Address second round of Jesper Schulz-Wedde's review on PR #157

- log-writes-must-survive-rollback.good.al: fixed invalid trigger
  OnRun(var Rec: ...) declaration; Rec is implicit when TableNo is set.
- exposed-objects-must-be-in-a-permission-set.md: distinguished the three
  exposure mechanisms (page/query web service or API, codeunit published
  as a web service, [ServiceEnabled] bound action on a page) and their
  actual permission targets (page/query "..." = X vs codeunit "..." = X).
- code-must-not-change-workdate.md: scoped from an absolute "never" to
  "not as a side effect of unrelated logic" - verified real WorkDate(x)
  setter usage in BCApps demo-data generators and test codeunits.
- bcpt-scenarios-must-be-app-specific.md: SingleInstance and
  StartScenario/EndScenario reframed as context-dependent patterns, not
  mandatory requirements - BCPT Create Customer uses neither.
- test-feature-scenario-tags.good.al/.bad.al: replaced the invented
  LibrarySales.CreateCustomerWithPrice/"Item Price Mgt." calls with a real,
  verified price-list-line test using Library - Sales/Library - Inventory/
  Library - Price Calculation.
- page-design-must-match-bc-page-type-conventions.md: scoped the missing
  UsageCategory anti-pattern to pages intended as searchable entry points.
- defensive-vs-offensive-code-must-match-blast-radius.md/.good.al/.bad.al:
  replaced the VAT registration number "low blast radius" example with a
  genuinely cosmetic field (customer home page URL).
- source-organized-by-feature-not-object-type.md: anti-pattern reframed as
  inconsistency with a repo's own convention, not the object-type scheme
  itself.
- pictures-must-use-media-not-blob.md: removed leftover "image variants"
  wording contradicting the already-corrected MediaSet description.

Proactively fixed while sweeping all fixtures for invented APIs:
- given-blocks-must-cover-full-precondition-chain.bad.al: PostSalesOrder
  called with wrong arity and referenced an undeclared variable.
- ui-test-codeunit-naming.good.al/.bad.al: replaced the same fake
  "Item Price Mgt."/TestPage "Item Price" with real Library - Sales calls
  and the real Customer Card TestPage.

Worklist completeness: added review-skill cues for the 12 of 18 new rules
that had none (al-appsource-review.md, al-data-modeling-review.md,
al-error-handling-review.md, al-security-review.md, al-style-review.md x3,
al-testing-review.md x2, al-ui-review.md, al-upgrade-review.md,
al-web-services-review.md), and fixed test-feature-scenario-tags' cue,
which only matched the compliant (tagged) shape instead of the anti-pattern
(untagged/generic-named test).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ The following targeted checks cover every current `appsource` article across the
- A page or report that repository context identifies as a direct user entry point omits `UsageCategory` or sets it to `None` — `set-usagecategory-on-searchable-entry-points`. Do not select this article based only on object type; exclude supporting parts, dialogs, API pages, and objects intentionally reached through another page.
- A `DateTime` assignment adds or subtracts a fixed duration to represent an assumed regional offset — `do-not-hard-code-time-zone-offsets`. Require contextual evidence such as an hour-sized constant, offset-oriented name, or time-zone comment; do not flag deadlines, schedules, or elapsed-time calculations.
- For BC v27 or later, `app.json` adds or changes the `help` URL to a path deeper than two levels, or a changed Copilot/context-sensitive help arrangement would ground the app under an overly broad truncated parent — `keep-copilot-help-url-to-two-path-levels`.
- A release/submission pipeline change (`AL-Go-Settings.json`, a publish/release workflow) or an `app.json` version bump is present without the new complete version being strictly greater than the previously submitted one, or the change asserts a hand-edited build/revision or every-merge-is-a-release policy as a universal AppSource rule rather than a project-specific workflow choice — `release-must-update-app-version`. Require repository/pipeline context to know the previously submitted version; a single `app.json` diff cannot prove ordering on its own.
Once the candidate worklist is known, resolve layer-precedence conflicts per READ. Drop lower-precedence files whose normative guidance (`## Best Practice` or `## Anti Pattern`) directly contradicts a higher-precedence candidate, and record each dropped file in `suppressed` with `reason: "layer-precedence"`. Files that would have been candidates but are hidden because their layer is disabled in consumer configuration are recorded with `reason: "configuration"`. Files that never became candidates are NOT recorded in `suppressed`.

