diff --git a/docs/coordinator.md b/docs/coordinator.md
index 047296c0..893cb908 100644
--- a/docs/coordinator.md
+++ b/docs/coordinator.md
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Every container/meta operation (rebuild, meta-update, first-spawn, power
 changes) is submitted to the global job-DAG queue (`hive-c0re/src/job_queue/`)
 as a **DAG of primitive nodes**. One scheduler task drives all DAGs;
 concurrency comes from the resource classes below, not from multiple workers.
-The old special cases — the graceful-stop watcher thread, the deferred-start
-fast-lane follow-up, the meta-update cascade pre-enqueue — are all just DAG
-*shapes* now.
+Special cases like graceful stop, deferred starts, and the meta-update
+cascade need no bespoke code paths — each is expressed as a DAG *shape*
+built from the same primitive nodes.
 
 ### Two levels: DAG and node
 
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ A DAG is **declared, not described**: a template builds it through
 `b.node(kind)` handed back, and the builder inserts the nodes itself. A handle
 only exists for a node already declared, so every edge points backwards and a
 cycle cannot be written down — there is no submit-time validation pass, because
-there is no malformed spec to reject. (The old queue had a petgraph `toposort`
-here, guarding against the positional indices that used to express edges.)
+there is no malformed spec to reject.
 
 ### Node inventory (primitives)
 
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ Cheap — no build slot:
 | `Drain`         | await the harness clearing the fence, bounded by the 3-min graceful-stop timeout; resolves ok either way                              |
 | `WriteDropin`   | `set_nspawn_flags` + `set_resource_limits` + daemon-reload                                                                            |
 | `WritePermFile` | commit `tool-groups.json` / `capabilities.json` (single git commit under `META_LOCK`) + emit the P3RM1SS10NS snapshots                |
-| `Reparent`      | `set-parent` / `set-parent-bulk`: apply every `(child, new_parent)` move under one `META_LOCK` commit (`meta::bulk_commit_topology`), send the per-agent move notifications, rescan + diff-emit. Agentless like `MetaLock` — a bulk move can span multiple agents, and a reparent touches the meta repo, not any one container. `moves` is `(Ident, Option<Ident>)` pairs, not raw strings — mara: "use Ident type instead of string" (#2719, issuecomment 42691). Rides `Template::MetaUpdate` rather than a dedicated `Template` variant — that enum is on its way out (see `#2665`, still open/blocked on a scope question) and is already internal-only (it never reaches the graph wire), so the stand-in only affects `terminal_hook` dispatch (resolves to no hook either way) and history-retention bucketing |
+| `Reparent`      | `set-parent` / `set-parent-bulk`: apply every `(child, new_parent)` move under one `META_LOCK` commit (`meta::bulk_commit_topology`), send the per-agent move notifications, rescan + diff-emit. Agentless like `MetaLock` — a bulk move can span multiple agents, and a reparent touches the meta repo, not any one container. `moves` is typed `(Ident, Option<Ident>)` pairs, not raw strings. Rides the existing `Template::MetaUpdate` variant rather than a dedicated one — it's internal-only (never reaches the graph wire), so the stand-in only affects `terminal_hook` dispatch (resolves to no hook either way) and history-retention bucketing |
 
 There is deliberately **no `GitCommit` node**: `meta.rs` fuses each mutation
 with its commit under its internal `META_LOCK` mutex, so a standalone commit
@@ -308,10 +307,11 @@ span agents; consumers derive a group's agent(s) from its nodes. Build logs
 are likewise **per-node**: the dashboard renders the node tree and keys the
 live-log panel off the running node.
 
-The event used to ship the whole queue as a typed `DagView`/`NodeView`
-projection. That was a second rendering of the same graph, kept in
-agreement by hand with the endpoint every consumer actually read; it is
-gone, and the event's whole job is now telling a client *when* to refetch.
+The event carries no payload by design: shipping a typed projection of
+the whole queue in the event itself would be a second rendering of the
+same graph that has to be kept in agreement by hand with the endpoint
+every consumer actually reads. Telling a client *when* to refetch is
+the event's whole job.
 
 ---
 
@@ -411,8 +411,7 @@ Sequence for a rebuild DAG (each step is its own queue node):
    (near-instant after the prebuild).
 5. `Reconcile` — boot into the new generation when `wanted = Up`; the
    in-container activation script transitions old → new. Holds no build
-   slot, so the next DAG's `Prebuild` overlaps the container boot — the old
-   "deferred start" split, now structural.
+   slot, so the next DAG's `Prebuild` overlaps the container boot.
 
 The approval deploy uses this same chain rather than a rebuild path of its
 own. Its `DeployApply` node does not build: it merges, opens the two-phase