diff --git a/claude_bottle/backend/smolmachines/bottle.py b/claude_bottle/backend/smolmachines/bottle.py
index d2eb01b..3ecc828 100644
--- a/claude_bottle/backend/smolmachines/bottle.py
+++ b/claude_bottle/backend/smolmachines/bottle.py
@@ -26,14 +26,10 @@ from . import pty_resize as _pty_resize
 from . import smolvm as _smolvm
 
 
-# Absolute path to the pty_resize wrapper. The dashboard's tmux
-# pane (split-window / respawn-pane) opens the new pane in its
-# OWN cwd, not the cwd of the process running split-window — so
-# invoking the wrapper as `python -m <dotted-path>` would fail
-# with ModuleNotFoundError whenever the operator's tmux pane was
-# started from anywhere outside the claude-bottle repo. Absolute
-# path sidesteps the cwd dependence (the wrapper has no
-# claude_bottle.* imports, so it runs as a standalone script).
+# Absolute path to the pty_resize wrapper. Invoke as
+# `python <path>` rather than `python -m <dotted-path>` so the
+# wrapper runs regardless of cwd / sys.path — it has no
+# claude_bottle.* imports, so it's self-contained.
 _PTY_RESIZE_SCRIPT = _pty_resize.__file__
 
 
diff --git a/claude_bottle/backend/smolmachines/pty_resize.py b/claude_bottle/backend/smolmachines/pty_resize.py
index ae22804..5603ca0 100644
--- a/claude_bottle/backend/smolmachines/pty_resize.py
+++ b/claude_bottle/backend/smolmachines/pty_resize.py
@@ -132,23 +132,9 @@ def main(argv: list[str]) -> int:
     signal.signal(signal.SIGWINCH, sync)
 
     proc = subprocess.Popen(inner)
-    # Defer the initial sync. Firing it immediately races
-    # libkrun's per-exec OCI config write: both `smolvm machine
-    # exec` invocations stash a config.json in the same smolvm
-    # state dir during their bringup window, libkrun loads one
-    # mid-write, and the main exec dies with SIGKILL (rc=137)
-    # or libkrun's "parse error: trailing garbage" depending on
-    # scheduling. Trivial inner commands finish before the
-    # overlap matters; claude's slower startup hits the race
-    # every time, only inside tmux (the outside-tmux foreground
-    # handoff path takes a different bringup sequence that
-    # happens to dodge the window).
-    #
-    # A 2s timer is past the bringup window on a warm VM, so
-    # the side-channel writes a fresh config.json without
-    # collision, and the in-VM PTY is sized before claude has
-    # finished rendering its first frame. daemon=True so the
-    # timer doesn't block exit when the child finishes quickly.
+    # Initial sync is deferred — see _STARTUP_SYNC_DELAY_SEC.
+    # daemon=True so the timer doesn't block exit when the child
+    # finishes before the delay elapses.
     timer = threading.Timer(_STARTUP_SYNC_DELAY_SEC, sync)
     timer.daemon = True
     timer.start()