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@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ The following targeted checks cover every current `data-modeling` article. Treat
- A `* Setup` table or its page changes singleton structure, uses a nonblank or generated key, permits insert/delete, uses a List page, or does not ensure the blank-keyed row exists — `setup-table-is-a-singleton`.
- A new field is typed `Media`, `MediaSet`, or `BLOB` and the field's caption/name suggests a picture or image — `pictures-must-use-media-not-blob`.
- Code outside a test codeunit or a demo-data generator calls `WorkDate(NewDate)` (the assignment form, not a bare `WorkDate()` read) as part of logic whose purpose is unrelated to the work date itself — `code-must-not-change-workdate`. A test deliberately setting a date context, or a demo-data routine that saves, sets, and restores the work date to backdate the data it creates, is not this anti-pattern.
- A new or extended table declares its `keys` block, primary-key field list, or naming suffix (`Ledger Entry`, `Journal Line`, `Header`/`Line`, `Setup`) — `table-design-must-match-bc-table-type-conventions`.
- A custom master table changes its primary key, `No.`/`No. Series` fields, or `OnInsert` without assigning a blank `No.` from setup through a number series — `master-table-no-from-number-series-in-oninsert`.
- BC v22 or later code introduces or retains `NoSeriesManagement`, `InitSeries`, `SelectSeries`, or `SetSeries`, or number assignment/manual-entry checks do not use codeunit `"No. Series"` methods such as `GetNextNo`, `IsManual`, or `TestManual` — `use-no-series-codeunit-not-noseriesmanagement`.

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@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ The following targeted checks cover every current `error-handling` article:
- `[ErrorBehavior(ErrorBehavior::Collect)]`, `ErrorInfo.Collectible`, `HasCollectedErrors`, `GetCollectedErrors`, or `ClearCollectedErrors` is added or changed, especially when errors are collected without later surfacing/clearing them — `collect-validation-errors-with-errorbehavior`.
- New or changed code calls `Session.StartSession` from within error/duration logging around a web-service call, background job, or other operation expected to fail — `log-writes-must-survive-rollback`.
- A guarded lookup (`if Record.Get(...) then ... else` or similar) sets a value used later, and the same guard shape (with the same blank/zero fallback style) is applied to a field that feeds a posted amount, a tax/VAT calculation, a quantity or price actually used in a transaction, or a legally/compliance-facing output — `defensive-vs-offensive-code-must-match-blast-radius`. The signal is a posting-critical or compliance-facing field guarded defensively with a silent fallback, not the mere presence of a guarded lookup.
- Developer-only invariant text is raised with default client visibility, or a user-actionable validation is hidden as `ErrorType::Internal` — `errortype-internal-vs-client-for-diagnostics`.
- `FieldError` receives a complete capitalized sentence, repeats the field caption/value, or ends the predicate with punctuation — `fielderror-default-message-logic`.
- An unguarded `FieldError` is used as though it performed a comparison, or `TestField` is forced onto a complex rule needing a tailored predicate — `fielderror-vs-testfield`.

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@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ For secret values, select the most specific sink owner:
- When a `Text`/`Code` credential is declared, passed, returned, or unwrapped without a visible HTTP URI/header/body sink, use `secrettext-for-credentials.md`.
- When that value is interpolated into a URI, authorization header, or HTTP body and sent through `HttpClient`, use `secrettext-with-httpclient.md` as the primary finding. It supersedes the generic credential-type article at that location; keep the latter only as a supporting reference when useful.
- When a page/query is registered in Web Services, declares `PageType = API`/`QueryType = API`, a codeunit is registered in Web Services, or `[ServiceEnabled]` is added to a page procedure, and no permission set in the app grants a matching `page "..." = X` / `query "..." = X` / `codeunit "..." = X` entry for that specific object — use `exposed-objects-must-be-in-a-permission-set.md`. The anti-pattern is the exposed object missing its own execute entry, even when the underlying table's `tabledata` permissions look complete; require repository-level permission-set context, since one file cannot prove an entry is absent elsewhere in the app.
Once the candidate worklist is known, resolve layer-precedence conflicts per READ. Drop lower-precedence files whose normative guidance (`## Best Practice` or `## Anti Pattern`) directly contradicts a higher-precedence candidate, and record each dropped file in `suppressed` with `reason: "layer-precedence"`. Files that would have been candidates but are hidden because their layer is disabled in consumer configuration are recorded with `reason: "configuration"`. Files that never became candidates are NOT recorded in `suppressed`.

