diff --git a/bridged/src/main/java/dev/ltms/bridged/member/CompositePeerLauncher.java b/bridged/src/main/java/dev/ltms/bridged/member/CompositePeerLauncher.java
index 3262766..d16686c 100644
--- a/bridged/src/main/java/dev/ltms/bridged/member/CompositePeerLauncher.java
+++ b/bridged/src/main/java/dev/ltms/bridged/member/CompositePeerLauncher.java
@@ -372,8 +372,11 @@ public final class CompositePeerLauncher implements PeerLauncher {
     }
 
     private void enforceMaxLoad(String profile) {
-        // Absent config, or a config whose maxLoad normalized to null (non-positive ⇒ unlimited at
-        // load), means no cap — never cap what wasn't configured.
+        // Absent config, or a config whose maxLoad normalized to null (ABSENT ⇒ unlimited at load),
+        // means no cap — never cap what wasn't configured. Note "non-positive ⇒ unlimited" was true
+        // until CB-585: an explicit `maxLoad: 0` now survives as 0 and is a real cap of zero, so the
+        // check below refuses every spawn on that profile, and a negative value is refused at config
+        // load rather than normalized away.
         BridgedConfig.Profile cfg = profiles0().get(profile);
         Integer cap = (cfg == null) ? null : cfg.maxLoad();
         if (cap == null) {