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@@ -25,17 +25,7 @@ libdpm-core implements no package operations. It routes and hosts.
 
 Everything passes through libdpm-core: binary-to-module, module-to-module, program-to-module. No consumer performs module discovery or dynamic loading itself.
 
-## Three layers to read this at
-
-DPM is met at three different layers, and which one you are at determines what any statement below means for you.
-
-- **The user layer** — a person at a shell running the dpm binary. Everything here is a command and its flags.
-- **The developer layer** — a program written against the C API in `<dpm/core.h>`, linking `-ldpm-core`. Everything here is a function call. Module authors live here too, on the other side of the same boundary.
-- **The filesystem layer** — the directories and files DPM reads and writes: configuration, the module directory, the target root, and the installed artifacts.
-
-The sections that follow are labelled by layer. Where a mechanism exists at more than one layer, it is described once at each, because the same idea looks different depending on where you stand.
-
-## How it works at the user layer
+## Running the dpm binary
 
 The dpm binary's subcommand surface is exactly the set of loadable modules. `dpm <module> <command> [args...]` loads that module and hands the command to it; `dpm <module> help` asks the module to describe itself. There is no fixed list of operations baked into the tool, because the tool contains no capability logic — it parses arguments and prints.
 
@@ -50,7 +40,7 @@ Four flags redirect the system defaults:
 
 These four exist because of a rule the design imposes on itself: every field a linked program can override must also be a flag, so anything reachable from code is reachable from a shell. That rule holds for any override added in the future.
 
-## How it works at the developer layer
+## Writing a program against libdpm-core
 
 A program links libdpm-core and includes `<dpm/core.h>`. Everything it does happens through a **context**, an opaque handle obtained from `dpm_open`.
 
@@ -73,7 +63,7 @@ The context owns everything it hands out. Every string a caller receives stays v
 
 **Services.** A module reaches libdpm-core through the context that dispatched the call: `dpm_log` to write a message, `dpm_config_get` to read a value from its own configuration namespace, `dpm_module_path` to learn where modules live, `dpm_core_version` to learn the library's version. A module needs no file handling and no logging machinery of its own.
 
-## How it works at the filesystem layer
+## What DPM reads and writes on disk
 
 **Configuration** lives in `/etc/dpm/conf.d/`. Each `.conf` file in that directory is one namespace named after the file: `core.conf` holds the library's own settings, and a module named `mymodule` reads `mymodule.conf`. Files are sectioned, and a value is addressed by namespace, section, and key. The library's own file carries the log level, whether to write a log file and where, and the default module directory.
 
@@ -94,7 +84,7 @@ The context owns everything it hands out. Every string a caller receives stays v
 
 ## The module contract
 
-*Developer layer, module-author side.*
+*What a module author implements.*
 
 A module is one `.so` in the module directory exporting five reserved symbols: a command entry point, its own version, a one-line description, the minimum libdpm-core version it supports, and a manifest. The manifest declares the module's entire functional surface — for each API, its name, table version, and the exact exported symbol carrying the table.
 
@@ -112,7 +102,7 @@ libdpm-core validates a module completely before offering it to anyone, in five
 
 A module failing any step is refused with an itemized reason and its library handle closed. Validation is all-or-nothing: if a handle comes back, the contract already passed. Consumers never defend against partially valid modules, because they cannot receive one.
 
-At the user layer this is visible as a module missing from `--list-modules` with a logged reason, or as an itemized failure when the module is named directly.
+From the command line this shows up as a module missing from `--list-modules` with a logged reason, or as an itemized failure when the module is named directly.
 
 ## Versioning
 
@@ -134,7 +124,7 @@ Each layer of the system installs the dependencies of the next using only what a
 
 ### Because one implementation must serve every caller
 
-The requirement that every implementation exist exactly once, and be consumable by the dpm binary, by other layers, and by external programs, is what makes libdpm-core a C ABI library rather than an application with a library carved out of it. This is also why the user layer and the developer layer stay in step: the flags are the override fields, one for one, so a developer and a user redirect the same things by the same names.
+The requirement that every implementation exist exactly once, and be consumable by the dpm binary, by other layers, and by external programs, is what makes libdpm-core a C ABI library rather than an application with a library carved out of it. It is also why the command line and the C API stay in step: the flags are the override fields, one for one, so a program and a person redirect the same things by the same names.
 
 ### Because nothing may be trusted that has not been verified