diff --git a/crates/weksa/src/run.rs b/crates/weksa/src/run.rs
index 7f1b7b4..1dc4780 100644
--- a/crates/weksa/src/run.rs
+++ b/crates/weksa/src/run.rs
@@ -1634,8 +1634,8 @@ impl RunStores {
 
     /// A diagnostic like [`recall`](Self::recall) and
     /// [`stance_ablation`](Self::stance_ablation), never a gate: it serves the
-    /// distil decision, whether a tuned lowerer beats or matches the prompted
-    /// one. Asks `arm` the byte-identical lowering prompts of round `n`'s live
+    /// distil decision, whether a tuned lowerer is worth keeping against the
+    /// prompted one (calibration-pending: see the map). Asks `arm` the byte-identical lowering prompts of round `n`'s live
     /// Validation items, reads the arm and the round's own lowering
     /// (`recorded`) against the items, and, given a `floor` arm (a second
     /// prompted lowering, so the floor is lowering-only noise), decides by
diff --git a/docs/targets/interlingua-lowering-map.md b/docs/targets/interlingua-lowering-map.md
index c0c193e..4a78abe 100644
--- a/docs/targets/interlingua-lowering-map.md
+++ b/docs/targets/interlingua-lowering-map.md
@@ -371,9 +371,9 @@ own Validation reading, which scores those items 0. An arm answer that is not a
 usable lowering scores 0 and counts in `unusable=`; the same for the floor arm,
 counted after `floor ... unusable=`. The floor is the spread of the recorded
 lowering and a second prompted arm (lowering-only noise, no encoder noise). The
-verdict is `decide_panel` over (recorded, arm, floor): Accepted means the arm
-helped, Rejected(Regressed) means it is worse, Rejected(NoGain) means it did
-not clearly help. The rule is calibration-pending: a one-pair floor is noisy
+verdict is `decide_panel` over (recorded, arm, floor): Accepted is the rule's
+name for a gain past the floor, Rejected(Regressed) for a loss past it,
+Rejected(NoGain) for neither. None is yet a finding about the arm. The rule is calibration-pending: a one-pair floor is noisy
 (a simulated prompted repeat reads NoGain only about 7-15% of the time, Regressed
 44-60%, Accepted 33-41%), so NoGain is not yet evidence of non-inferiority and
 is not yet the bar for cut 13; the calibration arms (a prompted repeat, a