diff --git a/docs/reference/recogniser-capabilities.md b/docs/reference/recogniser-capabilities.md
index ffb48ac4..d1aa9408 100644
--- a/docs/reference/recogniser-capabilities.md
+++ b/docs/reference/recogniser-capabilities.md
@@ -64,3 +64,34 @@ pass.
 `bosses` is the fully consumed reference family. `repeating-radial-profiles` is the opposite
 reference: it remains geometry-only critique evidence for a separately authored gear declaration,
 with no inferred gear feature added to fill the table.
+
+## Passage compatibility boundary
+
+The installed `b123d-recognisers==0.3.1` release already contains the `passages` family introduced
+in 0.2.6. Draftwright declares its schema-v1 `Passage` output exhaustively but deliberately keeps
+the family `unsupported`, with the drafting decision tracked by issue #1245. This is a truthful
+consumer disposition: the geometry remains visible in the aggregate inventory, while Draftwright
+does not invent an IR feature, DSL declaration, generated code, drawing annotation, or completeness
+requirement for it.
+
+Draftwright's exact dependency pin must remain on a reviewed released version in the interval
+`>=0.2.6,<0.4.0` until the separately reviewed F4b transition is ready. The lower boundary ensures
+the installed manifest really contains `passages`; the upper boundary prevents accidental adoption
+of the planned 0.4 compatibility change.
+
+The reviewed future 0.4 model is a distinct migration, not latent behavior in this declaration:
+
+- `SectionPassage` will be the authoritative physical output and aggregate census source;
+- legacy `Passage` values will be an accepted-only compatibility projection;
+- `recognise_passages(..., ledger=...)` will be a fail-loud unavailable compatibility operation;
+- the writer-free `recognise_passages` name will remain public but non-authoritative; and
+- rich split-junction passages can supersede a currently rendered Slot claim, moving ownership to
+  the Passage family through `SLOT_SUPERSEDED_BY_PASSAGE`; and
+- the capability contract must represent those API and per-output roles exhaustively before the
+  dependency pin can cross 0.4.
+
+That migration must update the package release, Draftwright adapter and declaration model,
+validator, tests, exact pin, and lockfile together. The current validator remains unchanged and
+fail closed; there is no forward declaration or stale-manifest exception. Crossing 0.4 also
+requires #1245 to decide what those newly Passage-owned occurrences draw, or an explicit reviewed
+decision to accept the resulting loss of the existing Slot callout.
diff --git a/tests/test_recogniser_capabilities.py b/tests/test_recogniser_capabilities.py
index f3ae9939..99196296 100644
--- a/tests/test_recogniser_capabilities.py
+++ b/tests/test_recogniser_capabilities.py
@@ -125,6 +125,46 @@ def test_installed_package_contract_validates_without_a_sibling_checkout() -> No
     assert len(package["families"]) == len(declaration["families"]) == 25
 
 
+def test_existing_passage_contract_is_truthfully_declared_before_f4b() -> None:
+    """Pin the current-family declaration separately from the future 0.4 migration."""
+
+    assert INSTALLED_PACKAGE_VERSION == "0.3.1"
+    installed = tuple(int(component) for component in INSTALLED_PACKAGE_VERSION.split("."))
+    # b123d-recognisers#184 and Draftwright #1337/#1245 must be accepted before this
+    # upper bound moves: 0.4 changes both the capability model and rendered ownership.
+    assert (0, 2, 6) <= installed < (0, 4, 0)
+    package = _families(recognition.capability_manifest())
+    declaration = _families(consumer_capability_declaration())
+    passage_package = package["passages"]
+    passage_consumer = declaration["passages"]
+
+    assert passage_package["introduced_in"] == "0.2.6"
+    assert len(passage_package["records"]) == 1
+    passage_record = passage_package["records"][0]
+    assert passage_record["name"] == "Passage"
+    assert passage_record["role"] == "output"
+    assert passage_record["schema_version"] == 1
+    assert passage_record["aggregate_membership"] == ["RecognitionResult.passages"]
+    assert passage_consumer["record_schemas"] == {"Passage": [1]}
+    assert passage_consumer["disposition"] == "unsupported"
+    assert passage_consumer["tracking"] == "https://github.com/pzfreo/draftwright/issues/1245"
+    assert {
+        passage_consumer[name]["state"]
+        for name in (
+            "ir_adapter",
+            "dsl_declaration",
+            "generated_code",
+            "drawing_consumer",
+        )
+    } == {"unsupported"}
+    assert passage_consumer["completeness"]["state"] == "deferred"
+    assert passage_consumer["documentation"] == {
+        "state": "supported",
+        "evidence": ["docs/reference/recogniser-capabilities.md"],
+    }
+    assert "passages" not in pending_family_declarations()
+
+
 def test_runtime_adapter_inventory_is_derived_independently_and_exhaustive() -> None:
     runtime = _runtime_emitted_records()
     tiers = [