diff --git a/core/src/host/project-assistant.js b/core/src/host/project-assistant.js
index 158e22d39..a532b0326 100644
--- a/core/src/host/project-assistant.js
+++ b/core/src/host/project-assistant.js
@@ -70,8 +70,12 @@ export function buildDigest({ project, rows = [], since = null, files = [], at =
   const line = (head, entries) => [head, ...entries.map(entry => `- ${entry}`)]
   // The personal block comes last: the same rows answer the same four sections for every owner,
   // and only this one names the cards that wait on the person reading it.
-  const asks = owner === null ? [] : actionable.slice(0, MAX_ACTIONABLE).map(item => `${item.id} — ${item.ask}`)
-  const personal = asks.length === 0 ? [] : line(`Needs ${owner}'s decision:`, asks)
+  const shown = owner === null ? [] : actionable.slice(0, MAX_ACTIONABLE).map(item => `${item.id} — ${item.ask}`)
+  // The block stays five cards: a person with seven waiting is told how many are left over instead
+  // of being handed the whole board (#P-197). Five or fewer print exactly as they did before.
+  const rest = owner === null ? 0 : actionable.length - MAX_ACTIONABLE
+  if (rest > 0) shown.push(`… and ${rest} more waiting on you`)
+  const personal = shown.length === 0 ? [] : line(`Needs ${owner}'s decision:`, shown)
   const sections = [
     ...(merged.length === 0 ? [] : line('Merged since the previous digest:', merged.map(row => `${row.id} (${row.source})`))),
     ...(closed.length === 0 ? [] : line('Closed:', closed.map(row => `${row.id} (${row.source})`))),
@@ -87,26 +91,42 @@ export function buildDigest({ project, rows = [], since = null, files = [], at =
   return { changed: true, day: dayIn(at), text: [head, stateLine, ...sections].join('\n') }
 }
 
-// The cards that need *this* owner's decision: still open, and owned by that owner. A card
-// somebody else owns is their decision, and never appears in this owner's digest. The board's
-// `assignee` is a Bot name or null, never a member id (#1733), so the owner comes from `ownerOf`:
-// the host resolves it from the card's own Bot, and a hand-built row may carry `ownerId` itself.
+// The cards that need *this* owner's decision: owned by that owner, and stopped where only the
+// reader can move them. A card somebody else owns is their decision, and never appears in this
+// owner's digest. The board's `assignee` is a Bot name or null, never a member id (#1733), so the
+// owner comes from `ownerOf`: the host resolves it from the card's own Bot, and a hand-built row
+// may carry `ownerId` itself.
+const WAITING_STATUS = new Set(['blocked', 'result-ready'])
 export function actionableFor(rows, ownerId, ownerOf = row => text(row?.ownerId)) {
   const owner = text(ownerId)
   if (owner === '') return []
   return (rows ?? [])
     .filter(row => row?.column !== 'done' && ownerOf(row) === owner)
+    // A row that carries no status keeps the older answer: absence is not evidence that the card
+    // is moving, and reading it as "not waiting" would silently delete a card from the digest.
+    .filter((row) => {
+      const status = text(row?.status)
+      return status === '' || WAITING_STATUS.has(status)
+    })
     .sort((a, b) => (a.updatedAt ?? 0) - (b.updatedAt ?? 0) || String(a.id).localeCompare(String(b.id)))
     .map(row => ({ id: String(row.id), ask: askOf(row) }))
 }
 
-// One line, because the block is a list of decisions and a card description may be long.
+// One line, because the block is a list of decisions and a card description may be long. What the
+// card is waiting for is its own status, not its column: a blocked card wants a call, a finished
+// result wants acceptance, and anything else the caller chose to list is still a decision to make.
+const waitOf = (row) => {
+  const status = text(row?.status)
+  if (status === 'blocked') return 'needs your call'
+  if (status === 'result-ready') return 'ready for your acceptance'
+  return 'decide what happens next'
+}
 const askOf = (row) => {
   const title = text(row.title).replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
   const where = text(row.column) === '' ? 'open' : `still ${text(row.column)}`
-  if (title === '') return `decide what happens next — ${where}`
+  if (title === '') return `${waitOf(row)} — ${where}`
   const short = title.length > 80 ? `${title.slice(0, 77)}…` : title
-  return `decide what happens next — ${short} (${where})`
+  return `${waitOf(row)} — ${short} (${where})`
 }
 
 // A write is attributed by text, because one shared GitHub login makes it impossible to tell
@@ -314,8 +334,13 @@ export function install(rt) {
   // A board row carries the card's identity and its column, not its title; the ask line needs a
   // subject, so the card's own record supplies it.
   const withTitles = rows => rows.map((row) => {
-    const title = text(rt.state?.tasks?.[String(row?.id ?? '')]?.title)
-    return title === '' ? row : { ...row, title }
+    const task = rt.state?.tasks?.[String(row?.id ?? '')]
+    const title = text(task?.title)
+    // The card's status comes from its own record here, not from a second read further down: a
+    // card that is still moving waits on nobody, and the digest decides that from this row (#P-195).
