diff --git a/frontend/src/App.tsx b/frontend/src/App.tsx
index e23053b..728a515 100644
--- a/frontend/src/App.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/App.tsx
@@ -915,6 +915,14 @@ const DESIGN_DECISIONS: DesignDecision[] = [
       "though, because the friction in vouching is very intentional from a design perspective: the intent is to make you " +
       "think more carefully about who you're willing to vouch for."
   },
+  {
+    id: "separate-maintainer-list",
+    title: "(5) atvouch tangled bot has a separate maintainer list than tangled",
+    explanation:
+      "this is intentional because people may want to have different policy for who can write to a repo vs what to consider " +
+      "for vouching. i could in some future prefill with the sh.tangled.repo.collaborator to kickstart the membership record " +
+      "but i don't want to deal with that yet."
+  },
 ];
 
 function DesignDecisions() {