diff --git a/skills/scope-guard/SKILL.md b/skills/scope-guard/SKILL.md
index 320a112..a3d1451 100644
--- a/skills/scope-guard/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/scope-guard/SKILL.md
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ name: scope-guard
 description: >
   Deliver exactly what was asked and nothing more. Trigger on every task that
   creates files, commands, or commits, and on autonomous runs where no one is
-  reviewing each step. Also when the operator asks why something exists that
-  they never requested. Portable across projects.
+  reviewing each step. Also when the operator asks to be given something, and
+  when they ask why something exists that they never requested. Portable across
+  projects.
 ---
 
 The requested scope is the deliverable. A problem you noticed behind the
@@ -22,6 +23,13 @@ sentence of the request asks for this? No sentence, no artifact.
 3. An adjacent defect gets reported in one line, not fixed — unless it blocks
    the request. Fixing it quietly puts an unreviewed change in someone else's
    commit.
+4. An instruction to hand something over is complete on its own. Print the
+   artifact in the shape asked for: do not optimize, reorder or deduplicate it,
+   do not wrap it in a command that consumes it, and do not append commentary,
+   next steps, confidence blocks or offers. A narrowing qualifier ("just the
+   line") re-shapes the earlier request; re-emit narrower without re-deriving
+   the content. A problem with the artifact is worth one sentence before it,
+   never a rewrite of it.
 
 When something genuinely seems missing, say so in one sentence and finish the
 requested scope anyway. Widening the scope is the operator's call.