diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.js
index 7637d161..6d34c7a7 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.js
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import { linkify as termLinkify } from '@hive/shared/terminal.js';
 import { el } from '@hive/shared/dom.js';
 import '@hive/shared/side-panel.js'; // registers <hive-side-panel> — side-effect import
-import '@hive/shared/hive-warn.js'; // registers <hive-warn> — side-effect import
 import DOMPurify from 'dompurify';
 
 // ─── helpers ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.js
index 457f2236..3f056d6c 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/core.js
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ function renderTombstones(s) {
   // Wording is deliberately about what the list *is* rather than what it
   // isn't: nothing records a destroy, so "container absent" is the only thing
   // the backend can actually tell.
-  const warn = el('hive-warn', { level: 'warning' });
+  const warn = el('p', { class: 'tombstone-warn' });
   warn.append(
     el('strong', {}, 'shows every agent whose container is absent'),
     ' — not only destroyed ones. An agent part-way through being spawned ' +
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/credentials.css b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/credentials.css
index becd1d94..fc1a9f13 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/credentials.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/credentials.css
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ body.cred-shell {
 
 .cred-pane[hidden] { display: none; }
 
+.cred-warning {
+  border: 1px solid var(--amber);
+  border-radius: 4px;
+  padding: 0.7rem 0.9rem;
+  margin: 0.6rem 0 1.1rem;
+  font-size: 0.9rem;
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--amber) 10%, transparent);
+}
+
 .gh-status { margin: 0.5rem 0 1.2rem; }
 .gh-status-line {
   display: flex;
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/credentials.html b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/credentials.html
index d4d14f26..c30ac25a 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/credentials.html
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/credentials.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
          Security-warning banner + a link to generate a PAT. -->
     <section class="cred-pane" id="cred-pane-github" data-tab-pane="github"
              role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="cred-tab-github" hidden>
-      <hive-warn level="warning">
+      <div class="cred-warning">
         ⚠ use a <strong>dedicated bot account</strong>, not a human's &mdash;
         and a <strong>minimally-scoped</strong> personal access token (only
         the repos/scopes the agent actually needs, e.g. <code>repo</code> +
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
         anything within the token's scopes is reachable if the agent is
         ever compromised. the token is injected into the agent's state dir
         and is <strong>never displayed back</strong> on this page.
-      </hive-warn>
+      </div>
 
       <h3>◇ status</h3>
       <div id="gh-status" class="gh-status"><p class="meta">select an agent to see its github credential status.</p></div>
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css
index 8615b003..4bfa11c7 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css
@@ -444,14 +444,33 @@ hive-agent-menu {
 }
 .container-row.tombstone .name { color: var(--muted); }
 
-/* K3PT ST4T3 caveat and the port-collision banner both moved to the
-   shared <hive-warn> component — amber/no-pulse for
-   the standing caveat (a pulsing banner that's always present just
-   teaches you to stop seeing it), `severity="red" pulse` for the port
-   collision (an incident, not a caveat). See core.js/swarm.js and
-   hive-warn.css for the actual styling now.
+/* K3PT ST4T3 caveat. Amber, not red like `.port-conflict`, and no pulse: this
+   is a standing "read the list this way" note, not an incident — a pulsing
+   banner that is always present just teaches you to stop seeing it.
+   Nothing records a destroy, so this list is every agent whose container is
+   absent — which includes one being spawned right now. */
+.tombstone-warn {
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--amber) 8%, transparent);
+  border: 1px solid var(--amber);
+  color: var(--amber);
+  padding: 0.5em 0.8em;
+  margin-bottom: 0.6em;
+  border-radius: 4px;
+}
+.tombstone-warn strong { color: var(--amber); }
 
-   Notification controls below sit between the banner and the containers. */
+/* Notification controls — sit between the banner and the containers. */
+.port-conflict {
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--red) 8%, transparent);
+  border: 1px solid var(--red);
+  color: var(--red);
+  padding: 0.5em 0.8em;
+  margin-bottom: 0.6em;
+  border-radius: 4px;
+  text-shadow: 0 0 6px color-mix(in srgb, var(--red) 40%, transparent);
+  animation: questions-pulse 2.4s ease-in-out infinite;
+}
+.port-conflict strong { color: var(--red); }
 
