diff --git a/docs/agent-lifecycle/config-changes.md b/docs/agent-lifecycle/config-changes.md
index c22725a1..0cf83813 100644
--- a/docs/agent-lifecycle/config-changes.md
+++ b/docs/agent-lifecycle/config-changes.md
@@ -364,10 +364,10 @@ enough to drive an immediate claude turn (delivered as a regular
 `system` inbox message, same `recv` path as any other message). It
 currently has one variant, `NeedsUpdate { agent }` (sub-agent's
 recorded flake rev is stale, operator rebuilds from the dashboard) —
-and nothing in the tree constructs it; the push path
-(`Coordinator::notify_agent`) was removed once its last caller
+and nothing in the tree constructs it; this removal dropped the push path
+(`Coordinator::notify_agent`) once its last caller
 (`notify_manager`, used only for the crash event below) went away.
-`HelperEvent` is kept as the type for whatever comes along that
+`HelperEvent` stays as the type for whatever comes along that
 genuinely needs to interrupt an agent's turn loop, not because
 anything live uses it today.
 
diff --git a/docs/scheduler/observability.md b/docs/scheduler/observability.md
index bad51fd5..73d3b60a 100644
--- a/docs/scheduler/observability.md
+++ b/docs/scheduler/observability.md
@@ -327,17 +327,15 @@ Cadence follows `metricIntervalMs` (default 60s). Transport is OTLP/HTTP
 first hop is unauthenticated for every producer on this host, and the upstream
 credential stays on the swarm tier.
 
-<!-- vale write-good.Passive = YES -->
-
 ## Container-crash alerting (hive-c0re)
 
 The crash watcher (`crash_watch.rs`, a 10s poll of every managed container)
 classifies a container that stopped without an operator-initiated action as
 a crash and `tracing::warn!`s `"container crash detected"` — nothing else:
 no broker event, no per-hive dashboard banner. Both of those used to exist;
-they were removed in favour of this.
+this change removed them in favour of the log line.
 
-When `otel.enable` is set, the hive tier's own collector runs a `journald`
+When `otel.enable` is on, the hive tier's own collector runs a `journald`
 receiver scoped to `hive-c0re.service` (no bind mount needed — unlike an
 agent's journal, this collector already shares a filesystem with the unit it
 reads, being a host systemd service rather than a container) and forwards
@@ -351,8 +349,9 @@ Requires `services.journald.storage = "persistent"` (the NixOS default) on
 every hive host with `otel.enable` set — asserted at eval time.
 
 ⚠️ **A hive with `otel.enable` off has no operator-visible crash signal at
-all** — the per-hive dashboard banner this replaces is gone, and there is no
-fallback path. Turning on `otel.enable` is what makes a crash reach anyone.
+all** — the per-hive dashboard banner this replaces no longer exists, and
+there is no fallback path. Turning on `otel.enable` is what makes a crash
+reach anyone.
 
 ## Agent-emitted per-turn metrics (`hive-agent`)
 
diff --git a/docs/turn-loop/mcp.md b/docs/turn-loop/mcp.md
index 146d7802..bd6c04fe 100644
--- a/docs/turn-loop/mcp.md
+++ b/docs/turn-loop/mcp.md
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ is opt-in via the P3RM1SS10NS tab.
 declared, but no call site constructs it) as regular inbox messages
 (same `recv` path; body is a JSON object with an `event` discriminant
 field). A container crash used to be the other variant
-(`ContainerCrash`, routed to `ruth`) but that path is gone — a crash
-now only produces a log line + swarm-level grafana alert, no agent
-turn at all (`docs/scheduler/observability.md`). Lifecycle
+(`ContainerCrash`, routed to `ruth`) but this tree no longer has that
+path — a crash now only produces a log line + swarm-level grafana
+alert, no agent turn at all (`docs/scheduler/observability.md`). Lifecycle
 transitions the job-queue scheduler or crash watcher drive directly —
 stop/kill, destroy, a flake-rev login or logout state change — reach
 no individual agent: they publish onto a swarm-wide NATS
diff --git a/nix/module-eval/hive-otel.nix b/nix/module-eval/hive-otel.nix
index 773eaaa6..99a379b3 100644
--- a/nix/module-eval/hive-otel.nix
+++ b/nix/module-eval/hive-otel.nix
@@ -80,14 +80,21 @@ let
       # The tier in the middle. Its OTLP receiver takes both signals on one
       # port, so without this pipeline an agent's push is answered 404 on
       # `/v1/logs` — and a forwarder retrying into a 404 is indistinguish-
-      # able from one with nothing to send. Compared against the metrics
-      # pipeline's exporters rather than a name, so the two signals cannot
-      # drift to different destinations.
+      # able from one with nothing to send. `journald` joined the receiver
+      # list for this collector's own host journal (hive-c0re's crash-watch
+      # log line, see ./otel.nix) — both have to be present, in either
+      # order, so this stays a set check rather than a list-equality one.
+      # Compared against the metrics pipeline's exporters rather than a
+      # name, so the two signals cannot drift to different destinations.
       name = "the hive collector forwards logs upstream, not only metrics";
       ok =
         (hiveOtelPipelines ? logs)
         && hiveOtelPipelines.metrics.exporters != [ ]
-        && hiveOtelPipelines.logs.receivers == [ "otlp" ]
+        &&
+          lib.sort builtins.lessThan hiveOtelPipelines.logs.receivers == [
+            "journald"
+            "otlp"
+          ]
         && hiveOtelPipelines.logs.exporters == hiveOtelPipelines.metrics.exporters;
     }
     {