+    const status = text(task?.status)
+    const shaped = title === '' ? row : { ...row, title }
+    return status === '' ? shaped : { ...shaped, status }
   })
 
   // A card's owner is the owner of the Bot that owns the card: the board names the Bot, and the
@@ -356,23 +381,29 @@ export function install(rt) {
   const bodyFor = (project, built, who) => (who.ok === true ? [attribution(project, who.login), built.text].join('\n\n') : built.text)
 
   // One owner's digest. Generation may proceed while a quiet window holds delivery; a window that
-  // covers 09:00 delivers nothing that day at all, and that is the expected outcome, not a failure.
+  // covers the due instant delivers nothing that day at all, and that is the expected outcome, not a
+  // failure.
   const digestForOwner = async ({ project, owner, rows, cards, files, at, force, who }) => {
     const assistant = assistantOf(project) ?? project.assistant ?? null
     const record = assistant === null ? { } : ownerRecord(assistant, owner)
     const quiet = quietOf(assistant, owner)
+    const day = dayIn(at)
+    // 09:00 in the digest's own zone is an instant, and a window is wall clock in the owner's own
+    // zone: two zones' wall clocks are not comparable (#P-194). Asia/Shanghai has no DST, so the
+    // due instant is today's date at 09:00+08:00, read back as a clock in the owner's zone.
+    const due = clockIn(quiet.zone, Date.parse(`${day}T${DIGEST_TIME}:00+08:00`))
     const clock = clockIn(quiet.zone, at)
-    const coversDue = inQuietHours(quiet, DIGEST_TIME)
+    const coversDue = inQuietHours(quiet, due)
     const memory = memoryOf(project, owner)
-    const day = dayIn(at)
     if (record.off === true) {
       return { owner, ok: true, skipped: true, optedOut: true, delivered: false, day, reason: 'this owner turned the digest off, so nothing is generated' }
     }
-    // A digest held earlier today goes out once, when the window ends, labelled as held.
+    // A digest held earlier today goes out once, when the window ends, labelled as held from the
+    // instant it was held at — not from 09:00, which is another zone's wall clock.
     const held = typeof record.held === 'object' && record.held !== null ? record.held : null
     if (held !== null && held.day === day && coversDue === false && inQuietHours(quiet, clock) === false) {
       delete record.held
-      const label = `held from ${DIGEST_TIME} to ${clock} by quiet hours ${quiet.from}–${quiet.to}`
+      const label = `held from ${clockIn(quiet.zone, held.at ?? at)} to ${clock} by quiet hours ${quiet.from}–${quiet.to}`
       const body = [bodyFor(project, { text: text(held.text) }, who), `(${label})`].join('\n')
       const sent = await deliverTo(project, owner, body)
       await rt.save?.()
@@ -385,7 +416,7 @@ export function install(rt) {
     const note = { day: built.day, at, text: built.text, ...(who.ok === true ? {} : { error: `GitHub write refused: ${who.reason}` }) }
     rt.setProjectDigest?.(project.id, note, owner)
     if (coversDue) {
-      return { owner, ok: true, skipped: false, delivered: false, held: true, dropped: true, day: built.day, changed: built.changed, text: built.text, reason: `quiet hours ${quiet.from}–${quiet.to} cover ${DIGEST_TIME}, so nothing is delivered — the expected outcome` }
+      return { owner, ok: true, skipped: false, delivered: false, held: true, dropped: true, day: built.day, changed: built.changed, text: built.text, reason: `quiet hours ${quiet.from}–${quiet.to} cover ${due}, so nothing is delivered — the expected outcome` }
     }
     if (inQuietHours(quiet, clock)) {
       record.held = { day: built.day, at, text: built.text, from: quiet.from, to: quiet.to }
diff --git a/core/test/project-assistant.test.js b/core/test/project-assistant.test.js
index a55bd844e..5ba8cca6c 100644
--- a/core/test/project-assistant.test.js
+++ b/core/test/project-assistant.test.js
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ test('a quiet window holds the digest and delivers it once, labelled, when it en
 
     const once = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: after })
     assert.equal(once.delivered, 1)
-    assert.match(delivered[0].text, /held from 09:00 to 08:45 by quiet hours 07:00\u201308:30/)
+    assert.match(delivered[0].text, /held from 08:00 to 08:45 by quiet hours 07:00\u201308:30/)
     const twice = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: after + 60_000 })
     assert.equal(twice.delivered, 0, 'delivered once, not again')
     assert.equal(delivered.length, 1)
@@ -349,6 +349,92 @@ test('a quiet window that covers 09:00 delivers nothing, and that is the expecte
   }
 })
 
+// P-194: the due instant is 09:00 Asia/Shanghai; a quiet window is wall clock in the owner's own
+// zone. Two different zones' wall clocks are not comparable, so the window is tested against the
+// due instant read in the owner's zone. Red first drives this through setOwner directly: the
+// `project-assistant-owner` endpoint has no channel case, so no product-level path exists today
+// and the trigger arrives with P-198. Until then this is a latent defect: the digest would be
+// dropped silently once a UTC owner's window is set.