 /* Build-queue summary banner on the SW4RM tab: one compact line
    when the rebuild queue has active work, with a link to the full queue on
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/swarm.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/swarm.js
index 4e827807..120313bb 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/swarm.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/swarm.js
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ export function renderContainers(s) {
   // rebuild. The banner sits above the agent list so it's the
   // first thing the operator sees when something's wedged.
   if (portConflicts.length) {
-    const banner = el('hive-warn', { level: 'error' },
+    const banner = el('div', { class: 'port-conflict' },
       el('strong', {}, '⚠  port collision'), ' — ');
     const groups = portConflicts.map((c) =>
       `:${c.port} (${c.agents.join(' + ')})`).join('; ');
diff --git a/frontend/packages/shared/package.json b/frontend/packages/shared/package.json
index 478a1cf2..01b05a6f 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/shared/package.json
+++ b/frontend/packages/shared/package.json
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
     "./modal.js": "./src/modal.js",
     "./shadow-css.js": "./src/shadow-css.js",
     "./hive-menu.js": "./src/hive-menu/hive-menu.js",
-    "./hive-warn.js": "./src/hive-warn/hive-warn.js",
     "./side-panel.js": "./src/side-panel/hive-side-panel.js",
     "./jobq-graph.js": "./src/jobq-graph/hive-jobq-graph.js"
   },
diff --git a/frontend/packages/shared/src/hive-warn/hive-warn.css b/frontend/packages/shared/src/hive-warn/hive-warn.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 45ad0e64..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/shared/src/hive-warn/hive-warn.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-/* hive-warn.css — shadow-DOM stylesheet for the <hive-warn> autonomous
-   custom element (hive-warn.js). `level` is an attribute on the HOST
-   (how callers set it, `hive-warn.js`'s own header explains why) —
-   `:host([level="…"])` sets `color`/`border-color`/`background`/
-   whether it pulses, same pattern as hive-btn.css's `[variant]`.
-
-   Three levels, not an open-ended severity+modifier combination (mara,
-   on review: "there should be distinction between info, warning, error
-   — all warnings should be styled identically"). Colours reuse
-   theme.css's own documented semantics rather than inventing new
-   ones: --cyan is already "info accents", --amber already "warnings",
-   --red already "errors, fail state" (see theme.css's :root comments).
-   Pulse is baked into `error` specifically, not a separate opt-in
-   knob — the one call site that wants attention-grabbing (an active
-   incident) is also the one call site that's semantically `error`, so
-   tying the two together removes a combination that shouldn't exist
-   independently of the tier. */
-
-:host {
-  display: block;
-  border: 1px solid var(--amber);
-  border-radius: 4px;
-  padding: 0.5em 0.8em;
-  margin-bottom: 0.6em;
-  color: var(--amber);
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--amber) 8%, transparent);
-}
-:host([level="info"]) {
-  border-color: var(--cyan);
-  color: var(--cyan);
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--cyan) 8%, transparent);
-}
-:host([level="error"]) {
-  border-color: var(--red);
-  color: var(--red);
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--red) 8%, transparent);
-  /* Only `error` pulses — an active incident, not a standing caveat.
-     A banner that's always present and always pulsing just trains you
-     to stop seeing it, so `info`/`warning` deliberately stay still.
-     `currentColor` so the glow matches without a second colour switch. */
-  text-shadow: 0 0 6px color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 40%, transparent);
-  animation: hive-warn-pulse 2.4s ease-in-out infinite;
-}
-@keyframes hive-warn-pulse {
-  0%, 100% { box-shadow: 0 0 12px -4px color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 55%, transparent); }
-  50%      { box-shadow: 0 0 22px -2px color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 95%, transparent); }
-}
-
-/* Explicit rather than relying on plain inheritance — matches what
-   every one of the three original rules declared, kept for parity. */
-::slotted(strong) {
-  color: inherit;
-}
diff --git a/frontend/packages/shared/src/hive-warn/hive-warn.js b/frontend/packages/shared/src/hive-warn/hive-warn.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 0cc62375..00000000
--- a/frontend/packages/shared/src/hive-warn/hive-warn.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-// hive-warn.js — <hive-warn>, the shared inline warning-banner
-// component. Consolidates three independently-written instances of the
-// same thing: `.cred-warning` (credentials.html, static
-// markup), `.tombstone-warn` (core.js, JS-built), `.port-conflict`
-// (swarm.js, JS-built) — the first two differed only by an
-// undeliberate 10% vs 8% tint, the strongest evidence this was drift,
-// not three genuinely different needs.
-//
-// Purely presentational — no internal state, no lifecycle beyond
-// attaching its shadow root once. `level` ('info' | 'warning' | 'error',
-// default 'warning') is read directly by hive-warn.css's
-// `:host([level="…"])` selectors — a fixed three-tier semantic ladder,
-// not an open severity+modifier combination (mara, on review: "there
-// should be distinction between info, warning, error — all warnings
-// should be styled identically"). Unlike `<hive-btn>`'s
-// `variant`/`disabled` there's no inner native element that needs the
-// attribute mirrored onto it, so no `attributeChangedCallback` is
-// needed at all — the CSS reads the host attribute directly.
-//
-// Content is arbitrary light-DOM children through the shadow tree's
-// single default `<slot>` — same reuse of the existing `<strong>`/
-// `<code>` markup every call site already writes, no caller-side
-// rewrite of their message content needed.
-//
-// Usage:
-//   `<hive-warn level="warning">...</hive-warn>`     (static HTML)
-//   `el('hive-warn', { level: 'warning' }, ...)`      (JS-built)
-//   `el('hive-warn', { level: 'error' }, ...)`         (active incident, pulses)
-
-import { attachShadowCss } from '../shadow-css.js';
-import hiveWarnCss from './hive-warn.css';
-
-class HiveWarn extends HTMLElement {
-  connectedCallback() {
-    if (this._built) return; // re-parenting re-fires connectedCallback
-    const root = attachShadowCss(this, hiveWarnCss);
-    root.append(document.createElement('slot'));
-    this._built = true;
-  }
-}
-customElements.define('hive-warn', HiveWarn);