diff --git a/.story_kit/work/4_merge/250_bug_merge_pipeline_cherry_pick_fails_with_bad_revision_on_merge_queue_branch.md b/.story_kit/work/4_merge/250_bug_merge_pipeline_cherry_pick_fails_with_bad_revision_on_merge_queue_branch.md
index c291c1c..5cd709b 100644
--- a/.story_kit/work/4_merge/250_bug_merge_pipeline_cherry_pick_fails_with_bad_revision_on_merge_queue_branch.md
+++ b/.story_kit/work/4_merge/250_bug_merge_pipeline_cherry_pick_fails_with_bad_revision_on_merge_queue_branch.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: "Merge pipeline cherry-pick fails with bad revision on merge-queue branch"
-merge_failure: "Squash-merge resulted in an empty diff — the feature branch has no code changes beyond master. The feature branch appears to already be fully merged or contains no implementation changes."
+merge_failure: "Squash-merge resulted in an empty diff — the feature branch has no code changes beyond master. The coder agent's work may not have been committed, or the changes were already merged."
 ---
 
 ## Rejection Notes