diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/agent.css b/frontend/packages/agent/src/agent.css
index bbd0da3c..3e0dbd16 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/agent.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/agent.css
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
    resolved as shared CSS rather than a JS component) — see pill.css
    itself for the classnames it covers. */
 @import "@hive/shared/pill.css";
-/* Themed dialog/toast component CSS (modal.js) now lives in each
+/* Themed dialog/toast component CSS (modal.js) lives in each
    component's own shadow root (adoptedStyleSheets), not a global
-   stylesheet — nothing to @import here any more. */
+   stylesheet — nothing to @import here. */
 
 /* ─── full-screen layout overrides ─────────────────────────────────
    The agent page mounts a full-viewport terminal under a fixed
@@ -587,9 +587,9 @@ pre.diff {
   z-index: 35;
 }
 
-/* Composer chrome — used to live inside `.terminal-wrap`; now lives
-   inside the fixed `.agent-composer` defined further up. The base
-   rules below stay scoped to whichever ancestor owns it. */
+/* Composer chrome lives inside the fixed `.agent-composer` defined
+   further up. The base rules below stay scoped to whichever ancestor
+   owns it. */
 .term-input .sendform-term {
   display: flex;
   /* mara, live: "bottom input row text not aligned / inconsistent
@@ -639,31 +639,29 @@ pre.diff {
 .term-input .submit-hint { color: var(--muted); font-size: 0.8em; flex: 0 0 auto; }
 .term-input.disabled .prompt { color: var(--muted); text-shadow: none; }
 .term-input.disabled textarea { color: var(--muted); }
-/* Row + pill + details styling moved to hive-fr0nt::TERMINAL_CSS. */
 
 /* ─── side panel (singleton drawer) ────────────────────────────────
    Inbox + loose-ends details open here instead of expanding inline. The
    drawer chrome itself (backdrop, drawer, resize handle, header, title,
-   close button) is now the shared `<hive-side-panel>` element
-   (@hive/shared/side-panel.js — this also picks up drag-to-resize,
-   which this page didn't have before); what's left here is the drag
-   cursor-override escape hatch (has to be a global, light-DOM rule — it
-   reaches every element on the page during a drag, not just the shared
-   element's own shadow tree) and the styling for the panel's own
-   content types, which the shared element's shadow tree can never
-   reach (see @hive/shared/side-panel/hive-side-panel.css's header
-   comment). The `hive-side-panel .agent-inbox …` rules below use the
-   element's own tag name as the selector root — no compatibility class
-   needed, the tag name already uniquely identifies the light-DOM
-   instance app.js's `sidePanel` creates. */
+   close button) is the shared `<hive-side-panel>` element
+   (@hive/shared/side-panel.js, including drag-to-resize); what's left
+   here is the drag cursor-override escape hatch (has to be a global,
+   light-DOM rule — it reaches every element on the page during a
+   drag, not just the shared element's own shadow tree) and the
+   styling for the panel's own content types, which the shared
+   element's shadow tree can never reach (see
+   @hive/shared/side-panel/hive-side-panel.css's header comment). The
+   `hive-side-panel .agent-inbox …` rules below use the element's own
+   tag name as the selector root — no compatibility class needed, the
+   tag name already uniquely identifies the light-DOM instance app.js's
+   `sidePanel` creates. */
 body.side-panel-resizing {
   user-select: none;
 }
 body.side-panel-resizing * { cursor: ew-resize !important; }
-/* Inbox / loose-ends lists rendered into the side-panel body. The
-   legacy <details>-collapsible variant of .agent-inbox is gone, so
-   here we strip the inbox-only chrome (background, border-left) and
-   let the panel body's own padding own the framing. */
+/* Inbox / loose-ends lists rendered into the side-panel body: strip
+   the inbox-only chrome (background, border-left) here and let the
+   panel body's own padding own the framing. */
 hive-side-panel .agent-inbox {
   margin: 0;
   font-size: inherit;
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/Header.tsx b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/Header.tsx
index 0eb80be7..5c9f6dfc 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/Header.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/Header.tsx
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 // <Header> — the agent page's identity strip: icon, glyphic title, the
 // "swarm / hive" label row, and a slot for the status row
 // (`<StatusChips>` — ../status-chips/, kept separate so this component
-// has no opinion on what badges exist). Same three-column shape as the
-// old `#agent-header` markup (icon · main · pills) — see the `pills`
-// prop doc below for what moved into that third column and why.
-// Reuses `agent.css`'s existing `.agent-header*`/`.agent-icon` rules
-// (loaded globally by index.html) rather than a component-scoped
-// stylesheet — no new visual language needed for the chrome itself.
+// has no opinion on what badges exist). Three columns: icon, main
+// (title + hive-label), pills — see the `pills` prop doc below for why
+// the third column is the one that grows. Reuses `agent.css`'s
+// existing `.agent-header*`/`.agent-icon` rules (loaded globally by
+// index.html) rather than a component-scoped stylesheet — no new
+// visual language needed for the chrome itself.
 
