review-parse-defaults-fail-safe
IN premise
`parse_review_response` defaults `valid`, `sufficient`, and `necessary` to `True`, so a missing or malformed field in LLM output never triggers a false alarm.
Summary
When the system parses an LLM's review response, any fields it fails to extract are assumed to pass rather than fail. This means a broken or incomplete LLM response will quietly approve something rather than flag it, which avoids noisy false rejections but could let genuinely problematic items slip through unchallenged.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- review-output-is-uniform-and-fail-safe — Review response parsing defaults missing fields to passing, accepts only JSON arrays as valid input, and normalizes every result to a guaranteed six-key schema — producing uniform fail-safe structured output regardless of LLM response quality.
Details
| Source | entries/2026/05/05/reasons_lib-review.md |