diff --git a/hive-ag3nt/src/web_ui.rs b/hive-ag3nt/src/web_ui.rs
index 982d05b0..5444a394 100644
--- a/hive-ag3nt/src/web_ui.rs
+++ b/hive-ag3nt/src/web_ui.rs
@@ -32,14 +32,6 @@ use crate::login::LoginState;
 use crate::login_session::{LoginSession, drop_if_finished};
 use crate::turn::TurnFiles;
 
-/// Deadline for broker-backed fetches on web-UI request paths. The
-/// page's critical fields (status, turn state, usage) are all
-/// in-memory; a busy or stalled hive-c0re must degrade the
-/// socket-backed extras (inbox rows, loose ends, reminder stats)
-/// instead of hanging the whole response — an unbounded await here is
-/// what let `/api/state` stall long enough to bork the terminal.
-const SOCKET_FETCH_TIMEOUT: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(3);
-
 /// Live login state for the web UI. The harness updates this in place as it
 /// transitions between `NeedsLogin` and `Online`; the UI reads on each
 /// render.
@@ -520,22 +512,18 @@ struct SessionView {
 /// the `mcp__hyperhive__get_loose_ends` tool sees from inside the
 /// container.
 async fn api_loose_ends(State(state): State<AppState>) -> Response {
-    let loose_ends: Vec<hive_sh4re::LooseEnd> = match tokio::time::timeout(
-        SOCKET_FETCH_TIMEOUT,
-        client::request::<_, hive_sh4re::Response>(
-            &state.socket,
-            &hive_sh4re::Request::GetLooseEnds { agent: None },
-        ),
+    let loose_ends: Vec<hive_sh4re::LooseEnd> = match client::request::<_, hive_sh4re::Response>(
+        &state.socket,
+        &hive_sh4re::Request::GetLooseEnds { agent: None },
     )
     .await
     {
-        Ok(Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::LooseEnds { loose_ends })) => loose_ends,
-        Ok(Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::Err { message })) => {
+        Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::LooseEnds { loose_ends }) => loose_ends,
+        Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::Err { message }) => {
             return error_response(&format!("get_loose_ends: {message}"));
         }
-        Ok(Ok(other)) => return error_response(&format!("unexpected response: {other:?}")),
-        Ok(Err(e)) => return error_response(&format!("transport: {e:#}")),
-        Err(_) => return error_response("get_loose_ends: timed out — hive-c0re busy, retry"),
+        Ok(other) => return error_response(&format!("unexpected response: {other:?}")),
+        Err(e) => return error_response(&format!("transport: {e:#}")),
     };
     axum::Json(serde_json::json!({ "loose_ends": loose_ends })).into_response()
 }
@@ -825,18 +813,13 @@ struct ExtraLink {
 /// failure — the inbox section is decorative, not authoritative.
 async fn recent_inbox(socket: &std::path::Path) -> Vec<hive_sh4re::InboxRow> {
     const LIMIT: u64 = 30;
-    // Deadline-bounded: `/api/state` must render even when hive-c0re is
-    // busy — an empty inbox section beats a hung snapshot.
