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@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ historical records) are documented in:
 | `brain.migrateToDiskAnn()` / `brain.migrateToHnsw()` | Gone — there is one canonical `'vector'` provider slot. A registered native vector provider selects its own operating mode; there is nothing to call. |
 | Distributed-clustering subsystem — `config.distributed`, the `DistributedRole` enum, the 13 `BRAINY_*` cluster env vars (`BRAINY_DISTRIBUTED`, `BRAINY_ROLE`, `BRAINY_HTTP_PORT`, `BRAINY_WS_PORT`, `BRAINY_DNS`, `BRAINY_SERVICE`, `BRAINY_NAMESPACE`, `BRAINY_CONSENSUS`, `BRAINY_COORDINATOR`, `BRAINY_NODES`, `BRAINY_REPLICAS`, `BRAINY_SHARDS`, `BRAINY_TRANSPORT`), the storage `setDistributedComponents` hook, and the `@soulcraft/brainy/config` preset/augmentation registry | Removed. Brainy 8.0 is a single-process library — there is no coordinator, peer discovery, or consensus to operate. Scale via: the optional native provider (`@soulcraft/cortex` — on-disk DiskANN to 10B+ vectors on one machine); per-tenant pools (one instance + storage dir per tenant); and horizontal read scaling (many reader processes against one shared store, single writer). The `mode: 'reader' \| 'writer'` multi-process roles are unchanged. |
 | CLI `fork` / `branch` / `checkout` / `migrate` | CLI `snapshot <path>` / `restore <path>` / `history` / `generation`. |
+| `BrainyZeroConfig` type | Removed. 8.0 zero-config is automatic and internal — `new Brainy()` auto-detects storage, derives HNSW quality from `config.vector.recall`, picks `persistMode` from the adapter, and sizes caches to the detected container-memory limit. There is no config-generation type to import. |
+| `brain.isFullyInitialized()` / `brain.awaitBackgroundInit()` | `await brain.ready`. The built-in filesystem/memory adapters finish initialization synchronously inside `init()`, so a single readiness promise is the whole story — these methods were no-ops once cloud adapters were removed. |
 
 If you used 7.x COW branches, **materialize every branch you care about while
 still on 7.x** (fork → export, or copy each branch's store) — 8.0 does not