+test('#P-194: a quiet window in the owner\'s zone is compared with the due instant, not with 09:00', async () => {
+  const { rt, stop } = await start()
+  try {
+    const project = await created(rt, { name: 'UtcWindow', ownerUserId: 'owner-1' })
+    rt.projectBoard = () => [{ id: 't-utc', source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Owner One Bot', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: 1 }]
+    // 08:00–10:00 UTC does not contain the due instant (01:00Z = 09:00 Asia/Shanghai).
+    await rt.projectAssistant.setOwner(project.id, 'owner-1', { quiet: { on: true, from: '08:00', to: '10:00' }, zone: 'UTC' })
+    const result = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: AT }) // 01:00Z
+    const owner = result.owners[0]
+    assert.equal(result.delivered, 1, 'the window does not cover the due instant, so the digest goes out')
+    assert.notEqual(owner.dropped, true, 'nothing was dropped')
+    assert.doesNotMatch(String(owner.reason ?? ''), /cover/, 'no drop reason is recorded')
+    assert.notEqual(owner.held, true, 'nothing was held either')
+  } finally {
+    await stop()
+  }
+})
+
+test('#P-194: a window that really covers the due instant still drops the digest', async () => {
+  const { rt, delivered, stop } = await start()
+  try {
+    const project = await created(rt, { name: 'UtcCovered', ownerUserId: 'owner-1' })
+    rt.projectBoard = () => []
+    await rt.projectAssistant.setOwner(project.id, 'owner-1', { quiet: { on: true, from: '00:30', to: '01:30' }, zone: 'UTC' })
+    const result = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: AT }) // 01:00Z is inside it
+    const owner = result.owners[0]
+    assert.equal(result.delivered, 0, 'a window covering the due instant delivers nothing')
+    assert.equal(owner.dropped, true)
+    assert.match(owner.reason, /cover 01:00, so nothing is delivered — the expected outcome/)
+    assert.equal(delivered.length, 0)
+  } finally {
+    await stop()
+  }
+})
+
+// P-197: the personal block stays five cards, and says how many are left over; five or fewer
+// print exactly as they did before.
+test('#P-197: more than five decisions say how many are still waiting', () => {
+  const rows = Array.from({ length: MAX_ACTIONABLE + 2 }, (_, index) => ({ id: `t-${index}`, source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: index, title: `card ${index}`, status: 'blocked' }))
+  const items = actionableFor(rows, 'owner-1')
+  assert.equal(items.length, MAX_ACTIONABLE + 2, 'the helper keeps them all')
+  const built = buildDigest({ project: { id: 'p', name: 'More' }, rows, owner: 'owner-1', actionable: items, at: AT })
+  const personal = built.text.slice(built.text.indexOf("Needs owner-1's decision:"))
+  const listed = personal.split('\n').filter(line => /^- t-\d/.test(line))
+  assert.equal(listed.length, MAX_ACTIONABLE, 'the digest still lists at most MAX_ACTIONABLE cards')
+  assert.match(built.text, /^- … and 2 more waiting on you$/m)
+})
+
+test('#P-197: five or fewer decisions print exactly as before', () => {
+  const rows = Array.from({ length: MAX_ACTIONABLE }, (_, index) => ({ id: `t-${index}`, source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: index, title: `card ${index}`, status: 'blocked' }))
+  const built = buildDigest({ project: { id: 'p', name: 'Five' }, rows, owner: 'owner-1', actionable: actionableFor(rows, 'owner-1'), at: AT })
+  assert.doesNotMatch(built.text, /more waiting on you/)
+  const personal = built.text.slice(built.text.indexOf("Needs owner-1's decision:"))
+  const listed = personal.split('\n').filter(line => /^- t-\d/.test(line))
+  assert.equal(listed.length, MAX_ACTIONABLE)
+})
+
+// P-195: the personal block is what waits on the reader, not the whole board: a card still being
+// worked on is somebody's move, a blocked card needs this reader's call, and a finished result
+// needs their acceptance.
