diff --git a/.changeset/20751-services-strings-stage4-state-the-decision.md b/.changeset/20751-services-strings-stage4-state-the-decision.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d5b7d11efb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/20751-services-strings-stage4-state-the-decision.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/service-automation': patch
+'@objectstack/plugin-audit': patch
+---
+
+Automation refusals, prescriptions, log lines and run-object field help, and the activity type help, no longer cite tracker numbers; each one states the decision behind it in words
+
+Clause-②: no
+
+Some strings these two packages show to flow authors, operators and administrators pointed at an issue-tracker number for the reason behind them. The number goes; where the sentence did not already say what was decided, it now does.
+
+- `@objectstack/service-automation`: the refusal for a `fieldValues` write map says a runtime alias for it was rejected by design, so the node keeps one strict `fields` key; the refusal for a screen field's `visibleIf` says a predicate under any other key is never read, so the field always shows, and a `required` field meant to stay hidden then blocks the screen from ever being submitted; the undeclared-config-key refusal says the built-in node types were reconciled so that every key their executors read is declared; the unknown-function error in a flow value expression says such a name is refused rather than evaluated to null, which would write the field as undefined; the inert-connector warning says entries without a `provider` are catalog descriptors, while an entry that names a `provider` is a connector instance that provider's installed executor materializes; the `sys_automation_run` field help says the paused node's type decides who may continue a run (an approval pause only through its owning service), that rows written before run history recorded its trigger were not backfilled, and that a finished run's bounded step log keeps its per-node detail across a restart; three bridge debug lines say what each bridge provides. The bulk-intent guidance, the degraded-connector dispatch error and retry lines, the user-less `runAs` warning and refusal, the unclaimed-branch warning, the script-function and node-config refusals and the `sys_flow_dispatch` description drop their citations.
+- `@objectstack/plugin-audit`: the `sys_activity` `type` help, whose English text all four shipped locale bundles carry, says the vocabulary is open by decision, not a gap awaiting enforcement.
+
+Text only: no status, error code, field, route or control flow moves. A client or log filter that matches the old text (for example a tracker-number suffix) needs the new spelling.
diff --git a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/objects/sys-activity.object.ts b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/objects/sys-activity.object.ts
index b0db4ce282e..92d0d2cc0fe 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/objects/sys-activity.object.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/objects/sys-activity.object.ts
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ export const SysActivity = ObjectSchema.create({
           + 'vocabulary, not a closed enum: metadata authors may contribute their own values '
           + '(sanctioned channel: `activityMilestones[].type`, ADR-0052 §5b.2), and an '
           + 'undeclared value is stored verbatim rather than rejected. Consumers must render '
-          + 'an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive (maintainer ruling '
-          + '2026-08-24, #11507).',
+          + 'an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive: the vocabulary is '
+          + 'open by decision, not a gap awaiting enforcement.',
         required: true,
         readonly: true,
         searchable: true,
diff --git a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/en.objects.generated.ts b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/en.objects.generated.ts
index 7c4575273dc..305f981652b 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/en.objects.generated.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/en.objects.generated.ts
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export const enObjects: NonNullable<TranslationData['objects']> = {
       },
       type: {
         label: "Type",
-        help: "Activity kind. The declared options are the platform BUILT-IN set of an open vocabulary, not a closed enum: metadata authors may contribute their own values (sanctioned channel: `activityMilestones[].type`, ADR-0052 §5b.2), and an undeclared value is stored verbatim rather than rejected. Consumers must render an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive (maintainer ruling 2026-08-24, #11507).",
+        help: "Activity kind. The declared options are the platform BUILT-IN set of an open vocabulary, not a closed enum: metadata authors may contribute their own values (sanctioned channel: `activityMilestones[].type`, ADR-0052 §5b.2), and an undeclared value is stored verbatim rather than rejected. Consumers must render an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive: the vocabulary is open by decision, not a gap awaiting enforcement.",
         options: {
           created: "created",
           updated: "updated",
diff --git a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/es-ES.objects.generated.ts b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/es-ES.objects.generated.ts
index a1e96820b12..5f7589ec20b 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/es-ES.objects.generated.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/es-ES.objects.generated.ts
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export const esESObjects: NonNullable<TranslationData['objects']> = {
       },
       type: {
         label: "Tipo",
-        help: "Activity kind. The declared options are the platform BUILT-IN set of an open vocabulary, not a closed enum: metadata authors may contribute their own values (sanctioned channel: `activityMilestones[].type`, ADR-0052 §5b.2), and an undeclared value is stored verbatim rather than rejected. Consumers must render an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive (maintainer ruling 2026-08-24, #11507).",
