diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index bebf874..e225f92 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -21,14 +21,8 @@ Read these on demand:
 - `docs/ai-constitution.md` — full governance evidence base; read when a governance decision needs justification
 - `docs/research/ai-coding-factory/ai-coding-factory-principles.md` — factory design rationale; read when implementing, auditing, or reviewing skills or factory structure
 - `docs/notes/factory-integration-decisions.md` — decisions from the factory integration grill; read when making skill authoring or factory design decisions
-- `docs/wiki/HUMANS.md` — human practitioner checklist; applies when working with AI tools in this repo
 - Governance rules are always in effect — `core/instructions/governance.md` (agent rules); `docs/research/governance_principles/CONTROLS.md`
 
-## Key rules
-
-- `providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md` is the deployed global config — edit it there, not here
-- Governance constraints from `core/instructions/governance.md` apply when building content in this repo — hard prohibitions on secrets and data, HITL requirements before irreversible actions, sycophancy resistance, and deterministic execution preference are always in effect
-
 ## Working context
 
 This repo is built by a junior developer as a homelab tool intended to scale to professional environments. Challenge ideas and reference industry standards rather than validate assumptions. Explain the why behind decisions — assume the user is learning, not just executing. Flag significant actions before taking them.
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 46f4ee7..31c4b15 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-> [!WARNING]
-> **This is the repo meta-config.** It tells Claude how to work *inside this repository itself* — structure, conventions, how to add skills/workflows/providers.
->
-> It is NOT the global config deployed to `~/.claude/`. That file lives at `providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md`. Do not conflate the two.
-
 @AGENTS.md
 
 <!-- rtk-instructions v2 -->
diff --git a/providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md b/providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md
index ba70a4c..1b0ed76 100644
--- a/providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md
@@ -1,10 +1,2 @@
-> [!WARNING]
-> **This is the global Claude Code config deployed to `~/.claude/`.** It is installed by `install.sh` and governs Claude's behavior across all projects.
->
-> It is NOT the repo meta-config. That file lives at the root `CLAUDE.md` and tells Claude how to work inside this repo. Do not conflate the two.
-
-# Always-on rules
-
 @~/.agents/AGENTS.md
-
 @~/.claude/core/instructions/governance.md