diff --git a/internal/check-packet-variants.mjs b/internal/check-packet-variants.mjs
index 6b8861a6a..572014494 100644
--- a/internal/check-packet-variants.mjs
+++ b/internal/check-packet-variants.mjs
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ ok(count(full, /class="sheet/g) - count(light, /class="sheet/g) === 3,
 
 // ── THE RING LEGEND: THE AGREED VOCABULARY, AND ONLY THE RINGS THAT HOLD SOMEONE ────────────────
 // ★ The names are COMPOSED from band x culture rather than a flat 1..10 table, because "same
-// people" (still open, tracked as row 89) appears in rings 1, 4 AND 7 — three cells that a
+// people" (provisional, pending a product decision) appears in rings 1, 4 AND 7 — three cells that a
 // flat table would have to keep in step. This asserts the composition produces the vocabulary
 // gospel and exp settled, so a printed sheet cannot disagree with the screen legend.
 {
diff --git a/internal/check-ring-vocabulary.mjs b/internal/check-ring-vocabulary.mjs
index 191509b0c..72e196fbb 100644
--- a/internal/check-ring-vocabulary.mjs
+++ b/internal/check-ring-vocabulary.mjs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * simply import the other. But the WORDS must match, and nothing structural holds them together.
  *
  * ★ THE FAILURE THIS CATCHES IS QUIET AND WELL-SHAPED. One cell is still open ("same people" vs
- * "same culture", tracked as row 89), and it appears in rings 1, 4 AND 7. Answer it in one file
+ * "same culture", pending a product decision), and it appears in rings 1, 4 AND 7. Answer it in one file
  * and not the other and the printed packet and the screen legend state DIFFERENT THINGS about the
  * same ring — each looking perfectly correct in isolation, with no error anywhere. A reader holding
  * the sheet beside the app is the only thing that would notice.
diff --git a/library/packet/packet-render.js b/library/packet/packet-render.js
index 003ddf495..cd70613ac 100644
--- a/library/packet/packet-render.js
+++ b/library/packet/packet-render.js
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ export function createPacketRenderer({ strings, lang = 'en', fontData = null, de
   //   4 same language, same people    9 same family, different culture
   //   5 same language, near culture  10 nearby only
   // ⚠ COMPOSED FROM band x culture BECAUSE ONE CELL IS PROVISIONAL. "same people" vs the brief's
-  // "same culture" in column 1 is still open (tracked as row 89), and it appears in rings 1, 4 AND 7 —
+  // "same culture" in column 1 is PROVISIONAL, pending a product decision, and it appears in rings 1, 4 AND 7 —
   // so a flat ten-string table would need THREE edits kept in step, which is exactly how two of them
   // end up saying different things. Composed, it is ONE string (ring_culture_same) and the ring
   // numbering, the columns and the colours are untouched either way.