diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/common/confirmationModal/DraftEditorModals.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/common/confirmationModal/DraftEditorModals.svelte
index 147614dc0e..9dbf119dce 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/common/confirmationModal/DraftEditorModals.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/common/confirmationModal/DraftEditorModals.svelte
@@ -40,12 +40,13 @@
 		draftSavedAt?: string | undefined
 		/** ISO timestamp of the latest deploy at this path. */
 		deployedAt?: string | undefined
-		/** Precise staleness inputs: the deployed version the draft was forked from,
-		 *  and the current deployed head. When both are set they drive `isStale` and
-		 *  the dedup key instead of the timestamps — exact, and stable across
-		 *  autosaves (the timestamp drifts past `deployedAt` as you keep editing).
-		 *  Flows/apps pass version ids; scripts pass hashes, which are strings.
-		 *  Absent (pre-feature drafts) ⇒ timestamp fallback. */
+		/** Precise staleness inputs: the deployed version the draft is pinned to, and
+		 *  the current deployed head. When both are set they drive `isStale` and the
+		 *  dedup key instead of the timestamps, which drift past `deployedAt` as you
+		 *  keep editing. Flows/apps pass version ids and pin the true fork point;
+		 *  scripts pass hashes and re-pin to the head on each load, so one edit after
+		 *  a dismissed stale prompt stops it recurring — the same self-healing the
+		 *  timestamps had. Absent (pre-feature drafts) ⇒ timestamp fallback. */
 		draftBaseVersion?: number | string | undefined
 		deployedHeadVersion?: number | string | undefined
 		/** Discard the draft and reload deployed (same as "Reset to deployed"). */
diff --git a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/scripts/edit/[...path]/+page.svelte b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/scripts/edit/[...path]/+page.svelte
index c9519f00e8..f2bf0e62d5 100644
--- a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/scripts/edit/[...path]/+page.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/scripts/edit/[...path]/+page.svelte
@@ -106,8 +106,10 @@
 	 *  (our draft is behind the latest deploy). Cleared between loads to re-fire. */
 	let draftSavedAt = $state<string | undefined>(undefined)
 	let deployedAt = $state<string | undefined>(undefined)
-	/** Hash the draft forked from, and the deployed head — the script equivalent
-	 *  of the flow/app version pair. */
+	/** The hash the draft is pinned to, and the deployed head — the script
+	 *  equivalent of the flow/app version pair. Read off the loaded draft, which
+	 *  the load below re-pins to the head, so this is the head the draft was last
+	 *  loaded against rather than the point it originally forked from. */
 	let draftBaseHash = $state<string | undefined>(undefined)
 	let deployedHeadHash = $state<string | undefined>(undefined)