diff --git a/hive-bash-mcp/src/runner.rs b/hive-bash-mcp/src/runner.rs
index e1718c04..d7228012 100644
--- a/hive-bash-mcp/src/runner.rs
+++ b/hive-bash-mcp/src/runner.rs
@@ -88,10 +88,12 @@ pub(crate) fn suppress_wake(id: &str) {
 }
 
 /// Consume (remove + report) `id`'s suppression flag. Returns `true` if the
-/// wake should be skipped. One-shot: a task id is only ever completed once,
-/// so there's no risk of a stale suppression leaking onto a later task with
-/// the same id (names are only reusable once the prior task has finished,
-/// i.e. after this has already been consumed).
+/// wake should be skipped. One-shot by intent: a completed task's entry is
+/// meant to be drained exactly once. There's a known low-probability race
+/// (see `run_task`'s completion handler) where `suppress_wake` for a task
+/// fires *after* this has already run for it — if the same name gets reused
+/// before that late insert lands, the dangling flag could suppress the new
+/// task's wake instead. Not eliminated, just narrow.
 fn take_wake_suppressed(id: &str) -> bool {
     wake_suppressed().lock().unwrap().remove(id)
 }