diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/dataset-filter-nested-relation-list.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/dataset-filter-nested-relation-list.test.ts
index 1a39066a23b..ab2aee11a82 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/dataset-filter-nested-relation-list.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/dataset-filter-nested-relation-list.test.ts
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ const REFUSED: ReadonlyArray<readonly [
 // §1 Both carriers refuse, at the list's own path
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-describe('#20080 §1 — both analytics carriers refuse a list inside a nested relation', () => {
+describe('§1 — both analytics carriers refuse a list inside a nested relation, at save', () => {
   it.each(REFUSED)('DatasetSchema.filter refuses %s', (_label, filter, issuePath) => {
     const issue = issueAt(DatasetSchema.safeParse(withScope(filter)), `filter.${issuePath}`);
     expect(issue.message).toMatch(/requires a single comparable value, but received an array/);
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ describe('#20080 §1 — both analytics carriers refuse a list inside a nested r
 // §2 The carrier prints the analytics door's sentence
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-describe('#20080 §2 — the carrier refusal is the analytics door\'s sentence', () => {
+describe('§2 — the carrier refusal is the analytics door\'s sentence', () => {
   it.each(REFUSED)('%s', (_label, filter, issuePath, field, list, eq, holder) => {
     const door = analyticsDoorRefusal(field, eq ? { $eq: list } : list, holder);
     // The door's refusal is the ADR-0112 class-1 envelope the face throws.
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ describe('#20080 §2 — the carrier refusal is the analytics door\'s sentence',
 // §3 A list the shared schema already refuses is refused once, not twice
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-describe('#20080 §3 — outside a nested relation the shared schema answers, once', () => {
+describe('§3 — outside a nested relation the shared schema answers, once', () => {
   it.each([
     ['top level, implicit', { region: ['a'] }, 'region', /^The implicit-equality comparand on field "region"/],
     ['top level, $eq', { region: { $eq: ['a'] } }, 'region.$eq', /^Operator "\$eq" on field "region"/],
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ describe('#20080 §3 — outside a nested relation the shared schema answers, on
 // §4 CONTROLS — accepted on both carriers, and kept
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-describe('#20080 §4 — what a nested relation may still carry', () => {
+describe('§4 — what a nested relation may still carry', () => {
   const day = new Date('2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z');
   it.each([
     ['a scalar', { account: { region: 'a' } }],
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ describe('#20080 §4 — what a nested relation may still carry', () => {
     expect(measure.data!.filter).toEqual(filter);
   });
 
-  it('[#20116] $ne carrying a list inside a relation is refused on both carriers, in the door\'s $ne sentence', () => {
+  it('$ne carrying a list inside a relation is refused on both carriers, in the door\'s $ne sentence', () => {
     // This row sat in the table above as "not yet at this save door (#20116)".
     // #20116 routes every slot this walk reaches through the query faces'
     // verdict, so the shape the analytics door refuses on chart is refused here.
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/door-reachability.testkit.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/door-reachability.testkit.test.ts
index c70f95b8d02..845f9f7e75f 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/door-reachability.testkit.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/door-reachability.testkit.test.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ const defOf = (s: unknown): unknown => (s as { _zod?: { def?: unknown } })?._zod
 // derivation or a coincidence. A zod upgrade that changes `clone()` semantics
 // changes the bridge's meaning, and that must be LOUD rather than silent.
 // ============================================================================
-describe('#5056 premise — which zod builders share the `_zod.def` object', () => {
+describe('the derived-clone bridge premise — which zod builders share the `_zod.def` object', () => {
   it('`.describe()` shares the def of the instance it was called on', () => {
     // THE mechanism behind #5056. `clone(inst)` without an explicit def reuses
     // `inst._zod.def`, so a described clone is def-IDENTICAL to its receiver.
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ describe('#5056 premise — which zod builders share the `_zod.def` object', ()
 // ============================================================================
 // 2. The three controls, on the instrument itself.
 // ============================================================================
-describe('#5056 controls — the walker finds doors, and only real ones', () => {
+describe('controls — the walker finds doors, and only real ones', () => {
   it('positive: live authoring roots resolve, and the graph is really walked', () => {
     const { verdict, nodeCount, rootCount } = measureDoors();
     expect(rootCount, 'every metadata type plus ObjectStackSchema').toBeGreaterThan(20);
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ describe('#5056 controls — the walker finds doors, and only real ones', () =>
 // ============================================================================
 // 3. The #5056 regression boundary itself.
 // ============================================================================
-describe('#5056 regression — the any-one-shared-property bridge stays dead', () => {
+describe('regression — the any-one-shared-property bridge stays dead; a share of the shape decides', () => {
   it('a 2-of-19 shared-leaf shape shares leaves with the live graph but is NOT derived from it', () => {
     // The reverse verification, standing rather than one-shot.
     //
@@ -213,6 +213,6 @@ describe('#5056 regression — the any-one-shared-property bridge stays dead', (
       label: I18nLabelSchema.describe('Display label'),
     });
     expect(cloneOverlap(allSharedLeaves), '2 shared of 2 keys').toBe(1);
-    expect(verdict(allSharedLeaves), 'the residual false-reachable case — see #5828').toBe('derived-clone');
+    expect(verdict(allSharedLeaves), 'the residual false-reachable case — no threshold excludes it').toBe('derived-clone');
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/expression-scope-app-root.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/expression-scope-app-root.pin.test.ts
index 45854da1135..0448ed75206 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/expression-scope-app-root.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/expression-scope-app-root.pin.test.ts
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ const sentenceContaining = (source: string, anchor: string): string => {
 /** Root tokens that are still true on these surfaces and must stay in place. */
 const SURVIVING_ROOTS = ['features', 'os.user'] as const;
 
