diff --git a/.changeset/19518-picklist-wording.md b/.changeset/19518-picklist-wording.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..00eab7a60d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/19518-picklist-wording.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/spec': patch
+---
+
+docs(spec): the `picklist` field key's description, two doc comments and the refusal of `picklist` with `options` no longer say that the reference is resolved and its options served (#19518)
+
+Clause-②: no
diff --git a/content/docs/references/data/field.mdx b/content/docs/references/data/field.mdx
index 9f3a3af0d9a..d104f41f55b 100644
--- a/content/docs/references/data/field.mdx
+++ b/content/docs/references/data/field.mdx
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ const result = CurrencyConfigSchema.parse(data);
 | **accept** | `string[]` | optional | Permitted upload types for media fields, as MIME types or extensions (e.g. ["image/*", ".pdf"]). Offered to the file picker AND enforced on write. |
 | **maxSize** | `integer` | optional | Maximum permitted file size in BYTES for media fields. Enforced on write against the stored file size, not just checked in the browser. |
 | **options** | `{ label: string; value: string; description?: string; color?: string; … }[]` | optional | Static options for select/multiselect |
-| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). The server resolves the reference: the field clients read carries the resolved `options`. |
+| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). |
 | **reference** | `string` | optional | Target object name (snake_case) for lookup/master_detail fields. Required for relationship types. Used by $expand to resolve foreign key IDs into full objects. On a `tree` field it is optional and, if given, must be the declaring object's own name — the object schema refuses any other target. |
 | **referenceVia** | `string` | optional | Declares this text field as the id half of a polymorphic pointer pair (ADR-0052 §5 ActivityPointer): the value is a record id of the object named by the SIBLING FIELD this key names — e.g. `record_id` with `referenceVia: 'object_name'`. The sibling must be a declared field on the same object holding an object machine name. Text fields only; mutually exclusive with `reference` (a static and a per-record target contradict). Enforced today at seed load: the value resolves as a natural key against the object the sibling column names, and an unresolvable pointer is refused loudly instead of stored verbatim. Adds no referential integrity or $expand behavior. |
 | **deleteBehavior** | `Enum<'set_null' \| 'cascade' \| 'restrict'>` | optional (default: `"set_null"`) | What happens if referenced record is deleted |
diff --git a/content/docs/references/data/object.mdx b/content/docs/references/data/object.mdx
index d9927849adc..44be57e6d4a 100644
--- a/content/docs/references/data/object.mdx
+++ b/content/docs/references/data/object.mdx
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ const result = ApiMethod.parse(data);
 | **accept** | `string[]` | optional | Permitted upload types for media fields, as MIME types or extensions (e.g. ["image/*", ".pdf"]). Offered to the file picker AND enforced on write. |
 | **maxSize** | `integer` | optional | Maximum permitted file size in BYTES for media fields. Enforced on write against the stored file size, not just checked in the browser. |
 | **options** | `{ label: string; value: string; description?: string; color?: string; … }[]` | optional | Static options for select/multiselect |
-| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). The server resolves the reference: the field clients read carries the resolved `options`. |
+| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). |
 | **reference** | `string` | optional | Target object name (snake_case) for lookup/master_detail fields. Required for relationship types. Used by $expand to resolve foreign key IDs into full objects. On a `tree` field it is optional and, if given, must be the declaring object's own name — the object schema refuses any other target. |
 | **referenceVia** | `string` | optional | Declares this text field as the id half of a polymorphic pointer pair (ADR-0052 §5 ActivityPointer): the value is a record id of the object named by the SIBLING FIELD this key names — e.g. `record_id` with `referenceVia: 'object_name'`. The sibling must be a declared field on the same object holding an object machine name. Text fields only; mutually exclusive with `reference` (a static and a per-record target contradict). Enforced today at seed load: the value resolves as a natural key against the object the sibling column names, and an unresolvable pointer is refused loudly instead of stored verbatim. Adds no referential integrity or $expand behavior. |
