test(spec): kernel test titles state each cited decision in words instead of a tracker number (stage 11)

packages/spec/src/kernel/activation-events-retirement.test.ts

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import {
 // (#4834 superseded the kernel half: `DynamicLoadRequest` — the shape that
 // carried the tombstoned key — was removed whole, so this file's kernel-side
 // parse assertion is gone. See the block above the studio test.)
-describe('[#4657] ActivationEventSchema removal — no entry exports the name', () => {
+describe('ActivationEventSchema removal — no entry exports the name', () => {
   it('resolves the export surface: the retired names have ZERO holders across every public entry', () => {
     // Anti-vacuity: the baseline must cover the real surface. (This used to
     // enumerate package.json's exports map and build its own `ts.createProgram`

packages/spec/src/kernel/additional-types-retirement.test.ts

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import { MetadataPluginConfigSchema, MetadataPluginManifestSchema } from './meta
 // pins assert the strongest set this surface really has: refusal, the issue
 // `code`, the `path` naming WHICH key was refused, and the prescription text
 // (#5240: where the wording is the contract, pin the wording).
-describe('[#8586] MetadataPluginConfig.additionalTypes retirement', () => {
+describe('MetadataPluginConfig.additionalTypes retirement', () => {
   /** A config that is valid except for whatever the individual test adds. */
   const baseConfig = { storage: {} } as const;
 

packages/spec/src/kernel/capability-metadata-kind.test.ts

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ const DECLARATION = {
   packageId: 'com.acme.billing',
 };
 
-describe('#5961 — capability is a registered metadata kind', () => {
+describe('capability is a registered metadata kind', () => {
   // ── the three registries that were missing it ─────────────────────────
 
   it('is a member of the kind enum', () => {

packages/spec/src/kernel/cli-command-contribution-retirement.test.ts

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import {
 //
 // Form follows #11825 / commit 2c86fe3ea / #4988: resolved symbol identity over every
 // public entry via the build-time `export-origins/` artifact.
-describe('[#12007] kernel/ CLICommandContribution retirement', () => {
+describe('kernel/ CLICommandContribution retirement', () => {
   /** The 2 names the retired def exported (1 schema const + 1 type). */
   const RETIRED_NAMES = [
     'CLICommandContributionSchema',
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ describe('[#12007] kernel/ CLICommandContribution retirement', () => {
 
     // ── ABSENCE (every entry, not just ./kernel) ──────────────────────────
     for (const name of RETIRED_NAMES) {
-      expect(holdersOf(name), `${name} must have zero holders after #12007`).toEqual([]);
+      expect(holdersOf(name), `${name} must have zero holders after its retirement`).toEqual([]);
     }
 
     // ── SURVIVAL ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ describe('[#12007] kernel/ CLICommandContribution retirement', () => {
 
   it('the runtime barrel resolves without the retired schema and keeps the survivor', async () => {
     const kernel = await import('./index');
-    expect(kernel, 'CLICommandContributionSchema must not be exported after #12007')
+    expect(kernel, 'CLICommandContributionSchema must not be exported after its retirement')
       .not.toHaveProperty('CLICommandContributionSchema');
     // Anti-vacuity: the barrel really resolved and still exports the live
     // oclif surface plus an unrelated kernel anchor.

packages/spec/src/kernel/events.test.ts

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ describe('EventSchema', () => {
   // This pin holds the WIDENING: spellings the retired grammar refused
   // (PascalCase, kebab-case, leading digit/dot) now parse — a regression to a
   // schema-level grammar here should be a deliberate ruling, not drift.
-  it('accepts event names as plain strings — the dot-notation grammar is retired (#13613)', () => {
+  it('accepts event names as plain strings — the dot-notation grammar is retired', () => {
     const names = [
       // conventional dot-notation spellings (valid before and after)
       'user.created',
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ describe('Enhanced Event Handler', () => {
 // payload) rather than a bare unrecognized-key error, and the value survives at
 // the same magnitude. Asserting the message, not just `.toThrow()`: a bare
 // throw stays green when the schema throws for some unrelated reason.
-describe('Event bus retention windows carry their unit (#15678)', () => {
+describe('Event bus retention windows carry their unit', () => {
   it.each([
     ['EventPersistence', EventPersistenceSchema, { enabled: true }],
     ['EventSourcingConfig', EventSourcingConfigSchema, {}],

