diff --git a/openspec/changes/specify-documentation-homes/design.md b/openspec/changes/specify-documentation-homes/design.md
index 2219b6e..219973c 100644
--- a/openspec/changes/specify-documentation-homes/design.md
+++ b/openspec/changes/specify-documentation-homes/design.md
@@ -253,9 +253,18 @@ its own description.
 
 It will never fully match it. Package maps and request flows stay in the
 repositories, because writing them as requirements produces a corpus that goes
-stale on every refactor — a decision this capability already records. So the
-README is corrected to say what the corpus is: the rules the software is held
-to, with the reasoning in the archive.
+stale on every refactor — a decision this capability already records.
+
+The README is left as it stands. "The current description of how osapi-io
+behaves" is what OpenSpec's own model says `specs/` holds, so the sentence
+states the destination correctly and the gap is in the corpus rather than in the
+claim. Rewriting it to describe forty-five process rules would have recorded a
+temporary state as the permanent intent.
+
+*Alternative considered:* correct the README to say the corpus holds rules. That
+was the first draft of this task, and it was wrong. A README that describes what
+a directory currently contains, rather than what it is for, stops being true the
+moment the next capability lands.
 
 ### An entry point, before there are twenty capabilities
 
diff --git a/openspec/changes/specify-documentation-homes/tasks.md b/openspec/changes/specify-documentation-homes/tasks.md
index 6ca5b00..f73595e 100644
--- a/openspec/changes/specify-documentation-homes/tasks.md
+++ b/openspec/changes/specify-documentation-homes/tasks.md
@@ -75,9 +75,13 @@
 
 - [ ] 4a.1 `specs` — write the corpus entry point naming every capability and
   what it covers
-- [ ] 4a.2 `specs` — correct the README, which calls `openspec/specs/` "the
-  current description of how osapi-io behaves". It holds rules; five of its six
-  capabilities govern how work is done rather than how the software behaves
+- [ ] 4a.2 `specs` — leave the README's description of `openspec/specs/` as "the
+  current description of how osapi-io behaves". That is what OpenSpec's own
+  model says the directory holds, so the sentence states the destination
+  correctly. The corpus has not arrived: five of its six capabilities govern how
+  work is done, because every change so far has been repository standardization.
+  Closing that gap is the behavior capabilities queued in section 3, not a
+  smaller claim in the README
 - [ ] 4a.3 `specs` — confirm each capability's `## Purpose` states what it
   governs, rather than restating its first requirement