 | **deleteBehavior** | `Enum<'set_null' \| 'cascade' \| 'restrict'>` | optional (default: `"set_null"`) | What happens if referenced record is deleted |
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ const result = ApiMethod.parse(data);
 | **accept** | `string[]` | optional | Permitted upload types for media fields, as MIME types or extensions (e.g. ["image/*", ".pdf"]). Offered to the file picker AND enforced on write. |
 | **maxSize** | `integer` | optional | Maximum permitted file size in BYTES for media fields. Enforced on write against the stored file size, not just checked in the browser. |
 | **options** | `{ label: string; value: string; description?: string; color?: string; … }[]` | optional | Static options for select/multiselect |
-| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). The server resolves the reference: the field clients read carries the resolved `options`. |
+| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). |
 | **reference** | `string` | optional | Target object name (snake_case) for lookup/master_detail fields. Required for relationship types. Used by $expand to resolve foreign key IDs into full objects. On a `tree` field it is optional and, if given, must be the declaring object's own name — the object schema refuses any other target. |
 | **referenceVia** | `string` | optional | Declares this text field as the id half of a polymorphic pointer pair (ADR-0052 §5 ActivityPointer): the value is a record id of the object named by the SIBLING FIELD this key names — e.g. `record_id` with `referenceVia: 'object_name'`. The sibling must be a declared field on the same object holding an object machine name. Text fields only; mutually exclusive with `reference` (a static and a per-record target contradict). Enforced today at seed load: the value resolves as a natural key against the object the sibling column names, and an unresolvable pointer is refused loudly instead of stored verbatim. Adds no referential integrity or $expand behavior. |
 | **deleteBehavior** | `Enum<'set_null' \| 'cascade' \| 'restrict'>` | optional (default: `"set_null"`) | What happens if referenced record is deleted |
diff --git a/content/docs/references/system/migration.mdx b/content/docs/references/system/migration.mdx
index a7b7e3a90b1..bb2c7757a81 100644
--- a/content/docs/references/system/migration.mdx
+++ b/content/docs/references/system/migration.mdx
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Add a new field to an existing object
 | **accept** | `string[]` | optional | Permitted upload types for media fields, as MIME types or extensions (e.g. ["image/*", ".pdf"]). Offered to the file picker AND enforced on write. |
 | **maxSize** | `integer` | optional | Maximum permitted file size in BYTES for media fields. Enforced on write against the stored file size, not just checked in the browser. |
 | **options** | `{ label: string; value: string; description?: string; color?: string; … }[]` | optional | Static options for select/multiselect |
-| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). The server resolves the reference: the field clients read carries the resolved `options`. |
+| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). |
 | **reference** | `string` | optional | Target object name (snake_case) for lookup/master_detail fields. Required for relationship types. Used by $expand to resolve foreign key IDs into full objects. On a `tree` field it is optional and, if given, must be the declaring object's own name — the object schema refuses any other target. |
 | **referenceVia** | `string` | optional | Declares this text field as the id half of a polymorphic pointer pair (ADR-0052 §5 ActivityPointer): the value is a record id of the object named by the SIBLING FIELD this key names — e.g. `record_id` with `referenceVia: 'object_name'`. The sibling must be a declared field on the same object holding an object machine name. Text fields only; mutually exclusive with `reference` (a static and a per-record target contradict). Enforced today at seed load: the value resolves as a natural key against the object the sibling column names, and an unresolvable pointer is refused loudly instead of stored verbatim. Adds no referential integrity or $expand behavior. |
 | **deleteBehavior** | `Enum<'set_null' \| 'cascade' \| 'restrict'>` | optional (default: `"set_null"`) | What happens if referenced record is deleted |
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ Add a new field to an existing object
 | **accept** | `string[]` | optional | Permitted upload types for media fields, as MIME types or extensions (e.g. ["image/*", ".pdf"]). Offered to the file picker AND enforced on write. |
