diff --git a/prisma/schema.prisma b/prisma/schema.prisma
index cdf021c..234a5b0 100644
--- a/prisma/schema.prisma
+++ b/prisma/schema.prisma
@@ -283,6 +283,8 @@ model intake_batches {
   status         String
   transaction_id Int?
   capture_id     Int?
+  // The undo baseline, written once per batch (see 0034 and line-items.ts).
+  previous_line_items Json?
   created_at     DateTime  @default(now()) @db.Timestamptz(6)
   resolved_at    DateTime? @db.Timestamptz(6)
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/intake-extract.ts b/src/lib/intake-extract.ts
index 98919a3..1195a00 100644
--- a/src/lib/intake-extract.ts
+++ b/src/lib/intake-extract.ts
@@ -185,11 +185,18 @@ export function liteLLMExtractor(opts: {
     });
     if (!response.ok) throw new ExtractionError(`LiteLLM returned ${response.status}`);
     const raw = (await response.json()) as { choices?: { message?: { content?: string }; finish_reason?: string }[] };
-    // Only `stop` means the strict schema was satisfied. A truncated reply can
-    // still parse once the JSON is closed, which quietly drops the tail of a
-    // long receipt; a `content_filter` or `tool_calls` stop is a different reply
-    // shape entirely. Accepting anything but `stop` accepts a reply the schema
-    // never constrained — losing lines silently is worse than failing.
+    // The rule is: a finish_reason that is PRESENT must be `stop`. An absent
+    // one is accepted, deliberately — providers differ on whether they send the
+    // field, and failing every call on a provider that omits it would be a
+    // certain outage in exchange for a case that also requires the model to
+    // emit syntactically complete JSON. The harm a truncated reply does — a
+    // partial item list replacing a good one — is closed on the write side
+    // instead, by the guard in `routeFood`/`createFromBatch`.
+    //
+    // `length` is the common one: a truncated reply still parses once the JSON
+    // happens to close, quietly dropping the tail of a long receipt. Any other
+    // reason (`content_filter`, `tool_calls`) is a different reply shape that
+    // the strict schema never constrained.
     const finish = raw.choices?.[0]?.finish_reason;
     if (finish && finish !== "stop") {
       throw new ExtractionError(