diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ded2c19..0dae6ef 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ replacement, and each removed path, column or flag.
   table above it, a table whose format or cell references its own family, and,
   within one render and draw group, a path drawing a table another path selects a
   row of, or two paths pinning different rows of one table. Two cells are weighed
-  against each other only where they can render together: not two rows of one table, and
-  not rows under different rows of a table a path pinned.
+  against each other only where they can render together: never two rows of one table,
+  nor rows under different rows of a table a path pinned.
 - `New` refuses a root choice of templates sharing one format and one set of string
   fields, naming the rows TSV to write instead.
 - `misc.territory`, `misc.currency`, `misc.language`, `misc.httpstatus` and
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f215461..de62a04 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -546,8 +546,8 @@ to, a chain of parents that closes, a table named like a column of any table abo
 it, and a cell or format of a table that references a table of its own family, through
 any template, a `repeat` or a `drawGroup` included, since a row rendered whole would
 draw the family apart from itself: read the family from a template beside it, or add
-the value as a column. Which reads a render must reconcile, a cell's included, is
-under [Decisions](#decisions).
+the value as a column. A cell's reads are the render's too; which pairs are weighed
+against each other is under [Decisions](#decisions).
 
 ### Options and fields
 
@@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ the Development section below, and who ships a register the four above then draw
   later is additive, since a refused spelling gains a meaning and no accepted one
   changes, so the door stays open for the address records the plan describes.
 - **A table read into is pinned; a table read whole draws afresh.** A path into a
-  table pins its row, and the ancestor rows it links to, for the render and group, as a
+  table pins its row for the render and group, as a
   reference path pins its level, and a bare `{/city}` draws a row each time and pins no
   row of its family, as a bare reference does; so a bare table beside a path into its
   family is refused like a bare reference beside a path into it. A bare table reference
diff --git a/draw.go b/draw.go
index 7e7726a..daa1e61 100644
--- a/draw.go
+++ b/draw.go
@@ -297,14 +297,11 @@ type drawAt struct {
 	group string
 	route drawRoute
 	alt   rowSet
-	drawn *table // only that table's own cells read it, which the own-family fence is what keeps true, so the visit keys leave it out
+	drawn *table // left out of the visit keys: only this table's own cells compare against it, which the own-family fence keeps true
 }
 
-// rowSet is the rows a walk entered, one per table: only one row of a table renders, so reads in
-// two rows of one table never meet, while reads in one row, across its columns and whatever they
-// reach, do. It stands in for the rows the render pins, so a row a path read pins enters with the
-// ancestors (*draws).pin pins alongside it, while a table read whole is drawn a row of and pins
-// none.
+// rowSet stands in at load for the rows (*draws).pin holds at render: a path read enters a row with
+// its ancestors, a whole read enters the drawn row alone.
 type rowSet []tablePin
 
 func (s rowSet) rowOf(t *table) (int, bool) {
@@ -316,8 +313,8 @@ func (s rowSet) rowOf(t *table) (int, bool) {
 	return 0, false
 }
 