+test('#P-195: only the cards that wait on the reader reach the personal block', () => {
+  const rows = [
+    { id: 't-working', source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: 1, title: 'Still moving', status: 'working' },
+    { id: 't-blocked', source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: 2, title: 'Stopped on a question', status: 'blocked' },
+    { id: 't-ready', source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: 3, title: 'Back for acceptance', status: 'result-ready' },
+  ]
+  const items = actionableFor(rows, 'owner-1')
+  assert.deepEqual(items.map(item => item.id), ['t-blocked', 't-ready'], 'a card that is still moving is nobody else\'s decision to make')
+  const built = buildDigest({ project: { id: 'p', name: 'Waiting' }, rows, owner: 'owner-1', actionable: items, at: AT })
+  const personal = built.text.slice(built.text.indexOf("Needs owner-1's decision:"))
+  assert.match(personal, /Stopped on a question/)
+  assert.match(personal, /needs your call/)
+  assert.match(personal, /Back for acceptance/)
+  assert.match(personal, /ready for your acceptance/)
+  assert.doesNotMatch(personal, /Still moving/, 'a card still in progress is not a decision waiting on the reader')
+  const shared = built.text.slice(0, built.text.indexOf("Needs owner-1's decision:"))
+  assert.match(shared, /In progress, waiting on:/)
+  assert.match(shared, /t-working — Worker/, 'the shared section still lists it')
+})
+
 test('opting out stops generation and pauses the 09:00 task, and re-enabling restores both', async () => {
   const { rt, service, delivered, stop } = await start()
   try {
@@ -424,16 +510,27 @@ test('a card lists for the owner of the Bot that owns it, through the real task
     rt.state.bots.worker = { id: 'worker', name: 'Worker', role: 'Dev', sessionId: 'w', createdAt: 3, ownerId: 'owner-2' }
     await rt.projectEndpoint('project-bind', { kind: 'bot', id: 'a', projectId: project.id })
     await rt.projectEndpoint('project-bind', { kind: 'bot', id: 'worker', projectId: project.id })
-    await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'worker', title: 'Pick the release date' }, null)
-    await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'a', title: 'Rotate the deploy key' }, null)
+    const pick = (await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'worker', title: 'Pick the release date' }, null)).id
+    const rotate = (await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'a', title: 'Rotate the deploy key' }, null)).id
+    const moving = (await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'a', title: 'Still moving' }, null)).id
+    // A card waits on its reader only once it has stopped: drive both to `blocked`, which the
+    // digest reads from the task store itself, and leave one of the owner's cards `working`.
+    for (const id of [pick, rotate]) {
+      await rt.taskEndpoint('task-accept', { id }, null)
+      await rt.taskEndpoint('task-start', { id }, null)
+      await rt.taskEndpoint('task-wait-input', { id, question: 'Which one?' }, null)
+    }
+    await rt.taskEndpoint('task-accept', { id: moving }, null)
+    await rt.taskEndpoint('task-start', { id: moving }, null)
     const rows = rt.projectBoard(project.id)
-    assert.equal(rows.length, 2)
+    assert.equal(rows.length, 3)
     assert.ok(rows.every(row => row.assignee === null), 'the board carries a Bot name or null, never a member id')
     assert.equal(actionableFor(rows, 'owner-1').length, 0, 'the raw helper sees no owner without a resolver')
     const result = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: AT })
     const [one, two] = result.owners
     assert.match(one.text, /Rotate the deploy key/, 'the card of the primary owner\'s Bot is theirs')
     assert.doesNotMatch(one.text, /Pick the release date/, 'another owner\'s card never appears in this digest')
+    assert.doesNotMatch(one.text, /Still moving/, 'a card the owner\'s Bot is still working on waits on nobody')
     assert.match(two.text, /Pick the release date/, 'the card of the second owner\'s Bot is theirs')
     assert.doesNotMatch(two.text, /Rotate the deploy key/)
   } finally {
diff --git a/docs/subsystems/core-host.md b/docs/subsystems/core-host.md
index e03f95e1a..ce840ca93 100644
--- a/docs/subsystems/core-host.md
+++ b/docs/subsystems/core-host.md
@@ -654,16 +654,26 @@ the host side only, so the tier stays T2 and `core/src/shared/` is untouched.
   `listProjectState(project.workDir)` once, then renders once per owner with that owner's memory and
   that owner's actionable block. Shared facts are identical in both texts; a card assigned to
   somebody else never appears in the "Needs <owner>'s decision:" block, and `MAX_ACTIONABLE` (5)
-  caps that block, each item carrying the task id and a one-line ask. A prompt-injected line cannot
+  caps that block, each item carrying the task id and a one-line ask. A sixth line,
+  `… and N more waiting on you`, counts what the cap left out; five or fewer print exactly the
+  lines they printed before (#P-197). The block holds the cards that wait on the reader and no
+  others: `blocked` ("needs your call") and `result-ready` ("ready for your acceptance"), read from
+  the card's own status through `withTitles`, so a card still `open`, `claimed` or `working` stays
+  only in the shared "In progress, waiting on:" section, and a row that carries no status keeps the
+  older answer rather than being dropped (#P-195). A prompt-injected line cannot
   cross: digest A carries no entry from B's memory because A's render is handed only A's entries.
