# T-1540 — Blind Reviewer Walkthrough (iter3)

**Reviewer:** Fresh dispatch worker, no prior session context (Opus 4.7 [1m])
**Date:** 2026-04-27
**Surfaces visited:** handover markdown, `/approvals`, `fw review-queue`, `/review/T-1531`, landing page `/`

## What worked

- **Verdict prefixes render in handover.** `Awaiting Your Action (Human)` lists 25 tasks, every line carries `[GO]` or `[DEFER]` prefix, every URL is a clickable absolute Watchtower link (`http://192.168.10.107:3000/review/T-XXX`). Scannable at a glance.
- **`/approvals` filter buttons present and labelled.** All seven filters render: `all`, `go`, `defer`, `unknown`, `review`, `rubber-stamp`, `stale` (lines 851–892 of fetched HTML). `nogo` filter correctly absent — verified empty state via `fw inception status`. (Per reviewer guidance, gated by `{% if nogo_count %}`.)
- **`/approvals` cards carry `data-verdict` AND verdict-badge.** 45 `human-ac-group` cards + 1 `go-decision` (inception) card. Verdict distribution on cards: 20 GO, 10 DEFER, 15 `?` (counted as 90 attributes / 2 — once on card wrapper, once on badge span). Inception card carries `data-verdict="GO"`.
- **`fw review-queue` CLI table is clean.** ANSI-coloured VERDICT/AGE/ID/NAME columns; sorted GO → DEFER → ? then by age desc; summary footer reads `44 task(s) awaiting human review  (20 GO / 10 DEFER / 14 ?)` with `Open in Watchtower:` URL printed.
- **Landing page Action Required widget shows verdict pills.** Three coloured pills inline next to "55 Human ACs (47 tasks)": `20 GO` (green #1b5e20), `10 DEFER` (amber #e65100), `17 ?` (grey #616161). Each `<small class="verdict-pill" data-verdict-pill="…">` with title-tooltip.
- **`/review/T-1531` exposes the Recommendation block prominently.** `<section class="recommendation-block" data-verdict="GO">` rendered above Tier 0 controls (line 306), with per-verdict colour scheme defined for GO/DEFER/NO-GO (lines 246–263). Heading reads `Recommendation — GO`, `<pre>` shows full markdown (rationale + evidence).

## What didn't work

- **Handover missing the documented `[?]` prefix.** `## Awaiting Your Action` intro literally promises `[GO] confirm, [DEFER]/[NO-GO] decide, [?] missing` (line 253), but zero `[?]` lines are present. Verified: `grep -oE '\[(GO|DEFER|NO-GO|\?)\]'` on the handover yields 40 GO + 10 DEFER, 0 others. The 14 "?" tasks visible in `fw review-queue` (T-334, T-464, T-449, T-544, T-1064, T-802, T-803, T-967, T-801, T-1274, T-1062, T-1065, T-1066, T-332) silently never make it into the handover queue.
- **Two duplicate "Awaiting Human Review" headings.** Lines 76 and 226 both render `### Awaiting Human Review (N tasks)` (10 then 15) inside different parent sections, with the same task-list format. Then `## Awaiting Your Action (Human)` at line 250 lists all 25 again. So each task's verdict line appears **twice** in the same handover. Confusing for a human scanning top-down.

## What was missing or surprising

- **Total counts disagree across surfaces.** Handover knows 25, review-queue knows 44, landing page widget knows 47 tasks / 55 ACs. The 25-vs-44 gap is exactly the 14 `?` tasks plus 5 others — handover appears to filter them out without saying so. If the framework's intent is "show only verdict-carrying tasks in handover," update the intro line to remove the `[?]` promise. If the intent is "show everything," the filter is a bug.
- **Inception cards on `/approvals` are sparse.** Only 1 `go-decision` card found in the HTML — confirmed correct per reviewer guidance (current state: 0 inceptions awaiting decision; the 1 visible card may be a recent GO). The 9 captured-DEFER inceptions are correctly parked off this page (`/inception?decision=defer`). No bug, but worth noting for a fresh reviewer.
- **No `[NO-GO]` anywhere.** Handover, review-queue, /approvals, landing — all four show 0 NO-GO. Cannot verify the NO-GO rendering path empirically without seed data. The CSS rule for `.recommendation-block[data-verdict="NO-GO"]` exists in `/review/T-XXX` (lines 258–263), and `data-filter="go"`/`"defer"` buttons render on the empty-count branch as expected, so the codepath looks intact.

## Counts (cross-checks)

| Surface | GO | DEFER | NO-GO | ? | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Handover `Awaiting Your Action` | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| `/approvals` cards (data-verdict ÷ 2) | 20 | 10 | 0 | 15 | 45 |
| `fw review-queue` summary | 20 | 10 | 0 | 14 | 44 |
| Landing page verdict-pill | 20 | 10 | 0 | 17 | 47 (55 ACs) |

**Discrepancies:**
- **Handover undercounts DEFER (5 vs 10) and omits all `?`.** The 25-task handover queue is a strict subset of the 44–47 visible elsewhere.
- **review-queue (44) vs landing (47) mismatch:** 3 tasks. Likely a sort/filter difference (e.g., one widens to all partial-complete, one filters by `horizon != later`). Not investigated further — small enough delta that it may be expected.
- **`/approvals` (45 cards) vs landing (47 tasks):** 2 tasks. Possibly tasks with multiple Human ACs collapsing into one card, or vice versa.

## One-line conclusion

**GO with one CONCERN** — the verdict-workflow is wired through all 5 surfaces and visually coherent, but the handover silently drops `?`-verdict tasks despite documenting the `[?]` prefix on its own intro line, leaving 14–22 awaiting-review tasks invisible to anyone who triages from the handover alone.
