diff --git a/00-META/checks/README.md b/00-META/checks/README.md
index 2fa722b0..e0562f7d 100644
--- a/00-META/checks/README.md
+++ b/00-META/checks/README.md
@@ -80,6 +80,6 @@ It failed on something real before it passed: 581 uses of retired words in 63 do
 and two glossary contradictions (the "console", the deprecated broker's seat), fixed in the change that
 added it. A retired word's plural (`s` or `es` on its last word) is matched as the word: until 2026-10-07
 it was not, so "alerts", "rollouts" and "the hosts" (the node-engines) passed while their singulars
-failed; the plural failed on 14 uses in 9 documents before it passed. A verb that reads like a plural
+failed; the plural failed on 15 uses in 10 documents before it passed. A verb that reads like a plural
 ("a node hosts") is a finding too, and is reworded. Homonyms (*plan*, *gate*, *tier*, *ask*, *store*, *record*, *check*) are not checked by it: a
 word list cannot tell one sense from another, so they are reviewed.
diff --git a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/36-the-operators-agent-on-a-machine.md b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/36-the-operators-agent-on-a-machine.md
index b13d900a..d0e7f277 100644
--- a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/36-the-operators-agent-on-a-machine.md
+++ b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/36-the-operators-agent-on-a-machine.md
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ server's search finds by the command itself.
 
 **The guard on the agent's shell** (ADR 0245). The module's plugin carries, first among its hooks, the
 module's own program as a check before every shell command and file edit: ssh and its kin to a mesh
-machine, and writing the hosts or resolver file or setting `HOSTALIASES`, are refused with the tool that
+machine, and writing the `hosts` or resolver file or setting `HOSTALIASES`, are refused with the tool that
 does the job, or with the rule that a missing tool is created in its owning module. It runs from the
 managed directory, so a session cannot change it, judges with the machines and replaced commands the module
 last asked of the controller, and records every refusal and every operator's override in the module's state.