diff --git a/k8s/apps/llm-serving/kustomization.yaml b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/kustomization.yaml
index d6f4952..4d09759 100644
--- a/k8s/apps/llm-serving/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/kustomization.yaml
@@ -11,9 +11,13 @@ kind: Kustomization
 # in tens of seconds, not a rolling update.
 resources:
   - clef-flash.yaml
+  # ornith and reasoning are live but unmanaged: their manifests were never committed
+  # to this directory, so listing them made `kustomize build` fail and left the whole
+  # Application in ComparisonError. Remove the entries rather than the models. The
+  # Application runs with prune=false, so an object that is no longer in the desired
+  # state is left alone, not deleted. Re-export both from live state when they are
+  # next edited.
   - embeddings.yaml
-  - ornith.yaml
-  - reasoning.yaml
   - reranker.yaml
   - qwen-cpu.yaml
   - networkpolicy.yaml