docs: clear the remaining error-level vale lints

Per #4128 (mara: allow-everywhere false positives go in a central
list, otherwise fix in source). Testing surfaced better fixes than
the plan posted on the issue:

- 5x Microsoft.Contractions 'that is' idiom false positives: adding
  the missing comma ("that is, ...") both reads better and satisfies
  the rule's own negative-lookahead, so no suppression is needed at
  all. Fixed in docs/integrations/forge.md, docs/tools/forge.md,
  docs/tools/hivectl.md, docs/web-ui/dashboard.md, and
  swarmctl-cli.md's generated source (swarmctl/src/main.rs, doc
  comment regenerated via markdown-docs).
- persistence.md's 'is not' matching inside 'is nothing': reworded to
  'there'\''s nothing' rather than add any exception -- dodges the trap
  and is a genuine contraction besides.
- ca.md's 'it is' matching inside the already-correct 'it isn'\''t':
  tried a central .vale.ini TokenIgnores entry first per the
  allow-everywhere framing, but testing against the real file (not
  just a synthetic snippet) found it silently fails to suppress
  whenever markdown emphasis syntax appears earlier in the same
  file -- an offset-drift bug in how Vale applies TokenIgnores, not
  a config mistake. Reworded to "it'\''s not" instead, same fix
  shape as persistence.md.
- config.md's 3 genuine Microsoft.Avoid 'backend' exceptions (already
  flagged and accepted on #4139 -- an actually-pluggable LLM API
  provider, matching the nix option's own name, not one internal
  system to name): scoped inline vale suppression around just that
  section, since this one really is context-specific rather than a
  rule bug.

Verified: fresh 'vale docs/ --minAlertLevel=error' is 0 errors AND
0 warnings (was 10 errors). nix fmt 0 changed beyond the edits
themselves. pre-push lints (tracker-tag/comment-block/doc-pointer)
clean. cargo clippy -p swarmctl -- -D warnings clean. Diffed the
regenerated swarmctl-cli.md against the old copy to confirm only
the intended line moved.

docs/agent-lifecycle/persistence.md

@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ so it survives restarts and redeploys.
   with. **Keep it.** It's handed to Forgejo when swarm-controller registers a hook,
   so replacing the file means every subsequent delivery fails
   verification until the hook is re-registered with the new value. It's
-  generated automatically on first start; there is nothing to configure.
+  generated automatically on first start; there's nothing to configure.
 
 If the file is unreadable at startup the daemon still starts and logs
 `webhook secret unavailable`; the webhook endpoint then answers 503

docs/integrations/forge.md

@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ to `closed_at` that `state_change_is_current` returns `true` — so it takes
 the state-change path, dropping its body. Best of both worlds:
 on the merge/close path `forge_notify` fetches the `latest_comment_url` comment and, when
 its `created_at` is strictly **after** the subject's `closed_at`
-(`comment_is_after_close`) — that is it raced the merge rather than being the
+(`comment_is_after_close`) — that is, it raced the merge rather than being the
 pre-merge last comment the subject keeps — append it as a
 `comment by <author>: <excerpt>` block before the meta suffix
 (`fresh_post_close_comment_tail`). The wake carries **both** `[PR merged]`

docs/swarm/ca.md

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Two consumers, and only one of them is fine:
 
   The consumption differs per runtime and is the part worth knowing.
   tuwunel links no openssl, which makes `SSL_CERT_FILE` look inapplicable
-  — it isn't: its rustls-based TLS stack still resolves trust through the
+  — it's not: its rustls-based TLS stack still resolves trust through the
   platform certificate store on Linux, and that store honors
   `SSL_CERT_FILE`, so the env var takes effect the same way it would for
   an OpenSSL-linked binary.

docs/tools/forge.md

@@ -257,8 +257,8 @@ to discover valid label names before triaging or to audit the label set.
 ## Notes
 
