diff --git a/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh b/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
index 327fec6..deee082 100644
--- a/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
+++ b/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ author_decision() { # $1 = true when author is triage; labels on stdin
 
 claim_decision() { # $1 assignee count, $2 linked open PR, $3 age seconds
   local assignees="$1" open_pr="$2" age="$3"
+  # Staleness wins over missing ownership: a stale unassigned claim is
+  # derivably reclaimable, while a recent unassigned claim needs triage.
   if [ "$open_pr" = false ] && [ "$age" -gt "$STALE_AFTER" ]; then echo RECLAIM
   elif [ "$assignees" -eq 0 ]; then echo FLAG_UNASSIGNED
   else echo KEEP
@@ -99,9 +101,34 @@ claim_decision_at() { # $1 assignee count, $2 linked open PR, $3 last activity e
   claim_decision "$1" "$2" "$((NOW - $3))"
 }
 
+claim_reclaim_marker() { # $1 = last activity epoch
+  printf 'claim-reclaimed-%s\n' "$1"
+}
+
 blocked_references() { # body on stdin -> issue numbers, one per line
-  sed -nE 's/.*Blocked by[[:space:]]+//Ip' \
-    | sed -E 's/[.;][[:space:]].*$//' \
+  # Dependency declarations sometimes soft-wrap after a comma. Continue
+  # through the first sentence terminator; if prose omits one, conservatively
+  # retain later references so ambiguity can keep an issue blocked, never
+  # promote it prematurely.
+  awk '
+    {
+      line = $0
+      lower = tolower(line)
+      if (!active) {
+        marker = "blocked by"
+        start = index(lower, marker)
+        if (!start) next
+        line = substr(line, start + length(marker))
+        active = 1
+      }
+      if (line ~ /[.;]/) {
+        sub(/[.;].*/, "", line)
+        print line
+        exit
+      }
+      print line
+    }
+  ' \
     | { grep -Eo '#[0-9]+' || true; } | tr -d '#' | sort -nu
 }
 
@@ -186,7 +213,10 @@ reconcile_issue() {
         ensure_comment "$n" claimed-unassigned \
           'This issue is `claimed` but has no assignee. The sweep cannot infer an owner; triage must repair the claim.' ;;
       RECLAIM)
-        ensure_comment "$n" claim-reclaimed \
+        # The last-activity epoch identifies a claim episode. A fixed marker
+        # hid the required comment when the same issue was later claimed and
+        # reclaimed again.
+        ensure_comment "$n" "$(claim_reclaim_marker "$age")" \
           'This claim has no linked open PR and no activity for 48 hours. The sweep is reclaiming it for the ready queue.'
         owners="$(jq -r '[.assignees[].login] | join(",")' <<<"$ISSUE_JSON")"
         if [ -n "$owners" ]; then
diff --git a/docs/CONSUMERS.md b/docs/CONSUMERS.md
index e216dc1..85de0c8 100644
--- a/docs/CONSUMERS.md
+++ b/docs/CONSUMERS.md
@@ -258,9 +258,9 @@ Both actor lists are whitespace-separated. `triage-actors` names the identities
 allowed to mint issues without the sweep applying `needs-triage`. Label rows use exactly
 `name|color|description`; blank lines are ignored and extra pipes are refused.
 There are no comment lines: every non-blank line must be the `panel=`
-setting or a label row, so `#`-prefixed prose is a parse failure, not a
-comment (rig #13's conversion found this the hard way — keep the file data
-only).
+setting, the `triage-actors=` setting, or a label row, so `#`-prefixed prose
+is a parse failure, not a comment (rig #13's conversion found this the hard
+way — keep the file data only).
 Core state, blocker, work-queue, and release labels come from ceremony. Scope
 rows remain consumer-owned because paths and surfaces differ by repository.
 
diff --git a/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh b/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh
index e94b0b5..3029388 100644
--- a/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh
+++ b/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh
@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ check "dogfood caller wakes on issue events" 0 "  issues:" \
 dogfood_pr_step="$(sed -n \
   '/name: reconcile state + stale (dogfood/,/name: reconcile issue flow/p' \
   "$ROOT/.github/workflows/labels.yml")"
+# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # GitHub expressions are asserted as literals
 check "dogfood PR reconcile receives repository" 0 '          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}' \
   grep -F '          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}' <<<"$dogfood_pr_step"
+# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # GitHub expressions are asserted as literals
 check "dogfood PR reconcile receives token" 0 '          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}' \
   grep -F '          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}' <<<"$dogfood_pr_step"
 
@@ -58,10 +60,24 @@ check "injected clock: exact stale boundary stays claimed" 0 "KEEP" \
 check "injected clock: past stale boundary is reclaimed" 0 "RECLAIM" \
   bash -c 'ISSUEFLOW_NOW=100000 ISSUEFLOW_STALE_HOURS=1 source "$1"; claim_decision_at 1 false 96399' _ \
   "$ROOT/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh"
+# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # expansion belongs to the isolated bash -c process
+check "invalid injected clock fails loudly" 1 "ISSUEFLOW_NOW must be UTC epoch seconds" \
+  bash -c 'ISSUEFLOW_NOW=garbage source "$1"' _ \
+  "$ROOT/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh"
+check "reclaim marker is stable within a claim episode" 0 "claim-reclaimed-96399" \
+  claim_reclaim_marker 96399
+check "a later claim episode receives a new reclaim marker" 0 "claim-reclaimed-99999" \
+  claim_reclaim_marker 99999
 
 # Invariant 3: blocked declarations parse and release only when all close.
 refs="$(blocked_references <<< $'Context #99. Blocked by #12 (first), #7 (second). Blocks #44.')"
 check "blocked declaration extracts only declared refs" 0 $'7\n12' printf '%s\n' "$refs"
+body=$'Blocked by #12 (first),\n#7 (soft-wrapped second). Blocks #44.'
+check "soft-wrapped blocker declaration retains continuation refs" 0 "" test \
+  "$(blocked_references <<<"$body")" = $'7\n12'
+body=$'Blocked by #12 (known)\nFollow-up context mentions #7 without a sentence boundary'
+check "unterminated blocker prose errs toward retaining dependencies" 0 "" test \
+  "$(blocked_references <<<"$body")" = $'7\n12'
 body="Part of #1. Blocked by #11 (needs a ceremony tag to pin), #12 (must be executed from the guide), #19 (the conversion vendors the doctrine). Blocks #14, #15 (they inherit the pilot's lessons)."
 check "real issue 13 inline blockers parse" 0 "" test \
   "$(blocked_references <<<"$body")" = $'11\n12\n19'