Model delivers a review verdict before completing the mandated checklist steps
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Activity 0 comments · opened Sep 25, 2026
What happened
The model issued an accept/reject verdict while several required checklist steps were still undone, and admitted this only when challenged.
Expected
No verdict until every mandated step has been executed.
Context: a project CLAUDE.md plus the user's auto-memory define a mandatory, ordered code-review checklist (read every touched file, the whole diff, linked issue and thread; cite the normative source per component; grep callers; check duplication, new structure and scope; then a single short verdict). The model had the checklist loaded in context and had been reminded of it repeatedly in the same session. Reviewing a multi-thousand-line pull request.
Reported by the user; no transcript or private content included.