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 The **second reader** is the agent containers' queue credential:
 `glue-queue-agent-credential.nix` lands it as two files, the client secret and
-the client id it authenticates, because that is how a queue client reads them —
-the secret by path, the id by value. There is no local fallback and none is
-possible, so absent files mean this hive's agents do not connect, which is what
+the client id it authenticates, because that's how a queue client reads them —
+the secret by path, the id by value. No local fallback exists, and none is
+possible, so absent files mean this hive's agents don't connect, which is what
 a swarm looks like before the publisher on the authelia host has run.
 
 ⚠️ **Service↔store mTLS is its own trust domain.** A credential you must