-describe('#17203 — no UI prose face advertises `app` as an expression-scope root', () => {
+describe('no UI prose face advertises `app` as an expression-scope root — the renderer no longer mounts it', () => {
   describe('published faces (read by authoring tools and republished into the reference docs)', () => {
     it('`PageComponentSchema.visibleWhen`.describe() does not name `app` among the mounted roots', () => {
       // ⚠️ NOT `.shape` — ADR-0089 D3a made this schema a `.strict().transform(…)`
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/form-layout-inline-grid-retired.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/form-layout-inline-grid-retired.test.ts
index 1abe18b28ba..8fa0084ac73 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/form-layout-inline-grid-retired.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/form-layout-inline-grid-retired.test.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ const DOORS: readonly Door[] = [
     layoutPath: ['layout'],
   },
   {
-    name: "ComponentPropsMap['object-form'] (the #5068 props gate's dispatch)",
+    name: "ComponentPropsMap['object-form'] (the props gate's dispatch)",
     parse: (layout) => ComponentPropsMap['object-form'].safeParse({ objectName: 'crm_lead', layout }),
     layoutPath: ['layout'],
   },
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ const DOORS: readonly Door[] = [
   },
 ];
 
-describe('form `layout` — the retired arms are refused with the prescription (#20221)', () => {
+describe('form `layout` — the retired arms are refused with the prescription', () => {
   for (const door of DOORS) {
     describe(door.name, () => {
       it("'grid' → refused, prescribing 'vertical' and naming `columns` for multi-column", () => {
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ describe('form `layout` — the retired arms are refused with the prescription (
   });
 });
 
-describe(`D2 conversion \`${CONVERSION_ID}\` (#20221)`, () => {
+describe(`D2 conversion \`${CONVERSION_ID}\``, () => {
   const conversion = CONVERSIONS_BY_MAJOR[18]!.find((c) => c.id === CONVERSION_ID);
 
   it('is registered under protocol 18 and retired from the load path', () => {
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ describe(`D2 conversion \`${CONVERSION_ID}\` (#20221)`, () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('D3: the family entry and the chain step are registered (#20221)', () => {
+describe('D3: the family entry and the chain step are registered', () => {
   const step = MIGRATIONS_BY_MAJOR[18]!;
 
   it(`the protocol-18 step wires \`${CONVERSION_ID}\``, () => {
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/form-option-enum-derive.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/form-option-enum-derive.test.ts
index 967ec543c11..34d947210d8 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/form-option-enum-derive.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/form-option-enum-derive.test.ts
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ describe('ruling 乙 item 1, on real spec enums — each case with a firing and
     });
   });
 
-  describe('a spellable enum row with a labelled inline list (`object.sharingModel`, the #19331 shape)', () => {
+  describe('a spellable enum row with a labelled inline list (`object.sharingModel`, as its form row writes it)', () => {
     const members = servedEnum('object', 'sharingModel');
     const LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
       private: 'Private — owner only',
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/i18n-label-resolver.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/i18n-label-resolver.test.ts
index 732864b9518..4a6ba751cc6 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/i18n-label-resolver.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/i18n-label-resolver.test.ts
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ const PARITY_VECTORS: readonly ParityVector[] = [
   },
 ];
 
-describe('resolveI18nLabel — rule parity with objectui pickLocalized (#6765 / #6761 ruling B)', () => {
+describe('resolveI18nLabel — rule parity with objectui pickLocalized (ruled: one shared resolver, on the server)', () => {
   describe('the vector table really is the reference\'s behaviour', () => {
     it.each(PARITY_VECTORS)('$limb', ({ label, locale, pick }) => {
       // Asserted against the copied reference FIRST. If this row is wrong, the
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ describe('resolveI18nLabel — the producer-facing return shape', () => {
     expect(resolveI18nLabel({ en: '' }, 'en')).toBe('');
   });
 
-  it('composes with `??` into the producer call shape #6761 needs', () => {
+  it('composes with `??` into the producer call shape the dataset compiler needs', () => {
     // `dataset-compiler.ts:374/406` today: `typeof d.label === 'string' ? d.label : d.name`,
     // which publishes the MACHINE NAME as a display title for a map label.
     const dimension = { name: 'owner', label: { en: 'Owner', 'zh-CN': '负责人' } as I18nLabel };
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ describe('resolveI18nLabel — the producer-facing return shape', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('resolveI18nLabel — the rule departures converged with objectui#3907; one departure survives', () => {
+describe('resolveI18nLabel — the rule departures converged once objectui read only own, string-valued entries; one departure survives', () => {
   // Before objectui#3907 (landed as objectui PR #4359) this module's rule
   // documented two DELIBERATE narrowings of the reference. #4359 landed the
   // same two guards upstream, so the copied reference now answers identically
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ describe('resolveI18nLabel — the rule departures converged with objectui#3907;
     expect(resolveI18nLabel(offSpec, 'zh-CN')).toBe('Owner');
   });
 
-  it('refuses an off-contract scalar rather than stringifying it — the one departure objectui#3907 did NOT touch', () => {
+  it('refuses an off-contract scalar rather than stringifying it — the one departure the objectui map-limb fix did NOT touch', () => {
     // `pickLocalized` accepts `unknown` and stringifies numbers/booleans
     // (`pickLocalized(42, 'en')` is `'42'`). This resolver's parameter is the
     // declared `I18nLabel`, so the shapes below are type errors — the
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ describe('resolveI18nLabel — the rule departures converged with objectui#3907;
   });
 });
 
-describe('resolveI18nLabel — the type signature refuses the calls that caused #6761', () => {
+describe('resolveI18nLabel — the type signature refuses the calls behind the dropped dataset label', () => {
   // Reverse verification at the type level. `check:test-typecheck` compiles this
   // file (packages/spec/tsconfig.test.json), so each directive below is a REAL
   // check: delete the argument it guards and tsc goes red on the unused
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/i18n.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/i18n.test.ts
index b9467f69cfb..fe06c96ee7f 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/i18n.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/i18n.test.ts
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ describe('I18nLabelSchema', () => {
   // runtime to the same line. Each rejection pin asserts the named error
   // content (issue code + message), not just parse failure.
 