 - **Quiet window per owner.** `rt.projectAssistant.setOwner(projectId, ownerId, { quiet, zone, off })`
   stores `{ quiet: { on, from, to }, zone, off }` on `project.assistant.owners[ownerId]`, never in
   `state.prefs` (the host-wide #1166 window keeps its own job, refusing a new or edited task). The
-  window is read in the owner's zone with `clockIn`, and:
+  window is wall clock in the owner's zone, so it is compared with the **due instant** — today's
+  09:00 Asia/Shanghai, read back as a clock in the owner's zone with `clockIn` (#P-194) — never with
+  the string `09:00`, which is another zone's wall clock. Then:
   a digest due inside it is **held** — still generated and stored, then delivered once when the
-  window ends, labelled `held from 09:00 to <clock> by quiet hours <from>–<to>`;
-  a window that covers 09:00 delivers **nothing** that day, and that is the expected outcome, not a
-  failure (the note is still written, so the next day is still one a day).
+  window ends, labelled `held from <the clock it was held at> to <clock> by quiet hours <from>–<to>`;
+  a window that covers the due instant delivers **nothing** that day, and that is the expected
+  outcome, not a failure (the note is still written, so the next day is still one a day).
+  `setOwner` has no channel case yet, so no product-level path reaches these controls today; the
+  window matters once that endpoint is wired (P-198).
 - **Opt-out.** `off: true` on the owner record stops generation for that owner (no note, no
   message) and the 09:00 task is **paused** through `rt.scheduleEndpoint('schedule-pause')` once
   every owner is off — the task is shared, so one owner turning back on **resumes** it
diff --git a/patches/ds-bot/files/src/host/project-assistant.js b/patches/ds-bot/files/src/host/project-assistant.js
index 158e22d39..a532b0326 100644
--- a/patches/ds-bot/files/src/host/project-assistant.js
+++ b/patches/ds-bot/files/src/host/project-assistant.js
@@ -70,8 +70,12 @@ export function buildDigest({ project, rows = [], since = null, files = [], at =
   const line = (head, entries) => [head, ...entries.map(entry => `- ${entry}`)]
   // The personal block comes last: the same rows answer the same four sections for every owner,
   // and only this one names the cards that wait on the person reading it.
-  const asks = owner === null ? [] : actionable.slice(0, MAX_ACTIONABLE).map(item => `${item.id} — ${item.ask}`)
-  const personal = asks.length === 0 ? [] : line(`Needs ${owner}'s decision:`, asks)
+  const shown = owner === null ? [] : actionable.slice(0, MAX_ACTIONABLE).map(item => `${item.id} — ${item.ask}`)
+  // The block stays five cards: a person with seven waiting is told how many are left over instead
+  // of being handed the whole board (#P-197). Five or fewer print exactly as they did before.
+  const rest = owner === null ? 0 : actionable.length - MAX_ACTIONABLE
+  if (rest > 0) shown.push(`… and ${rest} more waiting on you`)
+  const personal = shown.length === 0 ? [] : line(`Needs ${owner}'s decision:`, shown)
   const sections = [
     ...(merged.length === 0 ? [] : line('Merged since the previous digest:', merged.map(row => `${row.id} (${row.source})`))),
     ...(closed.length === 0 ? [] : line('Closed:', closed.map(row => `${row.id} (${row.source})`))),
@@ -87,26 +91,42 @@ export function buildDigest({ project, rows = [], since = null, files = [], at =
   return { changed: true, day: dayIn(at), text: [head, stateLine, ...sections].join('\n') }
 }
 
-// The cards that need *this* owner's decision: still open, and owned by that owner. A card
-// somebody else owns is their decision, and never appears in this owner's digest. The board's
-// `assignee` is a Bot name or null, never a member id (#1733), so the owner comes from `ownerOf`:
-// the host resolves it from the card's own Bot, and a hand-built row may carry `ownerId` itself.
+// The cards that need *this* owner's decision: owned by that owner, and stopped where only the
+// reader can move them. A card somebody else owns is their decision, and never appears in this
+// owner's digest. The board's `assignee` is a Bot name or null, never a member id (#1733), so the
+// owner comes from `ownerOf`: the host resolves it from the card's own Bot, and a hand-built row
+// may carry `ownerId` itself.
+const WAITING_STATUS = new Set(['blocked', 'result-ready'])
 export function actionableFor(rows, ownerId, ownerOf = row => text(row?.ownerId)) {
   const owner = text(ownerId)
   if (owner === '') return []
   return (rows ?? [])
     .filter(row => row?.column !== 'done' && ownerOf(row) === owner)
+    // A row that carries no status keeps the older answer: absence is not evidence that the card
+    // is moving, and reading it as "not waiting" would silently delete a card from the digest.
+    .filter((row) => {
+      const status = text(row?.status)
+      return status === '' || WAITING_STATUS.has(status)
+    })
     .sort((a, b) => (a.updatedAt ?? 0) - (b.updatedAt ?? 0) || String(a.id).localeCompare(String(b.id)))
     .map(row => ({ id: String(row.id), ask: askOf(row) }))
 }
 
-// One line, because the block is a list of decisions and a card description may be long.
