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+# Pull Request Review Instructions
+
+## Goal
+
+Review for material correctness, security, state-consistency, compatibility, or maintainability regressions. Optimize for high-signal feedback. Prefer silence over speculation.
+
+## Review Philosophy
+
+- Comment only when confident a real issue exists in the changed code or its immediate context.
+- Prioritize issues as `Blocker` or `Important`.
+- Prefer incremental improvement over idealized rewrites. Do not request broad refactors unless needed to prevent a defect.
+- Focus on issues the author can reasonably address in this PR.
+- If the PR is too large to review confidently, leave at most one comment asking for a smaller PR.
+- If uncertain, do not comment.
+
+## Dealbot Context
+
+- TypeScript monorepo: NestJS backend (`apps/backend`), React/Vite frontend (`apps/web`), subgraph (`apps/subgraph`).
+- Sources of truth: Postgres (operational state) and Prometheus (metrics). Discourage adding new persisted DB state; prefer events/metrics or reusing existing columns. Flag PRs that store data the system does not need.
+- ClickHouse: the DDL (`apps/backend/src/clickhouse/clickhouse.schema.ts`) and event payloads are owned in-repo and in-scope for review (schema, column types, payload shape, producer correctness). Cluster ops, retention, and infra tuning are owned by an external team — do not propose changes there.
+- A "check" is a task type (data storage, retrieval, data retention). A "job" is one execution of a check against one SP.
+
+## Core Invariants
+
+- At most one job per SP per check type per network runs at a time. Flag changes that could allow concurrent or duplicate jobs for the same SP on the same network.
+- A job is marked failed only when job execution itself fails. A check that completes and reports a negative outcome is a successful job with a failing check result. Do not treat a negative check result as a job failure.
+- Scheduling, cleanup, active-provider filtering, and queue execution must agree on the same set of SPs and the same network.
+- For network-aware code, inserts, queries, conflict keys, filters, and tests must all carry the same network invariants.
+
+## Priorities
+
+### Blocker
+
+- Security vulnerabilities, secrets exposure, broken auth/authz, unsafe input handling, or logs that could leak tokens, credentials, or private data.
+- Correctness defects that break job lifecycle invariants, provider filtering, multi-network behavior, retries, queue execution, or state transitions.
+- Breaking schema, migration, query, config, or storage changes without compatibility, rollout, or migration safety.
+- Missing validation, permission checks, or failure handling where users, data, or production stability could be harmed.
+
+### Important
+
+- Tests, mocks, or fixtures that no longer match the real runtime or API contract.
+- SQL issues involving quoted identifiers, nullability, conflict keys, cross-network collisions, or behavior differences between databases.
+- Error handling or observability gaps that would make failures hard to diagnose, mitigate, or roll back.
+
+## Repository-Specific Focus
+
+- When changing provider filtering or blocklists, look for stale schedules, skipped cleanup, duplicate work, or drift between selection and execution paths.
+- For frontend changes, prioritize user-visible correctness and contract drift over low-impact optimizations.
+
+## Do Not Comment On
+
+- Formatting, lint, import order, generated files, lockfiles, or issues already enforced by CI, formatters, or static analysis (unless the issue reflects a real runtime bug or missing invariant).
+- Pure preference between multiple reasonable approaches.
+- Minor naming tweaks, comment additions, or speculative future refactors unless they hide a real defect or maintenance risk.
+
+## Comment Format
+
+Use one issue per comment:
+
+- `Blocker: short title` or `Important: short title`
+- what is wrong and where it appears
+- why it matters
+- minimal fix or concrete next step