diff --git a/.github/workflows/fleet-lint.yml b/.github/workflows/fleet-lint.yml
index 1ad3170..b76a4ec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/fleet-lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/fleet-lint.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,13 @@ name: fleet-lint
 on:
   push:
     branches: [main]
+  # `edited` joins the three default types because pr-title reads the title out
+  # of the event payload: without it, a title corrected in response to the
+  # check raises no event, and a re-run replays the payload that failed. The
+  # only way left to clear the gate would be another push, which a title fix
+  # does not have.
   pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, edited]
   # Periodic coverage: these tools grow rules between releases, so a repository
   # nobody has touched can start failing for a reason worth knowing about.
   schedule:
@@ -209,7 +215,10 @@ jobs:
     # drives the compiler over the whole workspace, and a pull request that
     # touches no Rust cannot change what it would say.
     needs: changes
-    if: needs.changes.outputs.rust == 'true'
+    # Not on an edited title or body: nothing a description says changes what
+    # the compiler sees, and this is the one job here that can run half an
+    # hour. The rest are seconds and can afford to answer every event.
+    if: needs.changes.outputs.rust == 'true' && github.event.action != 'edited'
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       # Whether hawk applies is answered on the runner, after checkout: a
diff --git a/.vale.ini b/.vale.ini
index 0538725..42b5512 100644
--- a/.vale.ini
+++ b/.vale.ini
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@
 # clichés, redundancy — without imposing a voice on repositories whose readers
 # are each other. A style guide can come later, from writing that exists.
 StylesPath = .vale/styles
-MinAlertLevel = warning
+
+# Errors only. The action runs reviewdog with fail-on-error, which fails a job on
+# any annotation it posts — warnings included — so a level reported is a level
+# enforced, whatever the rule's own severity says. Reporting errors alone is what
+# makes the levelling below mean anything. Lower this locally to read the advice.
+MinAlertLevel = error
 
 Packages = proselint, write-good
 
@@ -20,8 +25,11 @@ BasedOnStyles = proselint, write-good
 write-good.ThereIs = warning
 write-good.So = warning
 
-# Prose lives in sentences; a fenced block is code someone will run.
-BlockIgnores = (?s) *(```.*?```)
+# Prose lives in sentences; a fenced block is code someone will run. Anchored to
+# line starts because the unanchored form silently matched nothing: a fence with
+# no language tag was graded as prose, and `[PATHS]...` in a usage block read as
+# an ellipsis waiting to be typeset.
+BlockIgnores = (?sm)^ *```.*?^ *```
 
 # `vale sync` writes the style packages here, README files and all, and Vale
 # then grades the prose of the linters it just downloaded.
diff --git a/scripts/publish.sh b/scripts/publish.sh
index c6119b6..cb86196 100755
--- a/scripts/publish.sh
+++ b/scripts/publish.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # Publish straitjacket to crates.io.
 #
+# Fleet-managed by conf (.ordnung/managed/publishing/rust/publish.sh): edit it
+# there. The crate name is substituted from the repository name, so a crate
+# named differently from its repository needs a copy of its own.
+#
 # Publishing is irreversible: a version can be yanked but never deleted, and a
 # name/version pair can never be reused. The shape of this script follows from
 # that.
@@ -34,10 +38,6 @@
 #   CARGO_REGISTRIES_<NAME>_TOKEN   ... or for --execute --registry <name>.
 #   Neither is ever logged.
 #
-# Fleet-managed by conf (.ordnung/managed/publishing/rust/publish.sh): edit it
-# there. The crate name is substituted from the repository name, so a crate
-# named differently from its repository needs a copy of its own.
-#
 # straitjacket-allow-file:no-comments — this is the procedure for the one
 # action in the repository that cannot be undone, and sh has no
 # documentation-comment syntax to hoist the reasoning into.