diff --git a/docs/getting-started/setup.md b/docs/getting-started/setup.md
index 6bbd3cf7..2d77f9fa 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started/setup.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started/setup.md
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ cert auth method, and creates the `swarm-controller` role that attaches the two.
 
 ⚠️ **This has only run once, and it didn't go all the way through.** The
 first real provision against a live store returned 403, so
-treat the block above as derived-then-partly-tested rather than proven: the
+treat the block above as derived, then only partly tested — not proven: the
 grants still come from `-output-policy`, not from a swarm that came up on them.
 What that 403 does _not_ tell you is whether the login or the write was
 refused — `bao read auth/cert/certs/swarm-controller` separates the two.
diff --git a/docs/tools/subagent.md b/docs/tools/subagent.md
index 314bf224..0cc682dd 100644
--- a/docs/tools/subagent.md
+++ b/docs/tools/subagent.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Served under the `subagent` MCP server (`mcp__subagent__<tool>`): `start`,
 
 ## State
 
-In-memory only: a map of currently-running processes, live only as long
+In-memory only: a map of currently running processes, live only as long
 as the daemon process is. A daemon restart stops whatever was running
 rather than adopting it. The durable record of a subagent's existence is
 claude's own on-disk session (`hive_claude::SessionStore`), which
diff --git a/docs/web-ui/terminal-rendering.md b/docs/web-ui/terminal-rendering.md
index e37d5d46..980451b5 100644
--- a/docs/web-ui/terminal-rendering.md
+++ b/docs/web-ui/terminal-rendering.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ left edge lands in the same place regardless of row kind. A `<details>`
 row grids its `<summary>` instead of itself (so the `<pre>` body below
 can stack full-width), using the exact same `grid-template-columns` value,
 with the disclosure caret leading the summary text rather than the icon.
-One shared column definition, not two independently-computed offsets
+One shared column definition, not two independently computed offsets
 kept in sync by hand — see `terminal.css`'s own comment on the incident
 that motivated the change.