-    match tokio::time::timeout(
-        SOCKET_FETCH_TIMEOUT,
-        client::request::<_, hive_sh4re::Response>(
-            socket,
-            &hive_sh4re::Request::Recent { limit: LIMIT },
-        ),
+    match client::request::<_, hive_sh4re::Response>(
+        socket,
+        &hive_sh4re::Request::Recent { limit: LIMIT },
     )
     .await
     {
-        Ok(Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::Recent { rows })) => rows,
+        Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::Recent { rows }) => rows,
         _ => Vec::new(),
     }
 }
@@ -848,19 +831,16 @@ async fn fetch_reminder_stats(
     socket: &std::path::Path,
     window_secs: u64,
 ) -> Option<hive_sh4re::ReminderStats> {
-    match tokio::time::timeout(
-        SOCKET_FETCH_TIMEOUT,
-        client::request::<_, hive_sh4re::Response>(
-            socket,
-            &hive_sh4re::Request::ReminderRollup {
-                since_secs: window_secs,
-                agent: None,
-            },
-        ),
+    match client::request::<_, hive_sh4re::Response>(
+        socket,
+        &hive_sh4re::Request::ReminderRollup {
+            since_secs: window_secs,
+            agent: None,
+        },
     )
     .await
     {
-        Ok(Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::ReminderRollup(stats))) => Some(stats),
+        Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::ReminderRollup(stats)) => Some(stats),
         _ => None,
     }
 }
@@ -879,20 +859,16 @@ async fn post_send(State(state): State<AppState>, Form(form): Form<SendForm>) ->
     if body.is_empty() {
         return error_response("send: `body` required");
     }
-    let result = match tokio::time::timeout(
-        SOCKET_FETCH_TIMEOUT,
-        client::request::<_, hive_sh4re::Response>(
-            &state.socket,
-            &hive_sh4re::Request::OperatorMsg { body },
-        ),
+    let result = match client::request::<_, hive_sh4re::Response>(
+        &state.socket,
+        &hive_sh4re::Request::OperatorMsg { body },
     )
     .await
     {
-        Ok(Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::Ok)) => Ok(()),
-        Ok(Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::Err { message })) => Err(message),
-        Ok(Ok(other)) => Err(format!("unexpected response: {other:?}")),
-        Ok(Err(e)) => Err(format!("transport: {e:#}")),
-        Err(_) => Err("timed out — hive-c0re busy, retry".to_owned()),
+        Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::Ok) => Ok(()),
+        Ok(hive_sh4re::Response::Err { message }) => Err(message),
+        Ok(other) => Err(format!("unexpected response: {other:?}")),
+        Err(e) => Err(format!("transport: {e:#}")),
     };
     match result {
         // 200 instead of 303 → the client doesn't refetch /api/state.
diff --git a/hive-c0re/src/auto_update.rs b/hive-c0re/src/auto_update.rs
index 40d81b6e..b2d9ef0a 100644
--- a/hive-c0re/src/auto_update.rs
+++ b/hive-c0re/src/auto_update.rs
@@ -38,15 +38,9 @@ pub fn current_flake_rev(hyperhive_flake: &str) -> Option<String> {
 /// deployed (i.e. the applied HEAD differs from the sha currently locked in
 /// meta's flake.lock). This is the semantic the dashboard `needs_update` chip
 /// conveys: "there is a config change ready to apply via rebuild."
-///
-/// Async on purpose: this runs per agent inside `container_view::build_all`,
-/// which fires on the ~10s dashboard sweep, every `AgentStatus` request, and
-/// every `rescan_containers_and_emit` after a lifecycle step. A synchronous
-/// `git` fork here blocks a tokio worker for the whole exec — under
-/// nix-build disk saturation that's long enough that concurrent sweeps
-/// starved the runtime and stalled the per-agent sockets.
-pub async fn agent_config_pending(name: &str, deployed_sha: Option<&str>) -> bool {
-    let applied_head = tokio::process::Command::new("git")
+#[must_use]
+pub fn agent_config_pending(name: &str, deployed_sha: Option<&str>) -> bool {
+    let applied_head = std::process::Command::new("git")
         .args([
             "-C",
             &format!("/var/lib/hyperhive/applied/{name}"),
@@ -54,7 +48,6 @@ pub async fn agent_config_pending(name: &str, deployed_sha: Option<&str>) -> boo
             "HEAD",
         ])
         .output()
-        .await
         .ok()
         .filter(|o| o.status.success())
         .and_then(|o| String::from_utf8(o.stdout).ok())
diff --git a/hive-c0re/src/container_view.rs b/hive-c0re/src/container_view.rs
index 9cdda653..74c41dd1 100644
--- a/hive-c0re/src/container_view.rs
+++ b/hive-c0re/src/container_view.rs
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ pub async fn build_all(coord: &Coordinator) -> Vec<ContainerView> {
         let deployed_full = locked
             .get(&format!("agent-{logical}"))
             .map(std::string::String::as_str);
-        let needs_update = crate::auto_update::agent_config_pending(&logical, deployed_full).await;
+        let needs_update = crate::auto_update::agent_config_pending(&logical, deployed_full);
         let deployed_sha = deployed_full.map(|s| s[..s.len().min(12)].to_owned());
         let pending_reminders = coord
             .broker