diff --git a/web-ui/src/components/cases/agent-status-widget.tsx b/web-ui/src/components/cases/agent-status-widget.tsx
index 6bb13ce..499addd 100644
--- a/web-ui/src/components/cases/agent-status-widget.tsx
+++ b/web-ui/src/components/cases/agent-status-widget.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 "use client";
 
 import { useAgentActivity } from "@/lib/api/agents";
-import type { PaperclipAgent } from "@/lib/api/agents";
+import type { PaperclipAgentStatus } from "@/lib/api/agents";
 import { Bot } from "lucide-react";
 
 /* ── Status dot colors ───────────────────────────────────────── */
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ function statusDot(status: string) {
 
 /* ── Agent row ───────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 
-function AgentRow({ agent }: { agent: PaperclipAgent }) {
+function AgentRow({ agent }: { agent: PaperclipAgentStatus }) {
   return (
     <div className="flex items-center gap-2 py-1">
       <span
diff --git a/web-ui/src/lib/api/agents.ts b/web-ui/src/lib/api/agents.ts
index 65db828..f749ffb 100644
--- a/web-ui/src/lib/api/agents.ts
+++ b/web-ui/src/lib/api/agents.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 /**
- * Paperclip agent activity hooks — mirror agent work into Legal-AI UI.
+ * Paperclip agent ACTIVITY hooks — mirror live agent work into the Legal-AI UI.
+ *
+ * Frontend platform-presentation module (G12 / docs/spec/X15): the web-ui is a
+ * presentation layer, and showing the agent platform's live activity is a
+ * legitimate, declared use of platform data. Distinct from
+ * `paperclip-agents.ts`, which is the settings/management view of an agent's
+ * full config — hence the activity DTO here is `PaperclipAgentStatus`, not the
+ * config `PaperclipAgent` (the two are different projections; the name no
+ * longer collides).
  */
 
 import { useMutation, useQuery, useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
@@ -32,7 +40,7 @@ export type PaperclipComment = {
   agent_icon: string | null;
 };
 
-export type PaperclipAgent = {
+export type PaperclipAgentStatus = {
   id: string;
   name: string;
   role: string;
@@ -105,7 +113,7 @@ export type Interaction = {
 export type AgentActivityResponse = {
   issues: PaperclipIssue[];
   comments: PaperclipComment[];
-  agents: PaperclipAgent[];
+  agents: PaperclipAgentStatus[];
   interactions: Interaction[];
 };