diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/agent-session-empty-batch.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/agent-session-empty-batch.ts
index bc713f92171..fa4289da396 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/agent-session-empty-batch.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/agent-session-empty-batch.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import type { AgentJournalCursor } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
 import type { AgentSessionJournalBatch } from '../../../shared/agent-session-wire'
 
-/** A batch that advances nothing: the carrier for fence, handoff, roster, and clock updates. */
+/** A batch that advances nothing: the carrier for fence, roster, and clock updates. */
 export function emptyAgentSessionBatch(cursor: AgentJournalCursor): AgentSessionJournalBatch {
   return { cursor, items: [], removedItemIds: [], submissions: [] }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-attach.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-attach.ts
index 4a8bdd7c0a0..38595d4e6eb 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-attach.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-attach.ts
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ export type AttachedJournal = {
  * record store handed this host the lease and before `onAttached` starts a
  * provider child, so nothing can be appending to the provider's history while it
  * is read, and the window stays valid until the resume consumes it. Every other
- * settlement site — a proven child exit, a handoff suspend — runs while the host
+ * settlement site — a proven child exit — runs while the host
  * may still start another child, and a read there could be overtaken before it
  * is acted on. Orca still never re-sends: this decides state only.
  */
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-lifetime.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-lifetime.ts
index c602d3a9bb9..00df8b4e910 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-lifetime.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-lifetime.ts
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ function hasProviderChild(
 }
 
 /** The wind-down this host owes for the session's child. A live child always owes one, whatever a
- *  previous childless eviction recorded — the same session object is re-acquired in place on a
- *  handoff back to native, so a remembered `false` must never outrank the child in front of it. */
+ *  previous childless eviction recorded: a remembered `false` must never outrank the child in front
+ *  of it. */
 function owesProviderChildWindDown(session: StructuredAgentSessionHostSession): boolean {
   return session.hasProviderChild || session.owesProviderChildWindDown === true
 }
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-types.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-types.ts
index 2ff77d4436d..574ced3cc38 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-types.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-types.ts
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ export type StructuredAgentSessionHostSession = {
   params: AgentSessionAttachParams
   fence: number
   /** Whether THIS host generation is running the provider process behind the session. A journal
-   *  restored for reading has none, and neither has a session a TUI owns — so neither may be
-   *  evicted to free a child, and neither may have its lease released as an observed exit. */
+   *  restored for reading has none — so it may not be evicted to free a child, nor have its lease
+   *  released as an observed exit. */
   hasProviderChild: boolean
   /** Whether the child behind `hasProviderChild` has proven its start. A publish-first acquire
    *  is `starting` until the adapter's `started` event; only then are its reported options fact. */
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-feed.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-feed.ts
index 09a6248c0b7..29bf29a00f1 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-feed.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-feed.ts
@@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ export class StructuredAgentSessionStatusFeed {
     }
     const record = this.deps.getRecord(sessionId)
     const providerSession = structuredAgentSessionProviderSessionMetadata(record)
-    // The journal has no model: the record's acknowledged options are where an owner
-    // handoff or a mid-session switch lands, so the row follows whichever is in force.
+    // The journal has no model: the record's acknowledged options are where a mid-session
+    // switch lands, so the row follows whichever is in force.
     const model = normalizeOptionalField(record?.options?.model, AGENT_MODEL_MAX_LENGTH)
     // Usage is dropped here on purpose: a `task_progress` tick would otherwise fail the
     // equality check and re-broadcast a full summary to every remote subscriber for a
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-unexpected-exit.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-unexpected-exit.ts
index 06740bfab25..5363b8588e7 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-unexpected-exit.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-unexpected-exit.ts
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export async function settleUnexpectedStructuredAgentSessionExit<
     }
     const record = context.store.getRecord(unexpectedEvent.sessionId)
     if (!record || record.lease.handoffStage !== null) {
-      // The handoff coordinator owns an already-started transition.
+      // An acquisition or recovery already owns this lease's transition.
       session.hasProviderChild = false
       context.publishStatus?.(unexpectedEvent.sessionId)
       return null