diff --git a/scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh b/scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh
index 551daf0..25092a0 100755
--- a/scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh
+++ b/scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,18 @@
 # Used to bring up the persistent stack 2026-05-01 — the first time
 # the Go side has run as long-running daemons rather than per-harness
 # transient processes.
+#
+# KNOWN CONSTRAINT: the pre-push smoke chain (`just verify` →
+# scripts/{d,g}*_smoke.sh) uses the SAME anchored `pkill -f
+# "bin/(name)$"` pattern this script does, and ALSO matches our
+# persistent daemons by name. Pushing while the persistent stack
+# is up will kill 7 of 11 daemons (gateway, storaged, catalogd,
+# ingestd, queryd, embedd, vectord; the smokes don't reach for
+# pathwayd/observerd/matrixd/chatd). Workaround: re-run this
+# script after every push. A proper fix is to give the persistent
+# stack a different binary name (e.g. via build tags or a
+# wrapper symlink) so smoke-side pkill doesn't see it; deferred
+# until the trigger fires (i.e. when an operator gets bitten).
 
 set -euo pipefail