-  it('rejects a lone `key` — the enforcement hole #10492 closes', () => {
+  it('rejects a lone `key`, which used to parse as a locale map', () => {
     const r = I18nLabelSchema.safeParse({ key: 'common.save' });
     expect(r.success).toBe(false);
     const issues = JSON.stringify(r.error?.issues);
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ describe('I18nLabelSchema', () => {
     expect(
       description,
       'no key is generated for any label — a plain string is translatable only where a resolver + '
-      + 'translation slot exist for its surface (#5377)',
+      + 'translation slot exist for its surface',
     ).not.toMatch(/auto-generated/i);
   });
 });
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ describe('AriaPropsSchema', () => {
     expect(result.ariaLabel).toBe('Close dialog');
   });
 
-  it('accepts ariaLabel as an inline locale map — it rides `I18nLabelSchema` (#5728)', () => {
+  it('accepts ariaLabel as an inline locale map — it rides `I18nLabelSchema`', () => {
     const result = AriaPropsSchema.parse({ ariaLabel: { en: 'Close dialog', 'zh-CN': '关闭对话框' } });
     expect(result.ariaLabel).toEqual({ en: 'Close dialog', 'zh-CN': '关闭对话框' });
   });
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ describe('AriaPropsSchema', () => {
     })).toThrow();
   });
 
-  it('does not promise a generated translation key for `ariaLabel` either (#5377)', () => {
+  it('does not promise a generated translation key for `ariaLabel` either', () => {
     // The reporter's second surviving point. `ariaLabel` overrides the shared
     // describe, so it never carried the "auto-generated" sentence verbatim —
     // but it inherited the assumption, and there is no bundle slot addressing
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ function reject(schema: { safeParse: (v: unknown) => { success: boolean; error?:
   return JSON.stringify(r.error?.issues ?? []);
 }
 
-describe('#4001 批 16 — AriaPropsSchema is closed (the door is real)', () => {
+describe('批 16 — AriaPropsSchema is closed (the door is real)', () => {
   it('the controls parse — this suite fails closed, not by rejecting everything', () => {
     expect(AriaPropsSchema.safeParse({}).success).toBe(true);
     expect(AriaPropsSchema.safeParse({ ariaLabel: 'Close dialog' }).success).toBe(true);
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ describe('#4001 批 16 — AriaPropsSchema is closed (the door is real)', () =>
     expect(reject(objectuiAria as never, { ariaLabel: 'x', bogus: 1 })).toContain('these ARIA attributes');
   });
 
-  it('has no `.merge()` riders left at all — the four it had were retired at #4988', async () => {
+  it('has no `.merge()` riders left at all — the four it had were retired with the interaction-config family', async () => {
     // REPLACED WHOLESALE at #4988, not re-spelled. This test used to name five
     // shapes in `animation` / `dnd` / `keyboard` / `touch` and assert each still
     // accepted an undeclared key, because `X.merge(AriaPropsSchema.partial())`
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/inline-action-type.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/inline-action-type.test.ts
index dda74e15c2c..c5da44e7503 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/inline-action-type.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/inline-action-type.test.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ const legacyTo: InlineAction = { type: 'url', to: '/pricing' };
 const scalar: InlineAction = 42;
 void [fromUnknown, scalar];
 
-describe('[#19920] InlineAction is an inline action body, not unknown', () => {
+describe('InlineAction is an inline action body, not unknown', () => {
   it.each([
     ['a url action', urlAction],
     ['an api action with a static payload', apiAction],
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/inline-action.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/inline-action.test.ts
index 9f81e20bad6..0391f14e54d 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/inline-action.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/inline-action.test.ts
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ describe('InlineActionSchema — identity is optional, unlike a registered actio
  * same-name union. `bodyExtra` is that key — already declared on `ActionSchema`
  * for `type:'api'` bodies, now picked onto the inline shape.
  */
-describe('InlineActionSchema — `bodyExtra` is the payload key, `params` is not (#5777)', () => {
+describe('InlineActionSchema — `bodyExtra` is the payload key, `params` is not', () => {
   it('accepts the showcase submit button verbatim, `{{page.<var>}}` tokens included', () => {
     // examples/app-showcase/src/ui/pages/contact-form.page.ts — the site the
     // #5068 gate reported. Values are template tokens, not literals: the
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ describe('InlineActionSchema — `bodyExtra` is the payload key, `params` is not
  * regression that drops either arm is a wrong instruction again, and the bare
  * "expected array, received object" would keep a `toThrow()`-shaped test green.
  */
-describe('object-form `params` prescribes per action type (#6828)', () => {
+describe('object-form `params` prescribes per action type — its url meaning is retired, not re-keyed', () => {
   /** The `params` issue a parse produced, or a readable failure if it produced none. */
   const paramsIssue = (r: { success: boolean; error?: z.ZodError }) => {
     expect(r.success).toBe(false);
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ describe('element:button declares its action', () => {
     expect(r.success).toBe(false);
   });
 
-  it('carries an api payload through to parse output (#5777, end to end)', () => {
+  it('carries an api payload through to parse output (end to end)', () => {
     // The #5068 gate parses `properties` through this schema, so this is the
     // exact call whose `component-props-invalid` finding the showcase page
     // produced before the ruling.
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/interaction-config-retirement.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/interaction-config-retirement.test.ts
index 8cdbfaeec62..f9af9c0f4a5 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/interaction-config-retirement.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/interaction-config-retirement.test.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ import {
 // conditional-type pin in this package was a no-op until #5286 (tsconfig excluded
 // `**/*.test.ts`; vitest never enables `typecheck`), so the compiler-API walk
 // with anti-vacuity guards is the load-bearing instrument.
-describe('[#4988] ui/ interaction config family retirement', () => {
+describe('ui/ interaction config family retirement — renderer behaviour, not authored metadata', () => {
   /** Every name the five modules exported (32 schema/enum consts + 32 types). */
   const RETIRED_NAMES = [
     // touch.zod.ts
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ describe('[#4988] ui/ interaction config family retirement', () => {
     // ── ABSENCE (every entry, not just ./ui) ──────────────────────────────
     for (const name of RETIRED_NAMES) {
       const holders = holdersOf(name);
-      expect(holders, `${name} must have zero holders after #4988`).toEqual([]);
+      expect(holders, `${name} must have zero holders after the family retirement`).toEqual([]);
     }
 
