diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index de042dd8..941840a8 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ Domain objects live under each domain's `entity/` tree, or under `platform/base/
 4. Every field must have a comment
 5. Reference other entities by ID (string or int), not directly
 6. String enums with sentinel values (`""` for unknown)
+7. Docs describe the data, not the choreography — say what a type or field *is* and its invariants (immutability, uniqueness scope, units, valid range), never which controller/stage/seam reads or writes it. Ownership and write-path rules live with the code that owns them (controller, store, or extension docs). Lifecycle enums may define states in terms of pipeline stages where that *is* the state's meaning (e.g. "admitted under the build budget"), but must not name the components that perform transitions.
 
 ### Extensions
 
diff --git a/submitqueue/entity/speculation_path_build.go b/submitqueue/entity/speculation_path_build.go
index 8cd39fcf..634b0159 100644
--- a/submitqueue/entity/speculation_path_build.go
+++ b/submitqueue/entity/speculation_path_build.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ type SpeculationPathBuild struct {
 	CreatedAt int64
 	// Version is the version of the object. It is used for optimistic locking:
 	// updates are conditional on the persisted version matching the caller's
-	// expected version. Versioning starts at 1; version arithmetic is owned by
-	// the controller, the store performs a pure conditional write.
+	// expected version. Versioning starts at 1 and is incremented for each
+	// change to the object.
 	Version int32
 }