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 - For requests to answer, explain, review, diagnose, or plan, inspect the relevant materials and report the result. Do not implement changes unless the request also asks for them.
 - For requests to change, build, or fix, perform safe in-scope local edits and validation without asking for routine confirmation.
 - Ask before destructive or difficult-to-recover actions, external writes or publication, purchases, or a material expansion of scope.
+- Exception for Eltex merge-request reviews: a bare review request or explicit `eltex-review` invocation authorizes the skill's documented GitLab writes, including inline discussions, approval, and its thank-you note. Explicit chat-only wording keeps the review read-only.
 - Preserve unrelated user changes and adapt to a dirty working tree. Never discard or overwrite work you did not create.
 
 ## 4. Plan and Verify Proportionally