---
id: T-1530
name: "Inline recommendation verdict in handover Awaiting-Human-Review"
description: >
  Inline recommendation verdict in handover Awaiting-Human-Review

status: work-completed
workflow_type: build
owner: agent
horizon:
tags: []
components: []
related_tasks: []
created: 2026-04-27T10:07:42Z
last_update: '2026-06-11T22:23:51Z'
date_finished: 2026-04-27T10:14:07Z
bvp_scores_proposed:
  - ts: '2026-06-11T22:23:51Z'
    estimator: bvp-estimator-v1-heuristic
    scores:
      D1: 2
      D2: 0
      D3: 0
      D4: 0
      F-RECALL: 1
      F-ORCH: 0
      F3: 0
      F1: 0
      F2: 0
    rationale: D1=2 (body:learning-ref); D2=0 (no-signal); D3=0 (no-signal); 
      D4=0 (no-signal); F-RECALL=1 (body:episodic-only); F-ORCH=0 (no-signal); 
      F3=0 (no-signal); F1=0 (no-signal); F2=0 (no-signal)
    rubric_sha: e4a00f38e801
---

# T-1530: Inline recommendation verdict in handover Awaiting-Human-Review

## Context

The handover's "Awaiting Your Action (Human)" panel currently lists each task with name + unchecked-AC count + AC stub. The human has to click each of N (currently 22) review URLs to discover whether the agent recommends GO, DEFER, or NO-GO. Inlining the verdict prefix lets the human triage at a glance — confirm the GOs, decide the DEFERs/NO-GOs.

The verdict is already extractable: every awaiting-review task has a `## Recommendation` section (T-1529 gate enforces it) with a `**Recommendation:** GO|DEFER|NO-GO` line.

## Acceptance Criteria

### Agent
- [x] `agents/handover/handover.sh` extracts the verdict from each partial-complete task's `## Recommendation` section using H2+ terminator (L-293)
- [x] Verdict prefix is rendered inline in "Awaiting Your Action (Human)" listing as `[GO]`/`[DEFER]`/`[NO-GO]`/`[?]` (last for missing/unparseable)
- [x] Same verdict prefix appears in the per-horizon "Awaiting Human Review" subsections (lines 530–536 and 565–572)
- [x] Tasks without a parseable verdict render with `[?]` prefix instead of crashing the generator
- [x] Generated handover for current state contains expected verdicts for the 22 awaiting-review tasks
- [x] No regression: handover.sh exits 0 and produces a valid markdown file

## Verification

bash -n agents/handover/handover.sh
grep -qE '\[(GO|DEFER|NO-GO|\?)\] \[T-' .context/handovers/LATEST.md
test $(grep -cE '\[(GO|DEFER|NO-GO|\?)\] \[T-' .context/handovers/LATEST.md) -ge 20

## Recommendation

**Recommendation:** GO

**Rationale:** Small, local change (one heredoc, two render points) that demonstrably improves the human review experience: 22 awaiting-review tasks now carry inline `[GO]`/`[DEFER]` verdict prefixes — prior, the human had to click each link to discover what the agent recommends. Verdict-extraction is shared with the existing T-679/T-1529/L-293 readers (same H2+ terminator regex, same `**Recommendation:**` parser). Edge cases handled: tasks without a `## Recommendation` section render `[?]` rather than crashing.

**Evidence:**
- `agents/handover/handover.sh` adds `extract_verdict()` helper in both heredocs (lines 504-516 and 658-668)
- Generated handover at `.context/handovers/LATEST.md` shows 44 total `[VERDICT] [T-` entries (22 per-horizon + 22 in Awaiting-Your-Action), 0 `[?]` unknowns
- Verdicts match expectation: 18 `[GO]` recommendations + 4 `[DEFER]` voice/tone-review tasks (T-446, T-470, T-505, T-706, T-782)
- Bash unquoted-heredoc bug surfaced and fixed: `\$(.*?)` regex escape needed because PYEOF heredoc is unquoted (otherwise bash command-substitutes the regex)
- handover generator exits 0, push succeeds

## Decisions

### 2026-04-27 — heredoc strategy
- **Chose:** Compute verdict in the original file-reading loop (where `content` is already loaded) and stash it in the tasks tuple. Use `\$(.*?)` regex escape to survive bash command substitution.
- **Why:** Avoids a second disk round-trip per task, keeps the change tight to the loop that already handles per-task metadata.
- **Rejected:** Re-reading via glob inside the work-completed branch — works but doubles file I/O. Switching the heredoc to quoted (`<< 'PYEOF'`) — would break the existing `$TASKS_DIR`/`$WT_URL` interpolations.



## Updates

### 2026-04-27T10:07:42Z — task-created [task-create-agent]
- **Action:** Created task via task-create agent
- **Output:** /opt/999-Agentic-Engineering-Framework/.tasks/active/T-1530-inline-recommendation-verdict-in-handove.md
- **Context:** Initial task creation

## Reviewer Verdict (v1.5)

- **Scan ID:** R-0d5455c0
- **Timestamp:** 2026-06-02T14:58:07Z
- **Catalogue:** v1.3-seed
- **Overall:** PASS
- **Needs Human:** no
- **Findings:** none
### 2026-04-27T10:14:07Z — status-update [task-update-agent]
- **Change:** status: started-work → work-completed
