diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 07d295dce..eb0455f8e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@
 ### Changed
 - **`SKILL.md.tmpl`** (root router): the bug-report rule points to a new **Failures** block that carries the two paths. Its text comes from `generateFailureRouting()` in `scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-test-failure-triage.ts`.
 - **`bin/gstack-skill-start`** and `CLAUDE.md`: the routing section gstack offers for a project's CLAUDE.md now reads "Bugs/errors → invoke /investigate, unless one read-only check confirms the cause and a narrow fix (then fix it and run the focused test)", so it agrees with the router.
-- **`/ship` Test Failure Ownership Triage**, "Investigate and fix now": "Switch to /investigate mindset" becomes one read-only pass for the root cause, then `/investigate` if it is still unclear.
+- **`/ship` Test Failure Ownership Triage**, "Investigate and fix now": "Switch to /investigate mindset" becomes "One read-only root-cause pass, then `/investigate` if unclear."
 
 ### Tests
 - New paid eval `test/skill-e2e-failure-routing.test.ts` (gate, `rule`): four fixture repos, two per issue. `router-failure-verified-cause` and `router-failure-triage-resolves` must fix the bug without /investigate and leave the suite green. `router-failure-contradicted-cause` (a user-supplied cause the code contradicts) and `router-failure-triage-unclear` (an intermittent CI-only failure) must invoke /investigate, and an edit before it is a contract violation. Every case needs one to four read-only calls before it routes. `GSTACK_ROUTER_ARM=before` runs the same cases against the base branch's router.
 - `test/skill-validation.test.ts` checks that the rendered router carries the rule and no longer sends bug reports straight to /investigate, that both paths keep the /investigate fallback, that the shipped CLAUDE.md routing line matches this repo's own, and that /ship's fix-now step uses the bounded pass.
 
 ### Gate integrity
-- No threshold, budget, timeout, trial count or existing case kind changed. The ship skill's parity size stays under its cap (313,277 of 313,281 bytes). The new eval's negative controls are the two /investigate cases, and on the base router the triage cases go red.
+- No threshold, budget, timeout, trial count or existing case kind changed. The ship skill's parity size stays under its cap (313,260 of 313,281 bytes; 313,276 with #3372 merged). The new eval's negative controls are the two /investigate cases, and on the base router the triage cases go red.
 - Registries and pins the new gate-tier file needs, each with a stated reason: `test/eng-finding-retry-budget.test.ts` counts 110 paid test files (was 109). `test/helpers/e2e-hosts.ts` lists the four cases as `skill-tool` Claude-only, because they assert on the Claude Skill tool call. `test/codex-host.test.ts` counts 33 Claude-specific gate cases (was 29).
 - Each train gate now runs the four new cases, one trial each, for about $0.37 (measured at this head: $0.06, $0.06, $0.11 and $0.14; about 67 s wall when they run in parallel).
 
diff --git a/scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-test-failure-triage.ts b/scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-test-failure-triage.ts
index c1a55ac52..d54f975e5 100644
--- a/scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-test-failure-triage.ts
+++ b/scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-test-failure-triage.ts
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Ask with AskUserQuestion in the AskUserQuestion Format. List each failure the sa
 ### Step T4: Execute the chosen action
 
 **If "Investigate and fix now":**
-- One read-only pass for the root cause; if unclear, invoke \`/investigate\` first.
+- One read-only root-cause pass, then \`/investigate\` if unclear.
 - Fix the pre-existing failure.
 - Commit the fix separately from the branch's changes: \`git commit -m "fix: pre-existing test failure in <test-file>"\`
 - Continue with the workflow.
diff --git a/ship/sections/tests.md b/ship/sections/tests.md
index 71683dfb0..d083d3f19 100644
--- a/ship/sections/tests.md
+++ b/ship/sections/tests.md
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ Ask with AskUserQuestion in the AskUserQuestion Format. List each failure the sa
 ### Step T4: Execute the chosen action
 
 **If "Investigate and fix now":**
-- One read-only pass for the root cause; if unclear, invoke `/investigate` first.
+- One read-only root-cause pass, then `/investigate` if unclear.
 - Fix the pre-existing failure.
 - Commit the fix separately from the branch's changes: `git commit -m "fix: pre-existing test failure in <test-file>"`
 - Continue with the workflow.
diff --git a/test/skill-validation.test.ts b/test/skill-validation.test.ts
index 9ae14e650..454694de0 100644
--- a/test/skill-validation.test.ts
+++ b/test/skill-validation.test.ts
@@ -2071,7 +2071,7 @@ describe('Failure routing: verified cause → fix, unknown cause → bounded tri
   test('/ship fixes a pre-existing failure through the same bounded triage', () => {
     const tests = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, 'ship', 'sections', 'tests.md'), 'utf-8');
     const fixNow = tests.slice(tests.indexOf('**If "Investigate and fix now":**'), tests.indexOf('**If "Add as P0 TODO":**'));
-    expect(fixNow).toContain('- One read-only pass for the root cause; if unclear, invoke `/investigate` first.');
+    expect(fixNow).toContain('- One read-only root-cause pass, then `/investigate` if unclear.');
     expect(fixNow).not.toContain('/investigate mindset');
   });
 });