diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 6beff7a..caa61b6 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -161,12 +161,11 @@ Conventions that follow from it:
   lives in `commitScope` where no caller can forget it.
 
 - **Request deadlines are extended through `responseController(c)`, never
-  `http.NewResponseController(c.Writer)`.** The logging middleware wraps the
-  writer in a type with no `Unwrap`, so a controller built from a handler's
-  writer can't reach the socket: every `SetWriteDeadline`/`SetReadDeadline`
-  returns `ErrNotSupported` — in production only. `captureController` is the
-  first middleware in `api.New` precisely so the controller exists before
-  anything wraps the writer. Corollary for tests: a deadline test must run
+  `http.NewResponseController(c.Writer)`.** A controller built in a handler
+  can't reach the socket — the logging middleware wraps the writer — so every
+  deadline call silently returns `ErrNotSupported`, in production only;
+  `internal/api/deadlines.go` has the mechanism and why `captureController`
+  must stay the first middleware. Corollary for tests: a deadline test must run
   through `New()`, not `gin.New()` — the #78 fix shipped fully tested on a bare
   engine and never worked on the live instance.
 
diff --git a/internal/api/agent.go b/internal/api/agent.go
index 95cf9c3..e1e8325 100644
--- a/internal/api/agent.go
+++ b/internal/api/agent.go
@@ -165,10 +165,8 @@ type eventStream struct {
 // dropped connection. Hence a deadline set up front and refreshed per frame,
 // rather than anything checked after the fact.
 //
-// The controller comes from responseController, NOT from c.Writer: by the time
-// a handler runs, the logging middleware has wrapped the writer in something a
-// controller can't unwrap, and every deadline call fails — which is how this
-// fix shipped, tested, and stayed broken live (see deadlines.go).
+// The controller comes from responseController, not from c.Writer — a
+// controller built here can't reach the socket; deadlines.go says why.
 func openEventStream(c *gin.Context) *eventStream {
 	c.Header("Content-Type", "text/event-stream")
 	c.Header("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
diff --git a/internal/api/sse_deadline_test.go b/internal/api/sse_deadline_test.go
index f5a476c..b3396c2 100644
--- a/internal/api/sse_deadline_test.go
+++ b/internal/api/sse_deadline_test.go
@@ -112,18 +112,12 @@ func TestEventStreamRefreshesDeadlinePerFrame(t *testing.T) {
 // production middleware stack — which is where it was still broken.
 //
 // The two tests above passed while the deployed instance cut every agent turn
-// at exactly 30s with "The connection dropped partway through." The difference
-// is the middleware: the logging middleware in New replaces c.Writer with a
-// wrapper that embeds the gin.ResponseWriter INTERFACE, which has no Unwrap. An
-// http.ResponseController built from the handler's c.Writer unwraps layer by
-// layer looking for SetWriteDeadline, can't see past that wrapper, and returns
-// ErrNotSupported — putting the stream back on the server's absolute
-// WriteTimeout. The first write past it fails, which cancels the request
-// context and closes the socket under the client mid-frame.
-//
-// So: the same scenario as the first test, hosted on the engine New builds, in
-// the order cmd/pansy runs it. Any future middleware that wraps the writer, or a
-// reorder that puts one ahead of the controller capture, fails here.
+// at exactly 30s: they host openEventStream on a bare engine, and it is the
+// logging middleware in New that hides the socket from a ResponseController
+// built in a handler (deadlines.go has the mechanism). So: the same scenario as
+// the first test, hosted on the engine New builds, in the order cmd/pansy runs
+// it. Any future middleware that wraps the writer, or a reorder that puts one
+// ahead of the controller capture, fails here.
 func TestEventStreamOutlivesWriteTimeoutBehindMiddleware(t *testing.T) {
 	got, err := streamFrames(t, authEngine(t, localCfg()), 300*time.Millisecond, 300*time.Millisecond, 3)
 	if err != nil {