diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 5bc6983..9280df7 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ wrangler deploy   # Production deploy
 
 sol pbc's coding standards, distilled. They live inline here because a coding
 agent working in this repo can't read the private org engineering standards —
-this section is the source of truth a lode sees.
+this section is the source of truth a coding agent sees.
 
 - **Simple code.** Prefer plain functions. Keep modules self-contained. KISS/YAGNI — don't add abstraction, config, or fallbacks for cases that don't exist today. No backwards-compatibility shims; update call sites directly.
 - **DRY.** Extract common logic; reference the source of truth instead of duplicating it.
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index d2323d7..156374d 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ rookery is a cloudflare worker (hono + typescript) that runs a multi-tenant PDS
 ## already installed?
 
 ```bash
-cd /home/jer/projects/rookery && node_modules/.bin/vitest --version
+cd path/to/rookery && node_modules/.bin/vitest --version
 ```
 
 if that prints a version, you're good. run `make test` to verify everything works.
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ no secrets or env vars needed for local dev or tests. miniflare provides all wor
 ## install
 
 ```bash
-cd /home/jer/projects/rookery
+cd path/to/rookery
 make install
 ```
 
diff --git a/test/commons.test.ts b/test/commons.test.ts
index cc55540..ad979eb 100644
--- a/test/commons.test.ts
+++ b/test/commons.test.ts
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ afterEach(() => {
   __resetAccessJwksCache();
 });
 
-// The commons /tos serves the founder-approved agent-first canonical terms
+// The commons /tos serves the operator-approved agent-first canonical terms
 // byte-for-byte: agents SHA-256 these exact bytes into tos_hash and sign them,
 // so byte-equality with the CLO-owned canonical source is the acceptance test.
 // This hash is the sha256 (hex) of the canonical served-text region of the