     // ── SURVIVAL (on ./ui, where they live) ───────────────────────────────
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ describe('[#4988] ui/ interaction config family retirement', () => {
       }
     };
     walk(srcRoot);
-    expect(importers, 'a resurrected import means the retirement is being undone — re-read #4988').toEqual([]);
+    expect(importers, 'a resurrected import means the retirement is being undone — these are renderer behaviour, not authored metadata').toEqual([]);
   });
 
   it('runtime namespace agrees with the compiler view', async () => {
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ describe('[#4988] ui/ interaction config family retirement', () => {
     }
   });
 
-  it('the bare `ConflictResolution` name is now published by NOBODY — #4738 left it to ./ui alone', async () => {
+  it('the bare `ConflictResolution` name is now published by NOBODY — the connector-side rename left it to ./ui alone', async () => {
     // #4738 renamed the connector-side enum to `ConnectorConflictResolution`
     // BECAUSE `ui/offline.zod.ts` owned the bare name. That owner is gone, so
     // the bare name is unowned rather than re-homed: the rename is not undone
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/joined-report-block-type.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/joined-report-block-type.test.ts
index 5efe1e7f6f1..4354f9a42b2 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/joined-report-block-type.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/joined-report-block-type.test.ts
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ const reportWithScalarBlock: Report = { name: 'r', label: 'R', type: 'joined', b
 const parsedScalarBlock: ParsedBlock = 42;
 void [fromUnknown, scalar, undeclaredKey, retiredChart, nestedJoined, reportWithScalarBlock, parsedScalarBlock];
 
-describe('[#19920] JoinedReportBlock is a joined-report block, not unknown', () => {
+describe('JoinedReportBlock is a joined-report block, not unknown', () => {
   it('each block typed as JoinedReportBlock parses at the block door', () => {
     for (const block of [openBlock, listBlock]) {
       expect(JoinedReportBlockSchema.safeParse(block).success).toBe(true);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/master-detail-detail-sort-field-retirement.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/master-detail-detail-sort-field-retirement.test.ts
index c74dc1fc9eb..6e4be9eb57b 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/master-detail-detail-sort-field-retirement.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/master-detail-detail-sort-field-retirement.test.ts
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ describe('tree-scoped absence: nothing inside the declared radius still authors
     expect(judge('"ui/ObjectMasterDetailFormProps:details.sortField",')).toBeNull();
   });
 
-  it('the narrowing exempts only an inline grid field\'s own `sortField` (#21768)', () => {
+  it('the narrowing exempts only an inline grid field\'s own `sortField`, a key the grid widget declares', () => {
     // The inline `grid` form field declares the key: exempt, in each spelling of its widget.
     expect(judge("customFields: [{ name: 'lines', type: 'grid', columns: [{ name: 'qty', type: 'number' }], sortField: 'position' }]")).toBeNull();
     expect(judge('{ "name": "lines", "type": "grid", "sortField": "position" }')).toBeNull();
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/notification-embed-retirement.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/notification-embed-retirement.test.ts
index b77d01acceb..e63b1474e80 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/notification-embed-retirement.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/notification-embed-retirement.test.ts
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ import {
 // Every `not`-shaped assertion carries an anti-vacuity guard, because the
 // failure mode of an absence pin is passing for the wrong reason (a path typo,
 // an entry that stops resolving, an empty enumeration).
-describe('[#5015] NotificationAction / EmbedConfig removal — no entry exports either name', () => {
+describe('NotificationAction / EmbedConfig removal — no entry exports either name', () => {
   /** The two schema names + the type aliases they published. */
   const RETIRED = [
     'NotificationActionSchema',
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/notification.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/notification.test.ts
index c1ec6f7fd85..1ca8001fe09 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/notification.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/notification.test.ts
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ describe('Type exports', () => {
   // flips to `true` and the `false` assignment fails `tsc --noEmit`. The bare
   // `Notification(Schema)` belongs to `@objectstack/spec/api` alone (#4610);
   // `NotificationConfig(Schema)` left the spec surface entirely.
-  it('does not re-expose the bare Notification/NotificationConfig names from ./ui (#4610)', () => {
+  it('does not re-expose the bare Notification/NotificationConfig names from ./ui — the bare `Notification` belongs to ./api alone', () => {
     type UiNotificationModule = typeof import('./notification.zod');
     const hasNotificationSchema: 'NotificationSchema' extends keyof UiNotificationModule
       ? true
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ describe('Type exports', () => {
 // the evidence is corrected, the retirement is NOT reopened, `./api` is NOT a
 // migration target, and the methodology lesson is written down where the next
 // cross-repo liveness verdict gets made.
-describe('[#5781] ./ui notification tombstone — corrected evidence, no false FROM → TO', () => {
+describe('./ui notification tombstone — corrected evidence, no false FROM → TO', () => {
   const SOURCE = path.resolve(
     path.dirname(url.fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)),
     'notification.zod.ts',
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ describe('[#5781] ./ui notification tombstone — corrected evidence, no false F
       .trim();
   })();
 
