itd-2610030810350727 says a question that breaks the layout rules is refused before it reaches the person; 04-universal-patterns says a question that is too tall is shown anyway.

itd-2610030810350727 says a question that breaks the layout rules is refused before it reaches the person; 04-universal-patterns says a question that is too tall is shown anyway.

A premise contradiction (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/05-internals/04-universal-patterns.md:18 — "rows limit is the exception: a question too tall for the narrow window is"
• End B: .abcd/development/intents/shipped/itd-2610030810350727-every-question-abcd-puts-to-a-person.md:32 — "A question that breaks these rules is refused before it reaches you, naming the part and the limit, so it is asked again properly."

The intent's press release says any question that breaks the rules is refused before it reaches the person, naming the part and the limit, and that such a question reads at 80 columns without scrolling. 04-universal-patterns makes the rows limit an exception: a question too tall for the narrow window is shown, and the agent is told afterwards to keep the next one within it. Under the brief a question over the rows limit reaches the person; under the press release it cannot.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 887.

Grounds

• declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536): a later record already settles which end holds. internal/surface/cli/guard_question.go (rowsOnly) and internal/core/question/asking.go implement the rows exception that 04-universal-patterns states; the intent audit already names the divergence.