diff --git a/CursorLang.Agent/Interop/TrayIconNative.cs b/CursorLang.Agent/Interop/TrayIconNative.cs
index c623a6d..3fbd965 100644
--- a/CursorLang.Agent/Interop/TrayIconNative.cs
+++ b/CursorLang.Agent/Interop/TrayIconNative.cs
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ internal static class TrayIconNative
     internal const int ContextMenuNotification = 0x007B;
 
     private const int NIM_ADD = 0x00000000;
-    private const int NIM_MODIFY = 0x00000001;
     private const int NIM_DELETE = 0x00000002;
     private const int NIM_SETVERSION = 0x00000004;
 
@@ -72,13 +71,6 @@ internal static class TrayIconNative
         return true;
     }
 
-    /// <summary>Replaces the image and the tooltip of an icon already there.</summary>
-    internal static bool Modify(IntPtr window, int id, IntPtr icon, string tooltip)
-    {
-        NotifyIconData data = Describe(window, id, icon, tooltip);
-        return Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, ref data);
-    }
-
     /// <summary>Takes the icon away. A forgotten icon stays in the tray until hovered.</summary>
     internal static void Remove(IntPtr window, int id)
     {
diff --git a/CursorLang.Agent/Interop/WindowNative.cs b/CursorLang.Agent/Interop/WindowNative.cs
index a7ad755..fc3e067 100644
--- a/CursorLang.Agent/Interop/WindowNative.cs
+++ b/CursorLang.Agent/Interop/WindowNative.cs
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ internal static class WindowNative
     private const byte AC_SRC_ALPHA = 1;
     private const uint ULW_ALPHA = 0x00000002;
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// BLENDFUNCTION. <c>BlendFlags</c> is never assigned and must stay all the same:
+    /// Windows reads the structure by its layout, and dropping a byte from the middle
+    /// of it would shift everything after.
+    /// </summary>
     [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
     private struct BlendFunction
     {
diff --git a/CursorLang.Agent/Windows/NativeTrayIcon.cs b/CursorLang.Agent/Windows/NativeTrayIcon.cs
index c6da359..5bddf73 100644
--- a/CursorLang.Agent/Windows/NativeTrayIcon.cs
+++ b/CursorLang.Agent/Windows/NativeTrayIcon.cs
@@ -49,9 +49,6 @@ internal sealed class NativeTrayIcon : IDisposable
 
     internal event EventHandler? ExitRequested;
 
-    /// <summary>Whether the shell accepted the icon. Reported by the diagnostics.</summary>
-    internal bool IsInstalled => _isInstalled;
-
     internal bool Install()
     {
         if (_isInstalled)
diff --git a/CursorLang.Core.Tests/Services/LayoutNotificationCoordinatorTests.cs b/CursorLang.Core.Tests/Services/LayoutNotificationCoordinatorTests.cs
index 307a8b4..e0db2d3 100644
--- a/CursorLang.Core.Tests/Services/LayoutNotificationCoordinatorTests.cs
+++ b/CursorLang.Core.Tests/Services/LayoutNotificationCoordinatorTests.cs
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ namespace CursorLang.Core.Tests.Services;
 public sealed class LayoutNotificationCoordinatorTests
 {
     private static readonly KeyboardLayout Russian = KeyboardLayout.FromLocaleId(0x0419);
-    private static readonly KeyboardLayout English = KeyboardLayout.FromLocaleId(0x0409);
 
     [Fact]
     public void Starting_turns_on_the_layout_watch()
diff --git a/CursorLang.Core/Services/SettingsService.cs b/CursorLang.Core/Services/SettingsService.cs
index d051e4a..ff39ae0 100644
--- a/CursorLang.Core/Services/SettingsService.cs
+++ b/CursorLang.Core/Services/SettingsService.cs
@@ -71,9 +71,6 @@ public sealed class SettingsService : IDisposable
         _saveTimer.Tick += OnSaveTimerTick;
     }
 
-    /// <summary>The file being read. The agent's diagnostics report it.</summary>
-    public string FilePath => _filePath;
-
     /// <summary>
     /// Reads the settings from disk or returns the default values.
     /// </summary>
@@ -154,8 +151,8 @@ public sealed class SettingsService : IDisposable
     /// </summary>
     /// <remarks>
     /// The file is written beside its destination and moved onto it, which on one
-    /// volume is a single step. That way a reader never meets a half-written file —
-    /// and there is a reader, in another process, watching this very file.
+    /// volume is a single step. That way the agent, which is told to re-read the moment
+    /// this returns, never meets a half-written file.
     /// </remarks>
     public void Save()
     {
diff --git a/CursorLang.Core/Services/SettingsSignal.cs b/CursorLang.Core/Services/SettingsSignal.cs
index c1fda07..10ad81f 100644
--- a/CursorLang.Core/Services/SettingsSignal.cs
+++ b/CursorLang.Core/Services/SettingsSignal.cs
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ namespace CursorLang.Core.Services;
 /// <remarks>
 /// The message carries nothing but the fact. The temptation to send the changed values
 /// along has to be resisted: the file would stop being the only source of truth, and
-/// the two would part company the first time somebody edits it by hand. All this saves
-/// is the wait — the agent watches the file anyway and would notice on its own, just
-/// later and less predictably.
+/// the two would part company the first time somebody edits it by hand. Nothing else
+/// tells the agent — it does not watch the file — so a message that goes missing means
+/// settings it does not pick up until it is restarted.
 ///
 /// Order is what makes it safe. The settings window writes the file whole, moves it
 /// into place in one step and only then signals, so by the time the agent reads there