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fix(operator): keep a parked story's follow-up review recommendation - #1003
When a dev session parks a story at awaiting-operator, the loop skips review. If that build pass also set followup_review_recommended: true, the recommended review never ran, and nothing recorded that it was still owed: the flag survived only in state.json. This PR carries the recommendation to everywhere an operator looks:
Park record (.bmad-loop/operator/<key>.json) and the story-awaiting-operator journal row carry followup_review_recommended. For a dev park it is the dev pass's flag; for a review-demotion park it is the last review pass's. Covers sprint and tickets mode.
ParkedStory.followup_review_recommended reads it back. A record that predates the field, or holds a non-bool, reads None (unknown), never False.
Park notification adds a line saying the follow-up review is still owed after confirming.
confirm --list prints follow-up review recommended at park time: run it after confirming under the story's actions.
confirm --json and status --json carry the field. Both changes are additive, so CONFIRM_SCHEMA_VERSION stays 1; a legacy record emits null.
confirm success output adds follow-up review still owed: invoke bmad-build-auto on <spec or plan path> ….
A story with no recommendation, or a legacy record, prints exactly what it printed before.
The park short-circuit is unchanged: a park is still never reviewed. Nothing goes to the deferred-work ledger, per the DW-55/64/90 doctrine in _journal_review_budget_spent (such tickets re-litigate a converged story's review, and a sweep would turn them into generic fix bundles).
Procedure: review after confirm
The escalations guide and the tickets guide now document the procedure. Confirm first, then invoke bmad-build-auto on the now-done spec (in tickets mode, the plan: done, or built under mark_done = "never") and commit what the pass patches. bmad-build-auto routes both statuses to a fresh follow-up pass, and confirm rewrites only status, so the spec's own recommendation survives.
Reviewing before confirm does not work: the build skill does not route a parked spec. A v6 awaiting-operator spec falls through to new intent or halts, and a v7 parked plan reads blocked, which the skill refuses. If the owed action is a manual test, the guide says to review the parked work first with a review that leaves the spec's status alone (e.g. bmad-code-review over the park commit), or to re-test if the post-confirm pass patches code.
Residual
Reviewing a story before it parks would need upstream bmad-build-auto to route an awaiting-operator plan, and upstream doesn't support that today. Flipping the park to done ahead of a review would break the rule that the review launch never mutates the spec's status, and in tickets mode it would also need a new plan-transition reason. This is deferred until the upstream skill supports it, and is not ledgered.
Changelog
### Fixed: Keep a parked story's follow-up review recommendation. The park record, the story-awaiting-operator journal row, the park notification, confirm --list/--json, confirm's success output and status --json now carry followup_review_recommended, and the escalations and tickets guides give the post-confirm review procedure. A park still never runs the review.
Test plan
tests/test_operatoractions.py: True/False round-trip; a missing key and a non-bool both read None.
tests/test_engine.py: a dev park with a recommendation records it (journal row + committed record) and still runs no review session; a False recommendation is recorded as False (present, not absent); a review-demotion park records the last pass's flag; the notification line appears only for True.
tests/test_tickets_engine.py: a ticket park record carries source/ref and the flag.
tests/test_cli.py: the confirm --list line for True/False/legacy; confirm --json is True/False/null; the confirm success hint names the spec (sprint) and the plan (tickets, mark_done = "never"), and is absent for False and legacy records; status --json carries the task field.
Every new test was ablated: removing the field write or the print fails it. A None-as-truthy variant and a null→false variant also fail.
uv run pytest -q -n logical: 17008 passed, 116 skipped. uv run pyright: 0 errors. trunk check clean on the changed files. tests/test_docs_hygiene.py green.
Parked stories and tickets now retain build-recommended follow-up reviews. The recommendation appears in confirmation listings, JSON status, journal entries, and park notifications. After confirmation, the CLI indicates when to run the review.
Documentation
Updated guides and CLI references to explain that parking skips the review, how to run it after confirmation, and how older park records are represented.
A park skips the review loop, so a follow-up review the build session
recommended never runs, and the flag survived only in state.json. The
`story-awaiting-operator` journal row and the committed park record now
carry `followup_review_recommended` (the dev pass's, or the last review
pass's for a review-demotion park), `ParkedStory` reads it back (None for a
record that predates the field or holds a non-bool, never False), and the
park notification tells the human to run the pass after confirming.