-// enter is s with row r of t, where t is not in it yet, and, where pins says the render pins that
-// row rather than draws it, the ancestor rows it links to. The set is copied, since walks branch.
+// enter is s with row r of t, and with t's ancestors where the render pins that row rather than
+// drawing it; the set is copied, since walks branch.
 func (s rowSet) enter(t *table, r int, pins bool) rowSet {
 	if _, in := s.rowOf(t); in {
 		return s
diff --git a/table_test.go b/table_test.go
index feb939a..2f871ed 100644
--- a/table_test.go
+++ b/table_test.go
@@ -964,9 +964,8 @@ func TestAmbiguousNameNamesARunnablePath(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestRowSetSimulatesPinning proves the walk's row set answers what the render's pinning
-// answers: a path read pins a row and the ancestors it links to, a whole read draws a row
-// and pins none.
+// TestRowSetSimulatesPinning holds the walk's row set to the render's pinning: drift between
+// the two is data that loads and then renders a family that disagrees.
 func TestRowSetSimulatesPinning(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newGenerator(t, writeFiles(t, geo()), WithSeed(1))
 	var tables []*table
@@ -1012,10 +1011,9 @@ func TestRowSetSimulatesPinning(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestCellReadsMeetWhereTheRenderPairsTheRows pins which cells' reads are one render's to
-// reconcile: a path read pins the row's ancestors, so a cell of region 01 and a cell of a
-// municipality of region 12 never render together, while a whole read draws its row and pins
-// no ancestor, so those same two cells do.
+// TestCellReadsMeetWhereTheRenderPairsTheRows reads what the TSVs below do not show: region 01's
+// note holds {/addr} and 1280's, under region 12, holds {/addr.city}, so the two meet only where
+// no read pins a region.
 func TestCellReadsMeetWhereTheRenderPairsTheRows(t *testing.T) {
 	cells := with(geo(), map[string]string{
 		"addr.json":        `{"format":"{city}","city":["Lund","Malmö"]}`,
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index e768f7c..edebcc5 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Ordered as the releases that ship it.
 
 ### Comprehension, until the panel scores 7.0
 
-Nothing else ships while the score is under 7.0 — no feature, no category, no data —
-bar a security fix and a dependency bump, per README goal 2. This section is one
+Nothing else ships while the score is under 7.0 — no feature, no category, no data — bar
+what `AGENTS.md` excepts, per README goal 2. This section is one
 round, replayed: the `comprehension-panel` skill's nine-seat findings run at depth 1,
 a PR per item it names, then the run again, until the score passes. The run is the
 nine-seat one: the round is meant to buy architectural change, and the four-seat
@@ -165,12 +165,13 @@ by a `data-import/` script, as README goal 12 asks.
   error names the category and the two columns but no row, so the author greps a
   register-sized file for the cell — and "name the fields you want instead" rewrites a
   cell that is not the one to fix.
-- Stop the family fence naming a rewrite that cannot work: where the drawn table's rows
-  select more than one row of the family, every `write {/terr[NO].name}` it offers fails
-  the same way, and only the `drawGroup` it also names is left.
-- Spell a table one way in an error: `family.go` names `drawn.category` in one message and
-  `t.path` in the next, so one table is `territory` and `misc.territory`, and the short
-  spelling names no file where two folders hold that name.
+- Have the family fence offer only a rewrite that works: where the drawn table's rows select
+  more than one row of the family, every `write {/terr[NO].name}` it offers fails the same
+  way, so only the `drawGroup` it also names is left.
+- Spell a table one way across `family.go`'s errors: `checkFamilyPair` names
+  `drawn.category`, `pinRow` names `t.path` and `mustRow` panics with `t.category`, so one
+  table is `territory` and `misc.territory`, and the short spelling names no file where two
+  folders hold that name.
 - Name a spelling that works when a row selector misses: `misc.protocol[tcp]`,
   `misc.httpmethod[get]` and `misc.territory[se]` all answer "no row … has key or name"
   and stop there, where a case-insensitive match could name the row that exists, and a
@@ -186,9 +187,10 @@ by a `data-import/` script, as README goal 12 asks.
 
 ### Open questions to settle
 
-- Decide whether a goal 5 violation joins the comprehension gate's exception list, beside
-  a security fix and a dependency bump: the panic above waits behind the whole round at
-  5.9, and `{/geo.SE.locality}|{/geo.SE.municipality}` mispairs the shipped data meanwhile.
+- Decide whether a goal 5 violation joins the comprehension gate's exception list: the
+  `{/sel}|{/sel}` panic waits behind the whole round at 5.9, and
+  `{/geo.SE.locality}|{/geo.SE.municipality}` mispairs the shipped data meanwhile, though a
+  repair restoring behaviour the repo already claims may already pass the gate as written.
 - Decide whether the README's Audience names the author who writes categories under
   `--data-path`: the four personas listed consume the shipped set and the contributor
   ships a register upstream, while "Your own data" is a README section, `-d` is a