openagent-requesting-code-review

To enforce approval gates around code reviews, you need a coordinated workflow that requires explicit approvals before gathering SHAs, dispatching a reviewer, and applying fixes. This prevents unsafe changes from being merged during feature rollouts.

An approval-gated code review workflow is a process that enforces human oversight at key milestones by requiring explicit approvals before obtaining SHAs, dispatching a reviewer, processing feedback, and applying fixes to ensure safe handoffs.

You can automate code review processes for subagent-driven development by applying a phased approval workflow that generates standardized review tasks using templates and ensures safe handoffs between subagents during major refactors.

You need approval gates for code reviews when managing major feature work, refactors, or subagent-driven development where early and ongoing reviews are essential. They provide human oversight to reduce the risk of unsafe merges.

Yes, you can use a standardized code-reviewer.md template to generate code review tasks. The template articulates what was implemented, the plan, and the Git range to review for repeatable review processes.

Manual code review processes during refactoring often lack enforced approval sequences and standardized templates, increasing the risk of unsafe changes being merged without explicit human oversight at key milestones.