diff --git a/.claude/skills/creating-version-notes/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/creating-version-notes/SKILL.md
index fd8a0fd3ca..c94a5ad779 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/creating-version-notes/SKILL.md
+++ b/.claude/skills/creating-version-notes/SKILL.md
@@ -272,6 +272,13 @@ Kind regards
 
 Do not take the recipients from a previous announcement: 6.11.0 went to `dev@` alone and 7.3.0 to `user@` alone, and both were mistakes. Address every announcement to the two lists above.
 
+**It is sent from the release manager's `@apache.org` address, and the draft cannot say so.** The
+Gmail draft tool has no sender field, so every draft it creates carries the account's default address,
+which may be a personal one. When handing the draft over, say in the same sentence that the From must be
+switched to the `@apache.org` identity before sending — a test build announced from a personal address
+reads as an outsider's mail in the list archive, and `creating-release-vote-mail` needs the same switch
+for the `[VOTE]`.
+
 Keep the security posture of the pages: the mail links the release notes, it does not summarise what is in them, so no severity, CVE or S2-XXX reaches it either.
 
 **The vote is the next step, and it is a different mail.** Once the test build is announced, `creating-release-vote-mail` composes the `[VOTE] Apache Struts X.Y.Z` call — to `dev@` alone, rendered from the page this skill produced. Do not draft it from here: its recipients, subject and body all differ from the announcement above.
diff --git a/.claude/skills/creating-version-notes/version-notes-template.md b/.claude/skills/creating-version-notes/version-notes-template.md
index 1961df03e2..9c58c2c1f5 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/creating-version-notes/version-notes-template.md
+++ b/.claude/skills/creating-version-notes/version-notes-template.md
@@ -150,3 +150,4 @@ Repeat the issue `<h2>` block per type present, in the order given above.
 - [ ] Addressed to **both** `dev@struts.apache.org` and `user@struts.apache.org`, Bcc `private@struts.apache.org`.
 - [ ] Risk clause matches reality: silent when there are no Breaking changes, "but it contains significant changes" when there are.
 - [ ] Tag underscored in the release link, version dotted in the dist path and page title.
+- [ ] Hand-over says to switch the From to the release manager's `@apache.org` address — the draft tool cannot set it.