+        help: "Activity kind. The declared options are the platform BUILT-IN set of an open vocabulary, not a closed enum: metadata authors may contribute their own values (sanctioned channel: `activityMilestones[].type`, ADR-0052 §5b.2), and an undeclared value is stored verbatim rather than rejected. Consumers must render an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive: the vocabulary is open by decision, not a gap awaiting enforcement.",
         options: {
           created: "Creado",
           updated: "Actualizado",
diff --git a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/es-ES.source-hashes.generated.ts b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/es-ES.source-hashes.generated.ts
index b3e645d2a0d..a013415bcb1 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/es-ES.source-hashes.generated.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/es-ES.source-hashes.generated.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 export const esESGeneratedSourceHashes: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = {
   "objects.sys_activity.fields.actor_id.label": "b155813f8a7f06e3",
-  "objects.sys_activity.fields.type.help": "bc8b10c89aacd494",
+  "objects.sys_activity.fields.type.help": "5d8df777db464241",
   "objects.sys_activity.fields.url.label": "2203b0b9f72534f7",
   "objects.sys_audit_log.fields.actor.label": "b155813f8a7f06e3",
 };
diff --git a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/ja-JP.objects.generated.ts b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/ja-JP.objects.generated.ts
index e600352bd82..b741e95be48 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/ja-JP.objects.generated.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/ja-JP.objects.generated.ts
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export const jaJPObjects: NonNullable<TranslationData['objects']> = {
       },
       type: {
         label: "タイプ",
-        help: "Activity kind. The declared options are the platform BUILT-IN set of an open vocabulary, not a closed enum: metadata authors may contribute their own values (sanctioned channel: `activityMilestones[].type`, ADR-0052 §5b.2), and an undeclared value is stored verbatim rather than rejected. Consumers must render an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive (maintainer ruling 2026-08-24, #11507).",
+        help: "Activity kind. The declared options are the platform BUILT-IN set of an open vocabulary, not a closed enum: metadata authors may contribute their own values (sanctioned channel: `activityMilestones[].type`, ADR-0052 §5b.2), and an undeclared value is stored verbatim rather than rejected. Consumers must render an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive: the vocabulary is open by decision, not a gap awaiting enforcement.",
         options: {
           created: "作成",
           updated: "更新",
diff --git a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/ja-JP.source-hashes.generated.ts b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/ja-JP.source-hashes.generated.ts
index bee58465af7..908cf67d9dd 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/ja-JP.source-hashes.generated.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/ja-JP.source-hashes.generated.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@
  */
 
 export const jaJPGeneratedSourceHashes: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = {
-  "objects.sys_activity.fields.type.help": "bc8b10c89aacd494",
+  "objects.sys_activity.fields.type.help": "5d8df777db464241",
   "objects.sys_activity.fields.url.label": "2203b0b9f72534f7",
 };
diff --git a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/zh-CN.objects.generated.ts b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/zh-CN.objects.generated.ts
index c0b8c7eef4a..50d960c0dbc 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/zh-CN.objects.generated.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/zh-CN.objects.generated.ts
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export const zhCNObjects: NonNullable<TranslationData['objects']> = {
       },
       type: {
         label: "类型",
-        help: "Activity kind. The declared options are the platform BUILT-IN set of an open vocabulary, not a closed enum: metadata authors may contribute their own values (sanctioned channel: `activityMilestones[].type`, ADR-0052 §5b.2), and an undeclared value is stored verbatim rather than rejected. Consumers must render an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive (maintainer ruling 2026-08-24, #11507).",
+        help: "Activity kind. The declared options are the platform BUILT-IN set of an open vocabulary, not a closed enum: metadata authors may contribute their own values (sanctioned channel: `activityMilestones[].type`, ADR-0052 §5b.2), and an undeclared value is stored verbatim rather than rejected. Consumers must render an unknown value instead of assuming this list is exhaustive: the vocabulary is open by decision, not a gap awaiting enforcement.",
         options: {
           created: "已创建",
           updated: "已更新",
diff --git a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/zh-CN.source-hashes.generated.ts b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/zh-CN.source-hashes.generated.ts
index 0a3f00cf1cb..def45595778 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/zh-CN.source-hashes.generated.ts
+++ b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/zh-CN.source-hashes.generated.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@
  */
 
 export const zhCNGeneratedSourceHashes: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = {
-  "objects.sys_activity.fields.type.help": "bc8b10c89aacd494",
+  "objects.sys_activity.fields.type.help": "5d8df777db464241",
   "objects.sys_activity.fields.url.label": "2203b0b9f72534f7",
 };
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/config-unknown-keys.test.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/config-unknown-keys.test.ts
index 5d42633825a..78d53633465 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/config-unknown-keys.test.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/config-unknown-keys.test.ts
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ describe('unknown node config keys are rejected (#4277)', () => {
     // …and this particular key has a documented incident, so it also carries
     // its tombstone (the UNKNOWN_KEY_GUIDANCE pattern).
