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@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+"@objectstack/cli": patch
+---
+
+The startup banner's `Flows:` section prints flows left unbound by the deployment's scheduled-work switch as information, not as a warning.
+
+Clause-②: no
+
+- **Information, not a warning.** Flows that declare a time trigger but are not bound because package-authored scheduled work is off on this deployment (`OS_AUTOMATION_SCHEDULED_WORK_ENABLED` unset — the default) now print dim, under `ℹ`: `ℹ 8 flows declare a 'schedule' trigger but are NOT bound — disabled by deployment policy — … (OS_AUTOMATION_SCHEDULED_WORK_ENABLED is unset or not truthy), so no time trigger arms …: flow_a, flow_b, …`. The line's text, its flow list and its place among the other lines are unchanged. Before, it printed as a yellow `⚠`, though nothing about those flows needs fixing.
+- **Every other reason keeps `⚠`.** A binding failure, a missing trigger, an unknown target object and a shadowed flow name still print as yellow warnings. The class is recognised only by the exact sentence the automation engine records for the deployment switch, so a reason that merely mentions the policy stays a warning. A host that turns scheduled work off with its own reason sentence also keeps `⚠`.
+- ⛔ Nothing you author changes. Which flows bind, the scheduled-work switch, the level `@objectstack/service-automation` logs at, *Boot diagnostics* and every public key, export and parameter are unchanged.
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
 
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import chalk from 'chalk';
 import { LiteKernel, ObjectLogger, type Plugin, type PluginContext } from '@objectstack/core';
 import { runActionGovernanceInventory } from '@objectstack/objectql';
 import { AutomationServicePlugin } from '@objectstack/service-automation';
@@ -93,17 +94,22 @@ const BASE: ServerReadyOptions = {
 };
 
 let transcript: string[];
+/** The same lines with their SGR kept — for the pins that read a line's color. */
+let rawTranscript: string[];
 let errSpy: ReturnType<typeof vi.spyOn>;
 
 /** Strip SGR so assertions hold whether or not chalk colors this run. */
 const plain = (s: string) => s.replace(/\u001b\[[0-9;]*m/g, '');
 
 const linesWith = (needle: string) => transcript.filter((line) => line.includes(needle));
+const rawLinesWith = (needle: string) => rawTranscript.filter((line) => plain(line).includes(needle));
 
 beforeEach(() => {
   transcript = [];
+  rawTranscript = [];
   errSpy = vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation((...args: unknown[]) => {
     for (const line of plain(args.join(' ')).split('\n')) transcript.push(line);
+    rawTranscript.push(...args.join(' ').split('\n'));
   });
 });
 
@@ -206,6 +212,10 @@ describe('a real automation boot with eight scheduled flows and scheduled work o
     // The class's short text is the reason's first sentence — cause and switch.
     expect(scheduleLines[0]).toContain('disabled by deployment policy');
     expect(scheduleLines[0]).toContain(SCHEDULED_WORK_ENV);
+    // [#22255] Information, not a warning — and asserted against the REAL
+    // producer's recorded reason, so the printer's identity with it is pinned
+    // here: a reworded producer turns this line back into a `⚠`.
+    expect(scheduleLines[0]).toMatch(/^ {2}ℹ 8 flows declare /);
   });
 
   it('prints no warning twice — every flow named on exactly one line', async () => {
@@ -280,7 +290,7 @@ describe('one line per warning class (formatter)', () => {
 
