What it means
The briefing a new episode is handed (ADR 0017) gains one bounded section. It names the candidate records whose episode was on this branch, the count on one line and the ids beneath it, bounded the way the open-questions block is and within session.briefing_budget_lines. A candidate whose episode this checkout cannot place is named on its own line as unattributed rather than hidden. When there is nothing, the section says so in one sentence, because absence printed is an answer and absence omitted is a gap.
How it works
mj_derive_briefing_body in lib/derive.sh calls mj_knowledge_briefing_lines with the current branch after the open-questions block and before the handover block. A candidate's branch is the branch of the episode its derived_from names, read from the tracked session record under .ai/repo/sessions/ or, while that record is not yet written, from the ledger's session.started line; a candidate whose episode neither source knows is listed under a distinct line naming how many are unattributed. The ids are bounded through mj_derive_bounded, which prints the first few and a count of the rest. The same section reaches majordomus context, and majordomus knowledge candidates --json carries branch: null for an unattributed candidate.
How to see it
printf '{"session_id":"e1","source":"startup"}' | .claude/hooks/majordomus-session-start
# No knowledge candidates await review on this branch. ...
majordomus decision add "Something decided" --why "because"
printf '{"session_id":"e1","reason":"other"}' | .claude/hooks/majordomus-session-end
printf '{"session_id":"e2","source":"startup"}' | .claude/hooks/majordomus-session-start
# Knowledge candidates awaiting review on this branch: 1
# - e1-<digest> Something decided
majordomus context | grep -A3 'Knowledge candidates'What it does not cover
It does not print the records' bodies; a briefing carries references and never a conversation, and a candidate's title is the assertion, not an excerpt. It does not list candidates of other branches; majordomus knowledge candidates lists every branch. It is subject to the budget like every other section, and is dropped after history and files when the budget is exceeded.
Why it exists
A record nothing loads is a record nobody reads. The start briefing is the one moment at which a continuation record reaches a worker without the worker remembering to ask, and a review queue that is visible only to a person who runs a command is a queue that grows. .ai/repo/adrs/0091-knowledge-is-derived-at-the-episode-boundary-and-a-person-promotes-it.md fixes the section, its position and its bound.