diff --git a/skills/property-assessor/SKILL.md b/skills/property-assessor/SKILL.md
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--- a/skills/property-assessor/SKILL.md
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@@ -136,8 +136,18 @@ Preferred order:
 Use the first source that exposes the listing photos reliably. A scrollable photo page, photo grid, or expanded all-photos view counts.
 Do not stop at the first failure if another accessible source is available.
 
+A source only counts as an attempted photo source if you actually did one of these:
+- opened the all-photos page / photo grid / photo page successfully, or
+- explicitly tried to open it and observed a concrete failure
+
+The following do **not** count as a photo-source attempt by themselves:
+- seeing a `See all photos` button
+- seeing a photo count
+- reading listing text that mentions photos
+- capturing only the listing shell, hero image, or collage preview
+
 The final assessment must explicitly include these lines in the output:
-- `Photo source attempts: <summary>`
+- `Photo source attempts: <action-based summary>`
 - `Photo review: completed via <source>`
   or `Photo review: not completed`