packages/spec/src/kernel/execution-context.test.ts

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ describe('ExecutionContextSchema', () => {
 // `message: undefined`. The contract is stated here, at the producer's
 // declaration, rather than tolerated at each consumer.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-describe('ExecutionContextSchema.authGate — the ADR-0069 gate posture (#7280)', () => {
+describe('ExecutionContextSchema.authGate — the ADR-0069 gate posture is a declared field', () => {
   it('accepts a well-formed gate', () => {
     const ctx = ExecutionContextSchema.parse({
       userId: 'u1',
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ describe('ExecutionContextSchema.authGate — the ADR-0069 gate posture (#7280)'
 // were emptied, so the non-empty check is what makes this pin fail on a blank
 // cell rather than only on changed wording.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-describe('ExecutionContextSchema.preserveAudit — the published description (#6881)', () => {
+describe('ExecutionContextSchema.preserveAudit — the published description', () => {
   const description = ExecutionContextSchema.shape.preserveAudit.description ?? '';
 
   it('is present and non-empty, so the generated reference row is not blank', () => {
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ describe('ExecutionContextSchema.preserveAudit — the published description (#6
 // that lost it once seeded with automation live while the main path had it
 // suppressed, a self-trigger loop that wedged first boot (#3760). So "one flag
 // looks redundant, drop it" is exactly the edit that must go red.
-describe('[#17178] SEED_WRITE_EXECUTION_CONTEXT', () => {
+describe('SEED_WRITE_EXECUTION_CONTEXT — one spelling of the seed posture', () => {
   it('is a valid ExecutionContext — the WHOLE value parses, not merely its key names', () => {
     const parsed = ExecutionContextSchema.safeParse(SEED_WRITE_EXECUTION_CONTEXT);
     expect(parsed.success, JSON.stringify('error' in parsed ? parsed.error : {})).toBe(true);
@@ -230,11 +230,11 @@ describe('[#17178] SEED_WRITE_EXECUTION_CONTEXT', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
-  it('sets `skipTriggers` — `isSystem` alone does NOT suppress trigger dispatch (#3760)', () => {
+  it('sets `skipTriggers` — `isSystem` alone does NOT suppress trigger dispatch', () => {
     expect(SEED_WRITE_EXECUTION_CONTEXT.skipTriggers).toBe(true);
   });
 
-  it('sets `seedReplay` — the state_machine exemption a mid-lifecycle seed row needs (#3433)', () => {
+  it('sets `seedReplay` — the state_machine exemption a mid-lifecycle seed row needs', () => {
     expect(SEED_WRITE_EXECUTION_CONTEXT.seedReplay).toBe(true);
   });
 

packages/spec/src/kernel/functional-completeness.test.ts

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ const only = (findings: ReturnType<typeof checkFieldCompleteness>) => {
 };
 
 describe('checkFieldCompleteness — the verified inert shapes go red', () => {
-  it('flags a bare summary as an ERROR (the cloud#687 founding case)', () => {
+  it('flags a bare summary as an ERROR (the founding case: a roll-up that reads 0 forever)', () => {
     const f = only(checkFieldCompleteness({ type: 'summary' }));
     expect(f.rule).toBe(FIELD_SUMMARY_WITHOUT_OPERATIONS);
     expect(f.severity).toBe('error');
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ describe('checkViewCompleteness — layout bindings', () => {
     expect(checkViewCompleteness({ type: 'tree', tree: { parentField: 'parent' } })).toEqual([]);
   });
 