     expect(msg).toContain('visibleWhen');
-    expect(msg).toContain('#3528');
+    expect(msg).toContain('blocks the screen from ever being submitted');
     // The flow is NOT registered.
     await expect(engine.getFlow('f')).resolves.toBeNull();
   });
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/connector-nodes.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/connector-nodes.ts
index 9c8fc3804ad..817b75c77f1 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/connector-nodes.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/connector-nodes.ts
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ export function registerConnectorNodes(engine: AutomationEngine, ctx: PluginCont
                         success: false,
                         error:
                             `connector_action '${node.id}': connector '${cfg.connectorId}' is degraded — ${degraded}. `
-                            + `Dispatch is unavailable until its upstream recovers; the platform retries automatically (#3017).`,
+                            + `Dispatch is unavailable until its upstream recovers; the platform retries automatically.`,
                     };
                 }
                 return {
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/decision-branch-routing.test.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/decision-branch-routing.test.ts
index ae6edf032de..169d6380ae0 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/decision-branch-routing.test.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/decision-branch-routing.test.ts
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ describe('decision branch routing (#4414)', () => {
         // branch and every out-edge label.
         expect(warnings.some((w) =>
             w.msg.includes('no out-edge carries that label')
-            && w.msg.includes('#4414')
+            && w.msg.includes('The branch selection is IGNORED')
             && w.meta?.branchLabel === 'Yes — already converted'
             && (w.meta?.outEdges as Array<{ label: string | null }>)
                 .map((e) => e.label).includes('Yes')
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/parse-config.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/parse-config.ts
index 4a37b8d3233..c2472a2abaa 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/parse-config.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/parse-config.ts
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ export function parseNodeConfig<T>(
             `${nodeType} '${nodeId}': config does not satisfy the ${nodeType} contract — ${issues || 'invalid config'}. ` +
             `The config is metadata, so re-running changes nothing; fix the node in the flow definition. ` +
             `The declared contract is the node type's configSchema (the Studio form) and the ` +
-            `${nodeType} config Zod in @objectstack/spec/automation (#4277).`,
+            `${nodeType} config Zod in @objectstack/spec/automation.`,
         ),
     };
 }
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/screen-nodes.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/screen-nodes.ts
index 409b2419316..3f29f606d59 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/screen-nodes.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/screen-nodes.ts
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ export function registerScreenNodes(engine: AutomationEngine, ctx: PluginContext
             success: false,
             error:
               `script node '${node.id}': no function named '${target}' is registered. ` +
-              `Register it via \`defineStack({ functions: { '${target}': fn } })\`, or fix the name (#1870).`,
+              `Register it via \`defineStack({ functions: { '${target}': fn } })\`, or fix the name.`,
           };
         }
 
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/template.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/template.ts
index bb05ebc9fd2..869dd5ba3b6 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/template.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/template.ts
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ function unknownFunctionError(name: string, expr: string): FlowExpressionFunctio
         `flow value expression: unknown function '${name}' in '${expr}'. ` +
         `Value expressions support round, floor, ceil, abs, min, max (1:1 with the CEL stdlib) ` +
         `and the whole-token date macros NOW() / TODAY().${hint} ` +
-        `(Before #11060 this name was silently rewritten to null and the field was written undefined.)`,
+        `An unknown function is refused here rather than evaluated to null, which would write the field as undefined.`,
     );
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/connector-degrade-cause.test.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/connector-degrade-cause.test.ts
index 6cb5cb28449..ccd37272a54 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/connector-degrade-cause.test.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/connector-degrade-cause.test.ts
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ describe('#5636 — the degrade announcement is ONE record, cause in meta', () =
         expect(record.msg).toContain("'gh_mcp'");
         expect(record.msg).toContain("provider 'fake'");
         expect(record.msg).toContain('instance registered degraded (no actions)');
-        expect(record.msg).toContain('attempt 1 (#3017)');
+        expect(record.msg).toContain('retrying with backoff, attempt 1.');
         // Not a validation rejection → `error`, not `issues`; and the full text
         // survives, newlines escaped by the logger's JSON.stringify.
