diff --git a/capy/skill/gstack/captain.md b/capy/skill/gstack/captain.md
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--- a/capy/skill/gstack/captain.md
+++ b/capy/skill/gstack/captain.md
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ and the Captain's drive) is the `/captain` skill and `docs/captain.md` in the gs
   - a change to a threshold, budget, trial count or test kind;
   - closing someone's contribution without landing it;
   - anything destructive or irreversible.
+- **Observable questions are not the person's to answer.** A question a command, a render or a measurement
+  can settle ("is the new path faster", "does the endpoint take this payload", "does the test still fail")
+  is settled by the thread: it runs the thing and reports the result. Only a product or preference call
+  goes up, with the observation already made. A Captain that receives an observable question sends it
+  back with the check that answers it instead of relaying it.
 - **What a gstack workflow does in Capy.** Launched with `GSTACK_SESSION_KIND=unattended`, a workflow takes
   each recommended option, writes everything else as a pending gate item, and stops. Your job is to carry
   those pending items to the Captain or person in the shape below, then feed the answer back.