diff --git a/docs/integrations/forge.md b/docs/integrations/forge.md
index 0979081e..3604d609 100644
--- a/docs/integrations/forge.md
+++ b/docs/integrations/forge.md
@@ -106,8 +106,7 @@ The crate builds a second, independent binary for a different host — see
 
 The host-specific calls — list unread, mark read, resolve own login —
 live behind `Source` in `hive-forge-notify/src/source.rs`;
-classification, formatting, dedupe and todo delivery live in `notify.rs`,
-common to both binaries. Todo
+classification, formatting, dedupe and todo delivery are shared. Todo
 keys here are the bare thread ids, and must stay that way: renaming them
 would orphan every in-flight forge todo on the first restart after a
 deploy.
diff --git a/docs/process/pr-review-gate.md b/docs/process/pr-review-gate.md
index d8fd1960..132a28fb 100644
--- a/docs/process/pr-review-gate.md
+++ b/docs/process/pr-review-gate.md
@@ -46,9 +46,8 @@ already happened. No large changes are expected to surface after
 that point — a reviewer's job past that point is to flag it if one
 does, not to assume none ever will.
 
-The practical consequence for a reviewer: on a repo where someone with
-write access may already have armed automerge before your review
-lands, a plain `APPROVED` can
+The practical consequence for a reviewer: on a repo where automerge
+may already be armed before your review lands, a plain `APPROVED` can
 be the last step before the merge actually happens, with no further
 review pass after yours. That's a reason to actually finish checking
 before approving — not a reason to hesitate over every small thing.
diff --git a/docs/tools/lifecycle.md b/docs/tools/lifecycle.md
index 88b6f90f..c556098a 100644
--- a/docs/tools/lifecycle.md
+++ b/docs/tools/lifecycle.md
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ one-row answer naming itself.
 Meta-flake input bumps route through the operator approval queue.
 
 Creating a new agent is **not** in this group — agents have no tool for
-it. The swarm controller's `InitAgentConfigRepo` job scaffolds a new
-agent's config repo (`POST /api/agents`, see
+it. A new agent's config repo is scaffolded by the swarm controller's
+`InitAgentConfigRepo` job (`POST /api/agents`, see
 `swarm-controller/`), and the operator spawns the container from the
 dashboard (`◆ R3QU3ST SP4WN` / `Spawn` approval, routed via
 `HostRequest::RequestSpawn`).
diff --git a/docs/turn-loop/mcp.md b/docs/turn-loop/mcp.md
index 79784309..e254d0fd 100644
--- a/docs/turn-loop/mcp.md
+++ b/docs/turn-loop/mcp.md
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ see [`docs/tools/subagent.md`](../tools/subagent.md).
   `TodoWrite`. `Bash` **isn't** in the managed deny — see below.
 - Allowed MCP tools: as listed above (by tool group).
 
-The autonomous harness disallows `Bash` — shell execution goes
+`Bash` is disallowed for the autonomous harness — shell execution goes
 through `mcp__bash__run` (background tasks with structured output +
 task-id tracking) instead of an interactive shell. The harness gate is
 `--tools` / `--allowedTools` (Bash absent from `ALLOWED_BUILTIN_TOOLS`),
diff --git a/docs/web-ui/terminal-rendering.md b/docs/web-ui/terminal-rendering.md
index 1eb32c31..68b680ea 100644
--- a/docs/web-ui/terminal-rendering.md
+++ b/docs/web-ui/terminal-rendering.md
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ as `TermEnvelope { seq?, msgs: TermMsg[] }` frames
 
 `ts` is ISO 8601 UTC (`2026-09-13T12:35:03Z`) and is the **source event's**
 time, stamped at classify time from the event's own stamp — so a row
-replayed from sqlite says when it happened, not when a client fetched
-it. It
+replayed from sqlite says when it happened, not when it was fetched. It
 lives on the row rather than on the envelope because the swarm queue
 publishes rows bare, with no envelope around them
 (`hive-agent/src/swarm_term.rs`); a subscriber there has nowhere else to