plan-eng-review

Engineering plan reviews validate architecture, data flow, edge cases, and test coverage before implementation. By evaluating design docs and proposed changes, this process surfaces architectural mistakes and missing tests early to prevent costly rework.

Reducing scope in a software design doc involves evaluating minimal changes and identifying touched files to suggest scope reductions when designs are overbuilt. This complexity check ensures the proposed implementation remains lean and manageable before locking the plan.

Architecture diagrams and test requirements for a feature plan are generated during an interactive walkthrough. The review produces ASCII diagrams, targeted test coverage suggestions, and performance checks to guide safe implementation and rollout.

Yes, you can run an engineering review on a pre-implementation branch by providing a summary of the proposed change. The review searches for existing design docs, analyzes the branch context, and writes a completion status footer directly to the plan file.

Engineering plan reviews provide deployment and rollback guidance for database migrations and API boundaries. The review assesses failure modes and rollout strategy to ensure the implementation plan is safe to start.

When locking architecture plans, limitations include respecting repository ownership modes and telemetry settings. The review process checks repo mode and honors existing repository configurations to ensure proposed changes align with established boundaries.