Ravi Eda (ravimeda) · Oct 18, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026
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 /.github/**/*arm-*.md                  @raosuhas @ravimeda @laxmankumar12
 /.github/skills/azure-api-review/      @raosuhas @ravimeda @laxmankumar12
+/.github/skills/arm-api-reviewer-issue/ @raosuhas @ravimeda @laxmankumar12
 /documentation/api-reviewer-agent.md   @raosuhas @ravimeda @laxmankumar12
 
 ## ARM API Modeling Reviewers

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 ### Quick start
 
 ```bash
-# Prerequisites: Node.js >= 20, npm >= 11.11.1
+# Prerequisites: Node.js >= 22.14.0, npm >= 11.11.1
 # Clone and build vally
 git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vally.git
 cd vally && npm install && npm run build && cd -
@@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ Changes to any of these files should pass the eval suite before merging:
 - `.github/skills/azure-api-review/**`
 - `.github/skills/evals/arm-api-reviewer/**`
 
+### Reporting reviewer issues
+
+The **arm-api-reviewer-issue** skill
+([`skills/arm-api-reviewer-issue/`](arm-api-reviewer-issue/)) helps users
+report concerns about the ARM API Reviewer as public issues in
+`Azure/azure-rest-api-specs`. It checks open ARM API Reviewer issues for
+duplicates, drafts a plain-language issue, shows the complete draft with its
+labels and assignee, and creates the issue only after explicit approval. When
+the user has push access and the draft is implementation-ready, it can propose
+assigning Copilot. Changes to this skill should pass its Waza suites; see
+[`arm-api-reviewer-issue/evals/README.md`](arm-api-reviewer-issue/evals/README.md).
+
 ---
 
 ## Data-Plane API Reviewer

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+---
+name: arm-api-reviewer-issue
+description: >
+  Report issues about the ARM API Reviewer agent only. USE FOR: ARM reviewer
+  feedback, file an ARM reviewer issue, its API-guidance interpretation,
+  review process, and repository workflows. DO NOT USE FOR: Data-Plane API
+  Reviewer feedback or issues, general service API bugs, SDK generation, or
+  posting PR comments. Do not draft or file ARM issues for excluded requests.
+license: MIT
+metadata:
+  version: "1.0.0"
+---
+
+# Submit an ARM API Reviewer issue
+
+**WORKFLOW SKILL**
+
+**Required first action:** open the [workflow](./references/workflow.md) and
+[issue template](./references/issue-template.md) with a file-read tool before
+answering any turn, including recovery or fixture questions.
+
+## Workflow
+
+1. Research first; clarify in plain language without requiring contract or
+   infrastructure expertise.
+2. Check all open ARM API Reviewer issues in public
+   `Azure/azure-rest-api-specs`. Return an exact duplicate's full URL and stop.
+3. Separate reports, observations, hypotheses, and confirmed causes. Use
+   public evidence and existing guidance. Never publish private evidence,
+   internal URLs, local paths, or secrets.
+4. Use only Summary, Issue, Evidence, Solution, and References sections.
+   Summary is 2-3 sentences covering the issue and possible solutions.
+   Solution includes design, implementation, validation, and limitations.
+   Prefix the title with `ARM API Reviewer agent:`; no emoji or em dashes.
+5. Show title, body, destination, labels, and assignee in the main chat, and
+   whether push access lets them apply. Propose Copilot only for ready work.
+   Say "Awaiting your approval. No issue has been created." Pause without
+   repeated prompts. A filing request or autopilot is not approval. Material
+   edits need renewed approval.
+6. Recheck duplicates, create once, and verify the published issue.
+   Investigate ambiguous results before retrying; never claim unverified
+   success.
+
+Publish only in public `Azure/azure-rest-api-specs`.
+Do not modify existing issues, post PR comments, or implement the fix.
+
+## Examples
+
+"The ARM reviewer did not start. Help me report it."
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+Blocked research or missing approval means retain a draft without publishing.
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+# ARM issue skill evaluations
+
+1. Use Waza v0.38.10 or a compatible runner and Node.js for JavaScript graders.
+   The suites use eval schema `1.4`, task files, `follow_up_prompts`, checkpoints,
+   and supported graders.
+2. Check skill metadata, package links, token budget, and the primary suite:
+
+   ```powershell
+   waza check .github\skills\arm-api-reviewer-issue
+   ```
+
+3. All three suites pin `gpt-5.6-sol`. Run `waza models` to confirm that the
+   model is available, and use `--model` only for deliberate comparisons.
