@@ -78,12 +78,12 @@ describe('AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY — the ruled rows, resolved agains
     expect(sorted(AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY.count)).toEqual(sorted(FieldType.options));
   });
 
-  it('[#20808] `count_distinct`: every FieldType EXCEPT the JSON-stored ones', () => {
+  it('`count_distinct`: every FieldType EXCEPT the JSON-stored ones', () => {
     expect(sorted(AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY.count_distinct))
       .toEqual(sorted(FieldType.options.filter((t) => !JSON_STORED.includes(t))));
   });
 
-  it('[#20808] the JSON-stored bucket IS the field-value structured-JSON class plus the multi-option types', () => {
+  it('the JSON-stored bucket IS the field-value structured-JSON class plus the multi-option types', () => {
     // A type joining either class elsewhere is stored in a JSON column by every
     // SQL driver, and no two backends compare such values alike — so it reds
     // here until the count_distinct row records a decision.
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ describe('isAggregateCompatibleWithFieldType — the pairs the card is about', (
     }
   });
 
-  it('accepts `sum` / `avg` / `min` / `max` over booleans — #11152 (numbers on every backend), upheld by decision batch #80', () => {
+  it('accepts `sum` / `avg` / `min` / `max` over booleans — numbers on every backend, a ruling that outranks the refused-by-default rule', () => {
     for (const fn of ['sum', 'avg', 'min', 'max'] as const) {
       expect(isAggregateCompatibleWithFieldType(fn, 'boolean')).toBe(true);
       expect(isAggregateCompatibleWithFieldType(fn, 'toggle')).toBe(true);
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ describe('isAggregateCompatibleWithFieldType — the pairs the card is about', (
     }
   });
 
-  it('[#20808] accepts `count_distinct` over every scalar-stored type — `formula`, `percent`, `select`, `lookup`, `file` included — and refuses the JSON-stored ones', () => {
+  it('accepts `count_distinct` over every scalar-stored type — `formula`, `percent`, `select`, `lookup`, `file` included — and refuses the JSON-stored ones', () => {
     for (const t of FieldType.options) {
       expect(isAggregateCompatibleWithFieldType('count_distinct', t), t).toBe(!JSON_STORED.includes(t));
     }
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ const RETIRED_SPELLINGS = [
   '',
 ];
 
-describe('AnalyticsQuerySchema.timeDimensions[].dateRange — closed vocabulary (#16041)', () => {
+describe('AnalyticsQuerySchema.timeDimensions[].dateRange — closed vocabulary', () => {
   it('derives the string arm from date-range-presets.ts — no fourth copy of the list', () => {
     // The module header records the vocabulary once existed in three drifting
     // copies. The enum's options ARE the module's tuple, in its order.
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ const REFUSED_ARITIES: ReadonlyArray<readonly unknown[]> = [
   ['{7_days_ago}'],                          // one macro token is a bound, not a window
 ];
 
-describe('AnalyticsDateRangeSchema — the array arm is exactly two string bounds (#17598 ①)', () => {
+describe('AnalyticsDateRangeSchema — the array arm is exactly two string bounds', () => {
   it('accepts the two-bound windows the contract has always prescribed', () => {
     // The control. Without it a narrowing that refused EVERY array would pass
     // every refusal assertion below.
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ describe('AnalyticsDateRangeSchema — the array arm is exactly two string bound
   });
 });
 
-describe('analyticsDateRangeRefusalMessage — each ORIGIN gets a true sentence (#17598 ②)', () => {
+describe('analyticsDateRangeRefusalMessage — each ORIGIN gets a true sentence', () => {
   it('states the schema origin only when the schema is where it was refused', () => {
     for (const input of [...REFUSED_ARITIES, 'Last 7 days', 42, null]) {
       const atSchema = analyticsDateRangeRefusalMessage(input, 'schema');
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ describe('analyticsDateRangeRefusalMessage — each ORIGIN gets a true sentence
     expect(analyticsDateRangeRefusalMessage({ start: '2026-01-01' }, 'schema')).toContain('received object');
   });
 
-  it('⭐ names the EMPTY bound the arm cannot refuse, at the bound that is empty (#18278)', () => {
+  it('⭐ names the EMPTY bound the arm cannot refuse, at the bound that is empty', () => {
     // The premise, asserted rather than assumed: the tuple arm judges arity and
     // bound TYPE, never a bound's VALUE, so this window is ACCEPTED at the
     // schema door and refused PAST it — the residue
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ const ACCEPTED: ReadonlyArray<[string, Record<string, unknown>]> = [
 ];
 
 for (const [name, schema, base] of DOORS) {
-  describe(`[#21365] ${name} — the window is a non-negative integer`, () => {
+  describe(`${name} — the window is a non-negative integer`, () => {
     for (const [label, window, key, code] of REFUSED) {
       it(`refuses ${label} at \`${key}\``, () => {
         const r = schema.safeParse({ ...base, ...window });
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ for (const [name, schema, base] of DOORS) {
   });
 }
 
