diff --git a/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/SKILL.md b/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/SKILL.md
index 6db732879e..975f7f90fc 100644
--- a/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/SKILL.md
+++ b/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/SKILL.md
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ description: Trigger this skill when the user wants to start an asynchronous PR
 
 This skill provides a set of tools to asynchronously review a Pull Request. It will create a background job to run the project's preflight checks, execute Gemini-powered test plans, and perform a comprehensive code review using custom prompts.
 
-This is a prime example of composing Gemini CLI features:
-1.  **Headless Automation (`async-review.sh`)**: The script invokes `gemini` with `--approval-mode=yolo` and the `/review-frontend` custom command in the background.
-2.  **Agentic Evaluation (`check-async-review.sh`)**: The check script outputs clean JSON/text statuses for the agent to parse. The agent itself synthesizes the final assessment dynamically from the generated log files.
+This skill is designed to showcase an advanced "Agentic Asynchronous Pattern":
+1.  **Native Background Shells vs Headless Inference**: While Gemini CLI can natively spawn and detach background shell commands (using the `run_shell_command` tool with `is_background: true`), a standard bash background job cannot perform LLM inference. To conduct AI-driven code reviews and test generation in the background, the shell script *must* invoke the `gemini` executable headlessly using `--approval-mode=yolo`. This offloads the AI tasks to independent worker agents.
+2.  **Dynamic Git Scoping**: The review scripts avoid hardcoded paths. They use `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` to automatically resolve the root of the user's current project.
+3.  **Ephemeral Worktrees**: Instead of checking out branches in the user's main workspace, the skill provisions temporary git worktrees in `.gemini/tmp/async-reviews/pr-<number>`. This prevents git lock conflicts and namespace pollution.
+4.  **Agentic Evaluation (`check-async-review.sh`)**: The check script outputs clean JSON/text statuses for the main agent to parse. The interactive agent itself synthesizes the final assessment dynamically from the generated log files.
 
 ## Workflow
 
@@ -22,11 +24,11 @@ This is a prime example of composing Gemini CLI features:
 If the user wants to start a new async PR review:
 
 1.  Ask the user for the PR number if they haven't provided it.
-2.  Execute the `async-review.sh` script, passing the PR number as the first argument:
+2.  Execute the `async-review.sh` script, passing the PR number as the first argument. Be sure to run it with the `is_background` flag set to true to ensure it immediately detaches.
     ```bash
     .gemini/skills/async-pr-review/scripts/async-review.sh <PR_NUMBER>
     ```
-3.  The script will start the review tasks in the background and print out the paths to the logs. Inform the user that the tasks have started successfully.
+3.  Inform the user that the tasks have started successfully and they can check the status later.
 
 ### Check Status
 
diff --git a/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/scripts/async-review.sh b/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/scripts/async-review.sh
index 7a21565104..05799c1f17 100755
--- a/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/scripts/async-review.sh
+++ b/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/scripts/async-review.sh
@@ -5,16 +5,17 @@ if [[ -z "$pr_number" ]]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-base_dir="$HOME/dev/main"
-pr_dir="$HOME/dev/pr-$pr_number"
-target_dir="$pr_dir/worktree"
-log_dir="$pr_dir/logs"
-
-if [[ ! -d "$base_dir" ]]; then
-  echo "❌ Base directory $base_dir not found."
+base_dir=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
+if [[ -z "$base_dir" ]]; then
+  echo "❌ Must be run from within a git repository."
   exit 1
 fi
 
+# Use the repository's local .gemini/tmp directory for ephemeral worktrees and logs
+pr_dir="$base_dir/.gemini/tmp/async-reviews/pr-$pr_number"
+target_dir="$pr_dir/worktree"
+log_dir="$pr_dir/logs"
+
 cd "$base_dir" || exit 1
 echo "📡 Fetching PR #$pr_number..."
 # Fetch the PR into a local branch to avoid detached head / namespace issues
@@ -39,7 +40,8 @@ echo "  ↳ [1/3] Starting npm run preflight..."
 rm -f "$log_dir/preflight.exit"
 { npm run preflight > "$log_dir/preflight.log" 2>&1; echo $? > "$log_dir/preflight.exit"; } &
 
-GEMINI_CMD="$HOME/.gcli/nightly/node_modules/.bin/gemini"
+# Dynamically resolve gemini binary (fallback to your nightly path)
+GEMINI_CMD=$(which gemini || echo "$HOME/.gcli/nightly/node_modules/.bin/gemini")
 
 echo "  ↳ [2/3] Starting Gemini code review..."
 rm -f "$log_dir/review.exit"
diff --git a/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/scripts/check-async-review.sh b/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/scripts/check-async-review.sh
index 36ca12aea4..8ac72be0bb 100755
--- a/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/scripts/check-async-review.sh
+++ b/.gemini/skills/async-pr-review/scripts/check-async-review.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ if [[ -z "$pr_number" ]]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-log_dir="$HOME/dev/pr-$pr_number/logs"
+base_dir=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
+if [[ -z "$base_dir" ]]; then
+  echo "❌ Must be run from within a git repository."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+log_dir="$base_dir/.gemini/tmp/async-reviews/pr-$pr_number/logs"
 
 if [[ ! -d "$log_dir" ]]; then
   echo "STATUS: NOT_FOUND"