Acknowledge Received Messages

Acknowledge task updates after processing.

When to Use

After reviewing a task update or completing an assigned action.

Given/When/Then/Should

Given task reviewed when acknowledging then add a comment confirming receipt should never leave coordination ambiguous

Given action completed when reporting then update task status and add notes should never silently complete without updating beads

Commands

# Acknowledge a review request
bd comments add <task-id> "Acknowledged — starting review"

# Acknowledge completion of a dependency
bd comments add <task-id> "Confirmed: dependency <dep-id> complete, proceeding"

# Acknowledge and update status
bd update <task-id> --status=in_progress
bd comments add <task-id> "Claimed — beginning work"