-  it('the calendar body describes the REFUSAL, not a deleted literal fallback (#17445)', () => {
+  it('the calendar body describes the REFUSAL, not a deleted literal fallback', () => {
     // Re-measured on objectui `main` at `0cf2d6644` (2026-09-21), both halves
     // of the path: `ListView.tsx`'s `case 'calendar'` restates only declared
     // bindings — objectui#7029 deleted the `startDateField || 'start_date'` /
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ describe('checkViewCompleteness — layout bindings', () => {
       keys: ['timeline.startDateField', 'timeline.titleField'] },
     { type: 'map', component: 'ObjectMap.tsx', screen: 'Map configuration required',
       keys: ['map.locationField', 'map.latitudeField', 'map.longitudeField'] },
-  ])('the $type body describes the REFUSAL, not a deleted literal fallback (#19630)', ({ type, component, screen, keys }) => {
+  ])('the $type body describes the REFUSAL, not a deleted literal fallback', ({ type, component, screen, keys }) => {
     const f = only(checkViewCompleteness({ type }) as never);
     expect(f.rule).toBe(VIEW_LAYOUT_WITHOUT_BINDING);
     expect(f.message).not.toContain('falls back to literal default field names');
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ describe('checkViewCompleteness — rowColor without a colour map (the parse-cle
   // Pinning the literal string would rot. What is pinned instead is the
   // PROPERTY that made it wrong: the value the prescription suggests is fed
   // back through this module, and must survive it.
-  it('hands the author a prescription this module itself accepts (#18791)', () => {
+  it('hands the author a prescription this module itself accepts', () => {
     const f = only(checkViewCompleteness({ type: 'grid', rowColor: { field: 'status' } }) as never);
     const suggested = /'<field_value>':\s*'([^']+)'/.exec(f.fix)?.[1];
     expect(suggested, `no suggested colour value in the prescription: ${f.fix}`).toBeDefined();
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ describe('checkViewCompleteness — rowColor without a colour map (the parse-cle
     ).toEqual([]);
   });
 
-  it('⛔ names no hex placeholder anywhere in the prescription (#18791)', () => {
+  it('⛔ names no hex placeholder anywhere in the prescription', () => {
     // The direct, dumb half of the pin above: whatever the wording becomes, it
     // must not put a hex back in front of an author. `token` is refused for the
     // same reason — it named nothing an author could look up, and stood beside
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ describe('checkViewCompleteness — rowColor without a colour map (the parse-cle
  * app-local resolvability arm went red naming all four, and the presence arm
  * stayed green.
  */
-describe('checkViewCompleteness — rowColor values the renderer resolves to nothing (#18791)', () => {
+describe('checkViewCompleteness — rowColor values the renderer resolves to nothing', () => {
   const grid = (colors: Record<string, unknown>) =>
     checkViewCompleteness({ type: 'grid', rowColor: { field: 'priority', colors } });
 

packages/spec/src/kernel/manifest-unknown-keys.test.ts

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ const unrecognized = (result: ReturnType<typeof ManifestSchema.safeParse>) => {
     | undefined;
 };
 
-describe("#14192 — unknown keys inside `manifest:` are refused at parse (the card's measurement, inverted)", () => {
+describe("unknown keys inside `manifest:` are refused at parse (the silent-drop measurement, inverted)", () => {
   it('a transposed `namesapce` is a named refusal carrying the rename — not an undefined namespace', () => {
     // The card's own measurement: parse success, key dropped, namespace undefined.
     const { namespace: _omitted, ...withoutNamespace } = legal();
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ describe("#14192 — unknown keys inside `manifest:` are refused at parse (the c
   });
 });
 
-describe('#14192 — the refusal reaches every door the measurement listed', () => {
+describe('the refusal reaches every door the measurement listed', () => {
   const typo = () => {
     const { namespace: _omitted, ...rest } = legal();
     return { ...rest, namesapce: 'probe' };
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ describe('#14192 — the refusal reaches every door the measurement listed', ()
   });
 });
 