-  it('finds the #4610 note at all (anti-vacuity)', () => {
+  it('finds the tombstone note at all (anti-vacuity)', () => {
     expect(tombstone).toMatch(/^\[#4610\]/);
     expect(tombstone).toMatch(/NotificationConfigSchema/);
     expect(tombstone.length).toBeGreaterThan(800);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/page.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/page.test.ts
index a89a951d4fb..02a89fb8280 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/page.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/page.test.ts
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ describe('Page ARIA Integration', () => {
 // implementation had a single caller, so the whole `ResponsiveConfig` layout
 // vocabulary left with its last carrier.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-describe('[#11027] PageComponentSchema — retired `responsive`', () => {
+describe('PageComponentSchema — retired `responsive`, which no renderer read', () => {
   it('REJECTS an authored `responsive` with the prescription (not "unrecognized key")', () => {
     let message = '';
     try {
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ describe('ElementDataSourceSchema', () => {
 // ElementDataSourceSchema `filter` — the ViewFilterRule ARRAY orthography
 // (ui#6206-B reaching the binding: #15442, decision batch #55, option A)
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-describe('ElementDataSourceSchema `filter` — one filter orthography platform-wide (ui#6206-B, #15442)', () => {
+describe('ElementDataSourceSchema `filter` — one filter orthography platform-wide, the ViewFilterRule array', () => {
   const RULES = [{ field: 'status', operator: 'equals', value: 'active' }];
   const RECORD_FORM = { status: 'active' };
   /** The objectui pin's own test authors write THIS at `dataSource.filter` — an AST tuple array. */
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/react-blocks.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/react-blocks.test.ts
index db7ede8aab3..2bf6fe45af7 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/react-blocks.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/react-blocks.test.ts
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ describe('REACT_BLOCKS — overlay/schema seam', () => {
  * hold HERE or the gate rejects what the contract still advertises (or, worse,
  * stops rejecting what came back).
  */
-describe('REACT_BLOCKS — the record:* family is out (#4413)', () => {
+describe('REACT_BLOCKS — the record:* family is out, since no renderer read the props it published', () => {
   it('publishes no block that needs a record context', () => {
     const offenders = REACT_BLOCKS.filter((b) => isRecordContextBlockType(b.schemaType));
     expect(offenders.map((b) => b.tag)).toEqual([]);
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ describe('REACT_BLOCKS — the record:* family is out (#4413)', () => {
  * both directions — the canonical props must be published, and a retired
  * spelling must not quietly come back (or stay published beside its tombstone).
  */
-describe('REACT_BLOCKS — vocabulary convergence (#11284) and the ListView alias retirement (#14791)', () => {
+describe('REACT_BLOCKS — vocabulary converges on the metadata tier, and the ListView alias retirement', () => {
   it('every curated dataProps entry resolves to a real schema prop', () => {
     // `build-react-blocks-contract`'s allow-list FILTERS the schema's props, so
     // a curated name the schema does not declare is silently dropped from the
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ describe('REACT_BLOCKS — vocabulary convergence (#11284) and the ListView alia
     }
   });
 
-  it('ListView: objectName / viewType are RETIRED — data / type are the only spellings, data required (#14791)', () => {
+  it('ListView: objectName / viewType are RETIRED — data / type are the only spellings, data required', () => {
     const lv = REACT_BLOCKS.find((b) => b.tag === 'ListView')!;
     const names = lv.interactions.map((i) => i.name);
     // No alias and no deprecation row: retired with no window.
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/report-joined-block-dataset.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/report-joined-block-dataset.test.ts
index 73462b9739e..b672138d74c 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/report-joined-block-dataset.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/report-joined-block-dataset.test.ts
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ describe('the joined reports measured at the census parse unchanged', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('the report form offers a block\'s `dataset` as the dataset picker, marked required (#21714)', () => {
+describe('the report form offers a block\'s `dataset` as the dataset picker, marked required', () => {
   it('the "Joined blocks" repeater\'s `dataset` row declares `widget: \'ref:dataset\'` and `required: true`', () => {
     // Studio's report inspector renders this row spec: the widget hint picks
     // the cell's control, and `required` draws the column's marker and the
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/report.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/report.test.ts
index 6372178298c..7267ed356f2 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/report.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/report.test.ts
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ describe('Joined reports refuse top-level selection keys', () => {
  * Each refusal asserts what a schema door owes: the issue `code`, its `path`,
  * and the first sentence of the prescription.
  */
-describe('A joined report draws no chart — block `chart` removed, container `chart` refused (#20161)', () => {
+describe('A joined report draws no chart — block `chart` removed, container `chart` refused', () => {
   const BLOCK = { name: 'open_block', type: 'summary', dataset: 'tasks', rows: ['status'], values: ['task_count'] } as const;
   const JOINED = { name: 'overview', label: 'Overview', type: 'joined', blocks: [BLOCK] } as const;
   const CHART = { type: 'bar', xAxis: 'status', yAxis: 'task_count' } as const;
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ describe('A joined report draws no chart — block `chart` removed, container `c
  * report authors (dashboard widgets had their own `options.sortBy` channel),
  * so a matrix report's date columns rendered in whatever order the rows arrived.
  */
-describe('Report ordering (#3916)', () => {
+describe('Report ordering — a report declares its own sort', () => {
   it('accepts an order over a dimension and a measure, direction defaulting to asc', () => {
     const r = ReportSchema.parse({
       name: 'hours_matrix', label: 'Hours', type: 'matrix',
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ describe('Report ordering (#3916)', () => {
  * so the prescribed key is proved by a full green parse of an otherwise-valid
  * report, not merely by the absence of an `unrecognized_keys` issue.
  */
-describe('ReportSchema — scope-filter aliases point at `runtimeFilter` (#5013)', () => {
+describe('ReportSchema — scope-filter aliases point at `runtimeFilter`', () => {
   const VALID = {
     name: 'pipeline', label: 'Pipeline', type: 'summary',
     dataset: 'sales', rows: ['stage'], values: ['revenue'],
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/responsive.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/responsive.test.ts
index fb7d9cc6392..c887dd19186 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/responsive.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/responsive.test.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import { PageComponentSchema } from './page.zod';
 // the curation's job is to catch the vocabularies authors still carry in —
 // the Tailwind ramp, and the knobs of the retired `responsive` block.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-describe('unknown keys are rejected, not stripped (#4001 batch 13)', () => {
+describe('unknown keys are rejected, not stripped (batch 13)', () => {
   const unknownKeyIssue = (schema: { safeParse: (v: unknown) => any }, value: unknown) => {
     const result = schema.safeParse(value);
     expect(result.success).toBe(false);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/section-group-reference.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/section-group-reference.test.ts
index e1568c5b205..3a8c0300d76 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/section-group-reference.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/section-group-reference.test.ts
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ function at(issues: Issue[], path: Array<string | number>): Issue {
   return issue!;
 }
 
