diff --git a/.github/workflows/claude-pr-review.yml b/.github/workflows/claude-pr-review.yml
index cd22107bf..e669f9765 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/claude-pr-review.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/claude-pr-review.yml
@@ -222,7 +222,13 @@ jobs:
             and report each as it stands: concluded, still running, or never
             started. Never wait or poll for CI - nothing resumes this run. A
             check that concluded in failure is a finding; one still running is
-            unverified, and the coverage list says so.
+            unverified, and the coverage list says so. A fork's run that is
+            waiting for approval (`action_required`) is not a finding against
+            the pull request - nothing its author can do starts it - so the
+            coverage list says CI awaits maintainer approval and that nothing
+            it covers is verified until a maintainer approves the run. A
+            finding of yours from an earlier round that said only this is
+            withdrawn on that ground.
 
             UPSTREAM SOURCE
             The xray-core module the base `go.mod` pins is unpacked read-only at
diff --git a/REVIEW.md b/REVIEW.md
index f512f6403..40635b8bc 100644
--- a/REVIEW.md
+++ b/REVIEW.md
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ near-certain about and that actually breaks something:
 - A security finding traces the trust boundary the change sits on — who
   reaches the code, and what authorization, validation, escaping and
   privilege it assumes — against the existing code, not the hunk.
+- A finding triggered by a stored value — a setting, a host field, a client
+  limit — names who can store it: an unauthenticated caller, a client, or
+  only an authenticated admin or API token. "Any API client" when only an
+  admin can write the value overstates the risk.
 - A claim about what the change does to a caller or a callee needs that file
   read, not inferred from the hunk. A dispatch-rule violation rarely shows
   inside the diff — the changed line calls an innocuous helper and the
@@ -255,8 +259,8 @@ the panel already offers it or most of it (setting, inbound option, existing
 endpoint); whether it holds across the deployment shapes in "What HIGH means
 here" — multi-node, upgrade over an existing database, every link
 implementation — and which ones it leaves out. Then give one verdict: `Fits`,
-`Fits with gaps` or `Overlaps existing` — and under it a short **Design**
-section: in prose only, the ideas a senior engineer would raise about the
+`Fits with gaps` or `Overlaps existing` — and, after the tally, a short
+**Design** section: in prose only, the ideas a senior engineer would raise about the
 approach — a simpler model, an existing mechanism it could build on, a case
 the design does not cover, how an operator will meet it. Ideas, not
 instructions, and never code.
@@ -272,9 +276,13 @@ evidence:
 | `docs` | Does it match what the code does? | `Accurate` / `Inaccurate` (cite the line it contradicts) |
 | `ci`, workflow | Does it keep every guard named under "What HIGH means here"? | `No guard weakened` / `Weakens a guard` |
 
-Write the verdict for someone who has not read the diff: two to six sentences
-on what was broken or missing and what now changes, then the evidence. On a
-re-review, update it in light of the new commits.
+Write the verdict paragraph for someone who has not read the diff: two to six
+plain sentences, with no `file:line`, symbol or library internals, on what an
+operator or end user ran into — the client that failed, the traffic that was
+dropped, the setting that was ignored — and what changes for them now. The
+evidence the questions above ask for — traces, citations, test reasoning —
+goes in a separate paragraph after it. On a re-review, update both in light of the new
+commits.
 
 Scale the trace to the change. One with no runtime effect — a typo, a comment,
 a docs wording — gets a one- or two-line verdict and a short coverage list; the
@@ -283,10 +291,13 @@ full base-to-head trace is for changes to what the panel does. Anything under
 
 ## What the comment must show
 
-Open with the verdict, then a one-line tally — `1 HIGH / 2 MEDIUM / 1 LOW, 1 pre-existing`,
-where a pre-existing finding counts only in its own bucket — so the author
-sees the shape of the review before the detail. When nothing is blocking,
-lead with `No blocking issues` and put the tally after it.
+Open with the verdict paragraph, then — before the evidence, the Design
+section and everything else — a one-line tally: `1 HIGH / 2 MEDIUM / 1 LOW
+open (1 new), 1 pre-existing`. It counts every finding still open, those
+carried from earlier rounds included, and says how many are new this round;
+a pre-existing finding counts only in its own bucket. The author sees the
+shape of the review before the detail. When nothing is blocking, lead with
+`No blocking issues` and put the tally after it.
 
 The review is one plain comment, with no inline comments. Say each finding
 once, in full, under its severity and `file:line`.