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Comment-only follow-up to #454. No behaviour change.

The comment on the volume sweep justified the anonymous-only filter as protecting named volumes that exist on the host today. Verified read-only:

root@docker:~# docker volume ls --format '{{.Name}}' | grep -vE '^[0-9a-f]{64}$'
root@docker:~#

Nothing. Every volume on the host is anonymous, so right now the narrow filter and docker volume prune -af would behave identically.

The filter is still the right choice — but as defence in depth, not as a fix for live exposure. The host does run long-lived services alongside CI, and the day one of them gains a named volume, a routine sweep must not silently become data loss. The comment now says that, so the next reader doesn't go hunting for the named volume it was supposedly protecting.

The comment justified the anonymous-only volume filter as protecting named
volumes that exist today. Verified on the host: there are none — every volume
is anonymous, so the narrow filter and `prune -af` would behave identically
right now.

The filter is still the right choice, but as defence in depth rather than as a
fix for live exposure. Say so, so the next reader does not go looking for the
named volume this was supposedly protecting.
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