diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/adversarial-review.yml b/.gitea/workflows/adversarial-review.yml
index 21354a4..09c7378 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/adversarial-review.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/adversarial-review.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 # caches :latest, and this build is what carries foreman provider-type support)
 # as a specialist swarm and posts
 # ONE consolidated review comment as gitea-actions. Advisory only — never blocks a
-# merge. Gadfly reviewing its OWN PRs — dogfooding, full fleet (9 cloud + the M1/M5
-# Macs), copied from mort's setup.
+# merge. Gadfly reviewing its OWN PRs — dogfooding, full cloud fleet (9 cloud +
+# the M5 Mac; M1 dropped as too slow), copied from mort's setup.
 
 name: Adversarial Review (Gadfly)
 
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ jobs:
               || github.actor == 'fizi'
               || github.actor == 'dazed'))
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # Full fleet (9 cloud + 2 local Macs, all running concurrently) reviewing
-    # every PR with the 3-lens suite — the slow local lanes dominate wall time.
+    # Fleet (9 cloud + 1 local Mac/M5, all running concurrently) reviewing
+    # every PR with the 3-lens suite — the slow local lane dominates wall time.
     timeout-minutes: 90
     steps:
       - uses: docker://gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/gadfly:sha-d7f364d
@@ -50,10 +50,12 @@ jobs:
           GITEA_API: ${{ github.server_url }}/api/v1/repos/${{ github.repository }}
           GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITEA_TOKEN }}
           OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY }}
-          # Local Macs, reached through their foreman queues (native Ollama on the
+          # Local Mac (M5), reached through its foreman queue (native Ollama on the
           # wire). Gadfly's GADFLY_ENDPOINT_* form with the "foreman" provider
-          # type: GADFLY_ENDPOINT_M1 registers provider "m1", _M5 registers "m5",
-          # each building a foreman-preset Ollama client at the given URL. Values
+          # type: GADFLY_ENDPOINT_M5 registers provider "m5", building a
+          # foreman-preset Ollama client at the given URL. (M1 is dropped from
+          # gadfly's swarm — too slow/low-signal — so its endpoint isn't mapped.)
+          # Values
           # (host + token) live in gitea secrets, each of the form:
           #   foreman|https://<foreman-host>|<token>
           # (converted from the komodo LLM_* DSNs foreman://<token>@<host>).
@@ -64,14 +66,14 @@ jobs:
           # NOTE: the Mac behind each foreman must still be awake/reachable; if a
           # box is offline, that model's comment shows an error and the others
           # still post. (Gitea secrets aren't auto-exposed — map each explicitly.)
-          GADFLY_ENDPOINT_M1: ${{ secrets.GADFLY_ENDPOINT_M1 }}
           GADFLY_ENDPOINT_M5: ${{ secrets.GADFLY_ENDPOINT_M5 }}
-          # Full fleet: 9 cloud (3 at a time) + M1 Pro + M5 Max — one consolidated
-          # comment each. Matches mort's setup so the model-quality scoreboard is
-          # comparable across both repos.
-          GADFLY_MODELS: "minimax-m3:cloud,glm-5.2:cloud,glm-5.1:cloud,kimi-k2.7-code:cloud,deepseek-v4-pro:cloud,nemotron-3-super:cloud,gpt-oss:120b-cloud,qwen3-coder:480b-cloud,gemma4:cloud,m1/qwen3:14b,m5/qwen3.6:35b-mlx"
-          # cloud runs 3 at once; each Mac one at a time; all three lanes parallel.
-          GADFLY_PROVIDER_CONCURRENCY: "ollama-cloud=3,m1=1,m5=1"
+          # Fleet: 9 cloud (3 at a time) + M5 Max — one consolidated comment each.
+          # Matches mort's cloud set so the model-quality scoreboard is comparable
+          # across both repos. NOTE: M1 Pro is intentionally dropped here (too slow
+          # / low-signal for gadfly's own PRs); mort still runs it.
+          GADFLY_MODELS: "minimax-m3:cloud,glm-5.2:cloud,glm-5.1:cloud,kimi-k2.7-code:cloud,deepseek-v4-pro:cloud,nemotron-3-super:cloud,gpt-oss:120b-cloud,qwen3-coder:480b-cloud,gemma4:cloud,m5/qwen3.6:35b-mlx"
+          # cloud runs 3 at once; the Mac one at a time; both lanes parallel.
+          GADFLY_PROVIDER_CONCURRENCY: "ollama-cloud=3,m5=1"
           # 3 cloud models x 3 lenses = 9 concurrent ollama-cloud queries (under the 10 budget).
           GADFLY_PROVIDER_LENS_CONCURRENCY: "ollama-cloud=3"
           # Default => the 3-lens suite (security, correctness, error-handling).