diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 7f759ab4f..d8e569d3a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -155,8 +155,7 @@ are existing ones when a change converts them:
   `UiSlider`, `UiSegmented`, `UiChip` (a label, not a control), `UiBadge`,
   `UiEmpty`, `UiIcon`, `UiTooltip`, `UiPanel` and `UiRail`. Use these before
   writing a control. When the kit lacks something, extend a kit component or
-  add one that follows the names, props, events and class names of
-  Halfpixel's `ui-vue` kit, as the existing ones do (see
+  add one that follows the kit's names, props, events and class names (see
   [Component kit](docs/VUE-MIGRATION.md#component-kit)), rather than
   building a one-off.
 - **No hand-written DOM binding.** Don't build elements or write text,
diff --git a/changelog.d/1499-vue-and-pinia.md b/changelog.d/1499-vue-and-pinia.md
index fb721fa2a..dc93aecdd 100644
--- a/changelog.d/1499-vue-and-pinia.md
+++ b/changelog.d/1499-vue-and-pinia.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
   panel's open and pinned state to the `gev-panel-chrome` store, and the
   buttons, now views, call it there. `bindPanelDisclosure` (`./ui/panels`) binds
   only a panel's Escape; it no longer takes `buttons` or `onChange`. `UiButton`
-  joins the component kit with ui-vue's props (samehkhamis, #1499).
+  joins the component kit (samehkhamis, #1499).
 
 - `SceneControls` (`./ui/scenes`) no longer takes `elements` or writes the Scene
   panel's buttons, status, progress or runtime chip: it presents them to the
diff --git a/docs/VUE-MIGRATION.md b/docs/VUE-MIGRATION.md
index 4ff22d7c3..3dcd7f63b 100644
--- a/docs/VUE-MIGRATION.md
+++ b/docs/VUE-MIGRATION.md
@@ -41,17 +41,15 @@ one-panel rule too. Share links continue to record which panels are open.
 `UiBadge` and `UiEmpty` so far, with more joining as the controls they serve
 are converted. One component
 serves every use of a control, with props for the differences (`UiPanel`'s
-`sideways`, `glow`, `scroll`), rather than a copy per panel. Names, props,
-events and class names follow Halfpixel's `ui-vue` kit so the two can merge
-later, but the components are written for this repository and styled by its
-existing stylesheet and custom properties; a kit class such as
+`sideways`, `glow`, `scroll`), rather than a copy per panel. The components
+are styled by the existing stylesheet and custom properties; a kit class such as
 `ui-button--icon` carries no Core style yet, and a converted control keeps
 its own classes beside it. They contain no application state.
-`UiPanel` takes ui-vue's `title`, slots and `v-model:collapsed`, but its
+`UiPanel` takes a `title`, slots and `v-model:collapsed`, but its
 `collapsed` drives only the button and `ui-panel--collapsed`: the root's
 `collapsed` class, which hides the body, is drawn at once by `v-panel-state`
 from the panel chrome store, and there is no `closable`, since Core's panels collapse rather than close.
-`UiSegmented` adds `keyboard` (`none`, `arrows` as in ui-vue, or `radio` with
+`UiSegmented` adds `keyboard` (`none`, `arrows`, or `radio` with
 Home and End), since each of Core's groups keeps its own keyboard policy, and
 `itemClass`/`activeClass` for Core's segment classes. A key moves focus at
 once and asks for a change only when it lands on another option. Every
@@ -63,26 +61,25 @@ code adds (a voice highlight) survives a press. Every pressed toggle in the
 views is a `UiButton` except Bhote Koshi's cinematic button and the
 tilt-map button, whose owners still write their state into the DOM. Core's
 pressable chips and pills (rail card chips, map sources, cities and places)
-are `UiButton`s too; `UiChip` is ui-vue's non-interactive label chip, used by
+are `UiButton`s too; `UiChip` is a non-interactive label chip, used by
 the voice card.
 `UiSelect` renders the bare native select (Core's labels sit outside it or
-come as an `aria-label`) with ui-vue's `v-model`, `options` and `disabled`;
+come as an `aria-label`) with `v-model`, `options` and `disabled`;
 options that carry their own attributes come through the slot, a caller's
 `@change` still reaches the select, and `hold` works as in `UiSlider`.
 Without `hold`, a select takes its model back after its own change renders,
 so a pick its owner refuses goes back; an owner that answers later (the SDR
 gain) takes `hold`. Every select in the views is a `UiSelect`.
-`UiBadge` takes ui-vue's `tone` and carries Core's `gev-status-badge`; its
+`UiBadge` takes a `tone` and carries Core's `gev-status-badge`; its
 density variants and colours stay caller classes, and it renders the CCTV
 source and calibration badges and the rail card badges. `UiEmpty` takes
-ui-vue's `title` and `hint`, but Core's empty states are one line, so the title
+a `title` and `hint`, but Core's empty states are one line, so the title
 is the text itself rather than a bold heading; the Scene shot list, mission
 roster and imagery strip use it. The locale picker's and the mission tables'
-empty rows stay a paragraph and table cells, and no Core block matches
-`UiSection`'s header and well, so none uses it yet.
-`UiSlider` keeps the native range input where ui-vue draws a
+empty rows stay a paragraph and table cells.
+`UiSlider` keeps the native range input rather than drawing a
 `role="slider"` track, so Core's keyboard, form behaviour and styling stay;
-it takes ui-vue's `v-model`, `min`, `max`, `step` and `disabled`, emits a
+it takes `v-model`, `min`, `max`, `step` and `disabled`, emits a
 number, and adds `hold` (never rewrite a focused handle, and take the model
 back on blur) and `unstyled` (the browser's own range, as Bhote Koshi's
 are, without Core's slider surface). A caller's own input, change and blur
@@ -91,11 +88,10 @@ a functional render-function component, so the portable `./ui/input` rows
 use it without a component compiler. Every range in the views is a
 `UiSlider` except the radio tuner's: its owner moves the handle back to the
 selected station on a drag's first input without changing the slot, which
-a functional component would not render again. Merging the kits means
-settling native input against the drawn track.
+a functional component would not render again.
 