         expect(record.issues).toBeUndefined();
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ describe('#5636 — a husk-registration rejection reports its issues, on one lin
         };
         expect(record.msg).not.toContain('\n');
         expect(record.msg).toContain("'gh_mcp'");
-        expect(record.msg).toContain('#3017');
+        expect(record.msg).toContain('stays absent from the connector registry until a retry succeeds');
         // The facts a reader came for.
         const issues = record.issues;
         expect(Array.isArray(issues)).toBe(true);
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ describe('#5636 — what the interpolated rendering cost, measured', () => {
         expect(before.length - beforeKept.length, 'lines the buffer drops').toBeGreaterThan(1);
 
         const after = await captureStream('stdout', async () => {
-            log.warn(`[Automation] could not register degraded husk for 'gh_mcp' (#3017).`, {
+            log.warn(`[Automation] could not register degraded husk for 'gh_mcp'.`, {
                 issues: [{ code: 'invalid_value', path: 'type', message: 'Invalid option' }],
             });
         });
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ describe('#5636 — what the interpolated rendering cost, measured', () => {
         const before = await captureStream('stderr', async () => {
             log.error(
                 `[Automation] connector instance 'gh_mcp' (provider 'fake') upstream unavailable — ` +
-                    `instance registered degraded (no actions); retrying with backoff, attempt 1 (#3017): ${MULTILINE_UPSTREAM}`,
+                    `instance registered degraded (no actions); retrying with backoff, attempt 1: ${MULTILINE_UPSTREAM}`,
             );
         });
         expect(before).toHaveLength(3);
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ describe('#5636 — what the interpolated rendering cost, measured', () => {
         const after = await captureStream('stderr', async () => {
             log.error(
                 `[Automation] connector instance 'gh_mcp' (provider 'fake') upstream unavailable — ` +
-                    `instance registered degraded (no actions); retrying with backoff, attempt 1 (#3017).`,
+                    `instance registered degraded (no actions); retrying with backoff, attempt 1.`,
                 undefined,
                 { error: MULTILINE_UPSTREAM },
             );
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/connector-descriptor-audit.test.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/connector-descriptor-audit.test.ts
index 0056c13e539..f3bce826135 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/connector-descriptor-audit.test.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/connector-descriptor-audit.test.ts
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ describe('kernel:ready audit (wiring)', () => {
         const warnings = auditWarnings(warnSpy);
         expect(warnings).toHaveLength(1);
         expect(warnings[0]).toContain('crm_billing');
-        expect(warnings[0]).toContain('#2612');
+        expect(warnings[0]).toContain('catalog descriptors (descriptor-only contract)');
         await kernel.shutdown();
     });
 
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/degraded-register-cause.test.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/degraded-register-cause.test.ts
index 339ec4f62ec..7709ec109a1 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/degraded-register-cause.test.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/degraded-register-cause.test.ts
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ describe('#5660 — the degrade REGISTRATION is one record, cause in meta', () =
         // Self-sufficient without the reason: what the state costs and what
         // happens next, so the message alone is a usable record.
         expect(record.msg).toContain('no actions and no handlers');
-        expect(record.msg).toContain('#3017');
+        expect(record.msg).toContain('the materializer retries with backoff');
         // …and none of the foreign text is in it.
