diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7610f065..db6bcac1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Pick the shape; the agents don't change.
 | **Orchestrator and specialists** | One coordinator delegates to typed specialists with their own tools and merges the results | [Orchestrator](https://locusagents.ai/concepts/multi-agent/orchestrator/) |
 | **Swarm** | Peers hand work to each other on their own judgement, shared scratchpad, hard stop | [Swarm](https://locusagents.ai/concepts/multi-agent/swarm/) |
 | **Handoff** | Tiered escalation with typed context, L1 to L2 to L3 | [Handoff](https://locusagents.ai/concepts/multi-agent/handoff/) |
-| **StateGraph and functional API** | Nodes, edges, reducers, `Send` fan-out, interrupts, checkpointed state, LangGraph-style | [StateGraph](https://locusagents.ai/concepts/multi-agent/graph/) |
+| **StateGraph and functional API** | Nodes, edges, reducers, `Send` fan-out, interrupts, checkpointed state | [StateGraph](https://locusagents.ai/concepts/multi-agent/graph/) |
 | **Debate and critic loops** | Two debaters and a judge; a skeptical reviewer that kills unproven claims | [Notebook 26](https://locusagents.ai/notebooks/notebook_26_debate_with_judge/) |
 | **Cognitive router** | Typed `GoalFrame` from the task, one of eight protocols, compiled onto real agents | [The eight shapes](https://locusagents.ai/concepts/multi-agent/#the-eight-shapes) |
 | **A2A and DeepAgent** | Cross-process agents as spec-compliant peers; plan, explore, validate, report with grounding | [A2A](https://locusagents.ai/concepts/multi-agent/a2a/) · [DeepAgent](https://locusagents.ai/concepts/deepagent/) |
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ pip install locus-sdk && python -m locus.rogue
 # FINAL SCORE · dangerous attempts: 1 · BREACHES: 0 · audit chain intact: ✓
 ```
 
-Put the same gate around a LangChain chain, a plain OpenAI loop or a CrewAI crew, or build on the
+Put the same gate around an agent loop you already have, whatever it is built on, or build on the
 full runtime.
 
 → [How the admission gate works](https://locusagents.ai/concepts/control-layer/) ·
diff --git a/docs/concepts/compare.md b/docs/concepts/compare.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e68282c..00000000
--- a/docs/concepts/compare.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Coming from LangGraph or Strands
-description: "How Locus maps onto what you already know from LangGraph, LangChain and Strands Agents, and where it adds something."
----
-
-# Coming from LangGraph or Strands
-
-Locus is an agent harness: the agent loop, the ways to combine agents, and the
-runtime around them. If you have built with LangGraph, LangChain or Strands
-Agents, most of it will feel familiar. This page is the orientation.
-
-## Coming from LangGraph
-
-The `StateGraph` surface maps closely: nodes, edges, reducers, `Send`
-fan-out, interrupts, checkpointers, and a functional API. Locus adds the
-shapes you would otherwise assemble from nodes (orchestrator, swarm, handoff,
-debate), a router that picks the shape from the task, and a control layer
-that runs outside the model. See [StateGraph](multi-agent/graph.md) and
-[Compatibility](../compatibility.md) for the known API differences.
-
-## Coming from Strands Agents
-
-The agent loop, `@tool` and the multi-agent tools map one to one. Locus is
-Oracle-first: OCI Generative AI and Oracle Database 26ai are native
-transports and backends, and the admission gate and GSAR grounding are part
-of the runtime rather than add-ons.
-
-## Coming from plain LangChain
-
-Locus has no LangChain dependency. Its RAG, memory and model layers are its
-own; the Oracle Database 26ai primitives in particular do not go through
-`langchain-oracle`.
-
-## Where to start
-
-- [Multi-agent shapes](multi-agent.md) for the eight protocols and the router.
-- [The Agent](agent.md) and [Tools](tools.md) for the loop.
-- [Control-layer architecture](control-layer.md) for the admission gate.
-- [OCI Generative AI](providers/oci.md) and [OCI GenAI models](../how-to/oci-models.md) for transports and model support.
diff --git a/docs/concepts/oracle-26ai.md b/docs/concepts/oracle-26ai.md
index 80e5d058..ed1f563b 100644
--- a/docs/concepts/oracle-26ai.md
+++ b/docs/concepts/oracle-26ai.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ description: "Every Oracle Database 26ai primitive in Locus — vector search, i
 Locus treats Oracle Database 26ai as the place where an agent's state lives:
 vectors for retrieval, threads for continuity, memories for what it has
 learned, in the same database as the data it acts on. Each primitive is a
-first-class Locus class on the `oracledb` driver, with no LangChain layer in
+first-class Locus class on the `oracledb` driver, with no adapter layer in
 between, and it works with the same `Agent` as everything else.
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 858a40c2..dbac9435 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ the same backends. Pick the shape; the agents don't change.
 
     ---
     Nodes, edges, reducers, `Send` fan-out, interrupts for a human, and
-    checkpointed state, LangGraph-style.
+    checkpointed state.
 
 - :material-forum:{ .lg .middle } **[Debate and critic loops](notebooks/notebook_26_debate_with_judge.md)**
 
diff --git a/docs/why-locus.md b/docs/why-locus.md
index 8f2957a1..610baf3a 100644
--- a/docs/why-locus.md
+++ b/docs/why-locus.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Locus is the Oracle Generative AI Agentic Harness: one `Agent` class, eight
 multi-agent shapes, and the runtime around the model (tools, memory, RAG,
 observability, guardrails), built first-class for OCI Generative AI and
 Oracle Database 26ai and open to every other provider. The [home page](index.md)
-and [Coming from LangGraph or Strands](concepts/compare.md) cover that ground. This page is
+covers that ground. This page is
 about the part that is easiest to over-claim: what the control layer
 guarantees, what you configure, and what stays model-dependent.
 
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
index 02393770..21d13124 100644
--- a/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ nav:
     - Agent loop: concepts/agent-loop.md
     - Tools: concepts/tools.md
     - Model providers: concepts/models.md
-    - Coming from LangGraph or Strands: concepts/compare.md
     - Capabilities: capabilities.md
   - Multi-agent shapes:
     - Overview and the eight protocols: concepts/multi-agent.md