diff --git a/components/hab/habitat/x86_64-darwin/plan.sh b/components/hab/habitat/x86_64-darwin/plan.sh
index 0392d746f3..64ca7f4084 100644
--- a/components/hab/habitat/x86_64-darwin/plan.sh
+++ b/components/hab/habitat/x86_64-darwin/plan.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ do_prepare() {
 # that we use in plan-build, so I don't believe we've ever stripped our MacOS 
 # binaries.  Running `file $(which hab)` returns `regular file` which would 
 # bypass the existing behavior. For now, lets always skip stripping to prevent 
-# accidental breakages in changes to plan-build.  
+# accidental breakages from changes to plan-build.  
 do_strip() {
+  build_line "Skipping do_strip on x86_64-darwin"
   return 0
 }