# Start here: Reviewer

Review a frozen procedure and control its release lifecycle.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/worksteps/reviewer

Review edition: 25 October 2026

Roles: reviewer

As Reviewer, decide whether a frozen procedure is suitable for future issuance. A passing proof is necessary, but you must also check that the intended method, unit variations, boundary cases and source assumptions are appropriate.

## Review the exact candidate

Open the proof from Procedures. Check the family, normal or rework kind, locked revision, coverage and every expected-versus-actual difference. Confirm that step images, parameters and identification requirements describe the intended work. Check that expectations were supplied from the intended method and that blocked examples represent useful failures.

Only the latest passing proof offers publication. If examples or the runtime have changed, have the candidate verified again. Publication requires recent Accounts authentication. Where the native workflow permits a person to publish work they authored or locked, it asks for a self-approval reason and records it. Do not describe that as independent approval. Additional review controls can refuse an ineligible publication.

## Make the operational choice explicit

After publication, assign the release to its family and kind if it should be used for future units. The publication form can assign it immediately through Use it for new [family] ([kind]) travellers; otherwise a Reviewer can assign it later in Releases. Existing travellers stay pinned to what was issued.

Retirement stops new issuance while eligible existing work may finish. Withdrawal also stops execution and requires supervised disposition of affected work. Read the stated effect before submitting either action and give a meaningful reason. Withdrawal is final in this workflow.

Use [proof and publication](/manuals/worksteps/proof-and-publication) and [release changes](/manuals/worksteps/release-changes). Tell the Supervisor which families and open work are affected. Your release authority does not replace the Supervisor's responsibility for physical work or source-change decisions.