diff --git a/crates/aura-cli/src/main.rs b/crates/aura-cli/src/main.rs
index c9b3698..e589e77 100644
--- a/crates/aura-cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-cli/src/main.rs
@@ -1935,7 +1935,25 @@ fn render_bind_error(e: &BindError) -> String {
              see `aura sweep <bp> --list-axes`"
         ),
         BindError::UnknownKnob(msg) => msg.clone(),
-        other => format!("{other:?}"),
+        BindError::DuplicateBinding(name) => format!(
+            "axis {name}: bound twice — each param takes exactly one axis — \
+             see `aura sweep <bp> --list-axes`"
+        ),
+        BindError::EmptyAxis(name) => format!(
+            "axis {name}: supplies no values — give at least one, e.g. `--axis {name}=2,4`"
+        ),
+        BindError::EmptyRange(name) => format!(
+            "axis {name}: the named range is empty — give it at least one value"
+        ),
+        // A blueprint defect, not an axis usage error: the point passed name
+        // resolution but its bootstrap failed. Prose frame with the compile
+        // detail explicitly labelled as internal — per-variant prose for
+        // CompileError belongs to the graph-build surface, not this boundary.
+        BindError::Compile(e) => format!(
+            "the resolved axis point failed to bootstrap — the blueprint is \
+             defective at this point, re-validate it with `aura graph build` \
+             (internal detail: {e:?})"
+        ),
     }
 }
 
@@ -4250,6 +4268,35 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(intersect_shared_window(&symbols, &windows), Ok((100, 200)));
     }
 
+    /// Audit follow-up to #247/#269: `render_bind_error` is exhaustive — the
+    /// axis-usage variants the old catch-all Debug-framed render as prose
+    /// naming the axis, with no Rust identifier on the user's stderr.
+    #[test]
+    fn render_bind_error_prose_covers_the_axis_usage_variants() {
+        let dup = render_bind_error(&aura_engine::BindError::DuplicateBinding("a.b".into()));
+        assert!(dup.contains("a.b") && dup.contains("bound twice"), "{dup}");
+        assert!(!dup.contains("DuplicateBinding"), "Debug leak: {dup}");
+        let empty = render_bind_error(&aura_engine::BindError::EmptyAxis("a.b".into()));
+        assert!(empty.contains("a.b") && empty.contains("no values"), "{empty}");
+        assert!(!empty.contains("EmptyAxis"), "Debug leak: {empty}");
+        let range = render_bind_error(&aura_engine::BindError::EmptyRange("a.b".into()));
+        assert!(range.contains("a.b") && !range.contains("EmptyRange"), "Debug leak: {range}");
+    }
+
+    /// Audit follow-up to #247/#269: a `Compile` fault at the sweep boundary —
+    /// a blueprint defect, not an axis usage error — renders as a prose frame
+    /// that names the situation and labels the embedded compile detail as
+    /// internal, instead of leaking the bare Debug struct as the whole message.
+    #[test]
+    fn render_bind_error_frames_a_compile_fault_as_prose_with_labeled_detail() {
+        let msg = render_bind_error(&aura_engine::BindError::Compile(
+            aura_engine::CompileError::BadInteriorIndex,
+        ));
+        assert!(msg.contains("failed to bootstrap"), "{msg}");
+        assert!(msg.contains("internal detail"), "{msg}");
+        assert!(!msg.starts_with("Compile"), "the frame must lead with prose: {msg}");
+    }
+
     /// An unknown symbol (no archive files at all — an empty month list)
     /// refuses rather than reporting a bogus empty-span coverage (#264): the
     /// caller eprintln's the message and exits 1.
diff --git a/crates/aura-cli/tests/research_docs.rs b/crates/aura-cli/tests/research_docs.rs
index ad5b1e7..e75cbdd 100644
--- a/crates/aura-cli/tests/research_docs.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-cli/tests/research_docs.rs
@@ -717,6 +717,15 @@ fn campaign_introspect_unwired_annotates_cost_and_risk_knob_units() {
         low.contains("scales the stop distance"),
         "vol.k must be annotated as SCALING the stop distance (the risk-unit lever): {out}"
     );
+
+    // carry.carry_per_cycle — the identical price-unit-vs-R trap, accruing per
+    // held cycle (audit follow-up to #265: the note set must cover ALL three
+    // cost components, not two of three).
+    assert!(low.contains("carry_per_cycle"), "the carry knob must still be named: {out}");
+    assert!(
+        low.contains("price units per held cycle"),
+        "carry_per_cycle must be annotated as a PRICE-unit per-held-cycle accrual: {out}"
+    );
 }
 
 #[test]
diff --git a/crates/aura-research/src/lib.rs b/crates/aura-research/src/lib.rs
index 9de5278..8987d46 100644
--- a/crates/aura-research/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-research/src/lib.rs
@@ -1095,6 +1095,7 @@ pub fn open_slots_campaign(text: &str) -> Result<Vec<OpenSlot>, DocError> {
             vec![
                 "constant.cost_per_trade is in price units, not R (charged per close as cost/|entry-stop| in R).".to_string(),
                 "vol_slippage.slip_vol_mult is a multiplier on the per-cycle vol estimate (charged in R likewise).".to_string(),
+                "carry.carry_per_cycle is in price units per held cycle, not R (accrues over the hold, emitted in R likewise).".to_string(),
             ],
         ));
     }
@@ -1966,6 +1967,7 @@ mod tests {
                     vec![
                         "constant.cost_per_trade is in price units, not R (charged per close as cost/|entry-stop| in R).".to_string(),
                         "vol_slippage.slip_vol_mult is a multiplier on the per-cycle vol estimate (charged in R likewise).".to_string(),
+                        "carry.carry_per_cycle is in price units per held cycle, not R (accrues over the hold, emitted in R likewise).".to_string(),
                     ],
                 ),
             ]
@@ -2046,6 +2048,7 @@ mod tests {
                 vec![
                     "constant.cost_per_trade is in price units, not R (charged per close as cost/|entry-stop| in R).".to_string(),
                     "vol_slippage.slip_vol_mult is a multiplier on the per-cycle vol estimate (charged in R likewise).".to_string(),
+                    "carry.carry_per_cycle is in price units per held cycle, not R (accrues over the hold, emitted in R likewise).".to_string(),
                 ],
             )]
         );