diff --git a/.story_kit/work/4_merge/245_bug_chat_history_persistence_lost_on_page_refresh_story_145_regression.md b/.story_kit/work/4_merge/245_bug_chat_history_persistence_lost_on_page_refresh_story_145_regression.md
index 94d3183..7334800 100644
--- a/.story_kit/work/4_merge/245_bug_chat_history_persistence_lost_on_page_refresh_story_145_regression.md
+++ b/.story_kit/work/4_merge/245_bug_chat_history_persistence_lost_on_page_refresh_story_145_regression.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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 name: "Chat history persistence lost on page refresh (story 145 regression)"
-merge_failure: "merge_agent_work tool returned empty output. The merge pipeline created the merge-queue branch (merge-queue/245_bug_chat_history_persistence_lost_on_page_refresh_story_145_regression) and merge workspace worktree at .story_kit/merge_workspace, but hung without completing. This is the same issue that affected stories 254 and 255 — related to bug 250 (merge pipeline cherry-pick fails with bad revision on merge-queue branch). Human intervention needed to: 1) clean up the stale merge workspace worktree and merge-queue branch, 2) investigate/fix bug 250 in the merge pipeline, 3) retry the merge."
+merge_failure: "Squash-merge resulted in an empty diff — the feature branch has no code changes beyond master. The bug fix commits may have already been merged into master through another path, or the feature branch was never ahead of master."
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 ## Rejection Notes