         expect(record.msg).not.toContain(CAUSE_LINE_FACT);
         expect(record.msg).not.toContain(HINT_LINE_FACT);
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ describe('#5660 — what the interpolated rendering cost, measured', () => {
             log.warn(
                 'Connector registered DEGRADED: gh_mcp (origin: declarative) — no actions and no handlers ' +
                     'until its upstream is reachable; a connector_action dispatching to it fails with the stored ' +
-                    'reason, and the materializer retries with backoff (#3017).',
+                    'reason, and the materializer retries with backoff.',
                 { degradedReason: MULTILINE_UPSTREAM, error: MULTILINE_UPSTREAM },
             );
         });
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/engine.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/engine.ts
index d599cce4fb9..7372f2a8f4f 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/engine.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/engine.ts
@@ -178,37 +178,39 @@ interface ConfigSchemaNode {
  */
 const BULK_INTENT_GUIDANCE: Record<string, string> = {
     bulk: 'Bulk intent is `multi: true` — the data engine\'s own word for it (`options.multi`), so the concept ' +
-        'keeps one name from node config to driver call (#5393). Without it the write must name one row by ' +
+        'keeps one name from node config to driver call. Without it the write must name one row by ' +
         'scalar `id`; a predicate write is refused by the engine rather than silently widened.',
     all: 'Bulk intent is `multi: true` — the data engine\'s own word for it (`options.multi`), so the concept ' +
-        'keeps one name from node config to driver call (#5393). Without it the write must name one row by ' +
+        'keeps one name from node config to driver call. Without it the write must name one row by ' +
         'scalar `id`; a predicate write is refused by the engine rather than silently widened.',
     multiple: 'Bulk intent is `multi: true` — the data engine\'s own word for it (`options.multi`), so the ' +
-        'concept keeps one name from node config to driver call (#5393). Without it the write must name one row ' +
+        'concept keeps one name from node config to driver call. Without it the write must name one row ' +
         'by scalar `id`; a predicate write is refused by the engine rather than silently widened.',
     options: 'This is the NODE config, not the data engine\'s options bag — declare `multi: true` at the top ' +
         'level of `config`, never `options: { multi: true }`. Translating that declaration into `options.multi` ' +
-        'on the engine call is the executor\'s job (#5393).',
+        'on the engine call is the executor\'s job.',
 };
 
 const FLOW_NODE_UNKNOWN_KEY_GUIDANCE: Record<string, Record<string, string>> = {
     create_record: {
         fieldValues:
             'The write map is `fields` — `fieldValues` was an AI-authoring dialect that never had a ' +
-            'runtime reader; the fix is the authoring source + this rejection, not a runtime alias ' +
-            '(#2419, rejected by design).',
+            'runtime reader; the fix is the authoring source + this rejection. A runtime alias for it was ' +
+            'rejected by design: the node keeps one strict `fields` key rather than two spellings.',
     },
     update_record: {
         fieldValues:
             'The write map is `fields` — `fieldValues` was an AI-authoring dialect that never had a ' +
-            'runtime reader (#2419, rejected by design).',
+            'runtime reader, and a runtime alias for it was rejected by design: the node keeps one strict ' +
+            '`fields` key rather than two spellings.',
         ...BULK_INTENT_GUIDANCE,
     },
     delete_record: BULK_INTENT_GUIDANCE,
     screen: {
         visibleIf:
             'The visibility predicate is `visibleWhen` (bare CEL, re-evaluated client-side as the ' +
-            'user types — #3528, the incident this whole check descends from).',
+            'user types). A predicate under any other key is never read, so the field always shows — and a ' +
+            '`required` field meant to stay hidden then blocks the screen from ever being submitted.',
     },
 };
 import { runIsUnscopedUserMode, flowTouchesData } from './runtime-identity.js';
@@ -4021,7 +4023,7 @@ export class AutomationEngine implements IAutomationService {
         this.logger.warn(
             `Connector registered DEGRADED: ${parsed.name} (origin: ${origin}) — no actions and no handlers ` +
                 `until its upstream is reachable; a connector_action dispatching to it fails with the stored ` +
-                `reason, and the materializer retries with backoff (#3017).`,
+                `reason, and the materializer retries with backoff.`,
             cause === undefined
                 ? { degradedReason: reason }
                 : { degradedReason: reason, ...describeThrownForLog(cause) },
@@ -6064,11 +6066,11 @@ export class AutomationEngine implements IAutomationService {
         if (runIsUnscopedUserMode(runContext) && flowTouchesData(flow)) {
             this.logger.warn(
                 `[runAs] flow '${flow.name}' executes with runAs:'user' but its trigger resolved no user ` +
-                `— its data operations will be REFUSED (#3760). Running them would execute UNSCOPED ` +
+                `— its data operations will be REFUSED. Running them would execute UNSCOPED ` +
                 `(elevated, RLS-bypassing) rather than restricted, which is the fail-open ADR-0049 ` +
                 `forbids. Declare runAs:'system' to make the elevation explicit and intended, or arrange ` +
                 `for the trigger to supply a user. Note a user-less trigger is NOT only a schedule: a ` +
-                `record-change flow fired by a system write carries no user either (ADR-0049, #1888).`,
+                `record-change flow fired by a system write carries no user either (ADR-0049).`,
             );
         }
 
