diff --git a/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/AppRootRestorationTest.kt b/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/AppRootRestorationTest.kt
index 07dd1f0..5c125b7 100644
--- a/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/AppRootRestorationTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/AppRootRestorationTest.kt
@@ -33,9 +33,12 @@ import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
  * representation survives a `Bundle` round trip. A JVM round-trip test on the
  * saver covers the representation.
  *
- * Robolectric rather than the instrumented suite, deliberately. The instrumented tests
- * cannot run on the development host at all (see CLAUDE.md), and a red test nobody can
- * execute is not a loop anyone can work in.
+ * Robolectric rather than the instrumented suite, deliberately -- but not because the
+ * instrumented suite is unavailable. It runs on this host for API 33-36
+ * (`tools/local-emulator/run-e2e.sh`), and CI runs 33-37. The reason is cost: this test
+ * needs a composition and a saved-state round trip, nothing a device supplies, and it runs
+ * in the same `./gradlew` invocation as every other JVM test instead of booting an
+ * emulator. A loop measured in seconds is a loop people stay inside.
  */
 @UnstableApi
 @RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
diff --git a/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/OutputPublisherStagingTest.kt b/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/OutputPublisherStagingTest.kt
index 4419919..f778f5a 100644
--- a/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/OutputPublisherStagingTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/OutputPublisherStagingTest.kt
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@ import java.util.UUID
  * the actual filesystem — the same calls `reset()` makes, without needing a ViewModel (both
  * of those construct a `WorkManager`, which is not initialised on the JVM classpath).
  *
- * The instrumented suite cannot run on the development host, so this is the only place the
- * "Start over leaks a full-size copy" defect can be caught before CI.
+ * The instrumented suite could also catch the "Start over leaks a full-size copy" defect --
+ * it runs on this host for API 33-36 (`tools/local-emulator/run-e2e.sh`) and on CI for
+ * 33-37. Here rather than there because a real `cacheDir` is all the defect needs, and
+ * finding it costs an emulator boot there and a few seconds here.
  */
 @RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
 class OutputPublisherStagingTest {