-describe('[#21365] the dataset selection holds the query\'s own declarations, not a copy', () => {
+describe('the dataset selection holds the query\'s own declarations, not a copy', () => {
   it('`limit` and `offset` on DatasetSelectionSchema are the AnalyticsQuerySchema instances', () => {
     expect(DatasetSelectionSchema.shape.limit).toBe(AnalyticsQuerySchema.shape.limit);
     expect(DatasetSelectionSchema.shape.offset).toBe(AnalyticsQuerySchema.shape.offset);
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ const QUERY = { cube: 'batchd_probe', measures: ['count'] } as const;
 // ===========================================================================
 // 1. The doors — a parse must exist, or none of the rest means anything
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#4001 batch D — the doors the cube family is reachable through', () => {
+describe('batch D, unknown keys refused — the doors the cube family is reachable through', () => {
   it('`defineCube()` is a real parse door — it throws on a malformed config', () => {
     expect(() => defineCube({ ...CUBE, notACubeKey: 1 } as never)).toThrow(/notACubeKey/);
   });
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ describe('#4001 batch D — the doors the cube family is reachable through', ()
     expect(reject(ObjectStackDefinitionSchema, stack)).toContain('publik');
   });
 
-  it('[#10194] `analytics_cube` now resolves the SAME schema at the saveMetaItem door', () => {
+  it('`analytics_cube` now resolves the SAME schema at the saveMetaItem door', () => {
     // This pin used to assert the opposite — `getMetadataTypeSchema` answering
     // `undefined` — and its comment demanded that the ADR-0010 envelope
     // question be re-asked before the line was "fixed". It was: commit 2306a765c bound
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ describe('#4001 batch D — the doors the cube family is reachable through', ()
 // ===========================================================================
 // 2. Every closed site, at its own path, through its real carrier
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#4001 batch D — closed sites reject unknown keys where they live', () => {
+describe('batch D — closed sites reject unknown keys where they live', () => {
   it('`Cube` — the top-level cube shape', () => {
     expect(reject(CubeSchema, { ...CUBE, publik: true })).toContain('publik');
   });
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ describe('#4001 batch D — closed sites reject unknown keys where they live', (
 // ===========================================================================
 // 3. The curation — each alias anchored to the declaration that makes it true
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#4001 batch D — alias claims are true of the surfaces they point at', () => {
+describe('batch D, unknown keys refused — alias claims are true of the surfaces they point at', () => {
   it('`title` → `label` on Metric/Dimension, and `label` → `title` on Cube: each spelling is CORRECT on the other surface', () => {
     // The claims are structural: CubeSchema declares `title`, Metric/Dimension
     // declare `label`. If either declaration changes, this pins the alias table
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ describe('#4001 batch D — alias claims are true of the surfaces they point at'
     expect(reject(AnalyticsQuerySchema, { ...QUERY, orderBy: { stage: 'asc' } })).toContain('order');
   });
 
-  it('`filters` gets the wrong-layer prescription (`where`), matching the dispatcher\'s #3878 bespoke hint', () => {
+  it('`filters` gets the wrong-layer prescription (`where`), matching the dispatcher\'s bespoke hint at the /analytics entry', () => {
     const issues = reject(AnalyticsQuerySchema, { ...QUERY, filters: { is_active: true } });
     expect(issues).toContain('where');
   });
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ describe('#4001 batch D — alias claims are true of the surfaces they point at'
 // ===========================================================================
 // 4. The REST wrapper still composes — strictness rides `.extend()` correctly
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#4001 batch D — the strict base does not break the request wrapper', () => {
+describe('batch D — the strict base does not break the request wrapper', () => {
   it('a valid request body still parses through `AnalyticsQueryRequestSchema`', () => {
     accept(AnalyticsQueryRequestSchema, {
       ...QUERY,
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ describe('#4001 batch D — the strict base does not break the request wrapper',
     });
   });
 
