diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 1683d24..721e9ab 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ fmt-check, and commit.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
-- 2026-08-10: Added `-count=1` to both `go test` invocations in the canonical Go
+- 2026-09-03: Added `-count=1` to both `go test` invocations in the canonical Go
   `make test` example in `REPO_POLICIES.md`, so the target cannot report a
-  cached pass it did not earn.
+  cached pass it did not earn, and documented that Go's test-result cache is a
+  second, independent cache stacked below the Docker layer cache.
 - 2026-08-07: Set the canonical `.golangci.yml` to the org-standard v2-schema
   config already deployed byte-identical across the org's Go repos (settings
   under `linters.settings` so thresholds like lll/funlen/cyclop/dupl actually
diff --git a/prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md b/prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md
index 7893e7a..c2efa0d 100644
--- a/prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md
+++ b/prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md
@@ -224,6 +224,14 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     reproduces a failure instead of replaying it. It leaves the build cache
     alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite and no recompilation.
 
+    Note that this is a second, independent cache, stacked below the Docker
+    layer cache that [issue #26](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/issues/26)
+    addresses. `CHECK_EPOCH` guarantees the `RUN make test` _step_ re-executes;
+    it does not guarantee `go test` inside that step does any work, because the
+    `GOCACHE` baked into earlier image layers survives into the re-executed
+    step. They are two separate defects requiring two separate fixes, and a fix
+    for one must not be recorded as covering the other.
+
     Python example:
 
     ```makefile