diff --git a/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/handle.rs b/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/handle.rs
index 0cffc67b3ff1..aee554f8241a 100644
--- a/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/handle.rs
+++ b/crates/consensus/beacon/src/engine/handle.rs
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ where
     /// Sends a transition configuration exchange message to the beacon consensus engine.
     ///
     /// See also <https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/blob/3d627c95a4d3510a8187dd02e0250ecb4331d27e/src/engine/paris.md#engine_exchangetransitionconfigurationv1>
+    ///
+    /// This only notifies about the exchange. The actual exchange is done by the engine API impl
+    /// itself.
     pub fn transition_configuration_exchanged(&self) {
         let _ = self.to_engine.send(BeaconEngineMessage::TransitionConfigurationExchanged);
     }
diff --git a/crates/engine/tree/src/tree/mod.rs b/crates/engine/tree/src/tree/mod.rs
index 7d2ab8286ae5..b83d349f258c 100644
--- a/crates/engine/tree/src/tree/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/tree/src/tree/mod.rs
@@ -386,7 +386,8 @@ where
                         }
                     }
                     BeaconEngineMessage::TransitionConfigurationExchanged => {
-                        todo!()
+                        // this is a reporting no-op because the engine API impl does not need
+                        // additional input to handle this request
                     }
                 },
                 FromEngine::DownloadedBlocks(blocks) => {