diff --git a/dag/gunbc/harness/harness_seat.dag b/dag/gunbc/harness/harness_seat.dag
index 69afe82fcb9..2335e6fb4e7 100644
--- a/dag/gunbc/harness/harness_seat.dag
+++ b/dag/gunbc/harness/harness_seat.dag
@@ -455,10 +455,18 @@ fn harness_no_candidate(acc: HarnessCandidates, note: String, retryable: Bool) -
 // route satisfies what the demand asked for -- and keeps the offer and the demand comparable by the
 // equality the fabric uses.
 //
+// AND THE REFUSAL SAYS THAT ADMISSION WAS NOT EVALUATED, NOT THAT IT PASSED. The sentence here once
+// read "the serving offer bound and its route is admissible", which outran its own execution: this
+// branch never calls spark_first_party_admission, so nothing evaluated provider-use admission for
+// this turn, and a reader -- including one reporting upward, which is how it reached the operator --
+// could take a producer's EXISTENCE for a producer having RUN. That distinction is the whole subject
+// of this arm, so the wording carries it: admission cannot yet be evaluated, and the producer exists
+// and has not run (operator-routed review of #11083).
+//
 // Restoration trigger: a launch receipt that reads the weights, tokenizer and runtime closure off a
 // running engine, SUFFICIENT FOR gunbc.serving.turn_demand serving_turn_work to return TurnWorkBound
 // for a harness turn -- at which point the demand and work identities exist, the admission producer
-// above is called with them, and bind_candidate has everything it compares.
+// is called with them, and bind_candidate has everything it compares.
 fn harness_bind_candidate(acc: HarnessCandidates, group: FabricGroup, endpoint: ServingRouteEndpoint, launch: VllmEndpointProcessLaunch, standing: HarnessBackendStanding, requirement: ServingModelRequirement, seats: Nat, now: EpochSecs) -> HarnessCandidates {
   match bind_spark_serving_offer(
     principal: "gunbc" as NonEmptyStr,
@@ -478,7 +486,7 @@ fn harness_bind_candidate(acc: HarnessCandidates, group: FabricGroup, endpoint:
         acc: acc,
         note: seat_bind_detail(
           group: group,
-          text: "the serving offer bound and its route is admissible, but a serving turn has no Work identity: nothing observes the weights, tokenizer and runtime closure a launch loaded, so gunbc.serving.turn_demand cannot bind a source manifest and product.fabric.selection bind_candidate has no work to compare the permit against",
+          text: "The serving offer bound. Provider-use admission cannot yet be evaluated for this turn because its exact Work identity is unestablished: nothing observes the weights, tokenizer and runtime closure a launch loaded, so gunbc.serving.turn_demand cannot bind a source manifest, and product.fabric.selection bind_candidate has no work to compare a permit against. gunbc.spark.first_party_serving spark_first_party_admission EXISTS and has NOT RUN for this turn",
         ),
         retryable: false,
       )