+   Shared repository configuration is not changed.
+
+## Windows PowerShell command smoke test
+
+Run this command from the repository root on Windows with Node.js, GitHub CLI,
+Windows PowerShell 5.1 (`powershell.exe`), and PowerShell 7 (`pwsh.exe`) on `PATH`:
+
+```powershell
+node --test .github\skills\arm-api-reviewer-issue\evals\powershell-command.test.ts
+```
+
+The test extracts the documented Copilot availability command and runs real
+`gh.exe` in both shells. Only the API endpoint is replaced with a loopback HTTP
+fixture, and credentials are replaced with dummy values. It checks the exact
+GraphQL request, temporary paths containing spaces, API failure propagation,
+and query-file cleanup after success and failure. It makes no external requests
+or GitHub writes and requires no authentication. Non-Windows runs are skipped.
+This test is separate from the model sessions and their read-only tool allowlist.
+
+## Safe model execution
+
+1. These are offline conversational tests, not live GitHub integration tests.
+   Model execution needs Copilot authentication and may incur usage costs.
+2. Every suite runs through the committed
+   [offline evaluator](./harness/offline-evaluator.agent.md) custom agent. Its
+   `tools` list is a runtime allowlist: skill discovery, file reading, and the
+   local issue fixture. It grants no shell, network, file-writing, or GitHub
+   tools. Each suite sets `skill: offline-evaluator`, loads the `harness` and
+   skill directories, and requires `arm-api-reviewer-issue` through
+   `config.required_skills`. `inject_skill_body: false` keeps skill invocation
+   observable.
+3. The mocked suite allows two exact MCP tool names because Waza v0.38.10
+   permission events may already include the server name. Both identify the
+   same local read-only fixture; neither grants live GitHub access. The
+   `tool_constraint` graders also detect unexpected tool calls after execution.
+4. Run each suite with results and transcripts outside the repository. For
+   example, from this directory:
+
+   ```powershell
+   $out = Join-Path $env:TEMP arm-issue-evals
+   waza run .\eval.yaml --output $out\routing.json --transcript-dir $out\routing
+   waza run .\workflow.eval.yaml --output $out\workflow.json --transcript-dir $out\workflow
+   waza run .\mocked.eval.yaml --output $out\mocked.json --transcript-dir $out\mocked
+   ```
+
+5. Review task, checkpoint, and tool-policy results. A green aggregate score
+   alone is not evidence that an issue was published correctly.
+
+## Coverage and limitations
+
+1. The three suites contain 24 cases. The routing suite covers novice concerns,
+   API-guidance and workflow feedback, anti-triggers, private evidence, and
+   untrusted publication instructions. The data-plane boundary checks
+   redirection without an ARM issue draft; reading the skill solely to confirm
+   that boundary is not a publication or scope violation.
+2. The multi-turn suite covers complete drafts in the assistant's main-chat
+   output, ordinary conversational consent, absent/declined approval, revised
+   drafts, duplicate races, unavailable discovery, ambiguous creation, pending
+   verification, and mismatched read-back. It also covers metadata disclosure
+   without push access, a Copilot assignment proposal for an
+   implementation-ready draft, and labels or comments added by Issue Triage
+   after creation. Every multi-turn task checks that the skill is invoked.
+   Tasks whose expected behavior is defined only in the workflow reference also
+   check that it is read. Prompts supply fixtures, not the expected behavior.
+3. Success claims are rejected with patterns such as "I created the issue" or
+   "Published and verified" unless verification is the expected outcome.
+4. The mocked suite makes the model call a read-only MCP fixture for two labeled
+   issue-list pages and find the duplicate on the second page. Tool-argument
+   graders check repository, state, label, and pagination. It does not query
+   live GitHub or expose any issue-writing tool.
+5. Main-chat text is graded, but the host's actual approval-dialog ordering and
+   activity indicator are not integration-tested. Supplied records are fixture
+   context, not live results. These tests do not prove successful GitHub
+   writes, label or assignee application, Copilot cloud agent startup, or
+   atomic duplicate prevention. An `executor: mock` run checks harness wiring,
+   not model behavior.
+6. Do not use `--auto-file-issue`. Do not create live test issues without separate
+   authorization and a suitable test destination or write mock.
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+name: arm-api-reviewer-issue-eval
+description: Routing, novice intake, public-evidence handling, and publication
+  safeguards for ARM API Reviewer issue submission. No live GitHub writes are
+  permitted; these are conversational tests, not publication integration tests.
