diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/calibration-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/calibration-screen.tsx
index 0e1639a..591b9ee 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/calibration-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/calibration-screen.tsx
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ export function CalibrationScreen({ onBack, data }: { onBack: () => void; data?:
               <circle key={i} cx={X(e) + ((i % 5) - 2) * 3} cy={Y(a)} r="3" fill="var(--accent)" opacity="0.55" />
             ))}
           </svg>
-          <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-caption)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', margin: '8px 0 0' }}>estimated (x) vs actual days (y) · actuals inferred from git events, never tracked</p>
+          <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-caption)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', margin: '8px 0 0' }}>estimated (x) vs actual days (y)</p>
         </Card>
 
         <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 14 }}>
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/capture-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/capture-screen.tsx
index 92abe3e..b382839 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/capture-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/capture-screen.tsx
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ export function CaptureScreen({ onDone }: { onDone: () => void }) {
               {live ? filedCount : tickets.length} issues opened in gitea with <span style={{ font: 'var(--text-data)' }}>est/*</span> and <span style={{ font: 'var(--text-data)' }}>p/*</span> labels, nothing else touched.
             </p>
             <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-agent)', color: 'var(--ink-2)', margin: 0 }}>
-              Elapsed {clock}, under budget. No bot comments, no synthetic issues; your repo remains yours.
+              Elapsed {clock}.
             </p>
             <Button iconRight="arrow-right" onClick={onDone}>To morning service</Button>
           </div>
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/connect-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/connect-screen.tsx
index 32d0a10..b8be258 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/connect-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/connect-screen.tsx
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ export function ConnectScreen({ onConnected, existing }: { onConnected: () => vo
           </span>
         </div>
         <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-body)', color: 'var(--ink-2)', margin: '0 0 18px' }}>
-          Connect your Gitea. Your token is stored encrypted on this machine and never leaves it.
+          Connect your Gitea.
         </p>
 
         <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 12 }}>
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/directives-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/directives-screen.tsx
index 2a7c3c6..1ad05da 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/directives-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/directives-screen.tsx
@@ -115,10 +115,6 @@ export function DirectivesScreen() {
           </div>
         </Card>
       )}
-
-      <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-caption)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', margin: 0 }}>
-        Entries are never edited. Corrections are new entries; the ledger remembers everything, politely.
-      </p>
     </div>
   )
 }
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/issue-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/issue-screen.tsx
index a850689..4fa6ba8 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/issue-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/issue-screen.tsx
@@ -335,12 +335,6 @@ export function IssueScreen({
                 </div>
               )}
             </div>
-            {/* provenance note */}
-            <div style={{ padding: '10px 20px 14px', borderTop: '1px solid var(--line-1)' }}>
-              <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-caption)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', margin: 0 }}>
-                Lives in pm-state. Your repo never sees any of it.
-              </p>
-            </div>
           </div>
         </Card>
       </div>
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/onboarding-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/onboarding-screen.tsx
index 55c74cc..e60f44b 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/onboarding-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/onboarding-screen.tsx
@@ -155,11 +155,11 @@ export function OnboardingScreen({ onConnected }: { onConnected: (dest: 'focus'
           <Frame footer={<Button iconRight="arrow-right" onClick={() => setStep(1)}>Begin</Button>}>
             <h1 style={{ font: 'var(--text-title)', color: 'var(--ink-1)', margin: 0 }}>Good morning.</h1>
             <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-agent-lg)', color: 'var(--ink-2)', margin: 0 }}>
-              I am Reginald, your project manager. I interview you rather than trouble you with forms, I forecast in
-              honest ranges, and I never attempt the arithmetic myself; there is a scheduler for that.
+              I am Reginald, your project manager. I interview you rather than trouble you with forms, and I forecast
+              in honest ranges.
             </p>
             <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-body)', color: 'var(--ink-2)', margin: 0 }}>
-              Your plans reside in your own Gitea as ordinary issues and labels. Dismiss me, and nothing human is lost.
+              Your plans reside in your own Gitea as ordinary issues and labels.
             </p>
           </Frame>
         ) : null}
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ export function OnboardingScreen({ onConnected }: { onConnected: (dest: 'focus'
               type="password"
               value={token}
               placeholder="gitea PAT"
-              hint="Scopes: repo, issue. Nothing more."
+              hint="Scopes: repo, issue."
               onChange={(e) => {
                 setToken(e.target.value)
                 setDiscovery('idle')
@@ -352,14 +352,11 @@ export function OnboardingScreen({ onConnected }: { onConnected: (dest: 'focus'
                 ))}
               </div>
             </div>
-            <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-caption)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', margin: 0 }}>
-              No bot comments, no body frontmatter, no synthetic issues, ever. Labels are the only footprint.
-            </p>
           </Frame>
         ) : null}
       </div>
 
-      <span style={{ font: '400 11px var(--font-mono)', color: 'var(--ink-3)' }}>first run · everything reversible</span>
+      <span style={{ font: '400 11px var(--font-mono)', color: 'var(--ink-3)' }}>first run</span>
     </div>
   )
 }
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/settings-screen.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/settings-screen.tsx
index 2b36b72..375a775 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/settings-screen.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/screens/settings-screen.tsx
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ export function SettingsScreen({
                 <Icon name="layers" size={12} />
                 sidecar: {connection.pmStateRepo ?? `${connection.repo}-pm-state`}
               </Row>
-              <Note>Your token is stored encrypted on this machine. Delete the sidecar and resync; no truth is lost.</Note>
               <Row style={{ gap: 8, marginTop: 2 }}>
                 <Button variant="secondary" size="sm" icon="settings-2" onClick={onReconnect}>
                   Reconfigure
@@ -105,11 +104,7 @@ export function SettingsScreen({
               Reconciles on launch and after every write
             </span>
           </Row>
-          <Note>
-            The board is a rebuildable index over gitea, the durable truth. When gitea is unreachable the last
-            snapshot is served from cache (the rail's dot turns red), and the next successful reconcile supersedes it.
-            No webhooks, no polling: reads are on demand.
-          </Note>
+          <Note>Offline, the board reads from the last cached snapshot.</Note>
         </div>
       </Card>
 
@@ -135,8 +130,7 @@ export function SettingsScreen({
             </Row>
           )}
           <Note>
-            An OpenAI-compatible endpoint (set it in Reconfigure). Reginald names, negotiates and explains; it never
-            does the arithmetic; the scheduler and Monte Carlo do that.
+            An OpenAI-compatible endpoint (set it in Reconfigure).
           </Note>
         </div>
       </Card>
@@ -154,7 +148,7 @@ export function SettingsScreen({
             ))}
             <Tag label="deadline/hard" />
           </Row>
-          <Note>Fixed sets, human-meaningful, visible in gitea. Not configurable: that is rather the point.</Note>
+          <Note>The fixed label vocabulary, visible in gitea.</Note>
         </div>
       </Card>
 
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/shell/chat-panel.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/shell/chat-panel.tsx
index f614251..fc56ce2 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/shell/chat-panel.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/renderer/src/components/shell/chat-panel.tsx
@@ -198,9 +198,6 @@ export function ChatPanel({ onOpenDirectives, offline, onApplyChange }: ChatPane
             <Icon name="send" size={14} />
           </button>
         </div>
-        <p style={{ font: 'var(--text-caption)', color: 'var(--ink-3)', margin: '8px 2px 0' }}>
-          Chat is the write-path. Destructive changes are proposed, never assumed.
-        </p>
       </div>
     </aside>
   )