diff --git a/scripts/check-ratchet-remedy-authority.mjs b/scripts/check-ratchet-remedy-authority.mjs
index 088bf4ce90..a41147efe9 100644
--- a/scripts/check-ratchet-remedy-authority.mjs
+++ b/scripts/check-ratchet-remedy-authority.mjs
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ const CONTROL = {
   },
   'check-doc-authoring.mjs': {
     expect: 'excluded',
-    why: 'Carries no ratchet at all. ROOTS, SKIP_PATHS, SKIP_FILES and GENERATED_SKILL_ARTIFACTS are declarations of what the two corpus rules read and what is generated rather than authored; each is path-scoped, and none is offered to the author as something to widen. Its published-catalog id rule reached this corpus by first shipping a per-passage allowlist and being turned red here for offering it — maintainer ruling 2026-08-25 replaced that passage with a placeholder and removed the list. If this flips, that list came back.',
+    why: 'Carries no ratchet at all. ROOTS, SKIP_PATHS and SKIP_FILES are declarations of what the two corpus rules read and what is generated rather than authored; each is path-scoped, and none is offered to the author as something to widen. Its published-catalog id rule reached this corpus by first shipping a per-passage allowlist and being turned red here for offering it — maintainer ruling 2026-08-25 replaced that passage with a placeholder and removed the list. If this flips, that list came back.',
   },
   'check-error-code-casing.mjs': {
     expect: 'excluded',