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--help opened with "Run the X Live Runner demo", which repeats the command the reader just typed and says nothing about what happens next.

before after
echo Run the proxied echo Live Runner demo. Send video through an echo Live Runner and read it back.
hello-world Run the hello-world Live Runner demo. Call a hello-world Live Runner and print the reply.
tiles Run the tiles Live Runner demo (capacity showcase). Split an image, stylize each tile on a Live Runner, stitch it back.
api-proxy Run the api-proxy Live Runner demo. Send a prompt to an api-proxy Live Runner and save the image.

This also settles a split that had grown quietly: realtime-transcription and vllm already led with the verb ("Stream audio to a Whisper Live Runner over WebSocket", "Chat with a vLLM Live Runner using the stock OpenAI library"), while the other four used the formula. Now every description leads with what the command does and ends on "Live Runner".

Wording follows each app rather than a template: tiles/runner.py says it "stylizes" a tile, and api-proxy's client ends in out_path.write_bytes(image), so it saves rather than prints.

"proxied" drops out of echo's line. It is true and worth knowing, but it describes the architecture rather than the command, and the READMEs already cover it.

Strings only, no behaviour change. pre-commit is clean; black reflowed the api-proxy line since it no longer fits on one.

"Run the X Live Runner demo" repeats the command the reader just typed.
Lead with the verb and name the outcome, so --help answers what is about
to happen. Wording follows each app: tiles stylizes, api-proxy saves the
bytes it gets back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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