---
review_report: true
reviewer_model: gpt-5.5
reviewed_at: 2026-06-12T12:04:49+00:00
target_doc: pipeline/overview.md
target_doc_source_commit: eb9403ef595a99c2ff6def1d538dbd7a792d9371
target_doc_watched_paths_digest: b52333a3c46debaf875894fc96056347221bef98dce0a1495d4cac0af510369e
source_commit: eb9403ef595a99c2ff6def1d538dbd7a792d9371
checklist:
  factual_accuracy: pass
  cross_references: pass
  completeness: pass
  style_consistency: partial
  source_alignment: pass
  front_matter_validity: pass
finding_count: 1
severity_breakdown:
  critical: 0
  major: 0
  minor: 0
  nit: 1
---

# Review report for pipeline/overview.md

## Summary

The overview is factually aligned with the sampled pipeline sources and its links lint cleanly. The only finding is a small common-contract style issue: the first body paragraph identifies the page purpose but leaves the intended reader to the second paragraph.

## Items checked

- Ran `regenerate.py show pipeline/overview.md` and read the target page, `_common.md`, `pipeline-overview.md`, and dependency `architecture/overview.md`.
- Verified front matter keys, recorded source commit, and 64-character hex watched-path digest.
- Spot-checked 15 overview claims against `source/compiler-core/slang-lexer.cpp`, `source/slang/slang-preprocessor.cpp`, `source/slang/slang-parser.cpp`, `source/slang/slang-check.cpp`, `source/slang/slang-compile-request.cpp`, `source/slang/slang-compile-request.h`, `source/slang/slang-lower-to-ir.cpp`, and `source/slang/slang-emit.cpp`.
- Checked stage ordering, driver entry points, `FrontEndCompileRequest::checkAllTranslationUnits`, `generateIRForTranslationUnit`, `TargetProgram::getOrCreateIRModuleForLayout`, `linkAndOptimizeIR`, and `emitEntryPointsSourceFromIR` claims.
- Resolved relative links with `regenerate.py lint` for this assigned doc group; lint reported no issues.

## Findings

| ID | Severity | Location | Description | Evidence | Recommendation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| F-001 | nit | Intro, lines 12-18 | The first body paragraph says what the page covers, but the intended-reader sentence is a separate paragraph. `_common.md` requires the first paragraph itself to state both the coverage and the intended reader. | `docs/generated/design/_meta/prompts/_common.md:65-66` says the first paragraph must state what the document covers and who its intended reader is; `docs/generated/design/pipeline/overview.md:12-18` splits those into two paragraphs. | Merge the intended-reader sentence into the first paragraph, or otherwise revise the first paragraph so it contains both the page purpose and audience. |

## No-issues notes

- The mermaid diagram uses camelCase node IDs and no explicit colors.
- Every stage subsection includes links to watched source files and a detail page.
- The source-backed entry-point line references for `linkAndOptimizeIR` and `emitEntryPointsSourceFromIR` match the recorded commit.
