diff --git a/skills/pr-management-stats/fetch.md b/skills/pr-management-stats/fetch.md
index 2ecee9e1f..31ccc3d47 100644
--- a/skills/pr-management-stats/fetch.md
+++ b/skills/pr-management-stats/fetch.md
@@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ Two stages:
 2. **Fetch comments in aliased batches** of **30 PRs per GraphQL call**. Each alias queries one PR with `comments(last: 25) { nodes { author { login } authorAssociation createdAt body } }`. A single query with 30 aliases stays well inside GitHub's complexity budget; larger batch sizes occasionally hit `MAX_NODE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED`. Budget: ~54 GraphQL calls for 1600 PRs; end-to-end around 60 seconds on a warm token.
 
 ```graphql
-query {
-  repository(owner:"apache",name:"airflow") {
+query($owner: String!, $repo: String!) {   # bound from <upstream> split on "/"
+  repository(owner:$owner, name:$repo) {
     pr63407: pullRequest(number:63407) {
       number author{login} authorAssociation closedAt mergedAt state merged
       labels(first:30){nodes{name}}
diff --git a/skills/release-announce-draft/SKILL.md b/skills/release-announce-draft/SKILL.md
index 55348bcdd..96ee51ba5 100644
--- a/skills/release-announce-draft/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/release-announce-draft/SKILL.md
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ before including it.
 
 - Download links in the site files must resolve through the `closer.lua`
   mirror redirector (e.g.
-  `https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?path=airflow/<version>/...`),
+  `https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?path=<project>/<version>/...`),
   not through a direct `dist.apache.org` URL.
 - The PR is opened (not merged) by this skill; a committer merges it
   after the `[ANNOUNCE]` email is sent.
diff --git a/tools/dev/check-placeholders.sh b/tools/dev/check-placeholders.sh
index b32b219c3..c1af62f33 100755
--- a/tools/dev/check-placeholders.sh
+++ b/tools/dev/check-placeholders.sh
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ FORBIDDEN_PATTERNS=(
   "airflow-s/airflow-s"
   "Apache Airflow"
   "apache.org/airflow"
+  # Lowercase forms that slip past the four above: a GraphQL
+  # `repository(owner:"apache",name:"airflow")` argument and a
+  # `closer.lua?path=airflow/` dist path.
+  'name:"airflow"'
+  "path=airflow"
 )
 
 # Files / directories where Airflow references are intentional: