diff --git a/docs/remote-sessions.md b/docs/remote-sessions.md
index 2d80397b..3deb1e7d 100644
--- a/docs/remote-sessions.md
+++ b/docs/remote-sessions.md
@@ -429,6 +429,11 @@ path but the SESSION (`session.remote`): a remote session never falls back to lo
 `fs`, and a local session never opens an ssh connection — including for attachment
 records, which are keyed to the session that registered them.
 
+**Local watchers skip a remote session.** The Ralph tracker's `@fix_plan.md` auto-load
+(and the `fs.watch` behind it) never runs for a remote session: `setupSessionListeners()`
+(`server.ts`) does not hand the tracker a remote `workingDir`, because the watcher reads
+the LOCAL disk, where that path is missing or a different tree.
+
 ## Wake-on-LAN from user input
 
 A durable remote session survives an SSH drop (COD-104/108), but nothing brought the
diff --git a/test/ralph-fix-plan-remote.test.ts b/test/ralph-fix-plan-remote.test.ts
index 6bd6291e..9127ac0f 100644
--- a/test/ralph-fix-plan-remote.test.ts
+++ b/test/ralph-fix-plan-remote.test.ts
@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@
  * remote session (and where a same-named local directory did exist, it watched
  * the wrong tree). Setting the path also made the tracker treat the unreadable
  * file as authoritative (`isFileAuthoritative`), which switched off its
- * output-based todo completion for every remote session. `setupSessionListeners()` already skips external CLI modes for
- * the same reason (the tracker is not supported there); a remote location is the
- * other case with no local file to watch.
+ * output-based todo completion for every remote session.
+ * `setupSessionListeners()` already skips external CLI modes (the tracker is
+ * not supported there); a remote location is the other case with no local
+ * file to watch.
  *
  * Drives the real `WebServer.setupSessionListeners()`, like
  * discard-partially-built-session.test.ts.