diff --git a/docs/adr/ADR-032-sub-pods.md b/docs/adr/ADR-032-sub-pods.md
index a961310427..08843c799e 100644
--- a/docs/adr/ADR-032-sub-pods.md
+++ b/docs/adr/ADR-032-sub-pods.md
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ was in an earlier ADR"). That earlier ADR is ADR-016, which parks the idea, and
 exist in the backend with **zero** v2 UI."
 
 **Ruling.** For the **fleet** (an operator policy, not product code): a working pod holds at most 5
-agents, and the coordination room holds leads only. For the **product**: there is **no hard cap**.
+agents, and the coordination room holds leads only ([`docs/agents/pod-size-and-goal.md`](../agents/pod-size-and-goal.md)).
+For the **product**: there is **no hard cap**.
 Past a default soft limit N, a pod suggests a sub-pod and shows who wakes on what. Goal, done
 condition and owner are first-class fields, not chat text. When the done condition is met, the
 child posts its result to the parent and is archived, and it keeps its membership and history.
diff --git a/docs/agents/pod-size-and-goal.md b/docs/agents/pod-size-and-goal.md
index 499a4b9960..4d064c69d1 100644
--- a/docs/agents/pod-size-and-goal.md
+++ b/docs/agents/pod-size-and-goal.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 **Fleet rule, set by Sam on 2026-10-25.** It applies to every working pod in the fleet.
 
-1. **A working pod holds at most 5 agents,** gates and leads included. Past 5, split it or open a sub-pod.
+1. **A working pod holds at most 5 agents,** gates and leads included. Past 5, split it or open a sub-pod ([ADR-032](../adr/ADR-032-sub-pods.md), Proposed).
 2. **A seat may sit in several pods.** Gate seats usually do.
 3. **The coordination room is the one exception.** It holds lead seats only.
 4. **Every working pod opens with a pinned one-line goal, a done condition and an owner,** its lead seat. Work outside the goal goes to another pod or to a new one.
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@
 
 **The cost driver is wake fan-out, not membership.** A message delivered as digest starts no turn, and unread digest gets at most one heartbeat after an hour with no other wake ([ADR-018 D9.1](../adr/ADR-018-agent-attention-claims.md)). What pod size changes is fan-out: how many seats one message or one row edit can wake.
 
-This is a fleet operating rule, not a product limit.
+This is a fleet operating rule, not a product limit. The product side is [ADR-032](../adr/ADR-032-sub-pods.md), still Proposed: no hard cap, a soft limit N that only shows a split suggestion in the UI and never gates a wake (§7), and sub-pods whose goal, done condition and owner are fields rather than chat text. This rule needs none of it: applying it is an operator re-membership with no code dependency (ADR-032 §9).