-  it('the #3878 tombstones still fire — `query` and `format` carry their migration text', () => {
+  it('the retired-envelope tombstones still fire — `query` and `format` carry their migration text', () => {
     expect(reject(AnalyticsQueryRequestSchema, { ...QUERY, query: { measures: ['count'] } })).toContain('was removed from AnalyticsQueryRequest');
     expect(reject(AnalyticsQueryRequestSchema, { ...QUERY, format: 'csv' })).toContain('was removed from AnalyticsQueryRequest');
   });
@@ -303,8 +303,8 @@ describe('#4001 batch D — the strict base does not break the request wrapper',
 // ===========================================================================
 // 5. The shapes this batch deliberately did NOT close, with the reason
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#4001 batch D — deliberate non-closures (re-verdicts, not omissions)', () => {
-  it('`LocationValueSchema` / `AddressSchema` are CLOSED since #13802 — the batch-D `open` verdict was overruled', () => {
+describe('batch D, unknown keys refused — deliberate non-closures (re-verdicts, not omissions)', () => {
+  it('`LocationValueSchema` / `AddressSchema` are CLOSED now — the batch-D `open` verdict was overruled', () => {
     // Batch D pinned these two as tolerant ("a phone's geolocation payload
     // carries `heading`/`speed`; a geocoder's address carries `district`") and
     // said the day the line went red, the decision would have been made
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ describe('TimeUpdateInterval', () => {
     expect(TimeUpdateInterval.options).toEqual(DateGranularity.options);
   });
 
-  it('refuses each retired sub-day interval with the retirement prescription (#17296)', () => {
+  it('refuses each retired sub-day interval with the retirement prescription', () => {
     // COST DIRECTION. The cheap narrowing is the enum alone: delete three
     // members and let zod answer its stock "invalid option". That parses
     // identically and tells an upgrading author nothing, so what is pinned
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ describe('MetricSchema', () => {
   // `expect(metric.filters).toHaveLength(1)`). The pin flips: the refusal must
   // carry the prescription — the fully-qualified key, the removal, and the
   // migration channel — not merely throw.
-  it('rejects the removed `filters` key with the retirement prescription (#10414)', () => {
+  it('rejects the removed `filters` key with the retirement prescription', () => {
     expect(() => MetricSchema.parse({
       label: 'Average Order Value',
       type: 'avg',
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ describe('MetricSchema', () => {
   // refused, the key-equal one included, and the refusal carries the
   // prescription. The full door-by-door pin lives in
   // `cube-member-inner-name-retirement.test.ts`.
-  it('refuses the retired inner `name` with the prescription, whatever its value (#20300)', () => {
+  it('refuses the retired inner `name` with the prescription, whatever its value', () => {
     for (const name of ['total_revenue', 'TotalRevenue', '']) {
       expect(() => MetricSchema.parse({ name, label: 'Total Revenue', type: 'sum', sql: 'amount' }), name)
         .toThrow(/`measures\.<metric>\.name` was removed in @objectstack\/spec 17\.5\.0.*the record key is the metric's name.*os migrate meta --from 17/s);
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ describe('DimensionSchema', () => {
 
   // #20300 — the same flip as the metric's (see that block): the snake_case
   // check on the inner `name` pinned a value nothing read.
-  it('refuses the retired inner `name` with the prescription, whatever its value (#20300)', () => {
+  it('refuses the retired inner `name` with the prescription, whatever its value', () => {
     for (const name of ['product_category', 'ProductCategory']) {
       expect(() => DimensionSchema.parse({ name, label: 'Product Category', type: 'string', sql: 'category' }), name)
         .toThrow(/`dimensions\.<dimension>\.name` was removed in @objectstack\/spec 17\.5\.0.*the record key is the dimension's name.*os migrate meta --from 17/s);
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ describe('CubeJoinSchema', () => {
  * shape). The conversion is `retiredFromLoadPath`, so the AUTHORING funnel still
  * teaches the tombstone; the data-at-rest seams pin `includeRetired: true`.
  */
-describe('a persisted cube heals at the door (#18612, ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
+describe('a persisted cube heals at the door — the retired join `sql` / `relationship` are stripped (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
   /** What `CubeSchema.parse` itself emitted before this retirement. */
   const persisted = () => ({
     analyticsCubes: [{
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ describe('AnalyticsQuerySchema', () => {
     }
   });
 
-  it('should NOT default timezone -- absence means the engine resolves it (#4538)', () => {
+  it('should NOT default timezone -- absence means the engine resolves it', () => {
     const query = AnalyticsQuerySchema.parse({
       measures: ['orders.count'],
     });
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import {
 } from './api-derivation';
 import { ApiMethod, API_OPERATION_ORDER, LEGACY_API_METHODS } from './object.zod';
 
