diff --git a/docs/ownership-and-templates.md b/docs/ownership-and-templates.md
index 15bbe4e..f374c8e 100644
--- a/docs/ownership-and-templates.md
+++ b/docs/ownership-and-templates.md
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ stack can answer all of these differently and both be correct. [AGENTS.md § Per
 frames the split the same way for `kb/CONTRACT.md` versus `kb/CONVENTIONS.md`: "the split is by
 who may change the sentence, not by what it is about." A rule about page structure could in
 principle have been written per-instance too, but then every instance answering "not German" to
-setup would be hand-editing a file the stack also ships, and the next `dist export` merge would
-hand the instance's own file back to it, discarding the customization.
+setup would be hand-editing a file the stack also ships, and the next release update would
+hand the stack's file back to it, discarding the customization.
 
 ## Why silent overwrite is the failure being designed against