diff --git a/lib/capy-review-pass.js b/lib/capy-review-pass.js
index b68bb719e..a6ccf8457 100644
--- a/lib/capy-review-pass.js
+++ b/lib/capy-review-pass.js
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ const finish = (tail) => {
 };
 const stop = (why) => finish(['STOP: ' + why]);
 const logStart = input.stage === 'voices' ? (input.logStart ?? ['adversarial-review']) : (input.logStart || []);
-if (!Array.isArray(logStart) || !logStart.every((s) => typeof s === 'string' && s.trim())) return stop('input.logStart must be a list of gstack-review-log --start arguments, got ' + JSON.stringify(input.logStart) + '; nothing ran');
+if (!Array.isArray(logStart) || !logStart.every((s) => typeof s === 'string' && s.trim())) return stop('input.logStart must be a list of review-log start skills (strings), got ' + JSON.stringify(input.logStart) + '; nothing ran');
 if (input.stage === 'voices' && !(logStart.length && logStart.every((s) => s.split(' ')[0] === 'adversarial-review'))) return stop('Step 11 (stage "voices") takes the adversarial-review start token, which Step 11.5 binds, so its logStart is ["adversarial-review"] (with any --reservation in input.reservation) or omitted, never ' + JSON.stringify(input.logStart) + '; nothing ran');
 
 const passCmd = [bin, 'pass', '--base', q(input.base), '--out', q(input.out), '--pass', q(input.pass)];