---
review_report: true
reviewer_model: gpt-5.5
reviewed_at: 2026-06-30T13:26:46+00:00
target_doc: architecture/overview.md
target_doc_source_commit: c21ead2690b5b9fa4a582f6b51a4cd5fb34d29d8
target_doc_watched_paths_digest: afbd89494a4fc2b1e32feff2a72cd537b19b3ce0b699732634ab56f8de8603f1
source_commit: c21ead2690b5b9fa4a582f6b51a4cd5fb34d29d8
checklist:
  factual_accuracy: pass
  cross_references: pass
  completeness: partial
  style_consistency: pass
  source_alignment: partial
  front_matter_validity: pass
finding_count: 1
severity_breakdown:
  critical: 0
  major: 1
  minor: 0
  nit: 0
---

# Review report for architecture/overview.md

## Summary
The overview is broadly accurate for the central compiler objects and the included watched CMake/header claims. The main issue is prompt conformance: many required top-level subsystem entries cite only directories or files outside this page's resolved watched paths, even though the prompt requires each listed subsystem to cite at least one concrete file path that exists in the watched paths.

## Items checked
- Ran `regenerate.py show architecture/overview.md` and reviewed the target document, `_common.md`, `architecture-overview.md`, and all 9 resolved watched files for this document.
- Checked front matter for all required keys, the recorded target source commit, the warning string, and a 64-character hex watched-path digest copied from the target document.
- Spot-checked more than 10 concrete claims against watched files, including the `slang` target's CMake links, `source/core/` external-only link list, `source/compiler-core/` linking to `core` and `fast_float`, `CompileRequestBase`, `FrontEndCompileRequest`, `FrontEndEntryPointRequest`, `TranslationUnitRequest`, `Module`, `IModule`, `IComponentType`, `IGlobalSession`, and `ISession`.
- Checked the compilation-request lifecycle section against `source/slang/slang-compile-request.h`, `source/slang/slang-module.h`, `source/slang/slang-compile-request.cpp`, `source/slang/slang-module.cpp`, and `include/slang.h`.
- Checked the visible relative links used for generated peer documents and representative workspace files; no dangling relative links were found in the checked set.

## Findings
| ID | Severity | Location | Description | Evidence | Recommendation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| F-001 | major | `## Top-level decomposition`, lines 88-127 | Several required subsystem entries do not satisfy the per-doc prompt's citation contract. The standard libraries, downstream shims, runtime/bindings, driver/tooling, and auxiliary-tree entries mostly cite directories or files outside this page's resolved watched paths, rather than at least one concrete file path that exists in the watched paths. | `docs/generated/design/_meta/prompts/architecture-overview.md:61-62` requires each listed subsystem to cite at least one concrete file path that exists in the watched paths; `regenerate.py show architecture/overview.md` resolves only `CLAUDE.md`, `include/slang.h`, `source/compiler-core/CMakeLists.txt`, `source/core/CMakeLists.txt`, `source/slang/CMakeLists.txt`, `source/slang/slang-compile-request.{h,cpp}`, and `source/slang/slang-module.{h,cpp}`. | Either expand the manifest watched paths to include representative files for every required subsystem and cite them, or revise the affected entries to follow `_common.md` by saying the information was not located in the watched paths and proposing the additional paths to add. |

## No-issues notes
- The front matter is structurally valid and uses the target document's own source commit and watched-path digest.
- The `Module` description matches `source/slang/slang-module.h`, including its role as `IModule`, front-end output, checked AST/IR holder, and `ComponentType` subclass.
- The public API section correctly identifies `include/slang.h` as the COM-style API surface and distinguishes `IGlobalSession`, `ISession`, `IModule`, and `IComponentType`.