     const firstSentence = SCHEDULED_WORK_DISABLED_REASON.slice(0, SCHEDULED_WORK_DISABLED_REASON.indexOf('. This'));
     expect(linesWith('NOT bound')).toEqual([
-      `  ⚠ 1 flow declares a 'schedule' trigger but is NOT bound — ${firstSentence}: a_flow`,
+      `  ℹ 1 flow declares a 'schedule' trigger but is NOT bound — ${firstSentence}: a_flow`,
     ]);
     expect(linesWith(LONG_EXPLANATION)).toEqual([]);
     expect(linesWith('--log-level debug')).toHaveLength(1);
@@ -298,6 +308,111 @@ describe('one line per warning class (formatter)', () => {
   });
 });
 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// #22255 — the deployment-policy class is information
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Flows left unbound because the deployment switched scheduled work off — its
+ * documented default — are an expected degradation, so their class line
+ * prints dim under `ℹ` (the maintainer's direction on #22160, 「预期中的降级记
+ * info」). Every other unbound reason is the author's to fix and keeps its
+ * yellow `⚠`. Only the glyph and color move: the text, the order and the
+ * records the banner hands back to Boot diagnostics are #22073's, unchanged.
+ */
+describe('the deployment-policy class prints as information (#22255, formatter)', () => {
+  const missingTrigger =
+    "no 'schedule' trigger is registered — add requires: ['triggers'] (record_change/schedule/time_relative/api ship in @objectstack/trigger-*)";
+  const bindingFailed = "trigger 'schedule' is registered but binding failed — see earlier warnings";
+  const firstSentence = SCHEDULED_WORK_DISABLED_REASON.slice(0, SCHEDULED_WORK_DISABLED_REASON.indexOf('. This'));
+  /** chalk's opening SGR for `dim` and for `yellow`. */
+  const DIM = '\u001b[2m';
+  const YELLOW = '\u001b[33m';
+
+  /** Print with color on whatever this run's stderr is: the color split is half the pin. */
+  function printColored(opts: ServerReadyOptions): void {
+    const prior = chalk.level;
+    chalk.level = 1;
+    try {
+      printServerReady(opts);
+    } finally {
+      chalk.level = prior;
+    }
+  }
+
+  it('prints the policy class dim under ℹ with its flows and first sentence; a missing trigger and a binding failure keep a yellow ⚠', () => {
+    printColored({
+      ...BASE,
+      automation: summary({
+        unbound: [
+          ...policyRefused(['a_flow', 'b_flow']),
+          { flowName: 'c_flow', triggerType: 'schedule', reason: missingTrigger },
+          { flowName: 'd_flow', triggerType: 'schedule', reason: bindingFailed },
+        ],
+      }),
+    });
+
+    expect(linesWith('NOT bound')).toEqual([
+      `  ℹ 2 flows declare a 'schedule' trigger but are NOT bound — ${firstSentence}: a_flow, b_flow`,
+      `  ⚠ 1 flow declares a 'schedule' trigger but is NOT bound — ${missingTrigger}: c_flow`,
+      `  ⚠ 1 flow declares a 'schedule' trigger but is NOT bound — ${bindingFailed}: d_flow`,
+    ]);
+    const [policy, missing, failed] = rawLinesWith('NOT bound');
+    expect(policy.startsWith(DIM), JSON.stringify(policy)).toBe(true);
+    expect(policy).not.toContain(YELLOW);
+    expect(missing.startsWith(YELLOW), JSON.stringify(missing)).toBe(true);
+    expect(failed.startsWith(YELLOW), JSON.stringify(failed)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('⛔ judges the class by identity with the producer, never by its words — a reason that only quotes the policy keeps ⚠', () => {
+    const quoting = [
+      // A binding failure whose text carries the policy's first sentence.
+      `trigger 'schedule' is registered but binding failed — ${firstSentence}`,
+      // The whole policy sentence inside a longer record — the shape the
+      // schedule trigger's own refusal log takes.
+      `[ScheduleTrigger] flow 'q1_flow' is not armed: ${SCHEDULED_WORK_DISABLED_REASON}`,
+      // The first sentence alone, as a reworded producer could leave it.
+      firstSentence,
+    ];
+    printColored({
+      ...BASE,
+      automation: summary({
+        unbound: quoting.map((reason, i) => ({ flowName: `q${i}_flow`, triggerType: 'schedule', reason })),
+      }),
+    });
+
+    const lines = linesWith('NOT bound');
+    expect(lines, transcript.join('\n')).toHaveLength(quoting.length);
+    for (const line of lines) expect(line).toMatch(/^ {2}⚠ /);
+    for (const line of rawLinesWith('NOT bound')) expect(line.startsWith(YELLOW), JSON.stringify(line)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('hands back the same restated records under either glyph — each flow is named once, and Boot diagnostics prints nothing', () => {
+    printServerReady({
+      ...BASE,
+      automation: summary({
+        unbound: [
+          ...policyRefused(['a_flow']),
+          { flowName: 'b_flow', triggerType: 'schedule', reason: missingTrigger },
+          { flowName: 'c_flow', triggerType: 'schedule', reason: bindingFailed },
+        ],
+      }),
+      bootDiagnostics: {
+        lines: [
+          auditRecord('a_flow'),
+          auditRecord('b_flow', 'schedule', missingTrigger),
+          auditRecord('c_flow', 'schedule', bindingFailed),
+        ],
+      },
+    });
+
+    for (const name of ['a_flow', 'b_flow', 'c_flow']) {
+      expect(linesWith(name), transcript.join('\n')).toHaveLength(1);
+    }
+    expect(linesWith('Boot diagnostics')).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('print-once: Boot diagnostics withholds what the banner restated (formatter)', () => {
   // A boot warning no banner section restates. Shaped as the runtime-assets
   // plugin's branding warning (`describeUnservedBrandingAssets` in
 