-describe('#14192 — the nested blocks inside `manifest:` are closed under the same measurement', () => {
+describe('the nested blocks inside `manifest:` are closed under the same measurement', () => {
   it('`contributes.kind` (for `kinds`) is refused at the block, with the rename', () => {
     const result = ManifestSchema.safeParse({ ...legal(), contributes: { kind: [{ id: 'sys.bi.report' }] } });
     expect(result.success).toBe(false);
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ describe('#14192 — the nested blocks inside `manifest:` are closed under the s
   });
 });
 
-describe('#14192 — the accept side does not move, and `main` is declared', () => {
+describe('the accept side does not move, and `main` is declared', () => {
   it('every live key parses and survives — the whole declared vocabulary in one manifest', () => {
     const full = {
       ...legal(),
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ describe('#14192 — the accept side does not move, and `main` is declared', ()
   });
 });
 
-describe('#16328 — the `permissions` union door names the surface and the rename, like every other door', () => {
+describe('the `permissions` union door names the surface and the rename, like every other door', () => {
   // ## What #16328 reported, and what was actually wrong
   //
   // The card measured `{ services: ['object'], hoooks: ['x'] }` refused with a

packages/spec/src/kernel/manifest.test.ts

@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ describe('ManifestSchema', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('contributes dead-member retirement (#10724, ADR-0049 — tombstoned, not deleted)', () => {
+describe('contributes dead-member retirement (ADR-0049 — tombstoned, not deleted)', () => {
   // Nine members had zero readers monorepo-wide (the controlled census commit be21955ba records,
   // completed on cloud 2026-08-24). When they were retired `ManifestSchema` and
   // the `contributes` object were NOT `.strict()`, so a plain deletion would
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ describe('contributes dead-member retirement (#10724, ADR-0049 — tombstoned, n
     );
   });
 
-  it('still parses the surviving `kinds` member — `routes` retired separately (#10726)', () => {
+  it('still parses the surviving `kinds` member — `routes` retired separately', () => {
     const parsed = ManifestSchema.parse({
       ...base,
       contributes: {
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ describe('contributes dead-member retirement (#10724, ADR-0049 — tombstoned, n
   });
 });
 
-describe('contributes.routes retirement (#10726, ADR-0049 — maintainer-ruled Option B 2026-08-22)', () => {
+describe('contributes.routes retirement (ADR-0049 — removed for the `http.server` mount, maintainer-ruled 2026-08-22)', () => {
   // The one `contributes` member split onto its own card: zero readers like
   // its nine siblings retired by commit be21955ba (that commit's controlled census, cloud leg closed
   // clean on 2026-08-24), but four published surfaces taught it as THE way to
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ describe('contributes.routes retirement (#10726, ADR-0049 — maintainer-ruled O
   });
 });
 
-describe('contributes.kinds[].globs retirement (#11169, ADR-0049 — maintainer-ruled 2026-08-24)', () => {
+describe('contributes.kinds[].globs retirement (ADR-0049 — maintainer-ruled 2026-08-24)', () => {
   // The sub-field promised glob-driven file-type discovery that actually runs
   // off the metadata type registry's `filePatterns` — which `contributes.kinds`
   // does not extend — so an authored `globs` was stored, served back, and never
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ describe('contributes.kinds[].globs retirement (#11169, ADR-0049 — maintainer-
   });
 });
 
-describe('dead-container retirement (#11332, ADR-0049 — tombstoned, not deleted)', () => {
+describe('dead-container retirement (ADR-0049 — tombstoned, not deleted)', () => {
   // Three top-level manifest containers had ZERO reads of the container itself
   // monorepo-wide (objectstack + objectui + cloud, controlled census), which
   // settles every key beneath them at once — a key cannot be read if the
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ describe('manifest.id — reverse-domain identifier', () => {
     expect(ManifestSchema.safeParse({ ...legal('com.example.app'), namespace: 'my_app' }).success).toBe(true);
   });
 
