diff --git a/crates/didbot-claim/src/preflight.rs b/crates/didbot-claim/src/preflight.rs
index 8b4cfa63..510e4cf7 100644
--- a/crates/didbot-claim/src/preflight.rs
+++ b/crates/didbot-claim/src/preflight.rs
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@
 //! A check here is `Passed` or `Failed`, never "not looked at yet". Every
 //! one of them runs to completion before this function returns, so a third
 //! value would describe a state that cannot exist. That is the difference
-//! between a synchronous command and a background probe, and it is why the
-//! `didbot-fsm` core carries no gate type: nothing left in this workspace
-//! needs one.
+//! between a synchronous command and a background probe: `didbot_fsm::Gates`
+//! is three-valued because `didbot_reconcile` acts across ticks and needs
+//! `Pending`, and nothing here does.
 
 use std::fmt;
 use std::net::IpAddr;