diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fb1469a7..e7ae98f4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ breaking entries are marked **BREAKING**.
 - **Wrapped commands** (`kaish_kernel::tools::wrapped`, `subprocess` feature):
   register an external program as a tool with a declared grammar. Verbs and flags
   are deny-by-default, refused with exit 2 before any spawn; the kernel renders
-  argv. Runs with `allow_external_commands` off. See `docs/wrapped_command.md`.
+  argv. It narrows rather than widens: `allow_external_commands = false` plus
+  named wrappers is the intended shape. See `docs/wrapped_command.md`.
 - **`ValidationIssue::command`** — the command an issue concerns, when one is
   genuinely known (`UndefinedCommand`'s name, a builtin's own regex/schema
   failure), so an embedder can route on it instead of parsing `message`.
diff --git a/crates/kaish-kernel/src/tools/wrapped.rs b/crates/kaish-kernel/src/tools/wrapped.rs
index 6daf61a3..d72fbfed 100644
--- a/crates/kaish-kernel/src/tools/wrapped.rs
+++ b/crates/kaish-kernel/src/tools/wrapped.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@
 //! renders the argv itself, so a value is never parsed as a flag by the child
 //! unless the declaration put it in flag position.
 //!
+//! This narrows what a kernel can run; it does not widen it.
+//! `allow_external_commands` chooses between "no word spawns anything" and
+//! "every program on `$PATH` spawns, with any arguments." A wrapped command is
+//! the setting between: the executable is pinned at registration, so a changed
+//! `$PATH` changes nothing, and an undeclared verb or flag is refused before
+//! any spawn. Registering wrappers with the switch left `false` is the intended
+//! shape, not a way around it.
+//!
 //! ```no_run
 //! use kaish_kernel::tools::wrapped::{Flag, Positional, Verb, WrappedCommand};
 //!
diff --git a/docs/wrapped_command.md b/docs/wrapped_command.md
index 701cddb2..47a521c9 100644
--- a/docs/wrapped_command.md
+++ b/docs/wrapped_command.md
@@ -430,9 +430,13 @@ and the two names that collide:
   optional slot without it.
 - A relative `path_under(root)` — the root must be an absolute path.
 
-A wrapped command is a registered tool, not an external command. It runs when
-`allow_external_commands` is `false`. It needs the `subprocess` feature; a
-sandbox build has no `wrapped` module.
+A wrapped command is a registered tool, not an external command, so
+`allow_external_commands` does not gate it. That switch is not a lock a wrapper
+picks: it decides whether an arbitrary word becomes a `$PATH` lookup. A wrapper
+is the narrower grant beside it — one pinned executable, one declared grammar.
+Leaving the switch `false` and registering a wrapper is the point.
+
+It needs the `subprocess` feature; a sandbox build has no `wrapped` module.
 
 ## What the kernel owns, and what the embedder owns