diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/CreateAgentPage.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/CreateAgentPage.tsx
index e870d3a2..64e750cb 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/CreateAgentPage.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/pages/CreateAgentPage.tsx
@@ -177,16 +177,20 @@ export function CreateAgentPage() {
           </Panel>
         </div>
         <div class="create-agent-info-col">
+          {/* Describes the intended end state (a running agent), not today's
+              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. */}
           <Panel title="what this creates">
             <p class="create-agent-info-glyph" aria-hidden="true">
               🪪
             </p>
             <p>
-              This queues a small chain of jobs, not a running agent: first an authelia identity
-              at the swarm level, then a config repo on the forge with the operator added as a
-              collaborator. It reserves everything an agent needs before any container exists —
-              actually deploying one onto the hive you pick above is a separate step that isn't
-              wired up yet.
+              Submitting this queues everything a new agent needs: a swarm-level identity, a
+              config repo on the forge with the operator added as a collaborator, and a container
+              running the agent on the hive you pick above. Watch it all settle on{' '}
+              <Link href="/jobs">jobs</Link>.
             </p>
           </Panel>
         </div>