diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/actingUser.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/actingUser.svelte.ts
index 784b98043c..30da65ff83 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/actingUser.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/actingUser.svelte.ts
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ import { getWorkspaceRole, type RoleLookup } from '$lib/user'
 export function useActingUser(workspace: () => string | undefined) {
 	const navWorkspace = fromStore(workspaceStore)
 	const navUser = fromStore(userStore)
-	// A Map, not an object: a workspace may legitimately be named `constructor`, which a plain
-	// object would answer for out of its prototype.
 	const looked = new SvelteMap<string, RoleLookup>()
 	// The workspace this effect last acted on, so arriving at one is distinguishable from the
 	// effect re-running while already there.
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/ResourceEditor.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/ResourceEditor.svelte
index 73315664fe..bcb886ee7d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/ResourceEditor.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/ResourceEditor.svelte
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
 	// releasing them on component teardown. `states` indexes the resulting
 	// handles by workspace ID for ergonomic lookup downstream.
 	let workspaceSpecs = $state<Array<{ ws: string; defaultValue: ResourceState }>>([])
+	// Plain objects keyed by workspace id, so an id that is also an `Object.prototype` key
+	// (`constructor`, …) reads as already present and the resource never loads. Such ids are
+	// deliberately unsupported: too unlikely to be worth guarding every read.
 	let initialStates: Record<string, ResourceState> = $state({})
 	let existedInitially: Record<string, boolean> = $state({})
 	let fetchedResources: Record<string, Resource> = $state({})
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/VariableEditor.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/VariableEditor.svelte
index b18b48161c..7c935be45c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/VariableEditor.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/VariableEditor.svelte
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@
 	// releasing them on component teardown. `states` indexes the resulting
 	// handles by workspace ID for ergonomic lookup downstream.
 	let workspaceSpecs = $state<Array<{ ws: string; defaultValue: VariableState }>>([])
+	// Plain objects keyed by workspace id, so an id that is also an `Object.prototype` key
+	// (`constructor`, …) reads as already present and the variable never loads. Such ids are
+	// deliberately unsupported: too unlikely to be worth guarding every read.
 	let initialStates: Record<string, VariableState> = $state({})
 	let existedInitially: Record<string, boolean> = $state({})
 	let extraPerms: Record<string, Record<string, boolean>> = $state({})