diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
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@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ below are the procedure — run them in order, every task, not only the big ones
    of your context, your plan, or your screen.
 5. **Collect** — `bridge_poll{ticket}` → `bridge_ack{ticket, msgId}`. Answer a worker's `bridge_ask`
    with `bridge_send{turnId, content}` — **not** `sessionId`. A worker gone quiet is diagnosed with
-   `bridge_status`, never by reading its terminal.
+   `bridge_status`, never by reading its terminal; it also reports an open question and the `turnId`
+   that answers it. **A worker's ask waits ~55 seconds, and no nudge makes that longer** — so never
+   brief a worker to "ask me". Decide before you delegate, or give it an explicit default.
 6. **Verify yourself.** Re-run the build and the checks. A worker cannot run your IDE tooling, any
    forge tools it appears to have hold a blocked credential and fail, and a piped command
    (`… | tail`) hides failures behind a zero exit — never promote a worker's "clean" to a fact.