diff --git a/tools/re-capture/check_refuted.py b/tools/re-capture/check_refuted.py
index 64e1e740..0e0f5b27 100755
--- a/tools/re-capture/check_refuted.py
+++ b/tools/re-capture/check_refuted.py
@@ -135,7 +135,30 @@ for line in ref.read_text().splitlines():
     if m:
         claims.append(m.group(1))
 
-print(f"{len(claims)} quoted claims in REFUTED.md\n")
+# ── SCOPE, printed before the verdict ────────────────────────────────────────
+# sylpheed-port found `audit-kinds` auditing 16 of 71 authored justifications and
+# never saying so -- a checker that FAILS CORRECTLY while describing a sixth of
+# the corpus. Their line is the one that matters: "I checked and it was fine" and
+# "I checked the part that declared itself" read identically in a log.
+#
+# Measured here 2026-08-31: of 86 refutation-shaped bullets in REFUTED.md, 83 are
+# in the registered `* "claim"` form -- 97 %.
+#
+# ⚠️ THE THREE GAPS ARE NOT A BUG AND ARE NOT REGISTERED ON PURPOSE. They quote
+# their claim in BACKTICKS and are bare identifiers -- `+0x29d0`,
+# `position = instance - 0x12c`. Registering those would match every live mention
+# of the same offset, producing permanent false hits and training the check to be
+# ignored -- the unregistrable-claim limit this corpus already records for the
+# 0.32 collision. Reported, not forced to 100 %.
+_bul = [l for l in ref.read_text().splitlines() if l.lstrip().startswith("* ")]
+_kill = [l for l in _bul if re.search(r"(→|->|—|--)\s*\*{0,2}(refuted|withdrawn|retracted"
+                                      r"|wrong|dead|no\b|it is)", l, re.I)]
+_unreg = [l for l in _kill if not re.match(r'\s*\*\s*~?~?"([^"]{25,})"', l)]
+_cov = 100 * (len(_kill) - len(_unreg)) / max(len(_kill), 1)
+print(f"{len(claims)} quoted claims in REFUTED.md")
+print(f"SCOPE: {len(_kill) - len(_unreg)} of {len(_kill)} refutation-shaped bullets are "
+      f"registered ({_cov:.0f}%); {len(_unreg)} quote their claim in backticks and are "
+      f"deliberately unregistrable\n")
 
 # 🔴 A register that loaded NOTHING cannot fail, and would report clean forever --
 # the same shape as sylpheed-port's stub that prints "everything is fine" and