 Controls share one skin, so every panel reads the same. Every scrolling
-surface carries the kit's `.ui-scroll` (ui-vue's name), which draws the thin
+surface carries the kit's `.ui-scroll`, which draws the thin
 themed scrollbar from `--scroll-thumb` and `--scroll-track`; the Cyber theme
 sets those two tokens, and Cockpit's HUD windows keep their accent tint. A
 surface without it would draw the platform's light scrollbar, because the
diff --git a/src/ui/kit/UiBadge.vue b/src/ui/kit/UiBadge.vue
index 086de3761..45d8f7ede 100644
--- a/src/ui/kit/UiBadge.vue
+++ b/src/ui/kit/UiBadge.vue
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <script setup>
-// Core's read-only badge, with @halfpixel/ui-vue UiBadge's `tone` and classes
-// so the two kits can merge. It carries Core's `gev-status-badge` class, and
+// Core's read-only badge, with a `tone` and the kit's classes. It carries Core's `gev-status-badge` class, and
 // callers add its density variants (`gev-status-badge--box`, `--plain`) and
 // the feature classes that colour it; the kit classes carry no Core styles
 // yet. Not mirrored yet: pulse, busy, the tone glyphs and the clipped title.
diff --git a/src/ui/kit/UiButton.vue b/src/ui/kit/UiButton.vue
index b130d21e5..1d344390d 100644
--- a/src/ui/kit/UiButton.vue
+++ b/src/ui/kit/UiButton.vue
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 import { computed } from 'vue';
 import { vClassToggle } from '../rail/classToggle.js';
 
-// Core's button, with @halfpixel/ui-vue UiButton's props, classes and
-// attribute contract so the two kits can merge: the button is always the root,
+// Core's button and its attribute contract: the button is always the root,
 // attributes passed in win over its own (a `title` replaces the label's), and
 // `pressed` renders aria-pressed only when it is passed. Core styles the
 // button through the classes its callers pass; the kit classes carry no Core
diff --git a/src/ui/kit/UiChip.vue b/src/ui/kit/UiChip.vue
index f2d590a7e..dcd65b283 100644
--- a/src/ui/kit/UiChip.vue
+++ b/src/ui/kit/UiChip.vue
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <script setup>
-// Core's chip, with @halfpixel/ui-vue UiChip's props and classes so the two
-// kits can merge: a label that says what something is, never a control.
+// Core's chip: a label that says what something is, never a control.
 // Core styles it through the classes its callers pass; the kit classes carry
 // no Core styles yet. A chip that presses is a UiButton with pressedClass.
 defineProps({
diff --git a/src/ui/kit/UiEmpty.vue b/src/ui/kit/UiEmpty.vue
index 0bd88dbb5..24c0a53f3 100644
--- a/src/ui/kit/UiEmpty.vue
+++ b/src/ui/kit/UiEmpty.vue
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <script setup>
-// Core's empty state, with @halfpixel/ui-vue UiEmpty's `title` and `hint` so
-// the two kits can merge. Core's empty states are one line, so the title is
-// the text itself rather than ui-vue's bold heading; a hint follows it. Core
+// Core's empty state, with a `title` and `hint`. Core's empty states are one
+// line, so the title is the text itself rather than a bold heading; a hint
+// follows it. Core
 // styles it through the classes its callers pass. Not mirrored yet: icon.
 defineProps({
   title: { type: String, required: true },
diff --git a/src/ui/kit/UiPanel.vue b/src/ui/kit/UiPanel.vue
index b092cefc5..5421fc699 100644
--- a/src/ui/kit/UiPanel.vue
+++ b/src/ui/kit/UiPanel.vue
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
 import { vClassToggle } from '../rail/classToggle.js';
 import UiPanelToggle from './UiPanelToggle.vue';
 
