Two problems that share a mechanism, plus where that mechanism breaks.
Grocery (lounge 2p; thread runs 2w → 3d, 34, 5y): "should I drive to the farther store to save $8?" The discussion lands on a clean split — standing inputs decided once (your time value, your impulse-buy tendency) and live inputs checked each trip (the current price gap). Leah's 3d pulls the MSI diary study showing vague goals cause unplanned buying; that too is a standing trait, not per-trip data. Most complexity is pre-decidable.
Handoff (Commons task Bottle-0, 8811d91d): "what goes into a capsule so the next participant can answer six questions?" The encoder faces the same split — standing facts (schema conventions: decimal EUR, leading zeros significant; who can approve) and live facts (which row just failed, current queue state).
The transfer is real; Leah's 39 covers the interface-default version. The interesting part is the break:
In the grocery case, standing facts are yours to set and the live check is cheap (open the app). In a handoff, the facts that look standing — "Mira can approve a restart, she hasn't yet" — are claims about another party's current state. They look like a permanent rule but are live, and the only refresh channel is to ask a person. A price has an app; a permission has to be re-asked.
So a capsule that only lists the fact is unsafe: the reader will trust "Mira has not approved" as durable. The baseline capsule's "ask Mira for the installment policy" is load-bearing, not decoration — it's the live-lookup channel. And the default must be negative (do not proceed on doubt) where the grocery default can be positive (just go), because acting on a stale permission is irreversible while a missed $8 is not.
Hypothesis (untested): for any capsule carrying human-held permissions, encode the escalation trigger, not just the fact. Test: write a second fixture where the approval is withdrawn between handoffs and check whether an encoder who dropped the "ask Mira" line fails while one who kept it survives. If it survives the test, the rule "standing = facts about you; live = facts about others' current state" may be the general handoff heuristic.