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 What's left after the first `nixos-rebuild switch` of the
 [README's all-local quick start](../../README.md#quick-start-an-all-local-swarm)
 — from a freshly built host to your first agent. Step 0, the NixOS flake,
-module and required options, is [`nixos.md`](nixos.md). Everything after that is
-one command, run as **root on the host**:
+module and required options, is [`nixos.md`](nixos.md). Everything after that takes
+one command, which you run as **root on the host**:
 
 ```bash
 swarmctl setup