diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/fuzz.yml b/.gitea/workflows/fuzz.yml
index 5042b81..ef4334b 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/fuzz.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/fuzz.yml
@@ -1,20 +1,16 @@
-# Fuzz smoke, Go. A nightly time-boxed run of the fuzz targets, and a hand
-# dispatch when a change asks for it.
+# Fuzz smoke, Go. Dispatched by hand when a change asks for it.
 #
 # Fuzzing is exploration, so it never belongs to the push pipeline; a 30 second
-# smoke per target, run nightly, is the compromise that catches a new crash
-# within a day without holding the shared box. The targets run the seeds and
-# whatever the corpus has gathered; a failure leaves its crashing input in
-# testdata/fuzz, which the ordinary suite then reproduces on every push.
+# smoke per target on a hand dispatch checks a change without holding the
+# shared box. The targets run the seeds and whatever the corpus has gathered; a
+# failure leaves its crashing input in testdata/fuzz, which the ordinary suite
+# then reproduces on every push.
 #
 # Every step is one command, so the step that fails is the gate that failed.
 name: Fuzz
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
-  schedule:
-    # Nightly at 03:30 UTC, after the race sweep has had the box first.
-    - cron: "30 3 * * *"
 
 env:
   # One core: parallelism buys no speed here and costs memory the box does not have.
diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/race.yml b/.gitea/workflows/race.yml
index c9c6829..9635f71 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/race.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/race.yml
@@ -1,20 +1,16 @@
-# Race, Go. Dispatched by hand and swept nightly on a schedule.
+# Race, Go. Dispatched by hand.
 #
 # The race detector roughly doubles both time and memory, which the shared runner box
 # cannot afford on every push. Locally it belongs to `just gates`, which runs it once
-# per task; here it is an explicit decision rather than a routine. The nightly
-# schedule runs on the repository's default branch, so it sweeps the released
-# line; development carries its race gate on every push through `just gates`
-# and the hand dispatch when a change asks for one.
+# per task; here it is an explicit decision rather than a routine, a hand dispatch
+# when a change asks for one. Development carries its race gate on every push through
+# that local gate.
 #
 # Every step is one command, so the step that fails is the gate that failed.
 name: Race
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
-  schedule:
-    # Nightly at 03:00 UTC, the quietest hours of the shared box.
-    - cron: "0 3 * * *"
 
 env:
   # One core: parallelism buys no speed here and costs memory the box does not have.
diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/test.yml b/.gitea/workflows/test.yml
index b52a703..a407cc9 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/test.yml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 #
 # The gates are the ones the justfile's `gates` recipe runs, minus race: the shared
 # runner box cannot afford the race detector on every push. Race has its own
-# pipeline, dispatched by hand and swept nightly, and the local `just gates`
-# runs it once per task. The box is one core and 2 GB beside Gitea, so
+# pipeline, dispatched by hand, and the local `just gates` runs it once per
+# task. The box is one core and 2 GB beside Gitea, so
 # parallelism is bounded on purpose and everything runs in one job. Extra jobs would
 # duplicate the checkout, the Go setup and the dependency download three times without
 # buying any parallelism.
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ed01415..da7f355 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ Workflows live in `.gitea/workflows/` and run on the project's own runners:
 | Workflow | Trigger | What it does |
 |---|---|---|
 | Test | push or pull request to `development` | format check, vet, modernisation, build, the test suite with the coverage floor, the toml-test compliance suite |
-| Race | `workflow_dispatch`, plus a nightly schedule | the suite under the race detector, the same race gate the local `just gates` runs |
-| Fuzz | `workflow_dispatch`, plus a nightly schedule | a 30 second fuzz smoke per target over the seeds and the gathered corpus |
+| Race | `workflow_dispatch`, by hand | the suite under the race detector, the same race gate the local `just gates` runs |
+| Fuzz | `workflow_dispatch`, by hand | a 30 second fuzz smoke per target over the seeds and the gathered corpus |
 | Release | a `v*` tag | tag validation, format, vet, modernisation, build and the test suite with the coverage floor, then the Gitea release created from the `CHANGELOG.md` section; no race detector |
 
 The local equivalent is `just gates`, which is the same set plus the race
diff --git a/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md b/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
index a8d0132..1a90036 100644
--- a/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
+++ b/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ prints the same list.
 | `just install` | builds, then copies the binary into `~/.local/bin` (`BINDIR` overrides) |
 | `just uninstall` | removes the installed binary |
 | `just clean` | removes `bin/` and `coverage.out` |
-| `just cross` | cross-compile smoke of the library and the command for arm64, loong64, riscv64 and the browser and edge runtimes; nightly convenience, not a gate |
+| `just cross` | cross-compile smoke of the library and the command for arm64, loong64, riscv64 and the browser and edge runtimes; a hand-run convenience, not a gate |
 | `just release-check X.Y.Z` | the release pre-flight: the branch, a clean tree, a sync with origin, the gates, and a CHANGELOG section ready to release |
 | `just docs-drift` | compares the toml-test counts the documentation quotes with a live suite run |
 
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ pipeline.
 | Workflow | Trigger | What it does |
 |---|---|---|
 | `test.yml` | push or pull request to `development` | format check, vet, modernisation, build, the test suite with the 80 percent coverage floor, then the toml-test compliance suite |
-| `race.yml` | `workflow_dispatch`, plus a nightly schedule at 03:00 UTC | the suite under the race detector, the same race gate `just gates` runs locally; the nightly schedule runs on the default branch, the released line |
-| `fuzz.yml` | `workflow_dispatch`, plus a nightly schedule at 03:30 UTC | a 30 second fuzz smoke per target over the seeds and the gathered corpus |
+| `race.yml` | `workflow_dispatch`, by hand | the suite under the race detector; the same race gate `just gates` runs locally |
+| `fuzz.yml` | `workflow_dispatch`, by hand | a 30 second fuzz smoke per target over the seeds and the gathered corpus |
 | `release.yml` | a `v*` tag | tag validation, then format, vet, modernisation, build and the test suite with the coverage floor, then the Gitea release from the CHANGELOG section. No race detector: race never runs on a push path, and the local `just gates` raced the tree before the tag was cut |
 
 ## Releases
diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index bbd8b9b..b06583f 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ toml-test: build
 coverage-html: test
     go tool cover -html=coverage.out -o coverage.html
 
-# Cross-compile smoke: the library and the command build for the foreign architectures and the browser and edge runtimes; not a gate, it is a nightly convenience and runs std-lib only.
+# Cross-compile smoke: the library and the command build for the foreign architectures and the browser and edge runtimes; not a gate, it is a hand-run convenience and runs std-lib only.
 cross:
     GOARCH=arm64 go build ./...
     GOARCH=loong64 go build ./...