diff --git a/docs/swarm/README.md b/docs/swarm/README.md
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--- a/docs/swarm/README.md
+++ b/docs/swarm/README.md
@@ -305,11 +305,11 @@ A hive publishes only once it holds all three status-publish coordinates
 below. A hive without them reads
 `never_reported` — it's not broken, it just has nothing to say upward.
 
-| freshness        | what to do about it                                                                                                                      |
-| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `fresh`          | nothing — reported within `staleAfterSeconds`                                                                                            |
-| `stale`          | the hive stopped reporting. Its last payload is still shown, so check `age_seconds` and the payload for what it managed to say           |
-| `never_reported` | this hive has never reported at all — normally a deployment that hasn't happened, not an outage                                          |
+| freshness        | what to do about it                                                                                                                          |
+| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `fresh`          | nothing — reported within `staleAfterSeconds`                                                                                                |
+| `stale`          | the hive stopped reporting. Its last payload is still shown, so check `age_seconds` and the payload for what it managed to say               |
+| `never_reported` | this hive has never reported at all — normally a deployment that hasn't happened, not an outage                                              |
 | `unknown`        | something is publishing under a name that's not in `swarm.hives` — a typo in the roster, or a hive removed from the roster but still running |
 
 Every row also carries `last_seen_unix` and `age_seconds` if you want to