diff --git a/.clangd b/.clangd
index 7627880..3afc480 100644
--- a/.clangd
+++ b/.clangd
@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
-# Editor accommodations for the second frontend. No compilation database is
-# named here: this repo rides as a submodule in its consumers, and this file
-# travels with it — a consumer's own database then covers these sources, with
-# that project's loader flags. The checkout that is opened as a folder names
-# its build tree in .vscode/settings.json instead.
+# Editor accommodations for the second frontend: only what is true of the
+# code wherever it is built. The build tree is named in .vscode/settings.json.
 CompileFlags:
   Add:
     # clang has no 24-bit integer and GCC's are keywords, not macros, so the
     # editor needs a stand-in for avr::uint24_t. The next width up is the only
-    # one available — clang rejects _BitInt(24) on this target.
+    # one available - clang rejects _BitInt(24) on this target.
     - -D__uint24=unsigned long
     - -D__int24=long
     # clangd forwards the driver's system includes but not its own header
@@ -16,15 +13,12 @@ CompileFlags:
     - -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
     - -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS
     # isr::emit spells a vector number into [[gnu::signal(N)]], which clang
-    # rejects rather than ignores — enough of them in one TU to reach the
+    # rejects rather than ignores - enough of them in one TU to reach the
     # default limit of 19 inside the headers and truncate the parse.
     - -ferror-limit=0
   Remove:
-    # Codegen shaping the loader TUs carry and clang has no spelling for.
-    - -fira-algorithm=*
-    - -fno-split-wide-types
+    # Codegen shaping the policy tier carries and clang has no spelling for.
     - -fno-tree-ter
-    - -fno-ivopts
     - -fno-move-loop-invariants
     # The build promotes warnings for the compiler that has to be right about
     # them; in the editor the flag paints a second frontend's opinions in the
diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
index d598a4e..63d04b6 100644
--- a/.vscode/settings.json
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@
 	"C_Cpp.intelliSenseEngine": "disabled",
 
 	// --query-driver lets clangd ask the cross compiler for its own system
-	// includes and target. The database is named here rather than in .clangd
-	// because that file travels with the driver into a consumer's submodule,
-	// where a build tree of this repo's own need not exist.
+	// includes and target.
 	"clangd.arguments": [
 		"--compile-commands-dir=${workspaceFolder}/build/atmega328p-generated",
 		"--query-driver=**avr-g++*",
diff --git a/oracle/README.md b/oracle/README.md
index 27459f6..8a45a3a 100644
--- a/oracle/README.md
+++ b/oracle/README.md
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ in AVR assembly. It is the size-and-feature bar for the port's `tsb_asm` tier.
 
 ## Why this variant
 
-The user chose the fixed-baud, hardware-UART variant deliberately: it is the one
-whose feature set the port must match. It fits the **complete** TSB feature set
-into the 512-byte ATmega boot section:
+The fixed-baud, hardware-UART variant is the one whose feature set the port must
+match. It fits the **complete** TSB feature set into the 512-byte ATmega boot
+section:
 
 | Feature | Oracle routine |
 |---|---|