diff --git a/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/placement/FixedPlacementPolicy.java b/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/placement/FixedPlacementPolicy.java
index cfa3bbb..1389eef 100644
--- a/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/placement/FixedPlacementPolicy.java
+++ b/fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/placement/FixedPlacementPolicy.java
@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ import java.util.List;
 
 /**
  * Backward-compatible placement: an unqualified spawn always resolves to the configured default
- * profile, exactly as {@code CompositePeerLauncher} did before CB-518. This ignores caps and
- * reachability so that a pre-existing config behaves identically after upgrade.
+ * profile, exactly as {@code CompositePeerLauncher} did before CB-518. This ignores caps
+ * ({@code maxLoad}) so that a pre-existing config behaves identically after upgrade — capacity
+ * gating for automatic placement is deliberately out of scope for {@code fixed}, exactly as it
+ * always has been. Reachability is a narrower exception (fleetd #315, below): a profile is never
+ * checked for reachability up front, only skipped once it has already failed in <em>this same</em>
+ * spawn call's retry loop — see the unreachable case below.
  *
  * <p>Four exceptions walk past the default instead of returning it unconditionally:
  * <ul>