diff --git a/docs/agent-lifecycle/approvals.md b/docs/agent-lifecycle/approvals.md
index 1b635c09..43e0a272 100644
--- a/docs/agent-lifecycle/approvals.md
+++ b/docs/agent-lifecycle/approvals.md
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ current config — not an editing surface. An agent without the
 capability sees no other agent's config at all.
 
 An agent with the `approvals` tool group submits a change the same way
-it makes any other change: **clone the child's config repo from the
+it makes any other change: **clone the target agent's config repo from the
 forge into its own state dir, commit on a branch, open a PR**, and let
 the operator review and approve it. By design, no second, mount-shaped
 path reaches the same file without the review.
diff --git a/docs/tools/hivectl.md b/docs/tools/hivectl.md
index feee22a6..409d462b 100644
--- a/docs/tools/hivectl.md
+++ b/docs/tools/hivectl.md
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ raw rows instead of the table.
 
 `agent <name> restart` is the manual equivalent of the MCP `restart`
 tool — useful when you need to kick a container from the host without
-going through the agent hierarchy. For more than one agent at once, use
+going through an agent at all. For more than one agent at once, use
 the top-level `hivectl restart --agents` (or `--agent <name>` repeated) —
 it rides a single DAG and reports per-target failures at the end rather
 than aborting mid-run, instead of shelling out to `agent <name> restart`
diff --git a/docs/web-ui/dashboard.md b/docs/web-ui/dashboard.md
index 2072387e..9990aa9b 100644
--- a/docs/web-ui/dashboard.md
+++ b/docs/web-ui/dashboard.md
@@ -56,15 +56,10 @@ surfaces, not tab panes.
 
 ## SW4RM tab
 
-**C0NTAINERS** — live containers rendered as a flat,
-alphabetically-sorted list. The renderer still walks
-`ContainerView.parent` for a depth-first tree with ASCII glyphs
-(`├─`, `└─`, `│  ` continuation columns), but that field no longer
-exists, so every row sits at depth 0 and the renderer paints no glyph. The tree
-sorts alphabetically;
-roots likewise. The tree tolerates cycles in the parent graph —
-it appends orphaned containers (not reachable from any root)
-as roots so no agent disappears. Pulsing red banner at the top
+**C0NTAINERS** — live containers as a flat list, one row per
+container, sorted alphabetically by agent name. No row nests under
+another, none carries an indent or a tree glyph, and every container the
+rescan reports gets a row. Pulsing red banner at the top
 of this section if any two sub-agents hash to the same port
 (`port_conflicts` from `/api/state`): the operator must rename
 one of them and rebuild. `lifecycle::{spawn,rebuild}` also
@@ -981,27 +976,11 @@ identically.)
 
 ### Topology tree
 
-⚠️ **Dormant now that `ContainerView.parent` no longer exists:**
-`buildAgentTree` now puts every container at depth 0 and the rules below are
-all no-ops — the list renders flat. The walk and the prefix painting are
-still in `swarm.js`; retiring them falls to the frontend owner rather
-than to this removal. What follows describes what the code
-still does, for whoever makes that call.
-
-The per-row prefix column (`.tree-prefix`) is **DOM-painted, not
-text-glyph-painted**: each indent lane is its own positioned `<span>`
-so CSS can draw full-height vertical bars that bridge the gap between
-sibling rows. Plain text box-drawing characters (`├─`, `└─`, `│  `)
-would only paint one text-line tall and leave visible breaks between
-the taller-than-one-line container cards, so CSS borders draw the
-bars instead: a continuation bar runs the full height of an
-ancestor's still-open subtree, and the joint at a row's own depth is
-`├` (more siblings below) or `└` (last sibling — the line stops at
-the row's icon midline). Exact lane widths and positioning live in
-`swarm.js`'s tree-prefix rendering and its paired CSS rules — not
-reproduced here since they're tuned in pixel units and will drift.
-With every container at depth 0 these rules are all no-ops and the
-layout reads like a plain flat list, which is what a hive renders today.
+Nothing nests. `swarm.js::buildAgentTree` returns every container at
+depth 0 in alphabetical order, and the row builder emits no prefix
+column for a depth-0 row — so a container row carries no indent, no
+joint and no continuation bar, and the SW4RM list reads as a flat
+roster. The `.tree-prefix` lane rules in `dashboard.css` match nothing.
 
 ## Selection bar
 
@@ -1032,8 +1011,7 @@ frosted-mauve bar slides up from the bottom of the viewport
   - `DESTR0Y` / `PURG3` — always available
 <!-- vale write-good.Passive = YES -->
 
-  The `M0V3` picker that used to sit here no longer exists — an agent
-  has no parent to move it to any more.
+  That list is the whole set — the bar offers no other bulk action.
 - **`✕ clear`** button + `Esc` key clear the entire selection.
 
 Every render prunes stale selections (agents destroyed while