+// One line, because the block is a list of decisions and a card description may be long. What the
+// card is waiting for is its own status, not its column: a blocked card wants a call, a finished
+// result wants acceptance, and anything else the caller chose to list is still a decision to make.
+const waitOf = (row) => {
+  const status = text(row?.status)
+  if (status === 'blocked') return 'needs your call'
+  if (status === 'result-ready') return 'ready for your acceptance'
+  return 'decide what happens next'
+}
 const askOf = (row) => {
   const title = text(row.title).replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
   const where = text(row.column) === '' ? 'open' : `still ${text(row.column)}`
-  if (title === '') return `decide what happens next — ${where}`
+  if (title === '') return `${waitOf(row)} — ${where}`
   const short = title.length > 80 ? `${title.slice(0, 77)}…` : title
-  return `decide what happens next — ${short} (${where})`
+  return `${waitOf(row)} — ${short} (${where})`
 }
 
 // A write is attributed by text, because one shared GitHub login makes it impossible to tell
@@ -314,8 +334,13 @@ export function install(rt) {
   // A board row carries the card's identity and its column, not its title; the ask line needs a
   // subject, so the card's own record supplies it.
   const withTitles = rows => rows.map((row) => {
-    const title = text(rt.state?.tasks?.[String(row?.id ?? '')]?.title)
-    return title === '' ? row : { ...row, title }
+    const task = rt.state?.tasks?.[String(row?.id ?? '')]
+    const title = text(task?.title)
+    // The card's status comes from its own record here, not from a second read further down: a
+    // card that is still moving waits on nobody, and the digest decides that from this row (#P-195).
+    const status = text(task?.status)
+    const shaped = title === '' ? row : { ...row, title }
+    return status === '' ? shaped : { ...shaped, status }
   })
 
   // A card's owner is the owner of the Bot that owns the card: the board names the Bot, and the
@@ -356,23 +381,29 @@ export function install(rt) {
   const bodyFor = (project, built, who) => (who.ok === true ? [attribution(project, who.login), built.text].join('\n\n') : built.text)
 
   // One owner's digest. Generation may proceed while a quiet window holds delivery; a window that
-  // covers 09:00 delivers nothing that day at all, and that is the expected outcome, not a failure.
+  // covers the due instant delivers nothing that day at all, and that is the expected outcome, not a
+  // failure.
   const digestForOwner = async ({ project, owner, rows, cards, files, at, force, who }) => {
     const assistant = assistantOf(project) ?? project.assistant ?? null
     const record = assistant === null ? { } : ownerRecord(assistant, owner)
     const quiet = quietOf(assistant, owner)
+    const day = dayIn(at)
+    // 09:00 in the digest's own zone is an instant, and a window is wall clock in the owner's own
+    // zone: two zones' wall clocks are not comparable (#P-194). Asia/Shanghai has no DST, so the
+    // due instant is today's date at 09:00+08:00, read back as a clock in the owner's zone.
+    const due = clockIn(quiet.zone, Date.parse(`${day}T${DIGEST_TIME}:00+08:00`))
     const clock = clockIn(quiet.zone, at)
-    const coversDue = inQuietHours(quiet, DIGEST_TIME)
+    const coversDue = inQuietHours(quiet, due)
     const memory = memoryOf(project, owner)
-    const day = dayIn(at)
     if (record.off === true) {
       return { owner, ok: true, skipped: true, optedOut: true, delivered: false, day, reason: 'this owner turned the digest off, so nothing is generated' }
     }
-    // A digest held earlier today goes out once, when the window ends, labelled as held.
+    // A digest held earlier today goes out once, when the window ends, labelled as held from the
+    // instant it was held at — not from 09:00, which is another zone's wall clock.
