diff --git a/docs/command-surface.md b/docs/command-surface.md
index 9e17d20..05d3329 100644
--- a/docs/command-surface.md
+++ b/docs/command-surface.md
@@ -97,6 +97,18 @@ broken — is skipped by every later run forever and no backfill repairs it. Wit
 and replaced when it does not match. It costs a full GET per existing blob, so
 it is a repair pass, not the default.
 
+**After a repair, purge the pull zone before believing `verify`.** A repair is
+the one thing that makes a key serve different bytes than it did before, and the
+edge caches these objects for 30 days precisely because that normally cannot
+happen. The two commands therefore look at different copies on purpose: `emit
+--verify` repairs the **origin**, `verify` reads the **edge**, and in between a
+warm PoP still answers with the old bytes while a cold one answers with the new.
+Until the zone is purged `verify`'s verdict is per-PoP and settles nothing — a
+pass is not proof, and a failure is not the repair having failed. The purge is
+one call against the pull zone; it belongs in the repair procedure rather than
+in `emit`, which holds a storage credential and no CDN one (sow-tools#89, and
+the procedure itself is in sow-platform's NWSync runbook).
+
 `emit` uploads blobs first and the index last, so the presence of an index is
 the publication marker: an artifact whose emit died halfway leaves real blobs in
 the zone and no index. Blob names are content hashes, so re-running skips
diff --git a/internal/nwsync/run.go b/internal/nwsync/run.go
index 81d324c..c221797 100644
--- a/internal/nwsync/run.go
+++ b/internal/nwsync/run.go
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ check on a published blob upstream of a player's client.
 --verify makes emit hash what it would otherwise skip. emit normally treats a
 blob's presence as proof of its contents, so without this an object written
 truncated, or written by an emitter since found broken, is skipped forever.
+--verify repairs the storage zone, while verify reads the edge in front of it,
+so purge the pull zone after a repair or verify answers differently per PoP.
 
 --out DIR writes to a local repository tree instead of uploading, which is the
 conformance path against upstream nwn_nwsync_write. Without it, the zone comes