[Unverified tag check](2) llm-judge inbox shows the judge's report line

engine/hooks/llm-judge/README.md

@@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ hold up the reply.
 `inbox.messages(transcript)` drains that transcript's verdicts and turns each
 one into a line of text:
 
-- **hit**: the job's `on_hit` text, word for word.
+- **hit**: the job's `on_hit` text, word for word, followed by a space and the
+  answer's `report` string when the answer has a non-blank one, clipped to 600
+  characters.
 - **unchecked**: `llm-judge: <hook> could not judge the last reply: ` then
   `<runner>: <reason>` for each try, joined by `; `. If there were no tries
   (the judge broke, or the verdict file was unreadable), the verdict's own

engine/hooks/llm-judge/inbox.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import judge
 
 NO_TRANSCRIPT = "llm-judge: {harness} payload has no transcript path, so finished verdicts were not checked"
+REPORT_LIMIT = 600
 
 
 def resolve_transcript(payload: dict) -> str:
@@ -49,6 +50,11 @@ def messages(transcript: str) -> list[str]:
             text = item.get("on_hit")
             if not isinstance(text, str) or not text.strip():
                 text = f"llm-judge: {item.get('hook') or 'unknown hook'} flagged the last reply: {item.get('reason')}"
+            answer = item.get("answer")
+            if isinstance(answer, dict):
+                report = answer.get("report")
+                if isinstance(report, str) and report.strip():
+                    text = f"{text} {report.strip()[:REPORT_LIMIT]}"
             out.append(text)
             continue
         out.append(unchecked_message(item))

engine/hooks/llm-judge/tests/test_inbox.py

@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ def seed(self, *runner_entries, job_id="job-1"):
         })
         return judge.run_job(job_path)
 
+    def seed_verdict(self, verdict, job_id="job-1"):
+        judge.write_json_atomic(os.path.join(judge.verdict_dir(self.transcript), f"{job_id}.json"), verdict)
+
     def run_claude(self, stdin_text):
         out, err = io.StringIO(), io.StringIO()
         with patch.object(sys, "stdin", io.StringIO(stdin_text)), redirect_stdout(out), redirect_stderr(err):
@@ -84,6 +87,31 @@ def test_hit_yields_the_exact_on_hit_text_once(self):
         self.assertEqual(inbox.messages(self.transcript), [ON_HIT])
         self.assertEqual(inbox.messages(self.transcript), [])
 
+    def test_hit_with_report_appends_report(self):
+        report = "model saw a quoted rollback"
+        self.seed_verdict({"outcome": "hit", "hook": "demo-hook", "on_hit": ON_HIT, "answer": {"report": report}})
+        found = inbox.messages(self.transcript)
+        self.assertEqual(found, [f"{ON_HIT} {report}"])
+        self.assertTrue(found[0].endswith(f" {report}"), found)
+
+    def test_hit_without_report_equals_on_hit_exactly(self):
+        self.seed_verdict({"outcome": "hit", "hook": "demo-hook", "on_hit": ON_HIT, "answer": {"match": True}})
+        self.assertEqual(inbox.messages(self.transcript), [ON_HIT])
+
+    def test_hit_report_is_clipped_to_600_characters(self):
+        report = "x" * 700
+        self.seed_verdict({"outcome": "hit", "hook": "demo-hook", "on_hit": ON_HIT, "answer": {"report": report}})
+        self.assertEqual(inbox.messages(self.transcript), [f"{ON_HIT} {'x' * 600}"])
+
+    def test_hit_number_or_list_report_is_ignored(self):
+        self.seed_verdict({"outcome": "hit", "hook": "demo-hook", "on_hit": ON_HIT, "answer": {"report": 5}}, job_id="a")
+        self.seed_verdict({"outcome": "hit", "hook": "demo-hook", "on_hit": ON_HIT, "answer": {"report": ["detail"]}}, job_id="b")
+        self.assertEqual(inbox.messages(self.transcript), [ON_HIT, ON_HIT])
+
+    def test_clean_with_report_yields_nothing(self):
+        self.seed_verdict({"outcome": "clean", "hook": "demo-hook", "on_hit": ON_HIT, "answer": {"report": "ignored"}})
+        self.assertEqual(inbox.messages(self.transcript), [])
+
     def test_unchecked_yields_one_reason_per_runner(self):
         self.assertEqual(self.seed(MISSING, CRASHES)["outcome"], "unchecked")
         self.assertEqual(