diff --git a/hive-c0re/src/lifecycle.rs b/hive-c0re/src/lifecycle.rs
index 69178473..49821d2b 100644
--- a/hive-c0re/src/lifecycle.rs
+++ b/hive-c0re/src/lifecycle.rs
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ use tokio::process::Command;
 pub const AGENT_PREFIX: &str = "h-";
 pub const MAX_AGENT_NAME: usize = 9;
 /// Container name of the manager. Lives in the same path scheme as sub-agents
-/// (`/var/lib/hyperhive/agents/hm1nd/`, `/var/lib/hyperhive/applied/hm1nd/`),
+/// (`/var/lib/hyperhive/agents/root/`, `/var/lib/hyperhive/applied/root/`),
 /// but its container has no `h-` prefix and extends a different
-/// nixosConfiguration (`manager`, not `agent-base`).
-pub const MANAGER_NAME: &str = "hm1nd";
+/// nixosConfiguration (`root`, not `agent-base`).
+pub const MANAGER_NAME: &str = "root";
 
 /// Mount point of the per-agent runtime directory inside the container.
 pub const CONTAINER_RUNTIME_MOUNT: &str = "/run/hive";
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub const CONTAINER_RUNTIME_MOUNT: &str = "/run/hive";
 /// container. The harness service runs as a non-root unix user
 /// whose home is `/home/<agent>/`, so the mount path varies per
 /// agent — `container_claude_mount(name)` returns
-/// `/home/<name>/.claude` for sub-agents and `/home/hm1nd/.claude`
+/// `/home/<name>/.claude` for sub-agents and `/home/root/.claude`
 /// for the manager. `claude` inside the container reads
 /// `$HOME/.claude` and the service environment sets `HOME` to the
 /// same path, so the OAuth session survives container restarts.
@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ async fn systemd_daemon_reload() -> Result<()> {
 /// `systemd-nspawn` command.
 /// Where in the container's filesystem the manager sees its agents tree.
 /// Matches the `/agents` path that pre-Phase-8 hosts declared via
-/// `containers.hm1nd.bindMounts."/agents"`.
+/// `containers.root.bindMounts."/agents"`.
 pub const CONTAINER_MANAGER_AGENTS_MOUNT: &str = "/agents";
 
 /// Where the manager sees the applied trees of every agent, read-only.
@@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ async fn run(args: &[&str]) -> Result<()> {
 
     // Convention: `nixos-container <verb> <container> ...` — the
     // verb is `args[0]` (kind) and the container is `args[1]`
-    // (h-<name> | hm1nd | hive-matrix | ...) for every long-running
+    // (h-<name> | root | hive-matrix | ...) for every long-running
     // case we care about. Strip the `h-` prefix for sub-agents so the
     // build_logs row's `agent` column matches the agent's bare name
     // (`alice` rather than `h-alice`) — that's what the dashboard