{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/hand-off-the-contingency-with-the-task",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0363",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Hand off the contingency with the task",
  "summary": "A to-do list is incomplete when the next obvious question is 'what if that fails?'",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "For the important next action, include the most plausible failure or change in conditions and the prepared response. Name the trigger, not just the fallback. This prevents the receiver from having to rediscover the sender's risk reasoning at the exact moment the plan starts failing.",
  "limits": [
    "Contingency planning should cover plausible high-impact branches, not produce an unreadable tree of remote possibilities."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-high-reliability-communication"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-21EE4D7FFFEED9C8"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "AHRQ's I-PASS structure includes situation awareness and contingency planning so the receiver knows what may happen and what to do next.",
      "source_id": "RS-21EE4D7FFFEED9C8",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Contingencies should cover plausible high-impact branches, not every imaginable scenario.",
      "locator": "Situation Awareness & Contingency Planning"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "The receiver may face a predictable branch after the sender is unavailable."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Contingency planning should cover plausible high-impact branches, not produce an unreadable tree of remote possibilities."
  ],
  "example": "'Run batch 3. If replication backlog exceeds 20 minutes, stop the batch and notify the interface lead.'",
  "check": "The receiver knows both the normal next step and the response to at least one material foreseeable branch.",
  "steps": [
    "The receiver knows both the normal next step and the response to at least one material foreseeable branch."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-21EE4D7FFFEED9C8",
      "title": "Tool: I-PASS",
      "url": "https://www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/ipass.html"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0363",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0364",
      "type": "use_before",
      "url": "/knowledge/make-the-receiver-synthesize-the-handoff"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-EDE4DDA550A31359",
      "title": "Close the communication loop when ambiguity can become an error",
      "url": "/collections/close-the-communication-loop-when-ambiguity-can-become-an-error"
    }
  ]
}