The park short-circuit is unchanged: a park is still never reviewed, and
nothing goes to the deferred-work ledger.
…irm and status
`confirm --list` prints a `follow-up review recommended at park time` line
under a parked story's actions, `confirm --json` and `status --json` carry
`followup_review_recommended` (null for a park record that predates the field,
never false), and a successful `confirm` names the spec or plan to hand
bmad-build-auto for the owed pass. The escalations and tickets guides give the
procedure: confirm first, then review the done (or built) spec, because the
build skill does not route a parked one.
The park short-circuit is unchanged and nothing goes to the ledger.
CONFIRM_SCHEMA_VERSION stays 1: the fields are additive.
Parked stories now retain the build session’s follow-up review recommendation in the park record and journal. CLI and JSON output expose the recommendation, and the guides describe running the follow-up review after confirmation. Parking still skips the review.
Changes
Parked Review Recommendation
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Summary
Preserve the recommendation src/bmad_loop/devcontract.py, src/bmad_loop/operatoractions.py, src/bmad_loop/engine.py, tests/test_devcontract.py, tests/test_operatoractions.py, tests/test_engine.py, tests/test_tickets_engine.py
Awaiting-operator results now carry the recommendation. Park records and journal entries store it. Resolution preserves true and false, and returns null for missing or non-boolean values. Tests cover story and ticket parks and confirm that parking skips the review.
Expose the recommendation src/bmad_loop/cli.py, src/bmad_loop/documents.py, tests/test_cli.py, docs/reference/cli.md
Parked-story listings and confirmation output show a follow-up reminder only when the value is true. Confirmation and status JSON include the recommendation. Tests cover true, false, and legacy records.
Document the post-confirm procedure CHANGELOG.md, docs/FEATURES.md, docs/escalations-guide.md, docs/tickets-guide.md
The changelog and guides describe where the recommendation appears, that parking skips the review, and how to run the review after confirmation.
BMAD-METHOD issue 2760 — This change records and exposes the build-to-review recommendation and documents review after confirmation. It does not address the duplicate review layers noted in that issue.
Merge Risk: Low · up to b49e4
Parking now preserves the follow-up review recommendation. A malformed (quoted) frontmatter value could produce a spurious follow-up reminder; this is a narrow edge case and is mergeable with a small follow-up fix.
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Issue #888 expects a recommended follow-up review to run before the story parks at awaiting-operator. The reviewed code still appends story-awaiting-operator and calls _notify_park without runni…
Implement supported routing for followup_review_recommended: true so the follow-up review runs before the awaiting-operator park, and add tests that verify the review runs before the park. If the upstream build skill cannot support this…
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The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving a parked story's follow-up review recommendation.
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The changed engine, operator record, CLI surfaces, tests, documentation, and changelog all support issue #888. They preserve and expose the skipped review recommendation and document the post-confirm …
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Issue #888 expects a recommended follow-up review to run before the story parks at awaiting-operator. The reviewed code still appends story-awaiting-operator and calls _notify_park without running that review. The change preserves the flag and documents a post-confirm procedure, but it does not implement the issue's primary pre-park behavior.
Resolution
Implement supported routing for followup_review_recommended: true so the follow-up review runs before the awaiting-operator park, and add tests that verify the review runs before the park. If the upstream build skill cannot support this routing, update the issue or dependency before claiming the primary objective is complete.
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Review comments at @docs/FEATURES.md:
- Line 151: Update the park follow-up review statement to clarify that the
operator must invoke the build skill after confirmation to run the recommended
review; preserve the existing details about where the recommendation appears and
that parking itself does not run it.
Review comments at @src/bmad_loop/cli.py:
- Around line 7705-7706: Update the follow-up review confirmation hint to use
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or use neutral wording that directs the operator to invoke the installed build
skill; preserve the guidance to route the target to a fresh review pass.
