diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 0b09575f7..33b4697ce 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ CONTRIBUTING.md
 CONTRIBUTING-AI.md
 CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
 SECURITY.md
-LICENSE.md
-LICENSE
+# LICENSE / LICENSE.md are deliberately NOT ignored: AGPL-3.0 conveys with
+# the software, so the licence text ships inside the image.
 AGENTS.md
 .planning
 docs
diff --git a/src/app/api/workouts/batch/route.ts b/src/app/api/workouts/batch/route.ts
index 8982eb914..a490b2e3d 100644
--- a/src/app/api/workouts/batch/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/workouts/batch/route.ts
@@ -87,13 +87,13 @@ const PR_DETECTION_SILENT_THRESHOLD = 50;
 const BATCH_RATE_LIMIT_MAX = 60;
 const BATCH_RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_MS = 60 * 1000;
 
-// 5 MB request-body ceiling. The route geometry is the largest tail in
-// a workout payload; with the 20 000-point cap on a single LineString
-// AND the 100-workout cap per batch, the worst-case body is bounded
-// well below this ceiling for typical lon/lat encodings. A request
-// above this ceiling almost certainly indicates a misbehaving client
-// or an attempted DoS — return 413 so the iOS client falls back to
-// one-workout-per-call.
+// 5 MB request-body ceiling (pre-existing). The route geometry is the
+// largest tail in a workout payload; a typical batch sits comfortably
+// under this, but the 20 000-point LineString cap combined with the
+// 100-workout batch cap allows a theoretical tens-of-MB body for an
+// extreme GPS-heavy backlog. Such a body returns 413 so the iOS client
+// falls back to smaller / one-workout-per-call batches — which is also
+// the correct response to a misbehaving client or an attempted DoS.
 const MAX_BODY_BYTES = 5 * 1024 * 1024;
 
 /**
@@ -178,10 +178,10 @@ async function postBatch(request: NextRequest): Promise<Response> {
   // The Content-Length pre-flight above bounds the common case, but a
   // chunked upload carries no Content-Length. The `safeJson` body cap
   // backstops that gap: the raw text is measured before `JSON.parse`,
-  // so an over-limit chunked body returns a clean 413 rather than
-  // buffering an unbounded payload onto the heap. Reuses the same 5 MB
-  // ceiling — the route's 100-workout × 20 000-point worst case sits
-  // well below it, so a real iOS batch is never rejected.
+  // so an over-limit chunked body returns a clean 413 before the parse
+  // cost. Reuses the same 5 MB ceiling — a typical iOS batch sits under
+  // it; an extreme GPS-heavy backlog that exceeds it falls back to
+  // smaller batches client-side.
   const { data: rawBody, error: jsonError } = await safeJson<unknown>(request, {
     maxBytes: MAX_BODY_BYTES,
   });
diff --git a/src/lib/api-response.ts b/src/lib/api-response.ts
index ff8832485..3f5a17d5b 100644
--- a/src/lib/api-response.ts
+++ b/src/lib/api-response.ts
@@ -201,13 +201,16 @@ export function apiError(
  * Returns the parsed body or a 400 error response if parsing fails.
  *
  * `opts.maxBytes` opts a route into a hard body-size cap. The check
- * runs against the raw text rather than the parsed object, so a
- * gigabyte payload never reaches `JSON.parse` and never lands in
- * heap. Single-record routes can pass a tight cap (a few KB); batch
- * routes that legitimately accept large payloads can pass a larger
- * one (a few hundred KB). When `maxBytes` is omitted the route
- * inherits the Next.js runtime default — pre-existing behaviour, no
- * regression risk for callers that haven't adopted the parameter.
+ * runs against the raw text length rather than the parsed object, so an
+ * over-limit payload returns 413 before reaching `JSON.parse` and never
+ * builds an object graph. (`request.text()` still buffers the raw body
+ * into a string, so the cap bounds the parse/object cost, not the
+ * initial read — keep caps comfortably above the largest legitimate
+ * payload.) Single-record routes can pass a tight cap; batch routes
+ * that legitimately accept large payloads pass a larger one. When
+ * `maxBytes` is omitted the route inherits the Next.js runtime default —
+ * pre-existing behaviour, no regression risk for callers that haven't
+ * adopted the parameter.
  */
 export async function safeJson<T = unknown>(
   request: Request,
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/reminder-worker.ts b/src/lib/jobs/reminder-worker.ts
index 45a379751..69c6e3c3a 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/reminder-worker.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/reminder-worker.ts
@@ -2824,7 +2824,7 @@ export async function startReminderWorker() {
           if (!DENSE_INTRADAY_RETENTION_ENABLED) {
             workerLog(
               "info",
-              "[dense-intraday-retention] disabled — skipping the nightly walk (P2002 fold collision; re-enable via DENSE_INTRADAY_RETENTION_ENABLED once reworked)",
+              "[dense-intraday-retention] disabled via DENSE_INTRADAY_RETENTION_ENABLED — skipping the nightly walk (operator kill-switch)",
             );
           } else {
             const denseSummary = await runDenseIntradayRetention(