[jsun-m]

Problem

The web UI Asks panel is empty even when pending-questions.md has open questions.

The /tasks/active question parser in agent-api.py splits the file on ## headers and only treats a section as a question if its body contains **Status:** or **Options:** metadata. But the proactive loop writes pending questions as plain bullet items under a single ## Open header (per CLAUDE.md and the proactive-loop skill) — no per-question metadata. So every loop-written question is silently skipped and the panel stays empty.

(Note: this is a separate issue from the workspace-path bug fixed in #44 — that fixed which file is read; this fixes how it's parsed.)

Fix

Parse each top-level bullet under ## Open as its own question:

• bullets annotated FIXED / RESOLVED / ANSWERED are skipped;
• the ## Resolved section is never surfaced;
• standalone ## <question> + **Status:**/**Options:** sections are unaffected (backward compatible).

Bullet title = the leading **bold** span (falls back to first 80 chars). IDs are Q{section}-{bullet}.

Verification

Ran the new logic against the live pending-questions.md: 0 → 5 questions parsed (4 ## Open bullets + 1 standalone metadata section; the FIXED-annotated bullet correctly skipped). python3 -m py_compile src/agent-api.py passes.

Known limitation / follow-up

The POST /answer write-back flips a **Status:** line to answered — bullet-format questions have no such line, so answering them from the panel won't persist a status change yet. Out of scope here (the goal is visibility); a follow-up can extend write-back to bullets, or extract the parser into a unit-testable function.

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[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Clean. The proactive loop writes questions to pending-questions.md under ## Open as bullet items, but do_GET in agent-api.py was only surfacing questions with **Status:** or **Options:** metadata — so loop-written questions never appeared in the web UI Asks panel.

The FIXED|RESOLVED|ANSWERED bullet filter is a good inclusion — prevents resolved items from re-appearing on each parse. The \*\*title\*\* extraction with fallback to first 80 chars handles both structured and freeform bullets.

Minor: the composite ID (f"Q{i}-{j}") assumes the i (section index) is stable across reads. If sections are added/removed in pending-questions.md, question IDs would shift, potentially breaking any cross-reference that stores them externally. If IDs need stability, a hash of the question text would be more robust — not urgent since the panel is mostly read-only display.

[rickchen007]

Approved (admin) — surfaces ## Open bullet questions in the Asks panel; backward-compatible with Status: sections. Clean.