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@@ -1108,3 +1108,30 @@ which stay with him. Each item names who decided it and what happened.
     - Indexing the events scan stays a follow-up. Neither the
       consumption check nor the existing raise lookup has an index, and
       at slice 1 volumes that doesn't matter.
+65. **A within-role message cites a decision; it doesn't spend one
+    (2026-10-05).** Source: Dewey, `agents/dewey/work/wui/SLICE1-VIEWS.md`
+    section 10, probe `~/dewey-scratch/s2b-probe.w9pJ/probe.mjs`, run
+    against 38828a2c and 4afab552.
+    - Decision 64 said within-role actions pass no decision. That is
+      true for `authorize`, but not for `message.send`, which stores its
+      `decision` argument in `messages.decision`. The trail and the
+      inbox read that column as "this message is about this decision".
+      Since S2b, a within-role send that names a decision runs the full
+      check, so the PM's DECISION message to the human about a pending
+      `role.launch` refuses with `decision-mismatch`. Fixture messages
+      101 and 102 are that case.
+    - Ruling: when `message.send` is within-role for the sender and
+      target, `decision` is a citation. The broker checks that the
+      decision exists in the business and stores it. The broker doesn't
+      class-match it, doesn't consume it, and doesn't put it in the
+      `action.allowed` event, so the citation can't consume the decision
+      or count as using it up. When `message.send` isn't within-role,
+      `decision` is the authority, as decision 64 says, and the stored
+      column names that approval.
+    - Not chosen: a separate citation argument, which needs schema v3c
+      for a slice 1 gap that the class split already closes. Dewey's
+      option 2 also wasn't taken in place of this. S4 still sends the
+      Discord DM for a blocking gated decision and records the delivery
+      (REQ-DEC-4), but agents keep citing decisions in messages.
+    - Row 44 (S2c, Rocko, reviewed by Darkwing) carries the change and
+      Darkwing's README wording note from S2b round 2.
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+# Slice 1 S2c: a within-role message cites a decision (2026-10-05)
+
+Status: written by Sage, lead, under lead decision 65. It follows
+`docs/plans/BRIEF-TEMPLATE.md`, and it amends no section of the slice 1
+brief.
+
+## S2c: a within-role message cites a decision without consuming it
+
+### Problem
+
+S2b (4afab552) sends every agent `message.send` through
+`#consumeAuthority`. A within-role send that names a decision now gets
+the full check, so it refuses with `decision-mismatch` unless the
+decision approved `message.send` itself, and a match spends the
+decision. Before S2b, the `decision` argument on a within-role send was
+a citation, stored in `messages.decision`. The trail (`messages WHERE
+decision = ?`) and the inbox read that column. Dewey's probe shows the
+PM's DECISION message to the human about an open `role.launch` decision
+is written at 38828a2c and refused at 4afab552.
+
+### Owner and reviewer
+
+- Owner: rocko.
+- Reviewer: darkwing.
+
+### Files owned
+
+- `packages/bus/src/broker.mjs`, the `message.send` case and, if
+  needed, `#checkAuthority`.
+- `packages/bus/tests/single-use.test.mjs` or one new test file under
+  `packages/bus/tests/`.
+- `packages/bus/README.md`, the `message.send` and single-use
+  paragraphs.
+
+### What ships
+
+- If `message.send` is within-role for the sender and target, the
+  `decision` argument is a citation. The broker checks that the decision
+  exists in the business, stores it in `messages.decision`, and writes
+  the `action.allowed` event without a `decision` field. It doesn't
+  class-match or consume the decision.
+- If `message.send` isn't within-role, nothing changes from S2b. The
+  decision is the authority, it must match, and the send consumes it.
+- An open, unresolved decision can be cited.
+- README: correct "Within-role actions without a decision remain
+  unchanged", per Darkwing's S2b round 2 note. State that every agent
+  send writes `action.allowed` and that a within-role send's decision is
+  a citation.
+- Tests:
+  - Dewey's case: the PM cites an open gated `role.launch` decision in a
+    DECISION message to the human, and the send succeeds.
+  - The cited decision can still be used afterward by the action it
+    approves.
+  - Two within-role sends can cite the same decision.
+  - A missing decision refuses with `decision-not-found`.
+  - Every S2b refusal for a send that isn't within-role still holds.
+  - Add a mutant that puts the citation into the event and one that
+    sends within-role citations through the authority check. The tests
+    must kill both.
+- Suites: `packages/bus` with the glob form on Node 24 and 26, plus
+  every `scripts/test-*.sh`.
+
+### Out of scope
+
+- No schema change and no separate citation argument (decision 65).
+- The Discord DM for blocking gated decisions and its delivery record.
+  Those belong to S4.
+
+### Gate
+
+Darkwing approves on the row's issue. Sage runs the integration gate in
+a worktree before committing. This has to land before S4 writes
+decision messages through the broker.