diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index d6a00bb3..83eeb84a 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ fact about it and most of the rules below follow from it.
 Split by *what a thing is*, not by what language it is written in.
 
 ```
-apps/       what runs        api, auth (TS) · nescope, neswire, nescapture (Rust)
+apps/       what runs        api, auth (TS) · nescope, neswire, nescapture, neshub (Rust)
 crates/     shared Rust      nesprotocol
 packages/   shared TS        core, auth
 docs/       long-form        alchemy.md
@@ -63,7 +63,15 @@ half matters.
 **Rust components are guest-side**: they run inside a virtual machine, not on
 the control plane. `nescope` composites, `nescapture` captures and encodes
 frames from inside the workload's own process, `neswire` handles audio, and
-`nesprotocol` is the wire format all three share. None of them talk to the API.
+`neshub` muxes all of it into one connection to the client. `nesprotocol` is
+the wire format they share. None of them talk to the API.
+
+**None of them depend on what they are running.** The box starts a payload that
+the open components are not allowed to understand, so no code here may branch on
+which one it is. `nescope` does mention Steam and Proton in comments — it
+implements public Wayland and Vulkan protocols that gamescope also implements,
+and those comments say which real case motivated a workaround. That is the
+allowed kind: a name in prose, never a dependency in code.
 
 ## Conventions
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index aec40ae6..dc2712e1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ control plane.
 | [`apps/nescope`](apps/nescope) | A headless Wayland compositor for one fullscreen client. A lighter answer to the same problem gamescope solves. |
 | [`apps/nescapture`](apps/nescapture) | A Vulkan implicit layer. It captures frames from inside the workload's own process and encodes them on the GPU that drew them — no copy out to the CPU and back. |
 | [`apps/neswire`](apps/neswire) | Audio capture and transport. |
-| [`crates/nesprotocol`](crates/nesprotocol) | The wire types all three share, so no two ends can drift apart silently. |
+| [`apps/neshub`](apps/neshub) | One connection out of the box. Muxes video, audio, cursor and input into a single QUIC stream to the client. |
+| [`crates/nesprotocol`](crates/nesprotocol) | The wire types they all share, so no two ends can drift apart silently. |
 
 The hypervisor these run under is [`nesbox`](https://github.com/nestrilabs/nesbox),
 a separate repository: a micro-VM with a real GPU in it, using virtio-gpu native