-describe('record:details section — the field-group reference form (#13855)', () => {
+describe('record:details section — the field-group reference form, members derived from the group', () => {
   it('accepts a group reference and CARRIES THE KEY THROUGH the parse', () => {
     const parsed = detailsAccept({ sections: [{ group: 'contact_info' }] });
     const sections = parsed.sections as Array<Record<string, unknown>>;
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ describe('record:details section — the field-group reference form (#13855)', (
   });
 });
 
-describe('form.sections — the field-group reference form (#13855)', () => {
+describe('form.sections — the field-group reference form, members derived from the group', () => {
   it('accepts a group reference and carries the key through transform AND fold', () => {
     // The value has to survive `FormSectionSchema`'s `.transform`, the form
     // view's `.superRefine`, and the `groups → sections` `.overwrite()` fold.
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/strictness-batch14.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/strictness-batch14.test.ts
index 902c4c99460..d2adcb86add 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/strictness-batch14.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/strictness-batch14.test.ts
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ describe('批 14 — curated prescriptions', () => {
    * (prescriptions, aliases, the executor projection) is pinned in
    * `dashboard-compareto.test.ts`.
    */
-  it('dashboard compareTo: no longer a union — the #4001 arm-error limit does not apply to it (#5011)', () => {
+  it('dashboard compareTo: no longer a union but the executor contract — the strictness arm-error limit does not apply to it', () => {
     const r = DashboardWidgetSchema.safeParse({
       id: 'w1', dataset: 'sales', values: ['revenue'],
       compareTo: { offset: '7d', granularity: 'month' },
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ function importersOf(targetRel: string): string[] {
   return out.sort();
 }
 
-describe('批 14 — the file that split, after #5015 retired its dead half', () => {
+describe('批 14 — the file that split, after its dead half was retired', () => {
   // ── What this block is now, and why it is not just deleted ────────────────
   //
   // 批 14 measured eleven strip sites and reclassified two — `NotificationAction`
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ describe('批 14 — the file that split, after #5015 retired its dead half', ()
     expect(importersOf('ui/sharing.zod')).not.toContain('stack.zod.ts');
   });
 
-  it('SharingConfig keeps the live carrier that made this file split (#5015 took the other half)', () => {
+  it('SharingConfig keeps the live carrier that made this file split (EmbedConfig, the other half, was retired)', () => {
     // The carrier is specific, and that asymmetry IS the 批 14 reclassification:
     // the form view names `SharingConfigSchema`. `EmbedConfigSchema` was named by
     // nothing, which is what #5015 acted on.
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-authoring-wire-split.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-authoring-wire-split.test.ts
index 4cb989ed9a7..59cd0895a4d 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-authoring-wire-split.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-authoring-wire-split.test.ts
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ const OVERLAY_BASE = {
 // ===========================================================================
 // 1. The doors — a posture is a property of a PARSE (#4583)
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#5074 — the two doors, which is the whole point of the split', () => {
+describe('the two doors, which is the whole point of the split: strict at authoring, reopened on the wire', () => {
   it('the `view` metadata type resolves to a registered schema (the wire / 422 door)', () => {
     expect(getMetadataTypeSchema('view')).toBeDefined();
   });
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ describe('#5074 — the two doors, which is the whole point of the split', () =>
 // ===========================================================================
 // 2. The AUTHORING gate — tightened
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#5074 — `ViewItemSchema` is the authoring gate and is now strict', () => {
+describe('`ViewItemSchema` is the authoring gate and is now strict', () => {
   it('the one-letter `confg` typo is REJECTED, not stripped into an empty ViewItem', () => {
     // The failure the ruling turned on: before the split this parsed clean and
     // produced a ViewItem with no view configuration at all — #1535's
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ describe('#5074 — `ViewItemSchema` is the authoring gate and is now strict', (
     expect(reject(ListViewSchema, { columns: ['name'], sort: [CONSOLE_SORT_ROW] })).toContain('console row key');
   });
 
-  it('…and `direction` is still answered with `order` — #4721, the silently REVERSED sort', () => {
+  it('…and `direction` is still answered with `order` — it once parsed as a silently REVERSED sort', () => {
     // `{ field, direction: 'desc' }` used to parse to `{ field, order: 'asc' }`.
     // This alias is why closing the sort entry was worth doing at all.
     expect(reject(ListViewSchema, { columns: ['name'], sort: [{ field: 'name', direction: 'desc' }] }))
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ describe('#5074 — `ViewItemSchema` is the authoring gate and is now strict', (
 // ===========================================================================
 // 3. The WIRE door — every console PUT body still parses, at every depth
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#5074 — the wire door accepts what the platform itself writes', () => {
+describe('the wire door accepts what the platform itself writes', () => {
   it('member 1 carries the pin round-trip: `{...storedItem, isPinned}` (`ObjectView.tsx:882`)', () => {
     accept(ViewItemWireSchema, { ...RECORD, isPinned: true, sortOrder: 3 });
     accept(ViewMetadataSchema, { ...RECORD, isPinned: true, sortOrder: 3 });
@@ -269,13 +269,13 @@ describe('#5074 — the wire door accepts what the platform itself writes', () =
   // It runs in the same `z.preprocess` stage as `stripViewConsoleDecorations`,
   // so it is the first thing every body above meets. These pin that it is inert
   // on the wire — the failure mode of a precondition is 422-ing our own writes.
-  it('#5599 — the precondition does not disturb the decoration strip it shares a stage with', () => {
+  it('the identity precondition does not disturb the decoration strip it shares a stage with', () => {
     // The strip runs only AFTER the identity check passes; a decorated body
     // must still arrive at the union stripped, not rejected.
     accept(ViewMetadataSchema, { ...OVERLAY_BASE, sort: [CONSOLE_SORT_ROW], filter: [CONSOLE_FILTER_ROW] });
   });
 
