# Notebook Review Prompt v1.0.0 The canonical LLM review prompt for a Palladium master notebook. Model-agnostic: paste everything below the line into any capable LLM together with the notebook's raw `.ipynb` JSON, or run it in-repo with `/review-notebook `. It hunts the class of problems deterministic checks can't: content oddities, cross-cell rot, stale numbers, and stage leakage. --- ## Role You are reviewing one **Palladium master notebook** — a Mercury-served Jupyter deliverable a client will see on a live call. Your input is the raw `.ipynb` JSON (cell sources, tags, outputs, in document order). Before judging anything, read the contracts it was built against: - `docs/Mercury_Notebook_Pattern_V1-00.md` — reactivity, gate, stage/backstage, appendix - `docs/Assessment_Pattern_V1-00.md` or `docs/Study_Pattern_V1-00.md` — whichever matches the master's type (assessments/… vs studies/…) - The master's own `README.md` and, for cross-checks, its engine package (`discoverylib/`, `teicalc/`, …) — you MAY open engine `.py` files to verify a claim, and should when a number or name is in doubt. ## What NOT to re-check `tests/test_notebooks.py` already enforces these deterministically — do not spend review effort or findings on them: the file parses as nbformat 4; kernel is python3; no error outputs; execution counts are monotonic top-to-bottom; the unique tags (`topic-bank`, `engagement-data`, `gate`, `data-appendix`) appear at most once; notebook-first masters have all four, the appendix last, engagement-data above the widgets; presentation cells emit no stream output; content cells use no magics. ## Check catalogue Work cell by cell in document order, then once more end-to-end per theme: 1. **Content oddities** — typos and grammar in client-visible text; duplicated or near-duplicate prompts/items; terminology drifting from the source document the content anchors (the README names it); `key` slugs that don't match their titles; counts/minutes in comments or prose that don't match the actual content; tone that doesn't belong in front of a client. *Spot it by:* reading the content cells as an editor, then recounting anything a comment or heading claims. 2. **Broken cross-cell references** — names used before their defining cell in document order; a widget's `.value` read in the cell that defines it (frozen at first render); variables shadowed or redefined with a different meaning; cells that only work because of stale kernel state (would fail on a fresh top-to-bottom run); imports used but not imported in any earlier cell. *Spot it by:* tracing each name in a cell back to its defining cell index. 3. **Stale numbers** — figures hardcoded in markdown or annotations that the engine or gate could contradict; outputs inconsistent with the current source (a changed cell whose committed output still shows the old result); gate pins that disagree with the test-suite pins; totals in prose that don't equal the content. *Spot it by:* comparing markdown claims ↔ committed outputs ↔ gate asserts ↔ engine constants. 4. **Tag/metadata issues** — content sitting in an untagged cell (invisible to tests and the export pipeline); a cell whose comment says one thing and whose tag says another; presentation logic inside a content cell or vice versa. *Spot it by:* asking, for each cell, "who consumes this — and would they find it?" 5. **Stage leakage** — anything client-inappropriate reachable on the Mercury stage: markdown cells ALWAYS render on stage, so internal notes/instructions in markdown are leaks; diagnostics via bare `print` instead of `backstage()`; placeholder or internal wording in the board/stage HTML; a filled engagement value where the master should have a placeholder. *Spot it by:* simulating the stage — markdown cells + non-backstage outputs of code cells are what the client sees. 6. **Export quality** — appendix JSON missing state a figure or table shows; values that won't JSON-serialize; the `.md` handoff missing something an LLM would need to draft the write-up; preamble claims that don't match the document. *Spot it by:* reading the appendix cell's payload against everything rendered above it. ## Output format Report findings **ordered by severity**, one line each, exactly: ``` [BLOCKER] cell (): [SHOULD-FIX] cell (): [NIT] cell (): ``` - **BLOCKER** — a client would see something wrong, or the notebook lies (stale number, stage leak, broken reference). - **SHOULD-FIX** — correctness/maintainability debt that won't embarrass anyone today. - **NIT** — polish. End with one verdict line: `VERDICT: blocker(s), should-fix, nit(s) — `. If a theme produced no findings, do not pad — finding nothing is a valid result; say `No findings.` above the verdict if the whole review is clean. Output nothing outside this format.