diff --git a/.github/workflows/labels.yml b/.github/workflows/labels.yml
index 1625527..7a2f864 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/labels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/labels.yml
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ name: labels
 # one `review_requested` event per panelist per request, so every review
 # round displaces runs and the rate scales with panel size. The
 # sweep now lives in labels-sweep.yml behind its own caller, and the
-# trigger job below is its wake: it fires on every event this caller
-# subscribes — the exact surface that used to run reconcile directly — so
-# same-repository wake latency (#137) remains seconds-scale, while a displaced
-# sweep cancels on the Actions tab, attached to no PR. Fork-headed runs cannot
-# dispatch with their read-only token, so their labels arrive on the scheduled
-# sweep cadence. PR checks show scope + trigger for same-repository heads, or
-# fork_head for fork heads.
+# trigger job below is its instant wake: it fires on every issue event and
+# same-repository PR event this caller subscribes to, preserving that part of
+# the surface that used to run reconcile directly. Same-repository wake latency
+# (#137) remains seconds-scale, while a displaced sweep cancels on the Actions
+# tab, attached to no PR. Fork-headed runs cannot dispatch with their read-only
+# token, so their labels arrive on the scheduled sweep cadence. PR checks show
+# scope + trigger for same-repository heads, or fork_head for fork heads.
 #
 # This cannot loop: the trigger's dispatch and the reconciler's label
 # writes both use GITHUB_TOKEN. GitHub does not create workflow runs from