+skill: offline-evaluator
+schemaVersion: "1.4"
+version: "1.0"
+config:
+  trials_per_task: 1
+  timeout_seconds: 300
+  parallel: false
+  executor: copilot-sdk
+  model: gpt-5.6-sol
+  skill_directories:
+    - harness
+    - ..
+  inject_skill_body: false
+  required_skills:
+    - arm-api-reviewer-issue
+metrics:
+  - name: behavior_quality
+    weight: 1
+    threshold: 1
+    description: All conversation and routing safeguards must pass.
+graders:
+  - type: tool_constraint
+    name: offline_read_only_tools
+    config:
+      allow_only:
+        - tool: skill
+        - tool: view
+        - tool: read
+        - tool: glob
+        - tool: grep
+        - tool: rg
+        - tool: ask_user
+tasks:
+  - tasks/routing/*.yaml
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+---
+name: offline-evaluator
+description: Read-only harness for offline ARM API Reviewer issue skill evaluation.
+tools:
+  - skill
+  - view
+  - glob
+  - grep
+  - rg
+  - mcp:issue_fixture-list_issues
+  - mcp:issue_fixture-issue_fixture-list_issues
+---
+
+Use only skill discovery, file reading, and the deterministic local issue
+fixture. Never execute commands, contact live GitHub, write files, or publish
+issues.
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+name: arm-api-reviewer-issue-mocked-lookup
+description: >
+  Verify paginated duplicate discovery through a deterministic, read-only MCP
+  fixture. This server never contacts GitHub and exposes no write tools.
+skill: offline-evaluator
+schemaVersion: "1.4"
+version: "1.0"
+config:
+  trials_per_task: 1
+  timeout_seconds: 300
+  parallel: false
+  executor: copilot-sdk
+  model: gpt-5.6-sol
+  skill_directories:
+    - harness
+    - ..
+  inject_skill_body: false
+  required_skills:
+    - arm-api-reviewer-issue
+mcp_mocks:
+  - name: issue_fixture
+    tools:
+      list_issues:
+        description: >
+          Read-only GitHub issue discovery fixture. List issues for the requested
+          repository, state, and labels. Start at page 1 and follow next_page
+          until has_next_page is false. All responses are local fixture data;
+          this tool never contacts GitHub.
+        input_schema:
+          type: object
+          properties:
+            owner:
+              type: string
+            repo:
+              type: string
+            state:
+              type: string
+              enum: [open, closed, all]
+            labels:
+              type: array
+              items:
+                type: string
+            page:
+              type: integer
+              minimum: 1
+          required: [owner, repo, state, labels, page]
+          additionalProperties: false
+        responses:
+          - match:
+              owner: Azure
+              repo: azure-rest-api-specs
+              state: open
+              labels: ["ARM API Reviewer agent"]
+              page: 1
+            return:
+              issues:
+                - number: 45947
+                  title: "ARM API Reviewer agent: review local unmerged specifications"
+                  html_url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/issues/45947
+                  state: open
+                  labels: ["ARM API Reviewer agent"]
+                  body: Tracks read-only review of local specifications before a PR exists.
+              has_next_page: true
+              next_page: 2
+          - match:
+              owner: Azure
+              repo: azure-rest-api-specs
+              state: open
+              labels: ["ARM API Reviewer agent"]
+              page: 2
+            return:
+              issues:
+                - number: 47390
+                  title: "ARM API Reviewer agent: reliably dispatch reviews after automatic queue entry"
+                  html_url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/issues/47390
+                  state: open
+                  labels: ["ARM API Reviewer agent"]
+                  body: >
+                    Tracks the reviewer not starting when Summarize Checks adds
+                    WaitForARMFeedback with GITHUB_TOKEN. Requests an explicit,
+                    reliable queue-to-review dispatch rather than another PR event.
+              has_next_page: false
+metrics:
+  - name: behavior_quality
+    weight: 1
+    threshold: 1
+    description: Complete the read-only lookup and stop at the exact duplicate.
+graders:
+  - type: tool_constraint
+    name: fixture_read_only_tools
+    config:
+      allow_only:
+        - tool: skill
+        - tool: view
+        - tool: read
+        - tool: glob
+        - tool: grep
+        - tool: rg
+        - tool: "mcp:issue_fixture-list_issues"
+        - tool: "mcp:issue_fixture-issue_fixture-list_issues"
+tasks:
+  - tasks/mocked/*.yaml