diff --git a/tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh b/tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh
index 1de38c6..8f8ae25 100755
--- a/tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh
+++ b/tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@
 #
 # Usage: bash tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh [path/to/zulip-monitor.sh]
 # Exit 0 iff every check passes.
+#
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2329,SC1090
+# LOG/ISSUES and the notify/pm2/curl stubs below are consumed at runtime by
+# the leg extracted between the marker comments and `source`d in each case;
+# the static analyzer cannot see across that dynamic source, so it flags them.
 set -uo pipefail
 
 ROOT=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)