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@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ Apply these high-signal mappings before fuzzy topic ranking:
- A `Label` or `TextConst` contains multiple or ambiguous placeholders but has no `Comment`, or its Comment does not explain every placeholder — `label-comment-explains-placeholders.md`. A single placeholder whose meaning is explicit in the text, such as `Customer %1`, is allowed without a Comment and must not be flagged.
- A normal two-argument `Evaluate` has a resolved `DateFormula` destination and a hard-coded non-angle-bracket date-formula literal, directly or through a visible constant — `dateformula-evaluate-needs-language-independent-literals.md`. Do not use this cue for dynamic/localized external input, already invariant `<...>` input, or direct `CalcDate(Text, ...)` calls.
- `function-call-parentheses-required.md` applies only to a zero-argument invocation written without `()`. Never worklist it from an invocation that already has parentheses or supplies arguments, including `Error(Label, Arg1, Arg2)`.
- A new or changed comment restates what the adjacent code already makes obvious from its own names and structure (a comment that just repeats a variable/field/method name in prose) rather than explaining a non-obvious constraint, invariant, or workaround — `al-comments-must-not-restate-what-code-already-shows.md`. A comment absent entirely is not this anti-pattern; only a present-but-redundant comment is.
- A `page`/`pageextension` adds or changes a procedure body that performs a calculation, validation, or record mutation belonging to a business operation reused across entry points, rather than presentation-specific state or a call into a codeunit — `pages-must-not-contain-business-logic.md`. A page calling a codeunit procedure, or a page's own presentation-only state and formatting, is not this anti-pattern; nor is a data invariant that belongs on the table itself.
- Changed source files are added under an object-type folder (`Tables/`, `Pages/`, `Codeunits/`, etc.) in a repository whose existing structure is predominantly feature-based, or vice versa — `source-organized-by-feature-not-object-type.md`. The anti-pattern is inconsistency with the repository's own established convention, not the choice of either scheme; a repository consistently organized by object type throughout is not a violation. Require repository-level folder context; a single new file's path cannot prove the project's convention alone.
Once the candidate worklist is known, resolve layer-precedence conflicts per READ and record suppressions.

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@ -46,9 +46,11 @@ A file enters the candidate worklist when its `keywords` intersect the extracted
The following targeted checks cover every current `testing` article. Treat each as a candidate-selection cue: when the signal appears in changed code, add the named article to the worklist and evaluate it in Action.
- A method in a `Subtype = Test` codeunit adds or changes `[TransactionModel(...)]`, exercises code that calls `Commit` under `AutoRollback`, defaults broadly to `AutoCommit`, or chooses `None` for a writing test — `transactionmodel-attribute-governs-test-transactions`.
- A test procedure or comment adds `[FEATURE]`/`[SCENARIO]`/`[GIVEN]`/`[WHEN]`/`[THEN]` tags — `test-feature-scenario-tags`.
- A test codeunit calls `TestPage` methods (`OpenNew`, `OpenView`, `OpenEdit`) — `ui-test-codeunit-naming`.
- A `[GIVEN]`-tagged setup precedes a posting call or report execution — `given-blocks-must-cover-full-precondition-chain`.
- A new or changed `[Test]` procedure is added, whether or not it already carries `[FEATURE]`/`[SCENARIO]`/`[GIVEN]`/`[WHEN]`/`[THEN]` tags — `test-feature-scenario-tags`. A procedure with no tags at all, or a generic name like `Test1`, is the anti-pattern signal; presence of the tags is the compliant shape, not the thing to search for.
- A test codeunit calls `TestPage` methods (`OpenNew`, `OpenView`, `OpenEdit`) alongside `[Test]` procedures in the same codeunit that call business-logic procedures directly with no `TestPage` involved — `ui-test-codeunit-naming`. The anti-pattern signal is both kinds of test mixed into one codeunit (or, on a project using the `_UT` convention, a UI-layer codeunit missing the suffix); a codeunit containing only `TestPage`-driven tests is not itself a violation.
- A `[GIVEN]`-tagged setup precedes a posting call or report execution and does not visibly set up posting-group/VAT setup records, an explicit date, or (for a report test) both an included and an excluded record — `given-blocks-must-cover-full-precondition-chain`.
- A test procedure contains more than one `[WHEN]` block, or more than one distinct action not labelled `[GIVEN]`, without the procedure name declaring a flow/defect-then-fix shape — `test-one-when-per-test`.
- A `BCPT*` scenario codeunit is added and the PerformanceTest app's only other scenario codeunits are copies of Microsoft's shipped BCPT samples (`BCPT Create Customer`, `BCPT Create Item Journal`, `BCPT Post GL Entries`, etc.) with no scenario exercising the extension's own codeunits, FlowFields, or pages — `bcpt-scenarios-must-be-app-specific`.
- An `AutoCommit` test runs under a `Subtype = TestRunner` codeunit that omits `TestIsolation` or sets it to `Disabled`, leaving committed data between tests — `testisolation-belongs-on-the-test-runner`. Require runner/repository context; a standalone test file cannot prove which runner executes it.
- A permission-sensitive test uses `TestPermissions = Disabled`, claims to test a restricted user without `"Permissions Mock"`/`"Library - Lower Permissions"`, or declares `[TestPermissions(...)]` without applying that context — `permission-tests-must-lower-the-execution-context`.
- Test fixture code manually calls `Init`/`Insert`, invents keys or prerequisite records, or bypasses available `LibrarySales`, `LibraryPurchase`, `LibraryERM`, `LibraryInventory`, `LibraryRandom`, or equivalent library codeunits — `use-library-codeunits-for-test-fixtures`.

