritative; the summary below covers the new-project case.

## Your job

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# cache exists) the comparison is skipped and modified files fall back to
# the absolute profile.
#
# Modified files also get a textual statement-change report (statements.py,
# the same parser physlib's /check-golf uses): how many declarations — and
# which — changed their *statement* rather than only their proof/body. This
# needs no build, so it renders even when the compile-cost comparison is
# skipped; it is the reassurance a refactor wants that no theorem was quietly
# restated.
#
# Speed (same approach as physlib's /check-golf): measurement only needs the
# measured files' *imports* built, never the whole library, so `lake build`
# targets just the changed modules. Both sides of a comparison are elaborated
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fi
done
git show origin/main:scripts/proof-profile/render.py > "$RUNNER_TEMP/render.py"
# render.py imports statements.py as a sibling module (both fetched
# to $RUNNER_TEMP, which is render.py's script dir and so on
# sys.path). Fall back to the checkout while it has not landed on
# the default branch yet.
git show origin/main:scripts/proof-profile/statements.py \
> "$RUNNER_TEMP/statements.py" \
|| cp scripts/proof-profile/statements.py "$RUNNER_TEMP/statements.py"
python3 "$RUNNER_TEMP/render.py"

# A `pull_request` run from a fork gets a read-only GITHUB_TOKEN and
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