diff --git a/skills/rdd-build/SKILL.md b/skills/rdd-build/SKILL.md
index 52de3ce..96a34f8 100644
--- a/skills/rdd-build/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/rdd-build/SKILL.md
@@ -31,7 +31,11 @@ code, tests, and current records.
 8. Move the SR to `IN_REVIEW` when its lower trace passes. An affected UR moves
    to `IN_REVIEW` only when its upper trace passes and every required SR is
    `IN_REVIEW` or `DONE`.
-9. Reconcile the affected graph and derived views. Return remaining approved
+9. Reconcile the affected graph and derived views. Progress is recorded as
+   evidence — a result, a trace, the code and test links on the evidence
+   record — never as an edit to the reviewed packet's content: a built-at
+   note or a citation added to a requirement record moves the packet
+   fingerprint and stales the cold review it passed. Return remaining approved
    trace failures to `rdd-deliver` for another AI iteration. Hand fully eligible
    `IN_REVIEW` scope to `rdd-completion-review`; do not deliver or solicit
    completion here.
diff --git a/skills/rdd-deliver/SKILL.md b/skills/rdd-deliver/SKILL.md
index dd447da..5b50aab 100644
--- a/skills/rdd-deliver/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/rdd-deliver/SKILL.md
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ all semantics; this skill owns phase order and continuation.
 3. If input is not authoritative or is `DERIVED`, apply `rdd-discover` and its
    confirmation gate. Continue only with confirmed requirements and relations.
 4. Apply `rdd-plan`, then `rdd-cold-review`, then `rdd-entry-review`. Repeat from
-   the earliest stale or failed pass until the exact selected scope is `TODO`.
+   the earliest stale or failed pass until the exact selected scope is `TODO`,
+   inside the review bound: cold review runs at most two rounds on one change,
+   and a third round is never this loop's call. After a second `FAIL`, stop
+   and hand what is known to the human (`PROCESS.md` §Planning and readiness).
 5. Run the AI TDD inner loop below. Apply `rdd-build` to changed SRs and
    `rdd-verify` to human-confirmed as-built URs or SRs. Continue until every
    selected requirement satisfies its applicable trace and is `IN_REVIEW`.
diff --git a/skills/rdd-plan/SKILL.md b/skills/rdd-plan/SKILL.md
index efbd66e..3a13a15 100644
--- a/skills/rdd-plan/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/rdd-plan/SKILL.md
@@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ scope, Item ownership, and Planning and readiness sections of `PROCESS.md`.
    callers of the module that owns it, and judge each break per call site
    against the post-change invariants — one file can hold call sites of both
    kinds. Verify every claim about existing code by reading it at that
-   revision; a reconnaissance sentence is a citation, not a memory. Keep the
-   packet within the bound in `PROCESS.md`: a single-requirement packet is at
-   most one page.
+   revision; a reconnaissance sentence is a citation, not a memory. A value
+   the packet states — a limit, a timeout, a constant — is read at the call
+   site that applies it, not at its definition: a defined value may be unused,
+   or one of several the code selects between. Keep the packet within the
+   bound in `PROCESS.md`: a single-requirement packet is at most one page.
 5. Enrich every selected SR with its implementation context, explicit change
    boundary, and lower-RED strategy. Define a separate upper-RED strategy for
    every selected UR. Every planned RED case must fail today for the stated
@@ -44,7 +46,11 @@ scope, Item ownership, and Planning and readiness sections of `PROCESS.md`.
    trace prerequisites pass. Record blockers, conflicts, gaps, and deferrals
    rather than guessing.
 7. Assemble Entry-packet items 1–6 and the product-language brief. Reconcile
-   planning records, then hand off to `rdd-cold-review` for item 7.
+   planning records — every citation, link and note the packet will carry is
+   in it now — then hand off to `rdd-cold-review` for item 7. Which edits move
+   the packet fingerprint is decided by the store, not by the editor's intent:
+   an edit after the verdict is recorded, however small, stales that verdict
+   and returns the scope to cold review.
 
 ## Report
 
diff --git a/skills/rdd-start/SKILL.md b/skills/rdd-start/SKILL.md
index 44a3098..b3d07c1 100644
--- a/skills/rdd-start/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/rdd-start/SKILL.md
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ These rules bind every subsequent phase in the session:
   Never mutate a shared store to test a hypothesis;
 - a direction the human has given twice is a decision: record its `USER:`
   source and proceed on it rather than re-planning around it;
+- a pass report names what the session holds that the store does not yet — a
+  finding not recorded, a note held back, an item left unwritten on purpose —
+  so the human never has to ask what is not yet in the store;
 - commit at waypoints — specification, expected RED, GREEN, cleanup,
   reconciliation — with RED evidence committed before the change that
   satisfies it, so red-first is auditable in history;