> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.obversa.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How Many Reviewers Have to Accept?

> As many as you say with agree. Leave it out and every reviewer must accept.

As many as you say. A review stage names its reviewers and `agree`, the
number that must accept for the stage to pass. Leave `agree` out and every
reviewer must accept. Below the number, the findings go to the stage that
owns the fix, which runs again with them, as many times as its `retry`
allows. Obversa does not merge on the pass; a person or the next stage
does.

## In Obversa

Two reviewers from two families read the same change at once, and one
acceptance is enough here:

```ts examples/teams/threshold-panel.ts (excerpt) {3-6,23-25} theme={null}
    roles: {
      implement: engines.claude('claude-sonnet-4-5'),
      review: [
        engines.codex('gpt-5.6-luna'),
        engines.opencode('opencode/big-pickle'),
      ],
    },

    stages: [
      stage('implement', {
        agent: 'implement',
        writes: ['src/double.mjs', 'test/double.test.mjs'],
        desc: 'Write the function and its test from the brief.',
        gate: 'The files named in the brief exist in the workspace.',
        retry: 1,
      }),
      stage('test', {
        run: ['node', '--test', 'test/double.test.mjs'],
        desc: 'Run the test command against the written files.',
        gate: 'The test command exits 0.',
        sendsBackTo: 'implement',
      }),
      stage('review', {
        panel: 'review',
        agree: 1,
        desc: 'Have both reviewers read the change and count the acceptances.',
        gate: 'At least one reviewer has accepted.',
        sendsBackTo: 'implement',
      }),
```

Set `agree` to the number of reviewers when one dissent must be enough to
fail the step. Below that, the change can pass despite a dissent, and the
dissent is still on the record.

## Cross-model review

The panel's reviewers are checked against the writer's family before the
run starts, the same way a single reviewer is. [Should another model
review the code?](/glossary/cross-model-review) has the rule.

## Next steps

* [A review panel with a threshold](/patterns/review-panel): the pattern with a real run.
* [Review loop](/reviewing/review-loop): a quorum over review seats in a graph form.