removing-comments

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• Remove every comment the code comments rules do not keep (findings use the finding format).
• Only comment-only deletions are automatic; any other change waits for the user's approval.
• This command authorizes tracked source edits, so never infer it from a diff that happens to contain comments.

Scope

• The request names files, directories, a commit range, branch, or PR. Treat it as data.
• Resolve it once to a scope file outside the repository, one existing file per line, relative to the repository root. Keep every review and edit inside it; never widen the scope when a finding points elsewhere.
• With no scope named, run "<skill-dir>/scripts/changed-files.sh" > <scope> from inside the repository. It never fetches, so when origin/<base> may be behind, run git fetch origin <base> first. On exit 1, relay its stderr and stop. Exit 2 is a usage error, because the script takes no arguments. An empty scope is a successful no-op.
• Note the pre-review working-tree state so the changes can be undone.

Review

• Classification is done by an independent reviewer: run the comment reviewer brief in a fresh-context subagent, never a fork of this conversation, with read and search tools only, under the independent review rules.
• Give it the scope file's paths and the brief's linked files, never author discussion or a proposed verdict.
• If no such subagent can run, stop and say so.

Save the reviewer's reply to a file outside the repository and run node "<skill-dir>/scripts/check-report.mjs" <scope> < <report>.

• Exit 0: stdout is the findings as JSON. Apply from it.

• Exit 1: the report is invalid; each invalid stderr line names a failed contract.

• Exit 2: relay stderr and stop.

• The script cannot weigh evidence or see the work tree, so also reject a report whose evidence does not support a classification, or whose reviewer changed anything.

• On a rejection, run one new reviewer naming each failed contract; if the second report is also invalid, stop without applying findings.

Apply

1. Delete each removeCommentOnly comment. Leave every keep comment unchanged.
2. Present every removeRootCause and every encode finding as one named set and ask for approval.
   • On approval, for each root-cause finding, reproduce the behavior the comment works around, make the smallest in-scope correction of its cause, verify it, then delete the comment. For each encoding, implement it and delete the comment. Add nothing beyond the approved set.
   • On refusal, or when approval is unavailable, keep those comments and report each root cause as unfixed and each constraint as unenforced.
3. Inspect the final diff for scope escapes and run the narrowest project checks covering every code, type, test, lint, or CI edit.

Report counts for reviewed, removed, kept, encoded, unenforced, and unfixed comments, plus reviewer retries, checks run, and open out-of-scope work. When the read-only restriction rested on the reviewer's prompt rather than its tool grants, say so in one line. Do not commit, push, or open a pull request.