diff --git a/.phpcs.xml.dist b/.phpcs.xml.dist
index e59049a..8206064 100644
--- a/.phpcs.xml.dist
+++ b/.phpcs.xml.dist
@@ -44,13 +44,12 @@
 	</rule>
 
 	<!--
-		DONOTCACHEPAGE is the cross-plugin convention page caches look for; the
-		point is that other plugins recognise it, so it cannot be prefixed.
+		The DONOTCACHEPAGE exemption is not here. It lives on the two define()
+		calls as phpcs:ignore annotations, because an exclusion written here
+		only applies to this ruleset — Plugin Check runs its own, and reports
+		the constant to the reviewer. An annotation travels with the code and
+		is the route Plugin Check documents for a false positive.
 	-->
-	<rule ref="WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound">
-		<exclude-pattern>/includes/class-citecue-proxy\.php</exclude-pattern>
-		<exclude-pattern>/includes/class-citecue-llms-txt\.php</exclude-pattern>
-	</rule>
 
 	<!-- "llms.txt" is a filename and stays lowercase in prose. -->
 	<rule ref="Generic.Commenting.DocComment.ShortNotCapital">
diff --git a/citecue.php b/citecue.php
index b78e1f8..e3c7353 100644
--- a/citecue.php
+++ b/citecue.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Plugin Name:       CiteCue AI Auto-Fix
  * Plugin URI:        https://github.com/citecue/wordpress-plugin
  * Description:       Serves CiteCue-optimized versions of your pages to AI bots and crawlers, publishes your llms.txt, and lets CiteCue push brand-building draft content into WordPress.
- * Version:           1.0.2
+ * Version:           1.0.3
  * Requires at least: 5.8
  * Requires PHP:      7.4
  * Author:            CiteCue
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static function () {
 	return;
 }
 
-define( 'CITECUE_VERSION', '1.0.2' );
+define( 'CITECUE_VERSION', '1.0.3' );
 define( 'CITECUE_PLUGIN_FILE', __FILE__ );
 define( 'CITECUE_PLUGIN_DIR', plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) );
 
diff --git a/includes/class-citecue-llms-txt.php b/includes/class-citecue-llms-txt.php
index 89af704..0997d76 100644
--- a/includes/class-citecue-llms-txt.php
+++ b/includes/class-citecue-llms-txt.php
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ private function is_llms_txt_request() {
 	 */
 	private function serve( $body ) {
 		if ( ! defined( 'DONOTCACHEPAGE' ) ) {
+			// phpcs:ignore WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound -- the cross-plugin constant page caches look for; prefixing it would mean no cache ever sees it.
 			define( 'DONOTCACHEPAGE', true );
 		}
 
diff --git a/includes/class-citecue-proxy.php b/includes/class-citecue-proxy.php
index c77ec3b..6179608 100644
--- a/includes/class-citecue-proxy.php
+++ b/includes/class-citecue-proxy.php
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ private function current_url() {
 	 */
 	private function serve( $body, $mode, $stale ) {
 		if ( ! defined( 'DONOTCACHEPAGE' ) ) {
+			// phpcs:ignore WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound -- the cross-plugin constant page caches look for; prefixing it would mean no cache ever sees it.
 			define( 'DONOTCACHEPAGE', true );
 		}
 
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
index 609cde8..7c63b15 100644
--- a/readme.txt
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Tags: ai, llms.txt, gptbot, ai-seo, woocommerce
 Requires at least: 5.8
 Tested up to: 7.0
 Requires PHP: 7.4
-Stable tag: 1.0.2
+Stable tag: 1.0.3
 License: GPLv2 or later
 License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ The plugin folder is now citecue-ai-auto-fix. If you installed 1.0.0 by uploadin
 
 == Changelog ==
 
+= 1.0.3 =
+* No functional change. Annotates the DONOTCACHEPAGE definitions so code-quality tooling stops reporting a naming-convention violation the constant cannot avoid — page caches look for that exact name.
+
 = 1.0.2 =
 * Translations no longer depend on the plugin loading them by hand; WordPress.org supplies them for the plugin slug.
 * The requested URL is sanitized on the way to CiteCue in a way that preserves percent-encoding, so pages with accented or non-Latin characters in the address are served and cached under the address they actually have.