diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 3a96aa5..fb36ce3 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   before paraphrasing it, and name the register you read before claiming none
   publishes a spelling.
 - A README example is a `json` block that loads and renders as a category; `readme_test.go` runs every one.
-- Cyclomatic complexity is gated at 14. Split a function that would go over it, except a table-shaped dispatch at 14, a switch with one case per kind of its input, which stays whole.
+- Cyclomatic complexity is gated at 14: split a function that would go over it. A table-shaped dispatch, a switch with one case per kind of its input, may sit at 14 and stays whole.
 
 # Decisions
 
diff --git a/graph.go b/graph.go
index d9ddb5f..3004770 100644
--- a/graph.go
+++ b/graph.go
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/larvit/fejkdata/internal/invariant"
 )
 
-// eachNode visits n and every node inside it once, passing fn the label an error names each
-// by: the dot path reaching it, then ", line N" for a table cell. It never crosses a
-// reference edge — a {/path} reference is skipped — so a single inline node is walked on
-// its own.
+// eachNode visits n and every node inside it once, and passes fn each node with the label an
+// error uses for it: the dot path reaching it, then ", line N" for a table cell. It never
+// crosses a reference edge — a {/path} reference is skipped — so a single inline node is
+// walked on its own.
 func eachNode(n node, label string, fn func(label string, n node) error) error {
 	seen := map[node]bool{}
 	var visit func(string, node) error
diff --git a/table.go b/table.go
index 47b7808..00e1b32 100644
--- a/table.go
+++ b/table.go
@@ -436,8 +436,8 @@ func (t *table) proveParent(siblings map[string]node) (*table, error) {
 	return p, nil
 }
 
-// checkAncestors refuses a cycle in the chain of parents from p, t's parent, and an ancestor
-// with a column named like t.
+// checkAncestors refuses a cycle in the chain of parents starting at p, t's parent, and
+// refuses an ancestor that has a column named like t.
 func (t *table) checkAncestors(p *table, siblings map[string]node) error {
 	var ancestors []*table
 	for q, seen := p, map[*table]bool{t: true}; q != nil; q, _ = siblings[q.header[q.parentIndex]].(*table) {
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index 0934939..506dc37 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ Its doc says render failure, and it wraps what `NewTemplate` and `NewRecordTempl
 
 ### 116. Turn a row index into its rows file's line in one function.
 
-Today `namedNode`'s cell line in `graph.go` and each error in `table.go` add the header line and the one-based count. Item 102 moves the rows into `internal/rows`; the function goes with them.
+Today `namedNode`'s cell line in `graph.go` and each site in `table.go` add the header line and the one-based count. Item 102 moves the rows into `internal/rows`; the function goes with them.
 
 ### 56. Build on a manual run of `test.yml`.