diff --git a/crates/ghostlight/src/controllers.rs b/crates/ghostlight/src/controllers.rs
index 1a6c629..6e4b346 100644
--- a/crates/ghostlight/src/controllers.rs
+++ b/crates/ghostlight/src/controllers.rs
@@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ fn persona_request_shape_is_valid(request: &PreparedInference) -> bool {
 
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Error, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum ControllerWorkStoreError {
-    #[error("Eve command ID already belongs to the other controller mode")]
+    #[error("command ID already belongs to the other controller mode")]
     CommandModeConflict,
     #[error("{detail}")]
     Fault { detail: String },
@@ -2573,15 +2573,15 @@ pub enum ControllerError {
     NoOpportunity { expected: ControllerMode },
     #[error("subject has more than one current decision opportunity")]
     AmbiguousOpportunity,
-    #[error("Eve opportunity does not match this exact controller command")]
+    #[error("opportunity does not match this exact controller command")]
     OpportunityMismatch,
     #[error("controller opportunity has no Speak affordance")]
     SpeakUnavailable,
     #[error("controller opportunity grants no affordance")]
     NoGrantedAffordance,
-    #[error("Eve command ID does not match persisted controller work")]
+    #[error("command ID does not match persisted controller work")]
     CommandMismatch,
-    #[error("no persisted controller work exists for this Eve command")]
+    #[error("no persisted controller work exists for this command")]
     MissingControllerWork,
     #[error("{purpose:?} inference failed: {source}")]
     Inference {
diff --git a/crates/ghostlight/src/lib.rs b/crates/ghostlight/src/lib.rs
index 9b9f500..0df8612 100644
--- a/crates/ghostlight/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/ghostlight/src/lib.rs
@@ -1100,7 +1100,8 @@ pub struct WorldSnapshot {
     pub resources: Vec<ResourceSnapshot>,
     pub routes: Vec<RouteSnapshot>,
     /// Already ordered by pressure, then attention debt, then id: one owner, so
-    /// Eve, the mesh projection, and any future driver read the same order and
+    /// an operator interface, the mesh projection, and any future driver read
+    /// the same order and
     /// none computes its own.
     pub opportunities: Vec<DecisionOpportunity>,
     /// Everyone in a world shares the clock, and no controller can read a `due`
@@ -1671,7 +1672,8 @@ fn require_system_capability(caller: &CallerId, body: &CommandBody) -> Result<()
     }
 }
 
-/// The owner may tick from Eve; the tick task may tick with no session. Nothing
+/// The owner may tick from an interface; the tick task may tick with no
+/// session. Nothing
 /// else may tick.
 fn require_clock_caller(state: &WorldState, caller: &CallerId) -> Result<(), KernelError> {
     if caller == &CallerId::System(SystemCapability::Clock) {
@@ -12939,7 +12941,7 @@ mod clock_tests {
             assert!(matches!(error, KernelError::Unauthorized), "{error:?}");
         }
 
-        // The owner may tick from Eve.
+        // The owner may tick from an interface.
         submit_owner(
             &mut kernel,
             &active,
diff --git a/crates/ghostlight/src/patch.rs b/crates/ghostlight/src/patch.rs
index fd3f7ca..5cb1b8d 100644
--- a/crates/ghostlight/src/patch.rs
+++ b/crates/ghostlight/src/patch.rs
@@ -2270,7 +2270,8 @@ pub(super) fn kernel_speak_grant() -> BTreeSet<Ref<AffordanceId>> {
 
 /// Zero roles, zero slots, one empty band, one utterance, and one audience: a
 /// voice fills the room it is standing in. Zero roles is load-bearing — the
-/// Interpreter lane submits no bindings and Eve's speak payload carries only
+/// Interpreter lane submits no bindings and a consumer's speak payload carries
+/// only
 /// text. The precondition is not vacuous: an unplaced subject has no
 /// co-location audience and fails with `NoAudience`.
 pub(super) fn kernel_speak_entry() -> Affordance {