-  it('#5599 — a body carrying ONLY an aux round-trip key still reaches the union', () => {
+  it('identity precondition — a body carrying ONLY an aux round-trip key still reaches the union', () => {
     // `updateView` PUTs `{ ...current, ...partial }`; when there is no stored
     // item to merge, `current` is empty and the body is the bare partial.
     // `isPinned`/`sortOrder` are declared on member 1, so they are vocabulary.
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ describe('#5074 — the wire door accepts what the platform itself writes', () =
     }
   });
 
-  it('#5599 — …but a body speaking NO view key is stopped before any member runs', () => {
+  it('identity precondition — …but a body speaking NO view key is stopped before any member runs', () => {
     const r = ViewMetadataSchema.safeParse({ nope: 1 });
     expect(r.success).toBe(false);
     if (r.success) return;
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ describe('#5074 — the wire door accepts what the platform itself writes', () =
 // ===========================================================================
 // 4. The strip removes the decoration and NOTHING else
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#5074 — `stripViewConsoleDecorations`, the write-path mirror of `stripReadDecorations`', () => {
+describe('`stripViewConsoleDecorations`, the write-path mirror of `stripReadDecorations`', () => {
   it('declares its vocabulary rather than hard-coding a key at the call site', () => {
     expect([...VIEW_CONSOLE_ROW_DECORATIONS]).toEqual(['id']);
   });
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ describe('#5074 — `stripViewConsoleDecorations`, the write-path mirror of `str
 // ===========================================================================
 // 5. The two landmines the ruling named
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#5074 — landmine 1: `/api/v1/meta/types/view` must still get an `anyOf`', () => {
+describe('landmine 1: `/api/v1/meta/types/view` must still get an `anyOf`', () => {
   it('the REGISTERED schema converts to a four-member `anyOf`, through the preprocess', () => {
     // Studio's SchemaForm is built from this. `z.preprocess` makes the root a
     // pipe; a pipe converts to its output side, so the union survives — but
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ describe('#5074 — landmine 1: `/api/v1/meta/types/view` must still get an `any
     expect(json).not.toContain('"console row key"');
   });
 
-  it('#5599 — the identity precondition is invisible to the emitted contract', () => {
+  it('the identity precondition is invisible to the emitted contract', () => {
     // This is WHY the check reports through the existing preprocess's `ctx`
     // rather than as an extra pipe stage. `z.unknown().superRefine(…).pipe(union)`
     // would satisfy the output-direction assertion above and silently degrade
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ describe('#5074 — landmine 1: `/api/v1/meta/types/view` must still get an `any
   });
 });
 
-describe('#5074 — landmine 2: the lazySchema Proxy / ADR-0089 D3a trap', () => {
+describe('landmine 2: the lazySchema Proxy / ADR-0089 D3a trap', () => {
   // `lazySchema` returns a Proxy, and zod keys its `toJSONSchema` `seen` map on
   // the node it was handed. When a wrapper-type processor (pipe/lazy/optional)
   // then looks itself up by the REAL instance, the entry is missing and zod
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-console-round-trip-keys.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-console-round-trip-keys.test.ts
index b3c47f921e0..e4cbc4cd7af 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-console-round-trip-keys.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-console-round-trip-keys.test.ts
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ function meaningOf(field: any): string | undefined {
   return undefined;
 }
 
-describe('VIEW_CONSOLE_ROUND_TRIP_KEYS — the census record (#20456)', () => {
+describe('VIEW_CONSOLE_ROUND_TRIP_KEYS — the census record of the keys the console reads back', () => {
   it('equals the measured census, key for key and branch for branch', () => {
     const record = Object.fromEntries(
       Object.entries(VIEW_CONSOLE_ROUND_TRIP_KEYS).map(([k, v]) => [k, [...v].sort()]),
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ describe('VIEW_CONSOLE_ROUND_TRIP_KEYS — the census record (#20456)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('each census key is declared on each member that judges its row (#20456)', () => {
+describe('each census key is declared on each member that judges its row', () => {
   const pairs = Object.entries(CENSUS).flatMap(([key, branches]) => branches.map((b) => [key, b] as const));
 
   it.each(pairs)('`%s` is a declared, described member of `%s`', (key, branch) => {
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ describe('each census key is declared on each member that judges its row (#20456
   });
 });
 
-describe('the declarations are typed, not passthrough (#20456)', () => {
+describe('the declarations are typed, not passthrough', () => {
   it.each([
     ['isPinned', 'yes'],
     ['sortOrder', 1.5],
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ describe('the declarations are typed, not passthrough (#20456)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('what the census mapped to an existing spelling stays undeclared (#20456)', () => {
+describe('what the census mapped to an existing spelling stays undeclared', () => {
   it.each([
     ['objectName', 'object'],
     ['id', 'name'],
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ describe('what the census mapped to an existing spelling stays undeclared (#2045
   });
 });
 
-describe('the authoring door still refuses the console-only keys (#20456)', () => {
+describe('the authoring door still refuses the console-only keys', () => {
   it.each(['visibility', 'isPinned', 'sortOrder', '_isOverride'])('`defineViewItem` input with `%s` is refused by name', (key) => {
     const r = ViewItemSchema.safeParse({ ...ROW.viewItem, [key]: VALUE[key] });
     expect(r.success).toBe(false);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-field-order-composition.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-field-order-composition.pin.test.ts
index 58b21ffda8f..24bbef4e78d 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-field-order-composition.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-field-order-composition.pin.test.ts
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ const COMPOSED_LIST = {
   fieldOrder: ['amount', 'owner'],
 };
 
