diff --git a/tools/checkin_check.py b/tools/checkin_check.py
index f0c8981..04b37e4 100644
--- a/tools/checkin_check.py
+++ b/tools/checkin_check.py
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ RULES IMPLEMENTED (stated, not implied)
   A1 HEADINGS    missing any of Did / Blocked / Next / Ask. ADVISORY, never a
                  fault and never rc 1: the four-heading sentence entered this
                  tree after the archive does, so grading history by it would
-                 report 52 of 70 files faulty -- noise that buries the 12 real
-                 name faults. It is printed, counted, and carried in --json, and
-                 the summary says which rule it is.
+                 report 57 of 70 files faulty at `c374a0a` -- noise that buries
+                 the 25 name faults. It is printed, counted, and carried in
+                 --json, and the summary says which rule it is.
   A2 GAP         a day inside a handle's own span with no file, and days since
                  the newest file against --today. ADVISORY, per the table's own
                  words: "A lane that stops churning is a lane that needs a
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ EXIT CODES (the repo's contract, `tools/selftest_sweep.py`)
      read as UTF-8. Never 1, never a traceback.
 
 READ-ONLY: the only write path is `--json PATH`. It renames nothing -- the
-12 BAD_NAME files are the principals' history, and a tool that renamed them
+badly named files are the principals' history, and a tool that renamed them
 would be editing the record to make its own report green.
 
 USAGE: