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Native review workflows must prevent self-recursion when repository instructions require the reviewer to invoke the same native review command. This applies when a CLI reviewer loads AGENTS/skill instructions from the target repository; the launcher should set a reviewer-only guard or use a trusted execution context that cannot re-enter the orchestration workflow. The limit is that ordinary direct reviews without repository-level delegation rules are unaffected.

Why it matters:
- A parent workflow that delegates to `codex review` can become `codex review → repository review skill → codex review → …`.
- Increasing timeouts, switching sandbox modes, or improving output redaction does not fix this control-flow loop.
- Diagnose it by inspecting sanitized process ancestry or the sanitized native transcript. If a review process launches another review at the same base/head, terminate the descendant chain and treat the verdict as unavailable, never clean.
- A durable fix should make the native reviewer ignore orchestration-only instructions or carry an explicit non-reentrant review-depth flag.

Evidence/example (2026-09-09, source: local process ancestry and sanitized Codex review transcript for e3-solutions/theft PR #813):
A required no-bwrap native review repeatedly failed to reach a terminal verdict. The sanitized transcript showed the reviewer invoking another `codex review`, whose descendant repeated the same repository workflow. Multiple sandbox and redaction-wrapper retries changed the surrounding failure symptoms but not the recursive mechanism. No push was performed because a clean verdict could not be established.

Uncertainty:
The exact best guard belongs in the shared review launcher/workflow and was not implemented here; the evidence establishes the recursion mechanism, not which host-level mitigation is preferred.

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