     const held = typeof record.held === 'object' && record.held !== null ? record.held : null
     if (held !== null && held.day === day && coversDue === false && inQuietHours(quiet, clock) === false) {
       delete record.held
-      const label = `held from ${DIGEST_TIME} to ${clock} by quiet hours ${quiet.from}–${quiet.to}`
+      const label = `held from ${clockIn(quiet.zone, held.at ?? at)} to ${clock} by quiet hours ${quiet.from}–${quiet.to}`
       const body = [bodyFor(project, { text: text(held.text) }, who), `(${label})`].join('\n')
       const sent = await deliverTo(project, owner, body)
       await rt.save?.()
@@ -385,7 +416,7 @@ export function install(rt) {
     const note = { day: built.day, at, text: built.text, ...(who.ok === true ? {} : { error: `GitHub write refused: ${who.reason}` }) }
     rt.setProjectDigest?.(project.id, note, owner)
     if (coversDue) {
-      return { owner, ok: true, skipped: false, delivered: false, held: true, dropped: true, day: built.day, changed: built.changed, text: built.text, reason: `quiet hours ${quiet.from}–${quiet.to} cover ${DIGEST_TIME}, so nothing is delivered — the expected outcome` }
+      return { owner, ok: true, skipped: false, delivered: false, held: true, dropped: true, day: built.day, changed: built.changed, text: built.text, reason: `quiet hours ${quiet.from}–${quiet.to} cover ${due}, so nothing is delivered — the expected outcome` }
     }
     if (inQuietHours(quiet, clock)) {
       record.held = { day: built.day, at, text: built.text, from: quiet.from, to: quiet.to }
diff --git a/patches/ds-bot/files/test/project-assistant.test.js b/patches/ds-bot/files/test/project-assistant.test.js
index a55bd844e..5ba8cca6c 100644
--- a/patches/ds-bot/files/test/project-assistant.test.js
+++ b/patches/ds-bot/files/test/project-assistant.test.js
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ test('a quiet window holds the digest and delivers it once, labelled, when it en
 
     const once = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: after })
     assert.equal(once.delivered, 1)
-    assert.match(delivered[0].text, /held from 09:00 to 08:45 by quiet hours 07:00\u201308:30/)
+    assert.match(delivered[0].text, /held from 08:00 to 08:45 by quiet hours 07:00\u201308:30/)
     const twice = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: after + 60_000 })
     assert.equal(twice.delivered, 0, 'delivered once, not again')
     assert.equal(delivered.length, 1)
@@ -349,6 +349,92 @@ test('a quiet window that covers 09:00 delivers nothing, and that is the expecte
   }
 })
 
+// P-194: the due instant is 09:00 Asia/Shanghai; a quiet window is wall clock in the owner's own
+// zone. Two different zones' wall clocks are not comparable, so the window is tested against the
+// due instant read in the owner's zone. Red first drives this through setOwner directly: the
+// `project-assistant-owner` endpoint has no channel case, so no product-level path exists today
+// and the trigger arrives with P-198. Until then this is a latent defect: the digest would be
+// dropped silently once a UTC owner's window is set.
+test('#P-194: a quiet window in the owner\'s zone is compared with the due instant, not with 09:00', async () => {
+  const { rt, stop } = await start()
+  try {
+    const project = await created(rt, { name: 'UtcWindow', ownerUserId: 'owner-1' })
+    rt.projectBoard = () => [{ id: 't-utc', source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Owner One Bot', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: 1 }]
+    // 08:00–10:00 UTC does not contain the due instant (01:00Z = 09:00 Asia/Shanghai).
+    await rt.projectAssistant.setOwner(project.id, 'owner-1', { quiet: { on: true, from: '08:00', to: '10:00' }, zone: 'UTC' })
+    const result = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: AT }) // 01:00Z
+    const owner = result.owners[0]
+    assert.equal(result.delivered, 1, 'the window does not cover the due instant, so the digest goes out')
+    assert.notEqual(owner.dropped, true, 'nothing was dropped')
+    assert.doesNotMatch(String(owner.reason ?? ''), /cover/, 'no drop reason is recorded')
+    assert.notEqual(owner.held, true, 'nothing was held either')
+  } finally {
+    await stop()
+  }
+})
+
+test('#P-194: a window that really covers the due instant still drops the digest', async () => {
+  const { rt, delivered, stop } = await start()
+  try {
+    const project = await created(rt, { name: 'UtcCovered', ownerUserId: 'owner-1' })
+    rt.projectBoard = () => []
+    await rt.projectAssistant.setOwner(project.id, 'owner-1', { quiet: { on: true, from: '00:30', to: '01:30' }, zone: 'UTC' })
+    const result = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: AT }) // 01:00Z is inside it
+    const owner = result.owners[0]
+    assert.equal(result.delivered, 0, 'a window covering the due instant delivers nothing')
+    assert.equal(owner.dropped, true)
+    assert.match(owner.reason, /cover 01:00, so nothing is delivered — the expected outcome/)
+    assert.equal(delivered.length, 0)
+  } finally {
+    await stop()
+  }
+})
+
+// P-197: the personal block stays five cards, and says how many are left over; five or fewer
+// print exactly as they did before.
+test('#P-197: more than five decisions say how many are still waiting', () => {
+  const rows = Array.from({ length: MAX_ACTIONABLE + 2 }, (_, index) => ({ id: `t-${index}`, source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: index, title: `card ${index}`, status: 'blocked' }))
+  const items = actionableFor(rows, 'owner-1')
+  assert.equal(items.length, MAX_ACTIONABLE + 2, 'the helper keeps them all')
+  const built = buildDigest({ project: { id: 'p', name: 'More' }, rows, owner: 'owner-1', actionable: items, at: AT })
+  const personal = built.text.slice(built.text.indexOf("Needs owner-1's decision:"))
+  const listed = personal.split('\n').filter(line => /^- t-\d/.test(line))
+  assert.equal(listed.length, MAX_ACTIONABLE, 'the digest still lists at most MAX_ACTIONABLE cards')
+  assert.match(built.text, /^- … and 2 more waiting on you$/m)
+})
+
+test('#P-197: five or fewer decisions print exactly as before', () => {
+  const rows = Array.from({ length: MAX_ACTIONABLE }, (_, index) => ({ id: `t-${index}`, source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: index, title: `card ${index}`, status: 'blocked' }))
+  const built = buildDigest({ project: { id: 'p', name: 'Five' }, rows, owner: 'owner-1', actionable: actionableFor(rows, 'owner-1'), at: AT })
+  assert.doesNotMatch(built.text, /more waiting on you/)
+  const personal = built.text.slice(built.text.indexOf("Needs owner-1's decision:"))
+  const listed = personal.split('\n').filter(line => /^- t-\d/.test(line))
+  assert.equal(listed.length, MAX_ACTIONABLE)
+})
+
+// P-195: the personal block is what waits on the reader, not the whole board: a card still being
+// worked on is somebody's move, a blocked card needs this reader's call, and a finished result
+// needs their acceptance.
