diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
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+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -185,21 +185,26 @@ from ordinary internal transfers. The loan model below is unbuilt.
 
 ### Order verdicts — "never order from here again"
 
-Built 2026-07-28 (migration 0024). `order_reviews` was previously a table wired
-to nothing; it now backs `GET`/`PUT /api/transactions/[id]/review`, with the UI
-inside `components/order-details.tsx`. Logic in `lib/order-reviews.ts`.
+Built 2026-07-28 (migrations 0024, 0025). `order_reviews` was previously a table
+wired to nothing; it now backs `GET`/`PUT /api/transactions/[id]/review`, the UI
+in `components/order-details.tsx`, and the Slack card in
+`lib/slack-blocks.ts` + `app/api/slack/interactive/route.ts`. Logic in
+`lib/order-reviews.ts`.
 
-Four things about the shape, each of which is load-bearing:
+Five things about the shape, each load-bearing:
 
 - **Per person, not per order.** `UNIQUE (transaction_id, participant_id)`. A
   shared meal produces two opinions that routinely disagree, and the
   disagreement is the useful part. `PUT` defaults to the **signed-in user**,
   not the owner — Sonu authenticates through the same Traefik OAuth as
   participant 4, so an owner default would file her verdict under his name.
-- **Four levels** — `loved`, `liked`, `ok`, `never`. Three collapsed the
-  distinction that decides a re-order: "loved" and "liked" both mean "would
-  order again" but only one is worth a detour, and "ok" is not a
-  recommendation.
+- **Five levels** — `loved`, `liked`, `ok`, `bad`, `never`. Three collapsed the
+  distinction that decides a re-order; `bad` was added because the jump from
+  `ok` to `never again` is too big and most disappointments live in the gap.
+- **Only `never` sets `warn`.** A blacklist that fires for every mediocre meal
+  is one nobody reads. `bad` and `never` both set `order_again = false` — you
+  would not choose either — but only `never` raises the alarm on a future
+  order. "Would I order it" and "warn me about it" are different questions.
 - **Item verdicts key on the item DESCRIPTION**, not its index — an index is
   meaningless across orders, and "the Pad Thai here is good" has to survive
   into the next order from the same merchant. Pooled case-folded across the
@@ -208,20 +213,45 @@ Four things about the shape, each of which is load-bearing:
 - **An ABSENT `item_verdicts` means "leave them alone"; `[]` clears them.**
   Without that distinction a note-only save wipes every per-item opinion — the
   same shape as the bug that reset `settled` on split rewrites, and just as
-  invisible on screen.
+  invisible on screen. Mutation-tested.
 
-**Sharing is a real 50/50 split, not a flag.** The "Shared with Sonu" toggle
-writes `transaction_splits`, because the split already IS the record that an
-order was shared and two records of one fact drift apart. Safe to clear on an
-order because an ingested order is post-cutover by construction.
+**The merchant is the restaurant, not the courier.** `orderDescription` does not
+append the platform — that was added on request and reversed on 2026-07-28,
+because it fragmented the merchant and the platform already renders in the Order
+details panel. 81 descriptions were backfilled. `merchantVerdict` joins
+**case-folded**: the platforms capitalise differently (`TEG Kebabs & Biryani` vs
+`TEG KEBABS & BIRYANI`) and an exact match kept two separate histories, so a
+"never again" through one app never warned in the other.
 
-The merchant signal is *derived* by aggregating a merchant's orders on
+The merchant signal is *derived* by aggregating on
 `expense_metadata.merchant_normalized` — never `transactions.merchant_name`,
-which is a bank descriptor and reads differently for the same restaurant on
-different nights.
+which is a bank descriptor.
 
-`/api/orders/ingest` returns `prior_verdict` so the n8n Slack nudge can warn at
-the moment an order lands.
+**Sharing is a real 50/50 split, not a flag** — the split already IS the record,
+and two records of one fact drift apart. The toggle **refuses** when a
+participant outside {1, 4} is present or the second consumer's share is not 50:
+splits are made by hand here, so a third party or an uneven share is deliberate
+and one tap must not flatten it. It says which case it refused on.
+
+`/api/orders/ingest` returns `prior_verdict` (so the nudge can warn inline) and
+`slack_blocks` (so Block Kit stays in tested code rather than n8n expressions).
+
+### Slack cards — two rules that cost real data
+
+1. **Update via `response_url`, never the HTTP response body.** Block Kit
+   interactivity ignores the response body; replacing a message that way is
+   legacy attachment-style behaviour. Getting this wrong meant every press wrote
+   correctly and left the card stale, so a working button looked dead, got
+   pressed again, and toggled itself back — three splits were lost before
+   `conversations.history` showing `edited: false` settled it. `response_url`
+   needs no bot token, so the app posts it directly.
+2. **Never hand-write a card.** A card built with a guessed `shared: false`
+   mislabels an already-shared order and the button then deletes the split.
+   Render by calling the interactive endpoint with a no-op verb (`<id>:noop`):
+   it writes nothing and returns blocks built from live state.
+
+Slack reaches this route through an n8n webhook, not directly — see the
+smarthome repo's CLAUDE.md and the `slack-interactive-via-n8n` memory.
 
 ### The shared loan