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@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Discard files that are not applicable. Retain conditionally applicable files onl
Narrow the relevant files to the subset that applies to the changes under review.
- **UI-file filter.** UI review applies to files declaring `page`, `pageextension`, or `pagecustomization`, and to JavaScript/CSS/HTML that implements a control add-in's rendering or Business Central communication. When the diff contains no such files, return `outcome: "not-applicable"` without evaluating knowledge files.
- A new or changed page's name/suffix, primary-key handling, `CardPageID`, `SubPageLink`, `AutoSplitKey`, or `UsageCategory` doesn't match the conventions of its own declared `PageType` — `page-design-must-match-bc-page-type-conventions.md`. A Card page over a composite-key table that supplements a master record, or a supporting/subpage/dialog page intended only to be reached through another workflow and correctly omitting `UsageCategory`, is not this anti-pattern on its own; check whether the page is actually mixing conventions or is meant as a searchable entry point before flagging.
- For each relevant knowledge file, compute overlap against changed page declarations and control add-in files, weighted toward `Caption`, `ToolTip`, `AboutTitle`, `AboutText`, `OptionCaption`, `ShowCaption`, `InstructionalText`, `GridLayout`, `Style`, `StyleExpr`, promoted action definitions, field importance, page background tasks, DOM creation, ARIA attributes, keyboard/focus handlers, packaged-resource AJAX, and calls from JavaScript into AL.
- Tokens extracted from the diff (`Caption`, `ToolTip`, `AboutTitle`, `AboutText`, `PageType`, `ShowCaption`, `InstructionalText`, `grid`, `fixed`, `GridLayout`, `Style`, `StyleExpr`, `Importance`, `Promoted`, `Additional`, `area(Promoted)`, `actionref`, `PromotedCategory`, `PromotedOnly`, `PromotedIsBig`, `ShowAs`, `SplitButton`, `fieldgroups`, `DropDown`, `UpdatePropagation`, `EnqueueBackgroundTask`, `OnAfterGetCurrRecord`, `OnAfterGetRecord`, `OnPageBackgroundTaskCompleted`, `OnPageBackgroundTaskError`, `RunPageBackgroundTask`, `Favorable`, `Unfavorable`, `Ambiguous`, `cuegroup`, `controladdin`, `control-add-in`, `usercontrol`, `aria-`, `tabindex`, `keydown`, `focus`, `innerHTML`, `createElement`, `packaged-resource`, `ajax`, `$.get`, `$.ajax`, `XMLHttpRequest`, `xhrFields`, `withCredentials`, `withcredentials`, `InvokeExtensibilityMethod`, `invokeextensibilitymethod`, `skipIfBusy`, `successCallback`, `success-callback`, `errorCallback`, `setInterval`, `JSON.stringify`, `payload`, `throttling`, `reduced-functionality`, `ClientServicesMaxUploadSize`, `&`, `Specifies`, `Message(`, `Confirm(`, `Error(` in a page context, `Disabled`, `Invalid`, `Whitelist`, `Blacklist`, trailing punctuation patterns on captions, `CardPageID`, `AutoSplitKey`, `PageType = Card`, `PageType = List`, `PageType = Worksheet`, `PageType = Document`).

