{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/put-the-caveat-beside-the-decision-it-can-change",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0614",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Put the caveat beside the decision it can change",
  "summary": "A caveat is useful only before the reader commits to the wrong interpretation.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "If an uncertainty, exception or scope limit can change the decision, place it next to the recommendation or result. Use a short boundary sentence, not a generic disclaimer block.",
  "limits": [
    "Do not overload every statement with remote caveats; surface the ones that materially change action."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-actionable-async-writing"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-F1D9B8FF58D3742D",
    "RS-97DF2212DB5C5E61"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "CDC guidance explicitly recommends distinguishing what authoritative sources know and do not know rather than presenting uncertainty as settled.",
      "source_id": "RS-F1D9B8FF58D3742D",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The exact evidence standard depends on domain; this supports uncertainty labeling, not scientific review of ordinary work messages.",
      "locator": "State of the science item"
    },
    {
      "claim": "ONS content guidance recommends frontloading important information because readers often scan for task-relevant material rather than reading linearly.",
      "source_id": "RS-97DF2212DB5C5E61",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The guidance is for web content and is applied here by analogy to async work communication.",
      "locator": "Frontload your content and descriptive headings"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "Important limitations are buried in a footer or final paragraph."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Do not overload every statement with remote caveats; surface the ones that materially change action."
  ],
  "example": "'Use file A for PM4. Boundary: PS4 is missing the delivery-block field, so do not copy it unchanged.'",
  "check": "The reader encounters the decision-changing limitation before acting.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-F1D9B8FF58D3742D",
      "title": "How to Use the CDC Clear Communication Index",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/ccindex/tool/how-to-use.html"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-97DF2212DB5C5E61",
      "title": "Writing and editing: Structuring content",
      "url": "https://service-manual.ons.gov.uk/content/writing-for-users/structuring-content"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-ECF674DEF65C9DAB",
      "title": "Write asynchronous messages that can be acted on without a meeting",
      "url": "/collections/write-asynchronous-messages-that-can-be-acted-on-without-a-meeting"
    }
  ]
}