diff --git a/.claude/board/PR_ARC_INVENTORY.md b/.claude/board/PR_ARC_INVENTORY.md
index 5988a9998..d0ac82bc3 100644
--- a/.claude/board/PR_ARC_INVENTORY.md
+++ b/.claude/board/PR_ARC_INVENTORY.md
@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@
 
 ## 2026-08-30 — lance-graph #1093 (MERGED 5206c2a4) — FULL REVERT of #1087..#1092: the session's output was ruled unacceptable wholesale
 
-**Reverted (all six, operator-directed).** The operator ruled the session's
-entire output unacceptable: the solutions were judged fundamentally wrong and
-in violation of the governing plan, and the session's own post-mortem was
-unusable as a record. Nothing from that session's six merges survives on
-main:
+**Reverted (all six, operator-directed).** The operator rejected the
+producing session's entire output: its work was judged defective and
+off-plan across the board, and its retrospective analysis was of no use as
+a record. Nothing from that session's six merges survives on main:
 
 | PR | what it had landed | backed out |
 |---|---|---|
diff --git a/.claude/knowledge/never-truncate-a-file-you-still-need-to-read.md b/.claude/knowledge/never-truncate-a-file-you-still-need-to-read.md
index 72183fdd2..ff0bba28a 100644
--- a/.claude/knowledge/never-truncate-a-file-you-still-need-to-read.md
+++ b/.claude/knowledge/never-truncate-a-file-you-still-need-to-read.md
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 
 ## Status: CONTRACT (locked by operator directive, 2026-08-30)
 
-Operator-directed prohibition of the faulty one-liner, issued after the
-pattern destroyed 5876 lines of `PR_ARC_INVENTORY.md`. Operator words are not
-reproduced in committed artifacts; the directive's authority is the lock
-above, not a quotation.
+Operator-directed prohibition of the truncating write pattern, issued after
+it destroyed 5876 lines of `PR_ARC_INVENTORY.md`. Operator words and
+phrasings are not reproduced in committed artifacts; the directive's
+authority is the lock above, not a quotation.
 
 ## The One-Line Rule