@@ -10263,12 +10265,13 @@ export class AutomationEngine implements IAutomationService {
         }
         if (violations.length > 0) {
             throw new Error(
-                `Flow '${flowName}' rejected: ${violations.length} undeclared config key(s) (#4277).\n` +
+                `Flow '${flowName}' rejected: ${violations.length} undeclared config key(s).\n` +
                 violations.map((v) => `  - ${v}`).join('\n') +
                 `\nAn undeclared key is never read, so it can only be a typo or dead config — fix the ` +
                 `flow's metadata (rename or remove the key). If an executor genuinely reads this key, ` +
-                `declare it on the node type's descriptor configSchema instead; read-but-undeclared ` +
-                `keys are exactly the drift the #4045 reconciliation closed.`,
+                `declare it on the node type's descriptor configSchema instead: the built-in node types were ` +
+                `reconciled so every key their executors read is declared, and a read-but-undeclared key is ` +
+                `exactly the drift that reconciliation removed.`,
             );
         }
     }
@@ -11320,7 +11323,7 @@ export class AutomationEngine implements IAutomationService {
                     `in this record's meta. The branch selection is IGNORED and every out-edge is ` +
                     `evaluated instead, so unconditional siblings run regardless of the decision. ` +
                     `Make an out-edge's \`label\` match the branch, or mark the fallback edge ` +
-                    `\`isDefault: true\`. (#4414)`,
+                    `\`isDefault: true\`.`,
                     {
                         branchLabel,
                         outEdges: allOutEdges.map(e => ({ id: e.id, label: e.label ?? null })),
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/plugin.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/plugin.ts
index 30d4b604b0a..d6d14f0d429 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/plugin.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/plugin.ts
@@ -1140,7 +1140,10 @@ export class AutomationServicePlugin implements Plugin {
             if (ql?.registry && typeof ql.registry.getObject === 'function') {
                 this.engine.setObjectSchemaResolver((objectName) =>
                     parseObjectFieldSchema((ql.registry!.getObject!(objectName) as { fields?: unknown } | undefined)?.fields));
-                ctx.logger.debug('[Automation] object-schema resolver bridged to objectql.registry (#1928 condition checks)');
+                ctx.logger.debug(
+                    '[Automation] object-schema resolver bridged to objectql.registry ' +
+                    '(flow conditions are checked against object fields at registration)',
+                );
             }
         } catch {
             ctx.logger.debug('[Automation] objectql registry not present — flow-condition checks limited to syntax');
@@ -1178,7 +1181,10 @@ export class AutomationServicePlugin implements Plugin {
                         ...(tenantId ? { tenantId } : {}),
                     };
                 });
-                ctx.logger.debug('[Automation] runAs:user grant resolver bridged to @objectstack/core resolveUserAuthzGrants (#3356)');
+                ctx.logger.debug(
+                    '[Automation] runAs:user grant resolver bridged to @objectstack/core resolveUserAuthzGrants ' +
+                    '(a user-mode run carries the triggering user\'s positions and permission sets)',
+                );
 
                 // #3475 — bridge the lookup expander for record-change flow
                 // templates. Re-reads the relations a flow declares in its start
@@ -1205,7 +1211,10 @@ export class AutomationServicePlugin implements Plugin {
                         const full = await expandQl.findOne!(objectName, query);
                         return full && typeof full === 'object' ? (full as Record<string, unknown>) : undefined;
                     });
-                    ctx.logger.debug('[Automation] record-change lookup expander bridged (#3475)');
+                    ctx.logger.debug(
+                        '[Automation] record-change lookup expander bridged ' +
+                        '(a lookup the start node declares in expand is read with the run\'s own identity)',
+                    );
                 }
             } else {
                 ctx.logger.debug('[Automation] objectql not present — runAs:user runs keep the trigger-supplied identity');
@@ -1670,12 +1679,14 @@ export class AutomationServicePlugin implements Plugin {
         ctx.logger.warn(
             `[Automation] ${inert.length} declarative connector(s) declare actions but are not registered ` +
                 `in the connector registry — the connector_action node cannot dispatch them: ${inert.join(', ')}. ` +
-                `Declarative \`connectors:\` entries are catalog descriptors (descriptor-only contract, #2612); ` +
-                `runtime connectors are contributed by plugins via engine.registerConnector() — e.g. ` +
+                `Declarative \`connectors:\` entries without a \`provider\` are catalog descriptors ` +
+                `(descriptor-only contract); runtime connectors are contributed by plugins via ` +
+                `engine.registerConnector() — e.g. ` +
                 `@objectstack/connector-rest, @objectstack/connector-slack, @objectstack/connector-openapi, ` +
                 `@objectstack/connector-mcp. Install/instantiate the matching connector plugin, or mark a ` +
                 `deliberate catalog-only entry with \`enabled: false\` to silence this warning. ` +
-                `Declarative provider-bound connector instances are tracked in #2977 (ADR-0097).`,
+                `An entry that names a \`provider\` is a connector instance instead: that provider's ` +
+                `installed executor materializes it into a live connector (ADR-0097).`,
         );
     }
 
@@ -1817,7 +1828,7 @@ export class AutomationServicePlugin implements Plugin {
                 // the live connector is already the desired one: cancel it.
