diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 277729d..56bf2c6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # blank
 
-Copier template for a part in any stack that has no template of its own, either as a `backend/` or `frontend/` part next to other parts or alone at the root of the project (`layout`). It brings nothing but the part contract, the code and the `Dockerfile` are yours.
-
-Ships `docker-compose.yml` with root-relative paths and one service under its own profile and `services`, `docker-compose.override.yml.example` (the `caddy` network alias, copied by `make env`), a `Makefile` with empty `fmt` and `check`, `build`, `pre-deploy` that rebuilds the image only when the part changed and an empty `post-deploy`, and `.env.example`. Applied on top of the `infra` template, `layout: parts` or `layout: single` respectively. The `caddy` template expects the backend to listen on 8080 and the frontend on 3000.
+Copier template for a part with no template of its own: compose, Makefile and `.env.example`, the code and the `Dockerfile` are yours. A `backend/` or `frontend/` part or the whole project (`layout`), on top of `infra`.
 
 ```sh
 copier copy --trust -a .copier/backend.yml -d project_name="My Thing" -d part=backend <this-repo> <dest>
diff --git a/template/{{ part_dir }}/Makefile.jinja b/template/{{ part_dir }}/Makefile.jinja
index ed79bea..f3b5fd1 100644
--- a/template/{{ part_dir }}/Makefile.jinja	
+++ b/template/{{ part_dir }}/Makefile.jinja	
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 COMPOSE := {% if layout == 'part' %}cd .. && {% endif %}docker compose
-IMAGE := {{ project_slug | replace('_', '-') }}/{{ part }}
-changed = ! git diff --quiet $(1) -- $(2) 2>/dev/null
-stamp = { git update-ref $(1) HEAD 2>/dev/null || true; }
 
-.PHONY: {% if layout == 'root' %}env recreate rebuild restart logs down deploy {% endif %}fmt check build pre-deploy post-deploy
+.PHONY: {% if layout == 'root' %}env recreate rebuild restart logs down {% endif %}fmt check build
 
 fmt:
 	@:
@@ -13,14 +10,6 @@ check:
 
 build:
 	$(COMPOSE) build {{ service }}
-
-pre-deploy:
-	@if $(call changed,refs/deploy/{{ part }},.) || ! docker image inspect $(IMAGE) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
-		$(MAKE) build && $(call stamp,refs/deploy/{{ part }}); \
-	fi
-
-post-deploy:
-	@:
 {% if layout == 'root' %}
 env:
 	@fresh=; test -f .env || { cp .env.example .env; fresh=1; }; \
@@ -47,8 +36,4 @@ logs:
 
 down:
 	$(COMPOSE) down
-
-deploy: pre-deploy
-	$(COMPOSE) up -d
-	$(MAKE) post-deploy
 {% endif %}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/template/{{ part_dir }}/{% if layout == 'root' %}README.md{% endif %}.jinja b/template/{{ part_dir }}/{% if layout == 'root' %}README.md{% endif %}.jinja
index 207217f..4f8bb41 100644
--- a/template/{{ part_dir }}/{% if layout == 'root' %}README.md{% endif %}.jinja	
+++ b/template/{{ part_dir }}/{% if layout == 'root' %}README.md{% endif %}.jinja	
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 # {{ project_name }}
 
-Runs in Docker, locally the same way as in production. `COMPOSE_PROFILES` in `.env` selects the services that run on this machine. `docker-compose.override.yml` holds what differs between machines: published ports and the aliases on the external `caddy` network.
-
 ```sh
-make env
-make recreate
+make env       # .env and docker-compose.override.yml from the examples
+make recreate  # the services in COMPOSE_PROFILES
 ```
-
-`make env` creates `.env` and `docker-compose.override.yml` from their examples. `make recreate` starts the selected profiles, `make rebuild` builds the image first, `make logs`, `make restart` and `make down` do what they say.
-
-To deploy, `git pull && make deploy`. It runs `make pre-deploy`, which rebuilds the image only when something in the repository changed, then `docker compose up -d`. A deploy system with its own `up` step calls `make pre-deploy` before it and `make post-deploy` after. What was built is remembered as `refs/deploy/*` in the clone.
-
-In the fleet, production is deployed from `infra/komodo` instead (git mode of Komodo, see `docs/architecture.md` there): Komodo clones this repo, and a layer plus `deploy.sh` in the stack's directory tag images by the hash of what they bake in and write `.env` from sops. The repo only has to stay a plain recipe: images built from `build:` in compose, `caddy/site.caddy`. `make deploy` and `refs/deploy/*` are for a checkout deployed by hand.