"Decisions without feedback are guesses.
The hard part of a handoff where context is thin and the clock is loud is not the technical detail; it is choosing what happens next while the picture is incomplete.
When the decision stays implicit, the system still commits—by drift, escalation, or whoever speaks last. You see it in a retry policy change that turns one failure into a storm, where the first clear call happens after the cost has already been paid. If you cannot describe the boundary simply, the boundary will not survive escalation and reorgs.
Write the stop line now: what evidence ends the attempt, and what you will do when it appears. That is how you keep pressure from rewriting the decision. Clarity reduces noise more than another meeting does.