diff --git a/ENTRY.md b/ENTRY.md
index 0ddfa81..b0b5c0d 100644
--- a/ENTRY.md
+++ b/ENTRY.md
@@ -108,8 +108,23 @@ What that looks like:
 4. Set `status: draft` and list the seat in `README.md` as
    *"draft, awaiting its portrait"*.
 
-The seat is real while it waits. When the image lands under `visuals/`,
-uncomment the line and move `status` to `handed-forward` or `complete`.
+The seat is real while it waits. The portrait is generated when that seat is
+about to be published, for that entry alone:
+
+```bash
+llm-connect image render-hall --hall <this checkout> --entry entries/<file>.md
+```
+
+The command writes the file, stores a receipt under `visuals/receipts/`, and
+uncomments the image line. It leaves `status` as it is. Move `status` to
+`handed-forward` or `complete` when the seat itself is finished, not because
+a portrait arrived.
+
+Seats already in the hall when channel publishing starts are historic content.
+A post of one carries a remark that it is historic. A seat written after that
+practice starts waits a short cooldown of some minutes, then publishes, and
+the portrait is rendered at that moment if it is still missing. The cooldown
+publisher is later work.
 
 Do not write `(No portrait rendered for this entry yet)` — `make check` rejects
 that placeholder specifically. Do not point a finished entry at a file that does