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ import type { TenancyPosture } from '@objectstack/spec/security';
 import type { SeedSettlementSnapshot } from '@objectstack/spec/contracts';
 import type { DevLogin } from '@objectstack/spec/system';
 import { explainRule } from '@objectstack/lint/rule-explanations';
+// #22255 — the deployment's scheduled-work sentence, read as an IDENTITY: the
+// Flows section tells the policy class apart by equality with it, never by its
+// words. See `isDeploymentPolicyClass`.
+import { SCHEDULED_WORK_DISABLED_REASON } from '@objectstack/types';
 import { writeStdoutDirect } from './json-stdout.js';
 import { authoringRuleUnionStack } from './stack-collections.js';
 import { stripAnsi } from './boot-log-capture.js';
@@ -1587,6 +1591,38 @@ function unboundFlowClasses(
   return [...classes.values()];
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether one unbound-flow class is the deployment's scheduled-work switch
+ * (#22255) — flows refused because package-authored scheduled work is OFF,
+ * the documented default. That is an expected degradation, so its class line
+ * prints dim under `ℹ`, the way the maintainer's noise budget asks for one
+ * (「预期中的降级记 info」); every other class is the author's to fix and keeps
+ * its yellow `⚠`.
+ *
+ * Judged by IDENTITY with the producer's sentence, ⛔ never by its words. The
+ * engine records `scheduledWorkDisabledReason(policy)` of the reading that
+ * refused, and on every policy the environment resolves that is
+ * `SCHEDULED_WORK_DISABLED_REASON` byte for byte (`resolveScheduledWorkPolicy`
+ * never sets a `hostDisabledReason`). So equality is exact in both directions:
+ *
+ *  - a binding failure, a missing trigger, or any reason that merely QUOTES the
+ *    policy's words is not equal, and keeps `⚠`;
+ *  - a reworded producer is not equal either, and drifts back to `⚠` — the
+ *    loud direction. A substring or pattern match would drift the other way,
+ *    dimming a real failure that happened to share a phrase.
+ *
+ * A host-injected per-kernel policy carrying its OWN `hostDisabledReason` is
+ * not this class: its sentence is the host's, not the documented default, and
+ * the printer cannot know it — it keeps `⚠`, as before.
+ *
+ * Not `scheduledWorkDisabledReason(resolveScheduledWorkPolicy())`: on that
+ * reading it answers this same constant by construction, and the resolver
+ * throws on an unrecognised `OS_TENANCY_POSTURE` — a printer must not.
+ */
+function isDeploymentPolicyClass(reason: string): boolean {
+  return reason === SCHEDULED_WORK_DISABLED_REASON;
+}
+
 /**
  * One-glance answer to "did my flows actually arm?" — the question the
  * boot-quiet stdout window otherwise makes unanswerable (the engine's own
@@ -1640,17 +1676,21 @@ function printAutomationSummary(a: AutomationReadySummary): string[] {
   // eight package-authored scheduled flows on a deployment with scheduled work
   // off used to print the same paragraph eight times here and eight more in
   // Boot diagnostics; it now prints one line.
+  //
+  // [#22255] Only the glyph and color depend on the class: the deployment's
+  // scheduled-work switch is information (dim `ℹ`), every other reason a
+  // warning (yellow `⚠`). Text, order and the records handed back are the same
+  // for both.
   let shortened = false;
   for (const c of unboundFlowClasses(a.unbound)) {
     const n = c.flowNames.length;
     const short = leadSentence(c.reason);
     if (short !== c.reason.trim().replace(/\.$/, '')) shortened = true;
-    console.error(
-      chalk.yellow(
-        `  ⚠ ${n} flow${n === 1 ? ' declares' : 's declare'} a '${c.triggerType}' trigger but ` +
-        `${n === 1 ? 'is' : 'are'} NOT bound — ${short}: ${c.flowNames.join(', ')}`,
-      ),
-    );
+    const expected = isDeploymentPolicyClass(c.reason);
+    const line =
+      `  ${expected ? 'ℹ' : '⚠'} ${n} flow${n === 1 ? ' declares' : 's declare'} a '${c.triggerType}' trigger but ` +
+      `${n === 1 ? 'is' : 'are'} NOT bound — ${short}: ${c.flowNames.join(', ')}`;
+    console.error(expected ? chalk.dim(line) : chalk.yellow(line));
     for (const flowName of c.flowNames) {
       restated.push(`[Automation] flow '${flowName}' declares a '${c.triggerType}' trigger but is NOT bound`);
     }