diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 6c43b955..c060b0ce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  # The published files (see AGENTS.md) come from the CLI's private source,
-  # copied by ci-bot's public-releases-sync as of each release: an edit made
-  # here would be silently overwritten by the next sync. Only that sync's own
-  # pull requests may change them.
+  # The published files (see AGENTS.md) come from the CLI's source, copied by
+  # mergify-ci-bot as of each release: an edit made here would be silently
+  # overwritten by the next sync. Only that sync's own pull requests may
+  # change them.
   synced-files:
     name: synced files only change through the sync
     if: github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'mergify-ci-bot'
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
           changed="$(git diff --name-only "${BASE_SHA}...HEAD" -- \
-            README.md install.sh skills .claude-plugin .codex-plugin assets)"
+            README.md install.sh skills .claude-plugin .codex-plugin assets LICENSE)"
           if [ -n "${changed}" ]; then
             for file in ${changed}; do
               echo "::error file=${file}::${file} is published from the CLI's source and synced here at each release; edit it there (see AGENTS.md)"
diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 4fb97c90..a1766973 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 # Agent Instructions
 
 This repository is the public home of the `mergify` CLI. It doesn't hold the
-CLI's source: the CLI is developed, built and released from Mergify's private
-monorepo, and so are the files this repository publishes.
+CLI's source: Mergify develops, builds and releases the CLI elsewhere, along
+with the files this repository publishes.
 
 ## Published files: don't edit them here
 
-These are copied from the CLI's source (`cli/` in the private monorepo) as of
-the Latest release, by a pull request from `mergify-ci-bot` (branch
-`public-files-sync`) that ci-bot's `public-releases-sync` opens whenever they
-differ:
+These are copied from the CLI's source as of the Latest release, by a pull
+request from `mergify-ci-bot` (branch `public-files-sync`), opened whenever
+they differ:
 
 | Here | What it is |
 |---|---|
@@ -17,17 +16,16 @@ differ:
 | `install.sh` | the installer, served from `main` to `curl … \| sh` |
 | `skills/` | the agent skills (`npx skills add Mergifyio/mergify-cli`) |
 | `.claude-plugin/`, `.codex-plugin/`, `assets/` | the plugin manifests and icon |
+| `LICENSE` | the license covering the CLI and these files |
 
 A change made to them here is overwritten by the next sync, so CI's
 `synced-files` check fails any pull request that edits them, unless it comes
-from `mergify-ci-bot`. Suggestions are welcome as issues, or as pull requests
-that Mergify carries over to the CLI's source.
+from `mergify-ci-bot`. Suggestions are welcome as issues.
 
 ## Owned here
 
-- `.github/workflows/ci.yaml`, `.mergify.yml`, `renovate.json`,
-  this `AGENTS.md` and `LICENSE`.
-- The releases, written by ci-bot's mirror, never by hand. A release carrying
+- `.github/workflows/ci.yaml`, `.mergify.yml`, `renovate.json` and this `AGENTS.md`.
+- The releases, published by `mergify-ci-bot`, never by hand. A release carrying
   the CLI binaries is Latest, which install.sh, `mergify self-update`, the
   Homebrew tap and the docs' CLI reference all follow.
 - The issue tracker.