diff --git a/.github/scripts/stack-breadcrumb.cjs b/.github/scripts/stack-breadcrumb.cjs
index 60ca830b..07badb04 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/stack-breadcrumb.cjs
+++ b/.github/scripts/stack-breadcrumb.cjs
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 // Adapted from the taskless/taskless stack-breadcrumb implementation
 // (@taskless/stack-breadcrumb) and brought into this repository under its MIT
 // license, with permission.
+//
+// THIS COPY IS THE AUTHORITATIVE ONE, and copies exist downstream: taskless/taskless
+// vendors it rather than maintaining its own. Fixes are made here and re-vendored
+// from here, so a change made downstream is a fork that the next sync discards.
+//
+// Nothing checks that the copies match, deliberately. This repository moves ahead
+// of the vendored copy by design, so a drift test would fail on exactly the changes
+// that are supposed to happen. The stakes suit that: a diverged breadcrumb renders a
+// PR body slightly differently, where a diverged rule layout writes rules to the
+// wrong place — which is why THAT one has a drift test and this one has a sentence.
 "use strict";
 
 /**
diff --git a/.github/scripts/stack-breadcrumb.test.cjs b/.github/scripts/stack-breadcrumb.test.cjs
index 91779673..d16070cc 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/stack-breadcrumb.test.cjs
+++ b/.github/scripts/stack-breadcrumb.test.cjs
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 // Adapted from the taskless/taskless stack-breadcrumb implementation
 // (@taskless/stack-breadcrumb) and brought into this repository under its MIT
 // license, with permission.
+//
+// THIS COPY IS THE AUTHORITATIVE ONE, and copies exist downstream: taskless/taskless
+// vendors it rather than maintaining its own. Fixes are made here and re-vendored
+// from here, so a change made downstream is a fork that the next sync discards.
+//
+// Nothing checks that the copies match, deliberately. This repository moves ahead
+// of the vendored copy by design, so a drift test would fail on exactly the changes
+// that are supposed to happen. The stakes suit that: a diverged breadcrumb renders a
+// PR body slightly differently, where a diverged rule layout writes rules to the
+// wrong place — which is why THAT one has a drift test and this one has a sentence.
 "use strict";
 
 const test = require("node:test");
diff --git a/.github/workflows/stack-breadcrumb.yml b/.github/workflows/stack-breadcrumb.yml
index 9f3c4e1e..0f07ac0b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/stack-breadcrumb.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/stack-breadcrumb.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 # Adapted from the taskless/taskless stack-breadcrumb workflow and brought into
 # this repository under its MIT license, with permission.
+#
+# Authoritative here; taskless/taskless vendors this workflow and the module it
+# loads. Fixes are made in this repository and re-vendored from it.
 name: Stack Breadcrumb
 
 # Self-contained stacked-PR breadcrumb. All logic lives in a zero-dependency