+test('#P-195: only the cards that wait on the reader reach the personal block', () => {
+  const rows = [
+    { id: 't-working', source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: 1, title: 'Still moving', status: 'working' },
+    { id: 't-blocked', source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: 2, title: 'Stopped on a question', status: 'blocked' },
+    { id: 't-ready', source: 'bot', column: 'in-progress', assignee: 'Worker', ownerId: 'owner-1', updatedAt: 3, title: 'Back for acceptance', status: 'result-ready' },
+  ]
+  const items = actionableFor(rows, 'owner-1')
+  assert.deepEqual(items.map(item => item.id), ['t-blocked', 't-ready'], 'a card that is still moving is nobody else\'s decision to make')
+  const built = buildDigest({ project: { id: 'p', name: 'Waiting' }, rows, owner: 'owner-1', actionable: items, at: AT })
+  const personal = built.text.slice(built.text.indexOf("Needs owner-1's decision:"))
+  assert.match(personal, /Stopped on a question/)
+  assert.match(personal, /needs your call/)
+  assert.match(personal, /Back for acceptance/)
+  assert.match(personal, /ready for your acceptance/)
+  assert.doesNotMatch(personal, /Still moving/, 'a card still in progress is not a decision waiting on the reader')
+  const shared = built.text.slice(0, built.text.indexOf("Needs owner-1's decision:"))
+  assert.match(shared, /In progress, waiting on:/)
+  assert.match(shared, /t-working — Worker/, 'the shared section still lists it')
+})
+
 test('opting out stops generation and pauses the 09:00 task, and re-enabling restores both', async () => {
   const { rt, service, delivered, stop } = await start()
   try {
@@ -424,16 +510,27 @@ test('a card lists for the owner of the Bot that owns it, through the real task
     rt.state.bots.worker = { id: 'worker', name: 'Worker', role: 'Dev', sessionId: 'w', createdAt: 3, ownerId: 'owner-2' }
     await rt.projectEndpoint('project-bind', { kind: 'bot', id: 'a', projectId: project.id })
     await rt.projectEndpoint('project-bind', { kind: 'bot', id: 'worker', projectId: project.id })
-    await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'worker', title: 'Pick the release date' }, null)
-    await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'a', title: 'Rotate the deploy key' }, null)
+    const pick = (await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'worker', title: 'Pick the release date' }, null)).id
+    const rotate = (await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'a', title: 'Rotate the deploy key' }, null)).id
+    const moving = (await rt.taskEndpoint('task-create', { botId: 'a', title: 'Still moving' }, null)).id
+    // A card waits on its reader only once it has stopped: drive both to `blocked`, which the
+    // digest reads from the task store itself, and leave one of the owner's cards `working`.
+    for (const id of [pick, rotate]) {
+      await rt.taskEndpoint('task-accept', { id }, null)
+      await rt.taskEndpoint('task-start', { id }, null)
+      await rt.taskEndpoint('task-wait-input', { id, question: 'Which one?' }, null)
+    }
+    await rt.taskEndpoint('task-accept', { id: moving }, null)
+    await rt.taskEndpoint('task-start', { id: moving }, null)
     const rows = rt.projectBoard(project.id)
-    assert.equal(rows.length, 2)
+    assert.equal(rows.length, 3)
     assert.ok(rows.every(row => row.assignee === null), 'the board carries a Bot name or null, never a member id')
     assert.equal(actionableFor(rows, 'owner-1').length, 0, 'the raw helper sees no owner without a resolver')
     const result = await rt.projectAssistant.digest(project.id, { at: AT })
     const [one, two] = result.owners
     assert.match(one.text, /Rotate the deploy key/, 'the card of the primary owner\'s Bot is theirs')
     assert.doesNotMatch(one.text, /Pick the release date/, 'another owner\'s card never appears in this digest')
+    assert.doesNotMatch(one.text, /Still moving/, 'a card the owner\'s Bot is still working on waits on nobody')
     assert.match(two.text, /Pick the release date/, 'the card of the second owner\'s Bot is theirs')
     assert.doesNotMatch(two.text, /Rotate the deploy key/)
   } finally {