diff --git a/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-24-v1.6-understand-implementation.md b/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-24-v1.6-understand-implementation.md
index 2895109..0cad1a5 100644
--- a/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-24-v1.6-understand-implementation.md
+++ b/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-24-v1.6-understand-implementation.md
@@ -1951,7 +1951,10 @@ Where the snapshot comes from:
   - **the selection set does not narrow a DXF export**: an empty selection set
     wrote the same model space, paper space and blocks as the set of all. The
     set of all is passed anyway, because the ActiveX signature requires one.
-  - xrefs were not measured.
+  - xrefs were not measured, so nothing is claimed for the live engine;
+    headless, ezdxf reads the host file only. Either way an xref's own
+    entities are not read in 1.6 - the host drawing is - and
+    ``drawing_understand``'s docstring says so.
 
   A DWG path on the live engine is opened read-only, exported the same way and
   closed without saving.
@@ -5506,6 +5509,7 @@ async def drawing_understand(
     and a confidence. Never modifies the drawing: a file is read as it is, and
     the current document through a snapshot (headless: the document in memory;
     live: a `Document.Export` DXF copy in a temporary folder, deleted after).
+    An xref's own entities are not read - the host drawing is.
 
     - `units`: `$INSUNITS` as declared against the unit the geometry implies
       (text heights, wall thickness, door swings, labelled room areas, overall
diff --git a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-24-v1.6-understand-design.md b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-24-v1.6-understand-design.md
index 706ee98..07622f5 100644
--- a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-24-v1.6-understand-design.md
+++ b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-24-v1.6-understand-design.md
@@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ handle, geometry, text, block name, attributes) filled once per drawing, so a
   exported too, and ezdxf read the result. The extension argument must be
   `"DXF"`; `".dxf"` fails with *Invalid argument* (measured). The snapshot goes
   to a temporary folder and is deleted afterwards. Whether paper-space content
-  and xrefs reach the snapshot is measured by the plan's first live task and
-  stated in the tool docstrings.
+  reaches the snapshot is measured by the plan's first live task and stated in
+  the tool docstrings. An xref's own entities are not read in 1.6 on either
+  engine - the host drawing is - and `drawing_understand`'s docstring says so.
 - `MAX_DXF_BYTES` default rises from 50 MB to 512 MB, and the refusal names the
   size and the variable (a real layout here was 188 MB).