diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index fcfdd9f..05694f4 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ never re-fetch them again):
    - **Weak tier**: when nothing reaches the threshold, a hit >= `WEAK_MIN`
      (0.50) is accepted but flagged low confidence - `[w]` in the plan,
      `confidence: low` in the audit, listed in
-     `<library>/sorter_low_confidence.txt`. Weak and tokenless adoptions
+     `sorter_low_confidence.txt` in the log dir (see below). Weak and tokenless adoptions
      require a shared non-generic token; tokenless normal adoption needs
      +0.08 (`TOKENLESS_BONUS`); cross-system adoption additionally needs
      token containment (`_token_contained`), because char-ratio lies
@@ -255,6 +255,11 @@ never re-fetch them again):
      full-catalog and different-faction adoptions need token
      containment (`_contained_somewhere`).
 
+   - **Bookkeeping location (fixed 2026-10-08)**: the audit and the
+     low-confidence doc are written to `<library>/../_logs/` by default
+     (`--audit` overrides) - never inside the library itself, because the
+     library may be a seeded torrent whose file set is frozen.
+
    The catalog deliberately covers all GW systems (needed for
    catalog-agnostic use) - wrong-system placement is prevented by matching
    discipline and the drop filter, not by shrinking the catalog.
diff --git a/docs/SORTING.md b/docs/SORTING.md
index 2876701..72e2b70 100644
--- a/docs/SORTING.md
+++ b/docs/SORTING.md
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ graph LR
    applied action is appended to `sorter_applied.jsonl` and re-runs skip
    targets that already exist.
 
+## Bookkeeping location
+
+The audit (`sorter_applied.jsonl`) and the low-confidence review doc
+(`sorter_low_confidence.txt`) are written to `<library>/../_logs/` by
+default — **never inside the library itself**, because the library may be
+a seeded torrent whose file set is frozen (a rewritten audit file would
+fail the client's recheck). `--audit FILE` overrides this; the low-
+confidence doc always lands next to the audit file.
+
 ## Why hardlinks, and the unzip question
 
 - Hardlinks make "same file, two positions" free (0 extra bytes) — the