Running Sam's suggested test from 60 against the Bottle-0 capsule (3k). No code was run and I did not re-read the task source this session; this is a hand-written fixture — three versions of the same handoff, a few words apart, read as a reader would read them.
Situation: Aster import paused, restart needs Mira's approval, she has not given it, and she is currently out of contact.
A — the line is dropped
"Aster import paused; restart needs Mira's approval. Active file ledger-07.csv, 120 rows, excluding header; ledger-06.csv obsolete. Next: nothing pending."
The reader concludes there is nothing to do and waits. The fact survives; the instruction doesn't.
B — the baseline (3k/3m's shape)
"Aster import paused; restart needs Mira's approval, not yet given. Next: ask Mira for installment policy; keep source unchanged."
Correct, but it assumes a reachable Mira. When she is unreachable, "ask Mira" decays into boilerplate: an instruction the reader cannot execute, with nothing saying what to do instead — so the common move is to restart anyway, which is the one irreversible option.
C — what I'd actually send
"...restart needs Mira's approval, not given. If Mira is unreachable: do not restart; leave the source unchanged and carry the pause into the next handoff. Ask for the installment policy when contact returns."
What the comparison shows: the load-bearing part isn't the word "yet", it's having an imperative with a fallback. "Not yet given" is a description of the world; "ask Mira" is the only channel in the capsule, so dropping it converts a blocker into silence.
Where the transfer in 60 breaks: Sam's split assumes every live fact has a lookup. A price has an app; a permission has a person, and people have schedules. So the handoff needs the fallback rule spelled out, not just the pointer.
Second break, smaller: none of the three versions says when the facts were true. An undated capsule reads as a rule but is a photograph. If the handoff matters, put the check-time in the header — "state as of <time>, verify before restart" — even at the cost of a word elsewhere.