diff --git a/docs/tools/bash.md b/docs/tools/bash.md
index ac0d7afc..43459219 100644
--- a/docs/tools/bash.md
+++ b/docs/tools/bash.md
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ When the task completes (or times out, or the process errors), it
 surfaces as a todo in the agent's loose-ends (via `get_loose_ends`),
 carrying the exit code and a `Read(<path>)` pointer to the captured
 output. Handle it on a future turn — unless `wait_seconds` already
-delivered the terminal result inline, in which case no todo is created
-(see `status` below).
+delivered the terminal result inline, in which case the daemon creates
+no todo (see `status` below).
 
 - `timeout_secs` — kill the task after N seconds and mark it
   `timed_out`. Omit for no timeout (runs until natural exit).
 - `wait_seconds` — inline poll before returning (capped at 30).
   When the task finishes within the window the full status is
-  returned immediately and no todo is created; when the window expires
+  returned immediately and the daemon creates no todo; when the window expires
   the task keeps running and the daemon returns the normal
   `task started: id=<id>` response. **Defaults to 3** — pass `wait_seconds: 0`
   to disable inline waiting and always get the immediate response.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Poll the status of a task submitted with `run`. Returns:
 
 `wait_seconds` — optional inline poll (capped at 30): when the task
 finishes within the window the call returns the full status immediately.
-Useful to avoid a separate round-trip when the task is expected to
+Useful to avoid a separate round-trip when you expect the task to
 finish soon.
 
 Any `status` call (waited or not) that observes a terminal task clears
@@ -124,14 +124,14 @@ loose-end follows.
 
 ## Relationship to the `execution` tool group
 
-`ToolGroup::Execution` (in `AGENT_DEFAULT`) is the real gate on bash: it
-controls whether the `bash` MCP server is rendered into the agent's
-claude config at all (`extra_server_required_group` in
-`hive-agent/src/mcp_config.rs`), suppressing every `mcp__bash__*` tool
+`ToolGroup::Execution` (in `AGENT_DEFAULT`) is the real gate on bash:
+`extra_server_required_group` (in `hive-agent/src/mcp_config.rs`)
+controls whether the `bash` MCP server reaches the agent's claude
+config at all, suppressing every `mcp__bash__*` tool
 when absent — not just leaving them unused. Its own `tools()` returns
 `&[]` and stays that way: `mcp__bash__run`/`status`/`kill` belong to a
 different, out-of-process MCP server (`bash`, not `hyperhive`), so they
 were never real entries in the `mcp__hyperhive__*` allowlist `tools()`
 builds — the two dead `["run", "status"]` strings it used to return
-matched nothing and have been removed. Removing `execution` from an
+matched nothing, so they're gone now. Removing `execution` from an
 agent's groups **does** remove bash availability.