-// Core's panel, with @halfpixel/ui-vue UiPanel's name, title, slots and
-// v-model:collapsed so the two kits can merge. It draws Core's panel markup
+// Core's panel, with a name, title, slots and v-model:collapsed. It draws Core's panel markup
 // (glow, inner, a header with the title, badges, divider, actions and the
 // collapse button, then the body) and keeps Core's classes beside the kit's.
-// Unlike ui-vue's, `collapsed` does not hide the body: the root's classes
+// `collapsed` does not hide the body: the root's classes
 // stay as rendered, and whatever owns the panel's state writes its
 // `collapsed` class at once (PanelChrome, through vPanelState), because the
 // rails measure a panel in the task that opens it. `collapsed` drives the
diff --git a/src/ui/kit/UiSegmented.vue b/src/ui/kit/UiSegmented.vue
index 959faf3b2..d3d1660f0 100644
--- a/src/ui/kit/UiSegmented.vue
+++ b/src/ui/kit/UiSegmented.vue
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 <script setup>
 import { computed } from 'vue';
 
-// Core's segmented control, with @halfpixel/ui-vue UiSegmented's
-// v-model, options, label, stacked and disabled so the two kits can merge.
-// Core adds `keyboard`, because its groups keep their own policy: `none`
+// Core's segmented control, with v-model, options, label, stacked and
+// disabled. It adds `keyboard`, because its groups keep their own policy: `none`
 // (Tab reaches every option and arrows do nothing), `arrows` (a roving tab
-// stop that arrows move, as in ui-vue) or `radio` (arrows plus Home and
+// stop that arrows move) or `radio` (arrows plus Home and
 // End). Each option may carry `attrs` (an id, data attributes, a tip), and
 // Core's classes sit beside the kit's: `gev-segmented`, `gev-segment` and the
 // selected option's `activeClass`. Not mirrored yet: an option's icon.
diff --git a/src/ui/kit/UiSelect.js b/src/ui/kit/UiSelect.js
index 7042003d1..b9e077573 100644
--- a/src/ui/kit/UiSelect.js
+++ b/src/ui/kit/UiSelect.js
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ function takeModel(select, props) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Core's select, with @halfpixel/ui-vue UiSelect's v-model, options and
- * disabled so the two kits can merge. Core renders the bare select: its
+ * Core's select, with v-model, options and disabled. Core renders the bare select: its
  * labels sit outside it or come as an `aria-label` attribute, so the attribute
  * pass translates them. Options come from `options` ({ value, label }) or,
  * where they carry their own attributes, the default slot. A change emits the
diff --git a/src/ui/kit/UiSlider.js b/src/ui/kit/UiSlider.js
index e2865d16a..8947a491f 100644
--- a/src/ui/kit/UiSlider.js
+++ b/src/ui/kit/UiSlider.js
@@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ function takeModel(input, props) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Core's slider, with @halfpixel/ui-vue UiSlider's v-model, min, max, step
- * and disabled so the two kits can merge. Core keeps the native range input
- * (its keyboard, form and styling) where ui-vue draws a `role="slider"`
- * track. The input carries Core's `gev-quantitative-slider` class ahead of
+ * Core's slider, with v-model, min, max, step and disabled. Core keeps the
+ * native range input (its keyboard, form and styling) rather than drawing a
+ * `role="slider"` track. The input carries Core's `gev-quantitative-slider` class ahead of
  * the caller's (`unstyled` leaves it off, for a range drawn as the browser's
  * own), the caller's attributes come first, as in the markup this replaced,
  * and the accessible name comes as an `aria-label` attribute so the attribute
diff --git a/src/ui/styles/kit.css b/src/ui/styles/kit.css
index fc111bc00..d385402d8 100644
--- a/src/ui/styles/kit.css
+++ b/src/ui/styles/kit.css
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-/* Generic components in src/ui/kit. Names follow Halfpixel's ui-vue kit; the
-   surfaces use this application's glass, accent and type tokens. */
+/* Generic components in src/ui/kit. The surfaces use this application's
+   glass, accent and type tokens. */
 
-/* The thin themed scrollbar every scrolling surface wears, as ui-vue's
-   .ui-scroll. Without it a surface draws the platform's light scrollbar,
+/* The thin themed scrollbar every scrolling surface wears (.ui-scroll). Without it a surface draws the platform's light scrollbar,
    because the page declares no dark color-scheme. */
 /* Cesium builds its credit list and the rail card builder its lines, so
    those two surfaces are named here instead of carrying the class. */