diff --git a/docs/getting-started/setup.md b/docs/getting-started/setup.md
index a81b4d07..4bcf9446 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started/setup.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started/setup.md
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Put the token's value at `services.hyperhive.deploy.bao.bootstrapTokenFile`
 store's container reads it, writes the `swarm-controller` policy, enables the
 cert auth method, and creates the `swarm-controller` role that attaches the two.
 
-⚠️ **This has been exercised once, and it did not go all the way through.** The
+⚠️ **This has only run once, and it didn't go all the way through.** The
 first real provision against a live store returned 403 (hyperhive#4124), so
 treat the block above as derived-then-partly-tested rather than proven: the
 grants still come from `-output-policy`, not from a swarm that came up on them.