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commit f52e706a17940cd8719804cb6d2f83afd56104e3
Author: Stephen Mallette <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Aug 10 09:47:55 2026 -0400

    Minor update to beads usage in dev docs.
---
 docs/src/dev/developer/for-committers.asciidoc | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/src/dev/developer/for-committers.asciidoc 
b/docs/src/dev/developer/for-committers.asciidoc
index 8a1b04cc0d..e4ed26ebaa 100644
--- a/docs/src/dev/developer/for-committers.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/src/dev/developer/for-committers.asciidoc
@@ -125,9 +125,8 @@ the wrong root scatters its reasoning into an unrelated 
body of work, where nobo
 later will think to search.
 
 An existing root is the right answer when the work continues something already 
under way, and a
-new root is the right answer when it does not. A small fix is its own root 
rather than a child of
-something larger. Declining to answer is the only response that does not work, 
because the agent
-is then left with nowhere to record what it learns.
+new root is the right answer when it does not. A small fix is often its own 
root (i.e. a single
+bead) rather than a child of something larger. 
 
 [[beads-decisions]]
 === What Beads Records

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