 - **Read-before-comment guard:** `comment` refuses to post when forge still
-  has an unread notification for the thread (that is someone commented since you
-  last read it). This prevents accidentally replying to old activity without
+  has an unread notification for the thread (that is, someone commented since
+  you last read it). This prevents accidentally replying to old activity without
   seeing the new context. Read the thread with `hive-forge view <n>` or
   `hive-forge comments <n>` (which mark the notification read and clear the
   block), or pass `--force` to skip the guard.

docs/tools/hivectl.md

@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ Bare `choom` starts a fresh blank session. `--resume <value>` passes
 through as `claude --resume <value>` to rejoin a prior session by its
 session id — the flag name deliberately matches the claude flag it maps
 to. (choom never uses claude's `--continue`: that's a bare flag that
-takes no argument and resumes the cwd's _latest_ session, that is the
+takes no argument and resumes the cwd's _latest_ session, that is, the
 harness's; a value after it would be consumed as the first prompt,
 silently poking the live harness session.) A value is required when the
 flag is given. Either way choom never collides with the harness's live

docs/tools/swarmctl-cli.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ swarm-level operator CLI
 ###### **Options:**
 
 * `--authelia-bin <PATH>` — authelia binary used to hash passwords. The argon2 parameters must match the verifier's, so this has to be the *configured* package rather than whatever is on `PATH`
-* `--users-file <PATH>` — Host-side path of authelia's users database — that is the path inside the container, prefixed with the container's root.
+* `--users-file <PATH>` — Host-side path of authelia's users database — that is, the path inside the container, prefixed with the container's root.
 
    This is the only user store: it's read before every change and written in place, and `swarm-authelia-bridge` writes the same file.
 

docs/turn-loop/config.md

@@ -240,6 +240,12 @@ It leaves non-compile subcommands (`new`, `add`, third-party
 Set to `false` for agents that parse cargo's JSON output
 programmatically and don't pass `--message-format json` themselves.
 
+<!-- vale Microsoft.Avoid = NO -->
+<!-- "backend" here means "which LLM API provider" (a genuinely pluggable
+     choice, matching the nix option's own name `backendEnvironmentFile`) --
+     not one internal system to name instead, so mara's #4041 ruling doesn't
+     apply to this section. -->
+
 ## API-key backend (`useApiKey` / `backendEnvironmentFile`)
 
 ```nix
@@ -300,3 +306,5 @@ Switching an already-provisioned OAuth agent to `useApiKey` leaves
 cleaned up automatically. Cost shape also changes: subscription pricing
 → per-request billing with no built-in monthly cap, worth knowing before
 pointing a busy agent at a metered backend.
+
+<!-- vale Microsoft.Avoid = YES -->

docs/web-ui/dashboard.md

@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ named buckets of MCP tools; each agent starts with a role default
 `ToolGroup::AGENT_DEFAULT`; hive-c0re seeds the root agent to
 `ToolGroup::MANAGER_DEFAULT` — `messaging`, `meta`, `inbox`,
 `lifecycle`, `approvals`, `scheduling`, `diagnostics`, `execution`,
-that is every group except `forge` and `web_tools`). Checking /
+that is, every group except `forge` and `web_tools`). Checking /
 unchecking stages which groups are active for the agent; the
 page-level **save all** button (below) commits it. Columns come from
 `GET /api/tool-groups`. hive-c0re queues a rebuild so `HIVE_TOOL_GROUPS`

swarmctl/src/main.rs

@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ struct PathArgs {
     /// rather than whatever is on `PATH`.
     #[arg(long, value_name = "PATH")]
     authelia_bin: Option<PathBuf>,
-    /// Host-side path of authelia's users database — that is the path inside
-    /// the container, prefixed with the container's root.
+    /// Host-side path of authelia's users database — that is, the path
+    /// inside the container, prefixed with the container's root.
     ///
     /// This is the only user store: it's read before every change and
     /// written in place, and `swarm-authelia-bridge` writes the same file.