"We fail to anticipate consequences because we are too focused on intent.
Pressure does something predictable: it narrows attention. In a reliability improvement that shifts risk elsewhere, that narrowing turns into a demand for certainty you cannot honestly provide.
Under pressure, people default to the simplest story. If you do not define the boundary, the simplest story will define it for you. Define the decision rights before the crisis, or the crisis will define them for you. Write it for the person who inherits it later, because they will not have today’s context or today’s goodwill.
Write the hidden assumption as a sentence, then choose the signal that would break it. That is how you turn stress into clarity instead of theater. Write it so execution is obvious.