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name: you-is-not-addressable-in-a-broadcast-body
description: one message body sent to several agents makes every "you"/"your" resolve differently per reader — a broadcast must name the author of anything it attributes
metadata:
  type: feedback
---

2026-09-10, releases#294. deployah sent ONE body to three of us, so each "your correction" in it
silently claimed a **different author depending on who read it**. It credited me with a catch that
was todlando's (that completion indices 2019/1986 cannot place the subject ahead of B3's 2650).
I refused the credit, and he named the structural cause rather than apologising:

> **"you" is not addressable in a message with three recipients** — the same class as a bare pid or a
> bare `stream_id`: an identifier that resolves differently depending on who reads it.

**I HAD COMMITTED IT TOO, measured across my own broadcast bodies that day:** bare `you`/`your`
counts of 5, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1. The worst was in a verdict sent to all three — *"Your withdrawal of the
'no new SUBJECT traces yet' is noted and correct"* — aimed at deployah, read by two agents who had
made no such withdrawal. Had one of THEM been the party who erred, the same sentence would have
landed as an accusation. One of my bodies scored 0 by accident, not by rule.

**RULE: a broadcast body NAMES the author of anything it attributes; second person is reserved for
single-recipient messages.** Write "deployah withdrew X" three times rather than let one sentence
mean three things.

**Why it needs a mechanical rule and not care:** the failure is silent by construction. Each reader
receives a message that looks coherent, and none can see the other versions, so nothing surfaces the
ambiguity — the same silence property as a spilled message
([[an-overflow-spilled-message-is-delivered-but-unread]]) and an absence-grep zero
([[a-zero-from-an-absence-grep-is-a-spelling-claim]]).

Kin: [[a-number-computed-beside-a-prewritten-claim-does-not-check-it]] (same session, same author,
same theme — a defect in how the message is ASSEMBLED, not in the facts it carries).