diff --git a/docs/servers.md b/docs/servers.md
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@@ -77,10 +77,22 @@ All verified, none cosmetic.
 - **`bun run plugins:update` restarts sidecars itself**, printing `sidecar: started` per plugin — on
   `alpha` that is twelve processes bouncing during the plugins step, before any restart the plan asked for.
   Not a fault, but a deploy report that lists only `officer` under "restarted" is understating what moved.
-- **`fofos` cannot sync its capabilities**, and could not publish gitea affordances on 2026-08-21:
-  `dubious ownership` from git and `EACCES … mkdir '…/capabilities/affordances/officerdev'`. Both point at
-  that capabilities checkout being owned by somebody other than `pastilhas`. Deliberately not papered over
-  with a `safe.directory` entry until somebody has run one `stat` on it. **Unexplained.**
+- **`fofos` failed its capabilities sync for three deploys, and it was ownership.** Fixed 2026-08-21.
+  Two errors that read as unrelated problems — `dubious ownership` from git, and
+  `EACCES … mkdir '…/capabilities/affordances/officerdev'` from the gitea plugin — were one cause in two
+  dialects: fifty paths under that checkout were owned by `root`, including `.git` and `affordances`, all
+  stamped `19 Aug 21:43`. Something was run with `sudo` and left them behind. Mode `755` is why the split
+  looked odd: everything could be READ, so git saw the repo and refused it on ownership while the plugin
+  saw `affordances` and could not write into it.
+
+  One `stat` settled it, and that is the general lesson — `stat` prints the owner rather than inferring
+  anything, so it either proves ownership is the cause or eliminates it, in one command. Fixed with
+  `sudo chown -R pastilhas:pastilhas ~/officerdev/capabilities`; verified after by a `mkdir` into the
+  directory that used to refuse one.
+
+  **A `safe.directory` entry was deliberately NOT used**, and that call is worth keeping. It would have
+  silenced the git message and left the `EACCES` untouched — one symptom of a two-symptom cause hidden,
+  with the obvious explanation spent.
 
 ## Not platforms — ignore for now