-  describe('the refusal carries a remedy (#4001)', () => {
+  describe('the refusal carries a remedy', () => {
     const refusalFor = (id: string) => {
       const r = ManifestSchema.safeParse(legal(id));
       expect(r.success).toBe(false);

packages/spec/src/kernel/metadata-authoring-lint.test.ts

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ const lintAuthoring = (raw: unknown) => lintUnknownAuthoringKeys(raw, ObjectStac
  */
 const VIEW_ENTRY = { name: 'v1', object: 'task', list: { columns: ['title'] }, bogusViewKey: 1 };
 
-describe('coverage derivation (#3786 — no third hand-written list)', () => {
+describe('coverage derivation (no third hand-written list)', () => {
   it('spans the non-strict population, not a sample', () => {
     // #4148 covered object+field: 2 surfaces. The point of this walker is the
     // rest. If the derivation regresses to a handful, the "evidence base" for
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ describe('coverage derivation (#3786 — no third hand-written list)', () => {
     }
   });
 
-  it('reads posture from the schema the PARSE applies, not the type registry (#10039)', () => {
+  it('reads posture from the schema the PARSE applies, not the type registry', () => {
     // `view` was counted as lint-covered because the posture came from
     // `getMetadataTypeSchema('view')` — `ViewMetadataSchema`, the strip-mode
     // UNION over persisted view BODIES. What `defineStack` actually applies to
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ describe('coverage derivation (#3786 — no third hand-written list)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('the #4148 behaviours survive the generalization', () => {
+describe('the object/field unknown-key warnings survive the generalization', () => {
   const stackWith = (obj: Record<string, unknown>, field: Record<string, unknown>) => ({
     objects: [
       { name: 'crm_case', label: 'Case', fields: { owner: { label: 'Owner', type: 'text', ...field } }, ...obj },
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ describe('the #4148 behaviours survive the generalization', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('nested descent (#4001 evidence phase)', () => {
+describe('nested descent (the evidence base for the strict tiers)', () => {
   // Before this the walk stopped at each item's top level plus a hard-coded
   // hop into `object.fields`, leaving 227 strip-mode objects below those roots
   // reporting nothing. These pin the four structural moves the descent makes
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ describe('nested descent (#4001 evidence phase)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('top-level stack keys (#4167 → #8687)', () => {
+describe('top-level stack keys (named, then refused at parse)', () => {
   const lint = (raw: unknown) => lintUnknownStackKeys(raw, ObjectStackDefinitionSchema);
 
   // GRADUATION (#8687): `ObjectStackDefinitionSchema` is now `.strict()`, so
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ describe('STACK_KEY_GUIDANCE does not rot', () => {
     }
   });
 
-  it('every runtime member is a key the schema now declares (#8687)', () => {
+  it('every runtime member is a key the schema now declares', () => {
     // Until #8687 this pin ran the other way: `onEnable` had to be excluded
     // AND undeclared, because the exclusion list was what kept the lint from
     // calling an honoured-but-undeclared member "dropped at load". The strict
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ describe('STACK_KEY_GUIDANCE does not rot', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('one voice, and a single report per record (#10039)', () => {
+describe('one voice, and a single report per record', () => {
   // The card's measured repro, kept in the shape it was filed in. An otherwise
   // VALID view container (it has `list`, so nothing else is wrong with it) plus
   // one undeclared key used to produce BOTH:

packages/spec/src/kernel/metadata-customization-retirement.test.ts

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import { MetadataManagerConfigSchema } from './metadata-loader.zod';
 // directory: refusal, the issue `code`, the `path` naming WHICH key was
 // refused, and the prescription text (#5240: where the wording is the
 // contract, pin the wording).
-describe('[#13135] paper metadata-customization protocol retirement', () => {
+describe('paper metadata-customization protocol retirement', () => {
   /** A config that is valid except for whatever the individual test adds. */
   const baseConfig = { storage: {} } as const;