Plan Review Handoff Verification

Plan-review handoff verification

Use this when a user provides or references an exit handoff for a GitHub issue parked in status:plan-review, especially after iterative adversarial review and approval-state drift cleanup.

Workflow

1. Load the canonical planning skill (issue-planning-mode) first.
2. Read the handoff file and extract the asserted state surfaces:
   • GitHub issue state and status:* labels
   • .planning/plan-approved/<issue>.md marker state
   • docs/plans/README.md row status
   • canonical provider review artifact paths and verdicts
   • stated clean next action / do-not-do guidance
3. Verify the live GitHub state with gh issue view <issue> --json state,labels,title,url.
4. Verify the local approval marker presence/absence.
5. Search docs/plans/README.md for the issue row and confirm the row status and note match the intended parked state.
6. Read or scan the canonical scripts/review/results/*plan-<issue>-<provider>.md artifacts and extract each verdict.
7. Read the local plan header and scan the plan body for stale older rerun evidence (for example a review-artifacts line still saying r11 MAJOR while canonical artifacts now say r16 MINOR).
8. Report the operational state and next valid action. Do not implement, approve, recreate approval markers, or rewrite broad plan content unless the user explicitly asks.

Classification rules

• Operational surfaces are, in order: live GitHub status labels, local approval marker, docs/plans/README.md row, canonical review artifacts.
• If those surfaces align to status:plan-review with no approval marker and no fresh MAJOR verdicts, classify the issue as parked/exit-clean for user review.
• If the local plan header/body contains stale historical evidence while the operational surfaces are aligned, report it as non-blocking polish/drift. Do not treat it as approval or implementation authority.
• If a stale approval marker or status:plan-approved label remains after fresh review evidence says the issue is back in review, perform the governance cleanup from issue-planning-mode instead of merely noting it.

Minimal verification command pattern

Use one script to reduce missed surfaces:

from hermes_tools import terminal, search_files, read_file
import os, json, re

issue = 2460
state = terminal(f"gh issue view {issue} --json state,labels,title,url", timeout=60)
marker_exists = os.path.exists(f".planning/plan-approved/{issue}.md")
readme = search_files(str(issue), target="content", path="docs/plans/README.md", output_mode="content")

for provider in ["Codex", "codex", "gemini"]:
    path = f"scripts/review/results/2026-04-23-plan-{issue}-{provider}.md"
    # read_file(path) and extract Verdict: APPROVE|MINOR|MAJOR

Then separately scan the plan file for stale older strings such as MAJOR, UNAVAILABLE, or older rerun IDs when the latest artifacts have advanced.

Output pattern

State the result as:

1. GitHub issue state and live status labels
2. Local approval marker state
3. README row state
4. Provider artifact verdicts
5. Local plan file/header state
6. Conclusion: exit-clean vs drift found
7. Next valid action and prohibited action

Keep the response short and explicit: if parked for user approval, say no implementation should start yet.