diff --git a/TODOS.md b/TODOS.md
index 9f3e98f88..b77445eec 100644
--- a/TODOS.md
+++ b/TODOS.md
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Each item was deferred with a reason during the `/claude-api prompt-audit` clean
 - **Design-doc discovery still reads `~/.gstack/projects`** — converting
   `DESIGN_DOC_DISCOVERY` (and autoplan's Step 2 lookup) to `$GSTACK_STATE_ROOT`
   made /plan-eng-review answer its no-target scope gate in prose instead of
-  AskUserQuestion: the plan-mode no-op eval failed 4 of 4 runs with the change
-  and passed 5 of 5 without it. Custom state roots miss office-hours design docs
+  AskUserQuestion: the plan-mode no-op eval failed 5 of 5 runs with the converted
+  paths and passed 6 of 6 without them. Custom state roots miss office-hours design docs
   until this lands. Find why the path change shifts the gate (likely the gate's
   "do not probe for session state" rule), then convert and keep the eval green.
   Priority P2. Effort S.
diff --git a/test/instruction-facts.test.ts b/test/instruction-facts.test.ts
index 2ffaaa158..8665ec2d0 100644
--- a/test/instruction-facts.test.ts
+++ b/test/instruction-facts.test.ts
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ const RATCHET_ALLOWLIST = JSON.parse(read('test/state-root-ratchet.allowlist.jso
 const readinessEvalReason = RATCHET_ALLOWLIST.find(entry => entry.path === 'land-and-deploy/sections/readiness-gate.md.tmpl')!.reason;
 const DESCRIPTION = 'user-facing description of where the data lives; no command reads or writes this literal';
 const SOURCE_COMMENT = 'source comment, not rendered into any skill';
-const DESIGN_DOC_HELD = 'held at the literal path: converting design-doc discovery to $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT made plan-eng-review ask its scope gate in prose instead of AskUserQuestion (plan-mode no-op eval, 4 of 4 runs); see TODOS.md';
+const DESIGN_DOC_HELD = 'held at the literal path: converting design-doc discovery to $GSTACK_STATE_ROOT made plan-eng-review ask its scope gate in prose instead of AskUserQuestion (plan-mode no-op eval: 5 of 5 runs failed with it, 6 of 6 passed without); see TODOS.md';
 
 const STATE_ROOT_ALLOWLIST: Array<{ file: string; match: string; reason: string }> = [
   { file: 'autoplan/SKILL.md.tmpl', match: 'ls -t ~/.gstack/projects/$SLUG/*-design-*.md', reason: DESIGN_DOC_HELD },