diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 762498c..7bf3681 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ jobs:
           # settable), so validate its shape before it's used anywhere — reject
           # anything that isn't a clean semver release tag (no pre-release/build
           # suffix; release tags are always vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH and must equal the
-          # clean version.txt base checked below). Passed via env (not inline
-          # ${{ }}). The error message does NOT echo the raw TAG: pre-validation
+          # clean version.txt base checked below). Passed via env, not an inline
+          # GitHub expression. The error message does NOT echo the raw TAG: pre-validation
           # it may contain a CR/newline that would break out of the ::error::
           # workflow command (workflow-command injection). After this gate TAG is
           # known clean, so the mismatch error below can safely include it.