# Severity Rubric

## Critical
- Likely to cause broken behavior, data loss, security issues, or severe production instability.
- Major architecture flaw affecting core flows.

## High
- Strong risk of bugs, regressions, maintainability collapse, or significant performance issues.
- Serious mismatch with configured quality rules.

## Medium
- Clear quality issue or missed optimization that should be fixed, but not an immediate release blocker.

## Low
- Smaller maintainability issues, cleanup, or polish items.

## Finding format
- Severity
- Area
- Location
- Problem
- Why it matters
- Recommended fix
- Confidence or assumptions when relevant