 // Measures its own rendered height via ResizeObserver, writes it to
 // `--agent-header-real-h` (agent.css's downstream consumers —
@@ -42,23 +42,18 @@ export interface HeaderProps {
   label: string;
   hiveLabel?: string | null;
   /** The status/badge row (`<StatusChips>`) — lives in the
-   * `.agent-header-pills` cluster now, alongside `pills` (see below),
-   * not stacked as its own row under the title. */
+   * `.agent-header-pills` cluster alongside `pills` (see below), not
+   * stacked as its own row under the title. */
   children?: ComponentChildren;
   /** Flyout triggers (inbox/todos/links pills, the overflow menu
-   * button) — and, since this round, `children` (the status badges)
-   * too, both in `.agent-header-pills`, the SAME header-level column
-   * the old markup used for pills alone. First pass of this ask
-   * nested pills into a row inside `.agent-header-main` instead —
-   * backwards, mara corrected live: "i meant move badges to where the
-   * dropdowns are, not the other way around. this way the height does
-   * not change even on widescreen" — `.agent-header-main` now only
-   * ever holds the title + hive-label rows, which don't wrap in
-   * practice, so it stays a stable height; only this pills-cluster
-   * column (already used to absorbing a variable pill count) grows to
-   * fit badges+pills together. Meta-nav (`<MetaNav>`) lives in here
-   * too, as a fixed-size trigger — not the old markup's inline list in
-   * the title row (`<nav id="meta-links">`, docs/web-ui/agent.md). */
+   * button) plus `children` (the status badges), all in
+   * `.agent-header-pills`. `.agent-header-main` only ever holds the
+   * title + hive-label rows, which don't wrap in practice and so stay
+   * a stable height; only this pills-cluster column (already sized for
+   * a variable pill count) grows to fit badges+pills together, keeping
+   * the header a stable height even on widescreen. Meta-nav
+   * (`<MetaNav>`) lives here too, as a fixed-size trigger, not an
+   * inline link list in the title row (docs/web-ui/agent.md). */
   pills?: ComponentChildren;
 }
 
diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
index 83338275..90aded65 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/MetaNav.tsx
@@ -1,38 +1,26 @@
 // <MetaNav> — the header's meta-nav trigger: a single fixed-size Badge
-// (`@hive/shared/icons.js`'s `LinkIcon` — an emoji glyph here can't
-// match a neighbouring icon's size/weight on any platform, see that
-// file's comment; mara: "agent page link icons is different from
-// swarm ui" was this trigger still on the old `🔗` emoji after
-// swarm-ui's own link trigger had already moved to the SVG) in the
-// pills cluster that opens a popover listing
+// (`@hive/shared/icons.js`'s `LinkIcon` — an emoji glyph can't match a
+// neighbouring icon's size/weight on any platform, see that file's
+// comment) in the pills cluster that opens a popover listing
 // stats/screen/forge/config + any `hyperhive.dashboardLinks` extras,
 // sourced from the backend's `agent_links()` (the single source of
 // truth — same list also feeds the dashboard card's icon strip) — plus
-// a `🧭 dashboard` back-link, formerly the overflow menu's job (mara:
-// "remove rebuild button, move link to dashboards into links menu" —
-// the overflow `⋯` trigger existed for exactly two items, dashboard-
-// link and rebuild; rebuild's gone outright, the dashboard's own
-// R3BU1LD button already covers it, dashboard-link moves here, so
-// `OverflowMenu` had nothing left to justify existing and is deleted).
+// a `🧭 dashboard` back-link.
 //
 // `variant="quiet"` — mara: "link and settings button should not have
 // the badge bg". `Badge`'s default filled-pill look is right for a
 // status/picker chip, wrong for this icon-only trigger, which should
 // read as header chrome. See `@hive/shared/badge.js`'s `BadgeVariant`.
-
-// v1 of this rendered every link inline in the header's title row —
-// mara, live: "the login card looks like it is behind the header"
-// (a variable-width link list can grow the title row past the fixed
-// `--agent-header-h` the rest of the page is offset against — see
-// Header.tsx's comment) and "the links should have the same popout as
-// the links in the nav bar of swarm-ui." This is that: one quiet icon
-// trigger (reuses `@hive/shared`'s `Badge`, icon-only), a popover on
-// click, real `<a>` items — not `@hive/shared`'s `Dropdown` (its items
-// are always `<button>`s for command dispatch, which would lose real
-// link semantics like ctrl/middle-click and "copy link address") —
-// but matching its `.ui-dropdown` visual values exactly (see
-// MetaNav.css), the same "reuse the values, not the component" call
-// `LoginFlow`'s `.login-card` already made for the same reason.
+//
+// A popover keeps the header height fixed — a variable-width inline
+// link list would grow the title row past the fixed `--agent-header-h`
+// the rest of the page is offset against (see Header.tsx's comment).
+// Real `<a>` items, not `@hive/shared`'s `Dropdown` (its items are
+// always `<button>`s for command dispatch, which would lose real link
+// semantics like ctrl/middle-click and "copy link address"), but
+// matching its `.ui-dropdown` visual values exactly (see MetaNav.css) —
+// the same "reuse the values, not the component" call `LoginFlow`'s
+// `.login-card` makes for the same reason.
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'preact/hooks';
 import { Badge } from '@hive/shared/badge.js';
 import { LinkIcon } from '@hive/shared/icons.js';
@@ -73,8 +61,8 @@ export function MetaNav({ links, forgePublicUrl, dashboardBase }: MetaNavProps)
   // entirely (never guessed from `<host>:3000`); `external` is already
   // absolute; `container` is a same-origin path.
   const visible = links.filter((lnk) => lnk.kind !== 'forge' || forgePublicUrl);
-  // No early-return-on-empty any more — the dashboard link below is
-  // always present, so the trigger always has at least one item.
+  // No early-return-on-empty: the dashboard link below is always
+  // present, so the trigger always has at least one item.
 