                 if (this.degradedInstances.delete(name)) {
                     ctx.logger.info(
-                        `[Automation] connector instance '${name}' reverted to its live configuration; pending retry cancelled (#3017)`,
+                        `[Automation] connector instance '${name}' reverted to its live configuration; pending retry cancelled`,
                     );
                 }
                 continue;
@@ -2060,7 +2071,7 @@ export class AutomationServicePlugin implements Plugin {
                 // cause goes there.
                 ctx.logger.warn(
                     `[Automation] could not register degraded husk for '${info.name}' — the instance stays absent from the ` +
-                        `connector registry until a retry succeeds (#3017).`,
+                        `connector registry until a retry succeeds.`,
                     describeThrownForLog(err),
                 );
             }
@@ -2072,7 +2083,7 @@ export class AutomationServicePlugin implements Plugin {
                 (info.hasLive
                     ? 'the previously-materialized connector keeps serving'
                     : 'instance registered degraded (no actions)') +
-                `; retrying with backoff, attempt ${attempts} (#3017).`,
+                `; retrying with backoff, attempt ${attempts}.`,
             undefined,
             describeThrownForLog(info.cause),
         );
@@ -2129,7 +2140,7 @@ export class AutomationServicePlugin implements Plugin {
         (timer as unknown as { unref?: () => void }).unref?.();
         this.declarativeRetryTimer = timer;
         ctx.logger.info(
-            `[Automation] ${this.degradedInstances.size} degraded connector instance(s); next retry in ${delay}ms (#3017)`,
+            `[Automation] ${this.degradedInstances.size} degraded connector instance(s); next retry in ${delay}ms`,
         );
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/runtime-identity.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/runtime-identity.ts
index 27a0301001f..4bed142c70c 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/runtime-identity.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/runtime-identity.ts
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ export class UnscopedRunDataAccessError extends Error {
         `'user' but no trigger user could be resolved, so the operation would execute UNSCOPED ` +
         `(elevated, RLS-bypassing) rather than restricted to a user. Declare \`runAs: 'system'\` on the ` +
         `flow to make the elevation explicit and intended, or arrange for the trigger to supply a user ` +
-        `(a write made with a system context carries none). (ADR-0049, #1888, #3760)`,
+        `(a write made with a system context carries none). (ADR-0049)`,
     );
     this.name = 'UnscopedRunDataAccessError';
     // #3863 — a guard refusal, so a `fault` edge must not route it. Elevation
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-automation-run.object.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-automation-run.object.ts
index bb97a4daca9..b0bd1b4c557 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-automation-run.object.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-automation-run.object.ts
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ export const SysAutomationRun = ObjectSchema.create({
       label: 'Node Type',
       required: false,
       maxLength: 255,
-      description: 'Registry type of the node a suspended run paused at (approval / screen / wait / …). Keys the resume authorization gate (#3801) — captured at suspend time rather than re-read from a flow that may have been republished since. Null on rows written before the gate shipped, and on terminal history rows — except the one class of terminal row that carries a restorable consumed suspension (a run whose resume consumed its pause and then failed downstream), which keeps the paused node\'s type so a restore re-arms the gate.',
+      description: 'Registry type of the node a suspended run paused at (approval / screen / wait / …). Keys the resume authorization gate, which decides from the paused node\'s type who may continue the run (an approval pause only through its owning service) — captured at suspend time rather than re-read from a flow that may have been republished since. Null on rows written before the gate shipped, and on terminal history rows — except the one class of terminal row that carries a restorable consumed suspension (a run whose resume consumed its pause and then failed downstream), which keeps the paused node\'s type so a restore re-arms the gate.',
       group: 'State',
     }),
 
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ export const SysAutomationRun = ObjectSchema.create({
       label: 'Trigger Type',
       required: false,
       maxLength: 255,
-      description: 'What fired this run — the runtime trigger event (record-after-update / schedule / api / time_relative / manual / …). Null on rows written before #7533, which is NOT the same as "no trigger": every run has one.',
