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The triage run Telegram notification body was report.counts interpolated into an f-string, so a phone received:

job-sluice triage: {'keep': 55, 'shortlist': 0, 'research': 0, 'dismiss': 29, 'needs_review': 6, 'skipped': 0, 'unjudgeable': 0} (backend None)

Seven rows, five of them usually zero, naming none of the leads it counted. It could only ever send its reader back to the machine. _format_triage_digest renders prose instead:

job-sluice triage: 5 to look at
Shortlist (1):
- Prima, Engineering Manager
Research (4):
- Hays, Front End Developer (React/RxJS)
- Robert Half, Technology Delivery Manager
- Sanderson, Delivery Lead
- Example Ltd, Agile Delivery Manager
13 dismissed, 6 need review.
Judged 18 via deepseek-v4-flash.

Three things that could not be read at all

  • keep is not a verdict. counts["keep"] is incremented at the pre-gate (engine.py) and never decremented, so a lead counted keep may be counted again under its judged verdict. The rows do not partition the leads, and printing keep beside dismiss invites exactly that reading. It is now named as the stage it is.
  • A null backend is not an outage, and happens two ways. The judge made no call, or it judged perfectly well on a backend with no fallback leg to name, since last_backend is set by FallbackBackend alone and Sluice.backend() returns a bare provider for --backend primary, --backend fallback, and auto with no fallback configured. The first draft gated the wording on judged and rendered Judged 12 via None. — a sentence asserting a backend of that name, worse than the null it replaced. The backend is named only when there is a name.
  • A --dry-run forces every write to skipped, so the surfaced rows read zero however good the run was. "Nothing surfaced" is a claim about the world that a preview has not established, so a dry run gets its own headline.

Naming the leads

TriageReport.surfaced records (verdict, company, role) for the _status.SURFACED verdicts, populated off the written key so it can never disagree with the counts row. Each heading carries its group's own count (the headline sums them and the cap can hide names, so otherwise neither number is recoverable); every non-empty group is guaranteed one name, so a run of six shortlists cannot erase the Research: heading; the unnamed remainder is counted from what was actually named. Dismissed leads are never named — not reading them is the point.

Row coverage is a test, not a sentence

The first draft of the docstring promised "every non-zero row survives" while the code quietly dropped the shortlist and research numbers. test_every_counts_row_the_digest_can_receive_is_rendered_somewhere derives both sides — from TriageReport().counts and from _JUDGE_VERDICTS, since a fourth judge verdict is added to the dict at runtime and is not in the default keys. Verified against both mutants.

stderr is deliberately unchanged

tests/test_docs_claims.py derives the documented key names from that line, and the cron agent that composes its own digest parses it. Verified by executing both versions over identical reports across 8 cases (ordinary / quiet / #223 held / #223 applied, each dry and wet) and diffing captured stderr: byte-identical, with a positive control confirming the diff could detect a change.

Also drops the dangling colon from the #223 held push, which promised a list of affected leads that only ever went to stderr.

Testing

5975 passed, 7 skipped (25 new), also green under PATH=/usr/bin:/bin. New guards were mutation-witnessed by node id: the raw-verdict-vs-key guard (a dry run would otherwise name leads it never wrote), the cross-group name budget, _status.SURFACED's order, and both directions of the row-coverage guard.

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  • New Features

    • Triage notifications now provide clear, human-readable summaries of surfaced leads, outcomes, failures and judging status.
    • Notifications group leads by verdict and cap long lead lists for easier reading.
    • Dry-run notifications clearly indicate preview status and avoid reporting changes that were not applied.
    • Re-verdict notifications now use clearer, channel-specific wording.
    • Judge processing shortfalls, duplicate results and backend failures are now reported accurately.
  • Documentation

    • Updated triage guidance to explain notification formatting, verdict headings, omitted counts, backend handling and dry-run summaries.

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The change adds surfaced verdict tracking to TriageReport and replaces raw triage notification counts with a grouped digest. It updates re-verdict messaging, documents the digest, and adds coverage for reporting, formatting, dry runs, failures, and verdict categories.

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Record surfaced verdicts
sluice/core/status.py, sluice/triage/engine.py, tests/test_triage_engine.py
TriageReport records surfaced shortlist and research verdicts with company and role. Tests cover successful, dismissed, and dry-run outcomes.
Format and wire triage notifications
sluice/cli.py, tests/test_triage_run_cli.py
The CLI builds grouped digests with capped lead names, counts, judging details, pending leads, failures, backend data, and dry-run state. Re-verdict messages use channel-specific wording. Tests cover the notification cases and reachable count categories.
Document the digest contract
docs/USAGE.md, tests/test_docs_claims.py
The usage documentation describes the standalone digest and references _format_triage_digest. A regression test checks the documented symbol.

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The triage notification body was `counts` interpolated into an f-string, so a
phone received `{'keep': 55, 'shortlist': 0, ... 'dismiss': 29} (backend None)`:
seven rows, most of them zero, naming none of the leads it counted. It could
only ever send its reader back to the machine.

`_format_triage_digest` renders prose. Three fields cannot be shown at face
value and are not:

- `counts["keep"]` is incremented at the pre-gate and never decremented, so a
  lead counted `keep` may be counted again under its judged verdict. The rows do
  not partition the leads, and printing `keep` beside `dismiss` invites exactly
  that reading. It is named as the stage it is.
- `report.backend` goes null three ways and only one is an outage: the judge was
  never called; it judged fine on a backend with no fallback leg to name, since
  `last_backend` is set by `FallbackBackend` alone; or every batch failed. The
  name prints only when there is one, and `sent_to_judge` tells the cases apart.
- An empty `report.surfaced` is not evidence nothing is worth looking at. It
  records writes that LANDED, so a dry run and a re-judge that does not move a
  lead both empty it while the leads sit in the vault. The headline says
  "nothing new", a claim about the run rather than about the world.

Two silent failures this made visible, both reachable on the default cron path:

- `triage/judge.py` swallows every backend error and parse failure and holds no
  reference to the report, so a total outage returned no verdicts with
  `failures` untouched and the digest said "no judge ran" -- the opposite of
  what happened, on the one channel an unattended install reads. The engine now
  reconciles the verdicts it got against the dossiers it sent and records the
  shortfall, which also makes judge.py's "recorded upstream" docstring true.
- A second run on the same day re-judges a `research` lead to `research`, writes
  nothing, and previously reported "nothing surfaced this pass" over three leads
  still in the vault. `research` is in DEFAULT_TRIAGE_STATUSES, so that is the
  ordinary path, not an edge case.

`TriageReport.surfaced` records `(verdict, company, role)` for the shortlist and
research verdicts, off the WRITTEN key so a preview cannot name a lead it never
wrote. Each heading carries its group's own count; every non-empty group is
guaranteed one name so six shortlists cannot erase the research heading; the
headline and the tail are both derived from what the loop actually named, not
from `counts` or from the raw list length.

Row coverage is a test rather than a sentence, deriving both sides and checking
that `_status.SURFACED` and the filtered-word keys are disjoint, so a verdict
cannot be both named as a heading and counted as a word.

The stderr line's FORMAT is unchanged, verified by running both versions over
identical reports across 8 cases and diffing: `tests/test_docs_claims.py`
derives the documented key names from it and the cron agent parses it. Its
`failures=N` value does change on a run whose judge failed, which is the point.

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