diff --git a/swarm-queue-client/src/notices.rs b/swarm-queue-client/src/notices.rs
index 6d2f2952..ca1a8b35 100644
--- a/swarm-queue-client/src/notices.rs
+++ b/swarm-queue-client/src/notices.rs
@@ -33,20 +33,21 @@ use crate::Error;
 /// which stream a notice actually landed in.
 pub const STREAM: &str = "hive-notices";
 
-/// Every hive's notices land under this subject prefix, one subject per
-/// hive: `hive-notices.<hiveName>`.
+/// Build the subject a given hive's notices publish to.
+///
+/// Every hive's notices land under `STREAM`, one subject per hive:
+/// `hive-notices.<hiveName>`.
 ///
 /// Not one subject per notice *kind* — a consumer that wants a specific
-/// hive's notices subscribes to `notices_subject(hive)`; one that wants
-/// the whole swarm's subscribes to `{PREFIX}.>`. The kind travels inside
-/// the message payload instead, so adding a new notice kind is never a
-/// subject-design change.
-const PREFIX: &str = "hive-notices";
-
-/// Build the subject a given hive's notices publish to.
+/// hive's notices subscribes to `subject(hive)`; one that wants the whole
+/// swarm's subscribes to `{STREAM}.>`. The kind travels inside the message
+/// payload instead, so adding a new notice kind is never a subject-design
+/// change. Deliberately reuses `STREAM` rather than a second `PREFIX`
+/// constant with the same value — one name for one fact, same reasoning
+/// the module doc above gives for a shared `const` over a repeated literal.
 #[must_use]
 pub fn subject(hive: &str) -> String {
-    format!("{PREFIX}.{hive}")
+    format!("{STREAM}.{hive}")
 }
 
 /// Open the notices stream, creating it if nothing has yet.
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ pub async fn open_or_create(
             js.create_stream(async_nats::jetstream::stream::Config {
                 name: STREAM.to_owned(),
                 description: Some("Lifecycle notices offered by each hive".to_owned()),
-                subjects: vec![format!("{PREFIX}.>")],
+                subjects: vec![format!("{STREAM}.>")],
                 max_age: std::time::Duration::from_hours(30 * 24),
                 ..Default::default()
             })