Review comments at @src/bmad_loop/engine.py:
- Line 5062: Update devcontract.synthesize_result to preserve
followup_review_recommended for parked results, and adjust _followup_from_spec
to read the recommendation from parked specs regardless of success status. Test
the synthesized-result path so it verifies the recommendation survives into the
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The park record read the flag from the dev result, but `synthesize_result`
only carried it on a success status and `_followup_from_spec` gated on the
same, so a real generic-path park always recorded False. Carry it on
`awaiting-operator` too, and let the fallback read a parked spec.
The confirm hint now names the dev primitive the review session would drive
(`bmad-dev-auto` on a pre-rename install), and FEATURES says the operator
runs the owed pass.
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- Line 645: In the synthesis path containing the AWAITING_OPERATOR status check,
normalize followup_review_recommended so an absent value becomes False, actual
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Summary
When a dev session parks a story at
awaiting-operator, the loop skips review. If that build pass also setfollowup_review_recommended: true, the recommended review never ran, and nothing recorded that it was still owed: the flag survived only instate.json. This PR carries the recommendation to everywhere an operator looks:.bmad-loop/operator/<key>.json) and thestory-awaiting-operatorjournal row carryfollowup_review_recommended. For a dev park it is the dev pass's flag; for a review-demotion park it is the last review pass's. Covers sprint and tickets mode.ParkedStory.followup_review_recommendedreads it back. A record that predates the field, or holds a non-bool, readsNone(unknown), neverFalse.confirm --listprintsfollow-up review recommended at park time: run it after confirmingunder the story's actions.confirm --jsonandstatus --jsoncarry the field. Both changes are additive, soCONFIRM_SCHEMA_VERSIONstays 1; a legacy record emitsnull.confirmsuccess output addsfollow-up review still owed: invoke bmad-build-auto on <spec or plan path> ….A story with no recommendation, or a legacy record, prints exactly what it printed before.
The park short-circuit is unchanged: a park is still never reviewed. Nothing goes to the deferred-work ledger, per the DW-55/64/90 doctrine in
_journal_review_budget_spent(such tickets re-litigate a converged story's review, and a sweep would turn them into generic fix bundles).Procedure: review after confirm
The escalations guide and the tickets guide now document the procedure. Confirm first, then invoke bmad-build-auto on the now-
donespec (in tickets mode, the plan:done, orbuiltundermark_done = "never") and commit what the pass patches. bmad-build-auto routes both statuses to a fresh follow-up pass, andconfirmrewrites onlystatus, so the spec's own recommendation survives.Reviewing before confirm does not work: the build skill does not route a parked spec. A v6
awaiting-operatorspec falls through to new intent or halts, and a v7 parked plan readsblocked, which the skill refuses. If the owed action is a manual test, the guide says to review the parked work first with a review that leaves the spec's status alone (e.g. bmad-code-review over the park commit), or to re-test if the post-confirm pass patches code.Residual
Reviewing a story before it parks would need upstream bmad-build-auto to route an
awaiting-operatorplan, and upstream doesn't support that today. Flipping the park todoneahead of a review would break the rule that the review launch never mutates the spec's status, and in tickets mode it would also need a new plan-transition reason. This is deferred until the upstream skill supports it, and is not ledgered.Changelog
### Fixed: Keep a parked story's follow-up review recommendation. The park record, thestory-awaiting-operatorjournal row, the park notification,confirm --list/--json,confirm's success output andstatus --jsonnow carryfollowup_review_recommended, and the escalations and tickets guides give the post-confirm review procedure. A park still never runs the review.Test plan
tests/test_operatoractions.py: True/False round-trip; a missing key and a non-bool both readNone.tests/test_engine.py: a dev park with a recommendation records it (journal row + committed record) and still runs no review session; a False recommendation is recorded as False (present, not absent); a review-demotion park records the last pass's flag; the notification line appears only for True.tests/test_tickets_engine.py: a ticket park record carriessource/refand the flag.tests/test_cli.py: theconfirm --listline for True/False/legacy;confirm --jsonis True/False/null; theconfirmsuccess hint names the spec (sprint) and the plan (tickets,mark_done = "never"), and is absent for False and legacy records;status --jsoncarries the task field.None-as-truthy variant and anull→falsevariant also fail.uv run pytest -q -n logical: 17008 passed, 116 skipped.uv run pyright: 0 errors.trunk checkclean on the changed files.tests/test_docs_hygiene.pygreen.Closes #888
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