diff --git a/tools/re-capture/check_refuted.py b/tools/re-capture/check_refuted.py
index 42c3dc8f..64e1e740 100755
--- a/tools/re-capture/check_refuted.py
+++ b/tools/re-capture/check_refuted.py
@@ -115,6 +115,18 @@ if "--selftest" in sys.argv:
     sys.exit(0)
 
 root = Path(os.environ.get("CHECK_REFUTED_ROOT", "docs"))
+
+# 🔴 THIS SCANNED `docs/` ONLY, AND CODE IS WHERE A RETRACTION FAILS TO LAND.
+# sylpheed-port found three live stale claims in their own source, each already
+# retracted in DECISIONS.md days earlier -- "a correction that does not reach the
+# artifact a consumer reads has not been made", and a comment sits BESIDE the
+# thing it describes. Running this register over code for the first time on
+# 2026-08-31 found one here too: jp_title_session.sh justified its own existence
+# with "a free-running clock lands somewhere else on a fresh boot", which I had
+# refuted myself the day before.
+# ⚠️ crates/sylpheed-viewer is excluded: it is the human's tool, not mine to edit.
+CODE_GLOBS = ("tools/**/*.py", "tools/**/*.sh", "crates/**/*.rs")
+CODE_SKIP = ("target/", "sylpheed-viewer")
 ref = root / "re" / "REFUTED.md"
 claims = []
 seen_report = set()
@@ -138,7 +150,13 @@ suppressed = []
 seen_marked = set()
 for c in claims:
     needle = c.strip()
-    for f in root.rglob("*.md"):
+    code_files = []
+    if "--code" in sys.argv:
+        import glob as _g
+        for _p in CODE_GLOBS:
+            code_files += [Path(x) for x in _g.glob(_p, recursive=True)
+                           if not any(k in x for k in CODE_SKIP)]
+    for f in list(root.rglob("*.md")) + code_files:
         if f == ref or f.name in CHRONOLOGICAL:
             continue
         lines = f.read_text(errors="replace").splitlines()
diff --git a/tools/re-capture/jp_title_session.sh b/tools/re-capture/jp_title_session.sh
index 273e8e22..e619bf7c 100755
--- a/tools/re-capture/jp_title_session.sh
+++ b/tools/re-capture/jp_title_session.sh
@@ -4,9 +4,23 @@
 # The first JP capture (2026-08-30) demonstrated the logo stack is at rest
 # WITHIN a run: five frames ~1.5 s apart, byte-identical over the port's ROI,
 # against a whole-frame contrast control showing 5-8 % of the screen moving.
-# That does not test the axis sylpheed-port's drift was on -- BETWEEN runs, where
-# a free-running clock lands somewhere else on a fresh boot. This script exists
-# to take a second, independent capture so that axis can be measured.
+# That does not test the axis sylpheed-port's drift was on -- BETWEEN runs. This
+# script exists to take a second, independent capture so that axis can be measured.
+#
+# 🔴 THE ORIGINAL RATIONALE HERE WAS REFUTED, and the retraction never reached this
+# file until 2026-08-31. It read: "BETWEEN runs, where a free-running clock lands
+# somewhere else on a fresh boot". IT DOES NOT. Both captures are shuttered on the
+# plate pulse, and the plate's pulse is part of the title animation, so the gate
+# PHASE-LOCKS the shutter: measured, the sweep sits 25-26 px apart across two runs
+# in different locales and different sessions -- 1.6 % of a ~1600 px traverse.
+# See structures/plate-pulse-phase-lock.md.
+#
+# ⚠️ SO WHAT THIS SCRIPT MEASURES IS NARROWER THAN THE COMMENT CLAIMED. A second
+# capture through the same gate is a second sample at nearly the SAME animation
+# phase, not a sample of a free-running clock. The RMSE 0.32 it produced is a
+# phase-locked lower bound on capture noise, not capture noise. The era
+# adjudication it fed still stands -- its margin, 16.72, clears even the unlocked
+# 11.9 -- but for the reason bgm/jp-title-at-rest.txt gives, not this one.
 #
 # Usage: jp_title_session.sh OUTDIR [wait_s]
 set -u