diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/guides/CODE-REVIEW.md b/packages/mosaic/framework/guides/CODE-REVIEW.md
index c4ea6b3c..75db13c5 100755
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/guides/CODE-REVIEW.md
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/guides/CODE-REVIEW.md
@@ -65,12 +65,15 @@ Each of these produced a wrong conclusion before it was written down.
     conclusion drawn from it describes the wrong tree. Confirm `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
     is the tree you think it is before trusting any git output.
 
-13. **Run the repository's PINNED tool version, not `npx --yes <tool>`.** `npx --yes` ignores the
-    lockfile and fetches the latest release, so it answers about a version the project does not
-    use. Measured on mosaicstack#1313: the lockfile pins prettier 3.8.1, under which three guides
-    pass; `npx --yes prettier` fetched 3.9.6, under which the same three fail; and 3.0.0, the floor
-    of the declared `^3.0.0` range, fails a different one. Three versions, three verdicts, same
-    bytes. Use `node_modules/.bin/<tool>`, or name the version the lockfile pins.
+13. **Run the repository's PINNED tool version.** `npx <tool>` resolves a local `node_modules`
+    install when one is present and fetches the latest release when one is not, so the same
+    command answers differently depending on where it ran. A reviewer measuring in a fresh clone
+    or a detached worktree — which is exactly where reviewers measure — has no `node_modules` and
+    silently gets the latest release instead of the pinned one. Measured on mosaicstack#1313: the
+    lockfile pins prettier 3.8.1, under which three guides pass; a version-less `npx` in a
+    worktree resolved 3.9.6, under which the same three fail; and 3.0.0, the floor of the declared
+    `^3.0.0` range, fails a different one. Three versions, three verdicts, identical bytes. Use
+    `node_modules/.bin/<tool>`, or name the version the lockfile pins.
 14. **A formatter or linter declared as a range is a dated verdict, not a fact.** If a lockfile
     pins it, the gate is reproducible today and will disagree with itself the day the pin moves.
     Report a formatting failure with the version that produced it, always.