diff --git a/scripts/ci/contextual_orchestrator_review_sidecar.sh b/scripts/ci/contextual_orchestrator_review_sidecar.sh
index 6425609e9f..f8b56ef7ab 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/contextual_orchestrator_review_sidecar.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/contextual_orchestrator_review_sidecar.sh
@@ -433,17 +433,18 @@ fi
 # scanner step.
 gateway_virtual_model="orchestrator/${orchestrator_pool}"
 # max_tokens must match REVIEW_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS (the launcher's own per-agent
-# routing probe budget): a reasoning-capable free-tier model (e.g. a DeepSeek
-# NIM route) spends part of its token budget on internal reasoning before any
-# answer content, so a small budget here can make an agent the routing probe
-# already proved "ready" fail this separate end-to-end check with a spurious
-# "response did not contain assistant content" -> 502 invalid_structured_output
-# (contextual_orchestrator.orchestrator._response_content), even though the
-# model itself is healthy. See "2026-08-30 sidecar preflight max_tokens
-# desynchronized from the routing probe" in
+# routing probe budget): observed behavior was an agent the routing probe
+# already proved "ready" at that budget failing this separate end-to-end check
+# with a spurious 502 invalid_structured_output at a much smaller budget, even
+# though the model itself is healthy. The exact field-level cause was never
+# captured (the sidecar's log sanitizer strips raw provider payloads by
+# design), so treat any specific mechanism as a hypothesis, not fact. See
+# "2026-08-30 sidecar preflight max_tokens desynchronized from the routing
+# probe" (and its 2026-08-30 correction) in
 # ContextualWisdomLab/contextual-orchestrator's own
-# docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md for the exact-evidence reproduction
-# (downloaded strix-reports artifact, PR #912 run 33304076516).
+# docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md for the evidence that is actually
+# captured (downloaded strix-reports artifact,
+# ContextualWisdomLab/contextual-orchestrator#912 run 33304076516).
 printf '{"model":"%s","messages":[{"role":"system","content":"You are a helpful assistant."},{"role":"user","content":"Reply with just '\''OK'\''."}],"temperature":1.0,"max_tokens":4096,"stream":false}\n' \
   "$gateway_virtual_model" > "$gateway_preflight_request"
 # 30s (this check's previous bound) is too tight for a real completion from a