diff --git a/apps/hello-app/deployment.yaml b/apps/hello-app/deployment.yaml
index 4562f25..6af6c37 100644
--- a/apps/hello-app/deployment.yaml
+++ b/apps/hello-app/deployment.yaml
@@ -23,13 +23,15 @@ spec:
       #   - name: forgejo-registry
       containers:
         - name: hello-app
-          # Not a comment — this exact-format annotation is how Flux's
-          # image-automation "Setters" strategy (image-automation.yaml's
-          # ImageUpdateAutomation) finds this line and knows to rewrite the
-          # tag below in place, rather than needing this field templated.
+          # The trailing comment on the image line below (not this one) is
+          # how Flux's image-automation "Setters" strategy finds this field
+          # and knows to rewrite the tag in place, rather than needing it
+          # templated. It must be a trailing comment on the image: line
+          # itself - Flux's YAML parser attaches comments to the node on
+          # their own line, so a marker on a line above never associates
+          # with the field below it and silently never matches anything.
           # "hello-app:hello-app" is "<namespace>:<ImagePolicy name>".
-          # {"$imagepolicy": "hello-app:hello-app"}
-          image: git.boglabob.com/codegit/hello-app:latest
+          image: git.boglabob.com/codegit/hello-app:latest # {"$imagepolicy": "hello-app:hello-app"}
           ports:
             - containerPort: 80
 ---