Card modal — AI Opinion
Opinion is the tab where an AI agent tells you whether a card is worth doing, what it'll cost, and what to watch out for. It's populated by the save_opinion MCP tool — either on demand from the chat panel, or automatically when you run the evaluate processing type on a card.
Structure
A full Opinion follows a fixed template:
- ## Summary Verdict — one short paragraph
- ## Strengths — what's good about the idea
- ## Concerns — what could go wrong
- ## Recommendations — what the AI would do first
- ## Priority — the AI's take on where this belongs in the queue
- ## Final Score — a numeric or qualitative rating
The template exists so opinions are comparable across cards. You can lean on it when you're scanning twenty ideas at once.
The verdict badge
Separate from the full text, aiVerdict is a single enum:
positive— the card is worth pursuingnegative— the AI recommends against itnull— no opinion yet
The card surface shows a Brain icon with a green checkmark for positive, a red cross for negative, and nothing at all when the field is null. It's a glance-level signal — at a full board, you can see which ideas the AI has blessed without opening anything.
How it gets filled in
From the chat panel
Open the Opinion tab and chat with the agent normally. When the agent calls save_opinion, the tool writes both the full markdown and the verdict, the tab content updates in place, and the card surface picks up the new badge.
From evaluate processing
Start an evaluate run on the card (from the card modal header). The agent works through Detail, produces an opinion against the template, and saves it. The card is locked while evaluate runs — see Autonomous vs quick-fix processing.
When to use it
- Triaging a pile of backlog ideas
- Pressure-testing your own proposal — "what am I missing?"
- Getting a second opinion before committing a sprint's worth of work
- Documenting why a card is in Withdrawn: a negative verdict with a concrete concerns list is a much better audit trail than "decided not to do"
When not to use it
Opinion is not a decision-maker. The AI hasn't seen your customers, your runway, your team's morale. Use it as a pre-read, not a gate.
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