   return (
     <div class="meta-nav-anchor" ref={rootRef}>
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx
index 78f20bf8..351ab32d 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/AgentsPage.tsx
@@ -12,12 +12,11 @@
 // calls — exactly why the bulk endpoint exists instead of looping the
 // single-agent one.
 //
-// Owns the "+ agent" trigger too: creation used to be its own
-// `/create-agent` route + nav item, but the roster this populates is
-// the natural home for the action that populates it — a separate top-
-// level nav entry was one click of indirection for no benefit. The form
-// itself (`CreateAgentForm`) is unchanged from its page days, just
-// mounted inside a `Dialog` instead of a route.
+// Owns the "+ agent" trigger too — the roster this populates is the
+// natural home for the action that populates it; a separate top-level
+// nav entry would be one click of indirection for no benefit. The form
+// itself (`CreateAgentForm`) mounts inside a `Dialog` here rather than
+// its own route.
 import { useState } from 'preact/hooks';
 import { ApiErrorPanel } from '@hive/shared/api-error-panel.js';
 import { readApiError, type ProblemDetails } from '@hive/shared/api-error.js';
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/CreateAgentForm.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/CreateAgentForm.tsx
index b13aaa7c..d94b14ff 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/CreateAgentForm.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/CreateAgentForm.tsx
@@ -179,10 +179,7 @@ export function CreateAgentForm() {
             literal behaviour (deploying the container onto the hive isn't
             wired up server-side yet — see this file's top comment) —
             mara's explicit call on this copy: read as finished, not as a
-            running commentary on partial implementation. The 🪪 glyph that
-            used to sit here as body copy now lives on `Panel`'s own `icon`
-            prop instead — it's what prompted that prop to exist at all
-            (see Panel.tsx's doc comment) */}
+            running commentary on partial implementation. */}
         <Panel title="what this creates" icon="🪪">
           <p>
             Submitting this queues everything a new agent needs: a swarm-level identity, a config
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/Shell.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/Shell.tsx
index 9cce6d4f..f8f37285 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/Shell.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/shell/Shell.tsx
@@ -16,16 +16,16 @@
 // Page-switch animation, two pieces (motion-guard rules live in
 // Shell.css): `.shell-body` remounts on every navigation
 // (`key={location}`) to replay a plain fade-in, and a single shared
-// underline (`.shell-nav-indicator`, replacing what used to be a
-// per-link border) hops through every nav item it passes over on its
-// way to the new active one, not just a straight two-point tween — a
-// nav hives→components jump visibly touches "new agent" and "jobs" in
-// between, position and colour together. Accent is a discrete cycle
-// through the existing base16 chromatic slots (`NAV_ITEMS`' `accent`
-// field), not a continuous hue rotation — everything here still
-// derives from base16, same rule the rest of the palette follows.
-// `.shell-brand` rides the identical accent value (`navAccent` below),
-// so the header reads as one accent changing, not the underline alone.
+// underline (`.shell-nav-indicator`) hops through every nav item it
+// passes over on its way to the new active one, not just a straight
+// two-point tween — a nav hives→components jump visibly touches "new
+// agent" and "jobs" in between, position and colour together. Accent
+// is a discrete cycle through the existing base16 chromatic slots
+// (`NAV_ITEMS`' `accent` field), not a continuous hue rotation —
+// everything here still derives from base16, same rule the rest of
+// the palette follows. `.shell-brand` rides the identical accent value
+// (`navAccent` below), so the header reads as one accent changing, not
+// the underline alone.
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'preact/hooks';
 import type { ComponentChildren } from 'preact';
 import { Link, useLocation } from 'wouter-preact';
@@ -109,10 +109,10 @@ function NavLink({
   return (
     <Link href={href} className="shell-nav-link">
       {/* Touch target (min-height) lives on the <a> so the whole row is
-          tappable. The underline itself no longer lives here — see
-          `.shell-nav-indicator` — this span is still what gets
-          measured to position that shared indicator, so it hugs just
-          the text rather than the full-height tappable box. */}
+          tappable. The underline lives on the shared
+          `.shell-nav-indicator`, not here — this span is still what
+          gets measured to position it, so it hugs just the text rather
+          than the full-height tappable box. */}
       <span
         ref={textRef}
         class={'shell-nav-link-text' + (active ? ' shell-nav-link-active' : '')}