 | **maxSize** | `integer` | optional | Maximum permitted file size in BYTES for media fields. Enforced on write against the stored file size, not just checked in the browser. |
 | **options** | `{ label: string; value: string; description?: string; color?: string; … }[]` | optional | Static options for select/multiselect |
-| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). The server resolves the reference: the field clients read carries the resolved `options`. |
+| **picklist** | `string` | optional | Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). |
 | **reference** | `string` | optional | Target object name (snake_case) for lookup/master_detail fields. Required for relationship types. Used by $expand to resolve foreign key IDs into full objects. On a `tree` field it is optional and, if given, must be the declaring object's own name — the object schema refuses any other target. |
 | **referenceVia** | `string` | optional | Declares this text field as the id half of a polymorphic pointer pair (ADR-0052 §5 ActivityPointer): the value is a record id of the object named by the SIBLING FIELD this key names — e.g. `record_id` with `referenceVia: 'object_name'`. The sibling must be a declared field on the same object holding an object machine name. Text fields only; mutually exclusive with `reference` (a static and a per-record target contradict). Enforced today at seed load: the value resolves as a natural key against the object the sibling column names, and an unresolvable pointer is refused loudly instead of stored verbatim. Adds no referential integrity or $expand behavior. |
 | **deleteBehavior** | `Enum<'set_null' \| 'cascade' \| 'restrict'>` | optional (default: `"set_null"`) | What happens if referenced record is deleted |
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts b/packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts
index f2003089a31..ff1f6499e26 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts
@@ -1351,17 +1351,13 @@ export const FieldSchema = lazySchema(() => {
    * the option types (`select`, `radio`, `multiselect`, `checkboxes`,
    * `tags`), the types whose value is an option code.
    *
-   * The reference is resolved on the SERVER: the field a client reads from
-   * the object read exits carries the resolved `options` next to this key
-   * (`PicklistServedFieldSchema`), so renderers, the record validator
-   * and filter pickers read `options` exactly as they do for an inline list.
+   * `PicklistServedFieldSchema` declares the served form.
    * Option labels translate under `picklists.<name>.options.<value>`, which
    * every referencing field inherits.
    */
   picklist: SnakeCaseIdentifierSchema.optional().describe(
     'Name of a shared `picklist` whose options this field offers — instead of `options`, never with it. '
-    + 'Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags). The server resolves the '
-    + 'reference: the field clients read carries the resolved `options`.',
+    + 'Option types only (select, radio, multiselect, checkboxes, tags).',
   ),
 
   /**
@@ -2151,7 +2147,7 @@ export const FieldSchema = lazySchema(() => {
         path: ['options'],
         message:
           '`picklist` and `options` cannot both be declared — a field takes its options from exactly ' +
-          "one source. Keep `picklist: '<name>'` and delete `options`: the shared list supplies them " +
+          "one source. Keep `picklist: '<name>'` and delete `options`: the picklist holds them " +
           '(to offer a new value, add it to the picklist, or through `picklistExtensions` when another ' +
           'package owns it). Or delete `picklist` to keep an inline list of this field\'s own.',
       });
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/data/picklist.zod.ts b/packages/spec/src/data/picklist.zod.ts
index 8cd2e97508a..56447b6a03a 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/data/picklist.zod.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/data/picklist.zod.ts
@@ -144,10 +144,7 @@ export type PicklistExtensionParsed = z.infer<typeof PicklistExtensionSchema>;
  * A field authors `picklist: '<name>'` instead of `options`. What a client
  * receives for that field carries both: `options`, RESOLVED — the picklist's
  * options together with the options its `picklistExtensions` add — and
- * `picklist`, still naming the list they came from. Every consumer that reads
- * `field.options` today (renderers, the record validator, filter pickers,
- * import coercion) therefore reads the key it always has, and nothing a
- * client does changes for a picklist-bound field.
+ * `picklist`, still naming the list they came from.
  *
  * This is a SERVED shape, never an authoring one: `FieldSchema` refuses
  * `picklist` together with `options`, so a served field sent back through an