diff --git a/TRIAGE.md b/TRIAGE.md
index b7451bb..37cb239 100644
--- a/TRIAGE.md
+++ b/TRIAGE.md
@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ Every issue you mint carries, in this order:
   epic organizes it. Name a cross-repo dependency the same way with its
   repository qualified (`Blocked by repo#N` or `owner/repo#N`); the sweep
   cannot resolve it, so triage verifies it and flips the issue by hand.
+  When a deliverable is already carried by an open `ready`, `claimed`, or
+  `blocked` issue, the newer issue must declare an unconditional collision
+  edge with `Blocked by #N`, naming the newest open carrier; there is no
+  alternative for disjoint regions. This keeps every `ready` issue
+  concurrently claimable and makes each close release one successor (#288).
 - **Labels**: type (`bug`/`enhancement`/`documentation`), `scope:*`, and
   exactly one of `ready` / `blocked` (see [LABELS.md](LABELS.md)).
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/288.md b/changelog.d/288.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..245e524
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/288.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+### Changed
+
+- TRIAGE.md now requires unconditional collision-edge chains when open issues
+  carry the same deliverable, keeping the ready queue concurrently claimable
+  (#288).