+      description: 'What fired this run — the runtime trigger event (record-after-update / schedule / api / time_relative / manual / …). Null on rows written before run history recorded its trigger (they were not backfilled), which is NOT the same as "no trigger": every run has one.',
       group: 'Trigger',
     }),
 
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ export const SysAutomationRun = ObjectSchema.create({
       label: 'Trigger Record',
       required: false,
       maxLength: 255,
-      description: 'Id of the record that fired this run — the correlation from a run back to its cause, and the reason the run log is usable as an audit trail for record_change flows. Null for record-less trigger kinds and for rows written before #7533.',
+      description: 'Id of the record that fired this run — the correlation from a run back to its cause, and the reason the run log is usable as an audit trail for record_change flows. Null for record-less trigger kinds and for rows written before run history recorded its trigger (they were not backfilled).',
       group: 'Trigger',
     }),
 
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ export const SysAutomationRun = ObjectSchema.create({
     steps_json: Field.textarea({
       label: 'Steps',
       required: false,
-      description: 'JSON step log: for a paused run, the steps executed so far (resume state); for a terminal history row, the bounded per-node step log (durable run detail, #2585).',
+      description: 'JSON step log: for a paused run, the steps executed so far (resume state); for a terminal history row, the bounded per-node step log, so a finished run\'s per-node detail survives a restart.',
       group: 'State',
     }),
 
diff --git a/packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-flow-dispatch.object.ts b/packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-flow-dispatch.object.ts
index 187633229a3..b4e657df5d5 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-flow-dispatch.object.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-flow-dispatch.object.ts
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ export const SysFlowDispatch = ObjectSchema.create({
     retention: { maxAge: '30d' },
   },
   description:
-    'Idempotency ledger for trigger dispatches (#10220): one row per claimed dispatch key — (flow, record, matched-window) for a time-relative sweep, (flow, tick-window) for a scheduled flow — so a re-scan, a rebuilt kernel or an operator replay never re-launches a flow for a window it already delivered.',
+    'Idempotency ledger for trigger dispatches: one row per claimed dispatch key — (flow, record, matched-window) for a time-relative sweep, (flow, tick-window) for a scheduled flow — so a re-scan, a rebuilt kernel or an operator replay never re-launches a flow for a window it already delivered.',
   displayNameField: 'id',
   nameField: 'id', // [ADR-0079] canonical primary-title pointer (mirrors deprecated displayNameField)
   highlightFields: ['id', 'dispatched_at', 'outcome'],
diff --git a/scripts/doc-authoring-prose-id.baseline.json b/scripts/doc-authoring-prose-id.baseline.json
index 747d5d03c6a..e765765f0ad 100644
--- a/scripts/doc-authoring-prose-id.baseline.json
+++ b/scripts/doc-authoring-prose-id.baseline.json
@@ -73,21 +73,6 @@
  "packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/audit-writers.ts": {
   "#5226": 1
  },
- "packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/objects/sys-activity.object.ts": {
-  "#11507": 1
- },
- "packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/en.objects.generated.ts": {
-  "#11507": 1
- },
- "packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/es-ES.objects.generated.ts": {
-  "#11507": 1
- },
- "packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/ja-JP.objects.generated.ts": {
-  "#11507": 1
- },
- "packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/translations/zh-CN.objects.generated.ts": {
-  "#11507": 1
- },
  "packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/bootstrap-system-capabilities.ts": {
   "#5876": 1,
   "#8552": 2
@@ -188,48 +173,5 @@
   "#5222": 1,
   "#5333": 1,
   "#7598": 1
- },
- "packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/connector-nodes.ts": {
-  "#3017": 1
- },
- "packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/parse-config.ts": {
-  "#4277": 1
- },
- "packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/screen-nodes.ts": {
-  "#1870": 1
- },
- "packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/template.ts": {
-  "#11060": 1
- },
- "packages/services/service-automation/src/engine.ts": {
-  "#1888": 1,
-  "#2419": 2,
-  "#3017": 1,
-  "#3528": 1,
-  "#3760": 1,
-  "#4045": 1,
-  "#4277": 1,
-  "#4414": 1,
-  "#5393": 4
- },
- "packages/services/service-automation/src/plugin.ts": {
-  "#1928": 1,
-  "#2612": 1,
-  "#2977": 1,
-  "#3017": 4,
-  "#3356": 1,
-  "#3475": 1
- },
- "packages/services/service-automation/src/runtime-identity.ts": {
-  "#1888": 1,
-  "#3760": 1
- },
- "packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-automation-run.object.ts": {
-  "#2585": 1,
-  "#3801": 1,
-  "#7533": 2
- },
- "packages/services/service-automation/src/sys-flow-dispatch.object.ts": {
-  "#10220": 1
  }
 }