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- Worklist the install-versus-upgrade rule when migration helpers are reachable only from an install codeunit.
- Worklist `install-and-upgrade-codeunits-have-no-order.md` when a change adds multiple install or upgrade codeunits whose same-phase triggers share state or depend on one another.
- Worklist `appversion-meaning-depends-on-execution-context.md` when install or upgrade code branches on `ModuleInfo.AppVersion()` or confuses it with `DataVersion()`.
- An upgrade-tag procedure nests a record loop or a multi-branch business-data condition inside the tag-check/exit guard, going past the tag-check-then-exit-then-single-upgrade-action shape, or one procedure mixes the gated logic for more than one distinct upgrade tag — `upgrade-tag-logic-must-not-nest-deeply.md`. A single `if UpgradeTag.HasUpgradeTag(...) then exit;` guard followed by one flat upgrade action (even one that loops over records to apply that single action) is the compliant shape, not the signal to flag — the anti-pattern is a buried, separately-conditioned business decision nested inside that action.
A file enters the candidate worklist when its `keywords` intersect the extracted tokens or its topic (derived from the index entry's `path`, `title`, and `description`) matches a changed object type. Read an article's full file — its `## Best Practice` / `## Anti Pattern` bodies — only after it makes the worklist; candidate selection uses the index alone. When the diff contains no upgrade-related changes by any of the above signals, return `outcome: "not-applicable"` without evaluating files.

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- The changed AL object names and types — especially pages declared with `PageType = API`, API page `part` controls, queries declared with `QueryType = API`, and procedures that expose bound actions.
- The changed properties and triggers, weighted toward API page metadata (`APIPublisher`, `APIGroup`, `APIVersion`, `EntityName`, `EntitySetName`, `ODataKeyFields`, `SourceTable`, `SourceTableTemporary`), navigation metadata (`SubPageLink`, `Multiplicity`, and visible singleton or collection semantics), CRUD guards (`InsertAllowed`, `ModifyAllowed`, `DeleteAllowed`, `Editable`), the `OnOpenPage` trigger, and `OnValidate` triggers on exposed fields.
- Webhook subscriber handlers and subscription lifecycle code, especially code that creates or renews subscriptions, handles `validationToken`, schedules from `expirationDateTime`, or targets resources whose eligibility is visible in the diff.
- An API page (`PageType = API`) is added or changed and its `InsertAllowed`/`ModifyAllowed`/`DeleteAllowed` properties are left at their default `true` (or explicitly set `true`) for an operation the endpoint's stated purpose does not need — `api-page-least-privilege-write-access.md`. The signal is an operation left enabled beyond what the endpoint's own described purpose requires, not the mere presence of these properties; a page that genuinely needs full CRUD and grants it deliberately is not a violation.
- Tokens extracted from the diff that relate to API surface and behaviour (`PageType`, `QueryType`, `API`, `api-page`, `page-part`, `APIPublisher`, `APIGroup`, `APIVersion`, `EntityName`, `EntitySetName`, `ODataKeyFields`, `SystemId`, `SubPageLink`, `subpagelink`, `Multiplicity`, `multiplicity`, `Many`, `ZeroOrOne`, `SourceTableTemporary`, `Job Queue Entry`, `webhook`, `webhookSupportedResources`, `webhook-supported-resources`, `subscriptions`, `notificationUrl`, `validationToken`, `validationtoken`, `expirationDateTime`, `expirationdatetime`, `ServiceEnabled`, `WebServiceActionContext`, `SetActionResponse`, `ReadIsolation`, `IsolationLevel`, `ReadCommitted`, `InsertAllowed`, `ModifyAllowed`, `DeleteAllowed`, `Editable`, `SourceTable`).
A file enters the candidate worklist when its `keywords` intersect the extracted tokens or its topic (derived from the index entry's `path`, `title`, and `description`) matches a changed object type. Read an article's full file — its `## Best Practice` / `## Anti Pattern` bodies — only after it makes the worklist; candidate selection uses the index alone.