diff --git a/emrg/sandbox/fence.py b/emrg/sandbox/fence.py
index 0b47963b..0b82b0d5 100644
--- a/emrg/sandbox/fence.py
+++ b/emrg/sandbox/fence.py
@@ -88,7 +88,10 @@ def file_refusal(file_path: str, policy: SandboxPolicy) -> str | None:
         # is the one place the in-process fence is **stricter** than the kernel
         # profile rather than identical to it: it can refuse a write bash would
         # be allowed to make, never the reverse.  The list stays in
-        # ``emrg/tools/file_policy.py`` because the legacy scanner reads it too.
+        # ``emrg/tools/file_policy.py`` because this module and
+        # ``emrg/sandbox/roots.py`` are its two readers — the in-process fence
+        # and the kernel profile refuse the same five paths because they ask the
+        # same derivation, not because two lists happen to agree.
         return f"{policy.mode} sandbox: blocked write to protected daemon file {file_path!r}"
     try:
         # The enforcement question is asked here rather than left to
diff --git a/emrg/tools/command_scan.py b/emrg/tools/command_scan.py
index fe1b995b..3cfe56d3 100644
--- a/emrg/tools/command_scan.py
+++ b/emrg/tools/command_scan.py
@@ -28,11 +28,15 @@
 so the rules are enforced on the path a command really takes rather than on the
 one the switch retired.
 
-**What is shared with the legacy file.** The tokenizer and its helpers
-(``tokenize_command``, ``nested_command_texts``, ``basename``, the Windows
-backslash protection) — the legacy scanner keeps private aliases to these for its
-own ~30 call sites, and those aliases are the *same function objects*, so the two
-readers cannot drift into two spellings of one command.
+**The mechanics have one home.** The tokenizer and its helpers
+(``_tokenize_command``, ``_nested_command_texts``, ``_basename``, the Windows
+backslash protection) are defined here and nowhere else, so the guards below and
+the executors that call them read one implementation of a command's text rather
+than two that could drift into two spellings of one command.
+``emrg/tools/bash_tool.py`` once re-bound these names as private aliases for its
+own ~30 call sites; P7 (issue #1675) deleted that file, and the aliases went with
+it — ``tests/test_file_policy_has_one_home.py`` holds that no module re-binds
+them.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -121,7 +125,8 @@ def _windows_shell() -> bool:
 
 #: A shell parameter expansion — `$X`, `${X}`, `$1`, `$@` … — as one pattern, because
 #: the rules below ask "does a value spelling name a variable?" rather than "which
-#: variable?". `_UNRESOLVED_ROOT_RE` stays with the legacy scanner and imports this.
+#: variable?". It stays a string rather than a compiled pattern because
+#: `_UNRESOLVED_VAR_RE` below is the only reader, and it wants the repetition.
 _PARAM_EXPANSION = r"\$(?:\{[^}]*\}|[A-Za-z_0-9@*#?$!-][A-Za-z0-9_]*)"
 _UNRESOLVED_VAR_RE = re.compile(rf"(?:{_PARAM_EXPANSION})+")