-describe('api-derivation (#3391)', () => {
+describe('api-derivation — one table resolves the effective operations from six primitives', () => {
   describe('three-state mode', () => {
     it('undefined apiMethods → unrestricted', () => {
       const eff = resolveEffectiveApiMethods({});
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ describe('api-derivation (#3391)', () => {
       expect(isApiOperationAllowed(eff, 'bulk')).toBe(true);
     });
 
-    it('empty array → deny-all (flipped semantics, #3391)', () => {
+    it('empty array → deny-all (flipped semantics)', () => {
       const eff = resolveEffectiveApiMethods({ apiMethods: [] });
       expect(eff.mode).toBe('deny-all');
       for (const p of API_PRIMITIVES) expect(isApiOperationAllowed(eff, p)).toBe(false);
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ describe('api-derivation (#3391)', () => {
       expect(isApiOperationAllowed(resolveEffectiveApiMethods({ apiMethods: ['get'], trackHistory: false }), 'history')).toBe(false);
     });
 
-    it('restore/purge never derive (trash flag retired, #2377)', () => {
+    it('restore/purge never derive (trash flag retired)', () => {
       const eff = resolveEffectiveApiMethods({ apiMethods: ['get', 'list', 'create', 'update', 'delete'] });
       expect(isApiOperationAllowed(eff, 'restore')).toBe(false);
       expect(isApiOperationAllowed(eff, 'purge')).toBe(false);
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ describe('api-derivation (#3391)', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('legacy values are ignored — strip semantics (#3543)', () => {
+  describe('legacy values are ignored — strip semantics', () => {
     it('a whitelist of ONLY legacy values resolves to deny-all', () => {
       const eff = resolveEffectiveApiMethods({ apiMethods: ['import'] });
       expect(eff.mode).toBe('deny-all');
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ describe('api-derivation (#3391)', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('present-but-unreadable policy fails CLOSED (#3545)', () => {
+  describe('present-but-unreadable policy fails CLOSED', () => {
     it('a non-array apiMethods resolves to deny-all, not unrestricted', () => {
       const eff = resolveEffectiveApiMethods({ apiMethods: 'get,list' as unknown as string[] });
       expect(eff.mode).toBe('deny-all');
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ describe('api-derivation (#3391)', () => {
     expect(overlap).toEqual([]);
   });
 
-  describe('vocabulary split (#3543)', () => {
+  describe('vocabulary split — authors write six primitives, the wire speaks operations', () => {
     it('the authored enum is exactly the six primitives', () => {
       expect(ApiMethod.options).toEqual([...API_PRIMITIVES]);
     });
 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ const SINGLE_RECORD_WRITE_ONLY: Record<string, string> = {
     "ADR-0092 D2's identity write guard admits). No console surface multi-selects " +
     'API keys — the grid renders no checkbox column because the object grants no ' +
     'delete affordance — and a promoted bulk revoke would fan out per row through ' +
-    'the action runner rather than hitting /batch (#7802).',
+    'the action runner rather than hitting /batch.',
   // #15873 — maintainer ruling 2026-09-07 (decision batch #64, option (a),
   // verbatim 「同意」): the data door admits `update` so an administrator can set
   // the four platform-owned columns (`require_mfa`, `parent_organization_id`,
@@ -218,12 +218,12 @@ const SINGLE_RECORD_WRITE_ONLY: Record<string, string> = {
   // both stand.
   sys_organization:
     'Administrators set the platform-owned columns through single-record PATCH ' +
-    'and the derived update-mode import door (#15873 ruled `update`; both are ' +
+    'and the derived update-mode import door (a ruling grants `update`; both are ' +
     'column-clamped per row by ADR-0092 D2). `bulk` — /batch and the *Many ' +
     'routes — is not granted: no console surface multi-selects organizations ' +
     '(the list view declares no bulk actions and the object grants no delete ' +
     'affordance), and a promoted bulk edit would fan out per row through the ' +
-    'action runner rather than hitting /batch (#7802).',
+    'action runner rather than hitting /batch.',
 };
 
 /** Every `*.object.ts` under `packages/`, skipping build output and deps. */
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ function collectWhitelists(): Whitelist[] {
 
 const WHITELISTS = collectWhitelists();
 
-describe('apiMethods conformance — single-record writes imply batch (#3026)', () => {
+describe('apiMethods conformance — single-record writes imply batch', () => {
   it('scans a plausible number of declarations (guards a silently empty sweep)', () => {
     // A scan that matches nothing passes every assertion below vacuously — the
     // exact failure mode this file exists to prevent. Pin a floor instead.