diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
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@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 ## Project Identity
 
 Colibri is the Clawdie control plane core — a small, cross-platform (FreeBSD 15
-
-- Linux) Rust daemon. It unifies a coordination model (agents-as-teammates, task
-  board, team skills) with a cache-first cost discipline (byte-stable prompt
-  prefixes, cache-hit metering).
++ Linux) Rust daemon. Developed and validated from an operator USB environment;
+deploys as the **Clawdie service** on bare metal. It unifies a coordination
+model (agents-as-teammates, task board, team skills) with a cache-first cost
+discipline (byte-stable prompt prefixes, cache-hit metering).
 
 **License:** MIT (matches `layered-soul`). **Version:** 0.11.0, unified with `clawdie-iso`.
 
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@ Colibri is the Clawdie control plane core — a small, cross-platform (FreeBSD 1
   observes zot/pi; it does not contain them.
 - **pi** — kept as a spawnable backend, not the default. Glasspane treats pi
   and zot identically (`AgentRuntime { Pi, Zot }`).
-- "Clawdie" = zot + Colibri together (product name, not a separate binary).
+- **Clawdie** — Colibri deployed as a service on bare FreeBSD hardware. Target
+  spec: ZFS RAID1 mirror, PostgreSQL + pgvector, bhyve VMs, Bastille jails.
+  The operator USB is the development/validation surface; the Clawdie service
+  is the production deployment. (Product name = Colibri + zot running on a
+  Clawdie host, not a separate binary.)
 - **clawdie-ai (TS)** — being pruned; surviving features move to zot
   skills/extensions or Colibri.
 
@@ -49,8 +53,10 @@ markdown formatting; preserve intentional prose line breaks and fenced code.
 
 ## Target Platform
 
-**Destination runtime: FreeBSD 15.** Development happens on Linux (debby —
-Debian 13, this machine) but final validation must pass on FreeBSD 15.
+**Target deployment: bare-metal FreeBSD host.** Colibri runs as the `clawdie`
+rc.d service on a ZFS RAID1 mirror with PostgreSQL + pgvector, bhyve VMs, and
+Bastille jails. The operator USB image is the development, validation, and
+recovery surface — the bare-metal install is the production target.
 
 Target: `x86_64-unknown-freebsd` (Rust Tier-2). TLS uses `rustls` for clean
 static linking on FreeBSD (no `openssl-sys` dependency).
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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 # Colibri
 
 The Clawdie control plane core — a small, cross-platform (FreeBSD + Linux) Rust
-daemon that unifies coordination (task board, agent registry, skills catalog)
-with cache-first cost discipline (byte-stable prompt prefixes, cache-hit metering).
+daemon. Developed from an operator USB environment; deploys as the **Clawdie
+service** on bare FreeBSD hardware (ZFS RAID1, PostgreSQL + pgvector, bhyve
+VMs, Bastille jails). Unifies coordination (task board, agent registry, skills
+catalog) with cache-first cost discipline (byte-stable prompt prefixes,
+cache-hit metering).
 
 **Status:** workspace gates are fmt/clippy/test/release green. Round 2 audit is closed. Current priorities: ISO boot/runtime validation, Pi spawn end-to-end, and cost-mode enforcement (see [`docs/PRIORITY-HANDOFF-ISO-SPAWN-COST.md`](docs/PRIORITY-HANDOFF-ISO-SPAWN-COST.md)). Always query live state: see the crate table below and run the gate commands for current counts.