diff --git a/.github/workflows/status_check.yml b/.github/workflows/status_check.yml
index f3b3355..7b890fc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/status_check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/status_check.yml
@@ -280,8 +280,13 @@ jobs:
           # docs/api-37-emulator-crash.md has the per-method measurements, and the
           # correction that produced them.
           #
-          # api-level must be "37.0". A bare 37 is not an SDK package and fails
-          # during setup, which cost a run to discover.
+          # api-level must be a POINT release. A bare 37 is not an SDK package and
+          # fails during setup, which cost a run to discover. `37.0` is the choice
+          # here rather than the only option: `37.1` and `37.2-beta*` exist and
+          # abort the same way, and api37-debug.yml's inputs document both, with
+          # the wrinkle that above 37.0 they ship only as google_apis_ps16k.
+          # docs/api-37-emulator-crash.md measures 37.0 rev 6 and 37.1 rev 8 side
+          # by side, so pinning 37.0 is a decision, not a constraint.
           #
           # notAnnotation removes the three tests that do not pass on this image; they
           # run in the advisory job below, off the same marker so they cannot end up
diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/org/libremediaconverter/bench/RealMediaBenchmark.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/libremediaconverter/bench/RealMediaBenchmark.kt
index 3787388..d5f97ea 100644
--- a/app/src/androidTest/java/org/libremediaconverter/bench/RealMediaBenchmark.kt
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/libremediaconverter/bench/RealMediaBenchmark.kt
@@ -36,8 +36,20 @@ import java.io.File
  *  1. that the hardware path is worth having a second engine for at all, and
  *  2. that x264's CRF is worth the GPL licence the app carries for it.
  *
- * Skips itself when the sample files are absent, so it is harmless in CI. Populate with:
- *   adb push <file>.mp4 /sdcard/Android/data/org.libremediaconverter/files/
+ * Skips itself when the sample files are absent, so it is harmless in CI — every green E2E
+ * leg reports two skips, and these are they.
+ *
+ * The two files it looks for, by exact name:
+ *
+ *  - [H264_SAMPLE] for [hardwareVersusSoftwareOnRealVideo]
+ *  - [AV1_SAMPLE] for [av1InputRoutesAccordingToDeviceDecodeSupport]
+ *
+ * **Where they go, and how, is on [samples] — read it before staging anything.** This used to
+ * carry an `adb push` line naming the external files dir, which [samples] then explains cannot
+ * work: a pushed file stays owned by the shell user and the app reads EACCES, surfacing as an
+ * unparseable input rather than a permission error. The instruction and its own refutation sat
+ * twelve lines apart. It is named in one place now rather than restated here, because restating
+ * it is what let the two drift.
  */
 @UnstableApi
 @RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class)
diff --git a/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/ConversionViewModelProbeFailureTest.kt b/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/ConversionViewModelProbeFailureTest.kt
index 9bfe5b9..2aa69ac 100644
--- a/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/ConversionViewModelProbeFailureTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/test/java/org/libremediaconverter/convert/ConversionViewModelProbeFailureTest.kt
@@ -140,10 +140,16 @@ class ConversionViewModelProbeFailureTest {
     private fun pickedProbe(): InputProbe? {
         val viewModel = ConversionViewModel(app, Dispatchers.Unconfined)
         viewModel.onInputPicked(INPUT)
+        // The predicate is the guard, and it is the only one needed. It requires `Ready`, so a
+        // pick that ended in `Failed` never satisfies it and `awaitState` fails on its timeout
+        // naming what it was waiting for -- "Ready with a probe" -- which says more than a
+        // separate assertion could. A `ready as? ConversionState.Failed` check used to sit here
+        // and was dead: `Ready` and `Failed` are sibling subtypes of one sealed interface, so
+        // the cast was always null and the assertNull could never fire. Measured, not assumed --
+        // flipping it to assertNotNull failed all three callers of this helper.
         val ready = awaitState(viewModel.state, "Ready with a probe") {
             it is ConversionState.Ready && it.input.probe != null
         }
-        assertNull("nothing here should reach a terminal failure", (ready as? ConversionState.Failed))
         return (ready as ConversionState.Ready).input.probe
     }