diff --git a/src/abstract/RainDeploySuitesBase.sol b/src/abstract/RainDeploySuitesBase.sol
index 24785f5..a32d067 100644
--- a/src/abstract/RainDeploySuitesBase.sol
+++ b/src/abstract/RainDeploySuitesBase.sol
@@ -26,9 +26,12 @@ error UnknownDeploymentSuite(string requested, string validSuites);
 /// to declare. When the candidate was a single struct this was true by
 /// construction; a list has to say it.
 ///
-/// Raised from `allSuites`, which is the only way anything reads the
-/// declaration — `suiteNames` and `suiteByName` both go through it — so there
-/// is no reader that answers from an empty one.
+/// Raised from `checkedCandidateSuites` — see there for why the guard sits at
+/// that one read rather than at each reader.
+///
+/// `releasedSuites` is read directly by the chain group and by the frozen
+/// record check, and is untouched by this: a repo with no release is an
+/// ordinary state, and it is the CANDIDATE that the source anchor needs.
 error NoDeployCandidates();
 
 /// One deployable unit: a named snapshot of one contract.
@@ -139,9 +142,10 @@ abstract contract RainDeploySuitesBase {
     /// override this, and a repo inherits exactly one declaration. So the list
     /// is here rather than left to the consumer to assemble.
     ///
-    /// MUST NOT be empty, which `allSuites` enforces. A deploy repo always
-    /// compiles a current source, so there is always something to anchor to —
-    /// see `NoDeployCandidates` for why an empty list is worse than it looks.
+    /// MUST NOT be empty, which `checkedCandidateSuites` enforces. A deploy
+    /// repo always compiles a current source, so there is always something to
+    /// anchor to — see `NoDeployCandidates` for why an empty list is worse
+    /// than it looks.
     /// @return The candidates.
     function candidateSuites() internal pure virtual returns (DeployCandidate[] memory);
 
diff --git a/test/src/abstract/RainDeploySuitesBase.t.sol b/test/src/abstract/RainDeploySuitesBase.t.sol
index 5a619ff..aef4fdc 100644
--- a/test/src/abstract/RainDeploySuitesBase.t.sol
+++ b/test/src/abstract/RainDeploySuitesBase.t.sol
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ contract RainDeploySuitesBaseTest is Test {
     /// An empty candidate list reads as a repo with nothing left to declare and
     /// is a repo whose source anchor — the only check that catches a snapshot
     /// of the wrong contract — has been handed nothing to run over. It is
-    /// refused rather than tolerated, and refused on all three readers, because
+    /// refused rather than tolerated, and refused on all four readers, because
     /// a reader that answers from an empty declaration is a reader through
     /// which the whole registry can be empty and green.
     function testNoCandidateReverts() external {