-describe('[#15184] the list-view field composition is declared, not implied', () => {
+describe('the list-view field composition is declared, not implied', () => {
   describe('declaration — the published `.describe()` of each composing key', () => {
     it.each(COMPOSITION)('`%s` names all three keys of the composition', (key) => {
       const text = description(key);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-filter-rule-value-shape.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-filter-rule-value-shape.test.ts
index 9bbf7f137da..18bddf2040f 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-filter-rule-value-shape.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-filter-rule-value-shape.test.ts
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ function valueIssue(result: ReturnType<typeof parse>) {
   return issues[0]!;
 }
 
-describe('#6227 — the reported shape is refused at authoring time', () => {
+describe('the reported shape — a set operator carrying a scalar — is refused at authoring time', () => {
   it('refuses the card example: a set operator carrying a scalar', () => {
     const result = parse({ field: 'stage', operator: 'not_in', value: 'won' });
     const issue = valueIssue(result);
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ describe('#6227 — the reported shape is refused at authoring time', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('#6227 — the three constraints mirror the runtime gate exactly', () => {
+describe('the three constraints mirror the runtime gate exactly', () => {
   it.each([
     ['in', 'scalar string', 'won'],
     ['in', 'scalar number', 5],
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ describe('#6227 — the three constraints mirror the runtime gate exactly', () =
   });
 });
 
-describe('#6227 — what stays accepted (the #5685 side: never stricter than the runtime)', () => {
+describe('what stays accepted (never stricter than the runtime)', () => {
   it.each([
     ['in + array', { field: 'f', operator: 'in', value: ['a', 'b'] }],
     ['not_in + array', { field: 'f', operator: 'not_in', value: ['a'] }],
@@ -246,13 +246,13 @@ describe('#6227 — what stays accepted (the #5685 side: never stricter than the
   });
 });
 
-describe('#19514 — the scalar arm, in both directions', () => {
+describe('the scalar arm, in both directions: a single-valued operator refuses an array', () => {
   /** The three pins this arm MOVED, named as such so the reversal is legible. */
   it.each([
     ['equals + array', { field: 'f', operator: 'equals', value: ['a', 'b'] }, 'equals'],
     ['not_equals + array', { field: 'f', operator: 'not_equals', value: ['a'] }, 'not_equals'],
     ['greater_than + array', { field: 'f', operator: 'greater_than', value: [1, 2] }, 'greater_than'],
-  ])('refuses %s — recorded as ACCEPTED at #6227, reversed on measurement', (_label, rule, operator) => {
+  ])('refuses %s — recorded as ACCEPTED by the first value-shape rule, reversed on measurement', (_label, rule, operator) => {
     const issue = valueIssue(parse(rule as Record<string, unknown>));
     expect(issue.code).toBe('custom');
     expect(issue.path).toEqual(['value']);
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ describe('#19514 — the scalar arm, in both directions', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('#19751 — an ABSENT value on an operator that takes one is refused', () => {
+describe('an ABSENT value on an operator that takes one is refused', () => {
   /** The rule as a view stores it when the comparand was never written. */
   const valueless = (operator: string, field = 'f') => ({ field, operator });
 
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ describe('#19751 — an ABSENT value on an operator that takes one is refused',
   });
 });
 
-describe('#6227 — the exported vocabularies are the ones the check reads', () => {
+describe('the exported vocabularies are the ones the check reads', () => {
   it('declares exactly the operators that lower to $in / $nin', () => {
     expect([...VIEW_FILTER_LIST_VALUE_OPERATORS]).toEqual(['in', 'not_in']);
   });
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ describe('#6227 — the exported vocabularies are the ones the check reads', ()
   });
 });
 
-describe('#6227 — the refinement does not disturb the schema around it', () => {
+describe('the value-shape refinement does not disturb the schema around it', () => {
   it('still folds alias operators to canonical on a CONFORMING rule', () => {
     const parsed = ViewFilterRuleSchema.parse({ field: 'tags', operator: 'nin', value: ['a'] });
     expect(parsed.operator).toBe('not_in');
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-filter-rule-wire-id.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-filter-rule-wire-id.test.ts
index 67eed23fa5f..530e46f9335 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-filter-rule-wire-id.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-filter-rule-wire-id.test.ts
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ const CONSOLE_PUT_BODY = { ...OVERLAY_BASE, filter: [CONSOLE_FILTER_ROW] } as co
 // ===========================================================================
 // 1. The door — a parse must exist, or none of the rest means anything
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#5114 — the door this shape is reached through', () => {
+describe('the door this shape is reached through', () => {
   it('the `view` metadata type resolves to a registered schema (the save-time 422 door)', () => {
     // `saveMetaItem` validates the PUT body against this schema and answers 422
     // on failure. Without this door the rest of the file would be theory.
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ describe('#5114 — the door this shape is reached through', () => {
 // ===========================================================================
 // 2. The regression itself — all three paths the console body travels
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#5114 — a console-written filter row, judged per door (#5074)', () => {
+describe('a console-written filter row, judged per door: refused by name when authored, stripped on the wire', () => {
   it('1/3 `ViewFilterRuleSchema` — the AUTHORING shape — now REJECTS the row, by name', () => {
     // Inverted vs #5114: this was green while the hotfix stood. The rejection
     // has to carry its reason, or an author fixes it by inventing a key.
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ describe('#5114 — a console-written filter row, judged per door (#5074)', () =
 // ===========================================================================
 // 3. Open is not undefended — what reopening did NOT give away
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#5114 — the close gave away no validation, and declared no UI key', () => {
+describe('the close gave away no validation, and declared no UI key', () => {
   it('`id` is DROPPED on the wire path, not declared onto the surface', () => {
     // The distinction the whole fix turns on, re-measured at the door that now
     // owns the tolerance. Declaring `id` would make it authorable (and teach an
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ describe('#5114 — the close gave away no validation, and declared no UI key',
 // ===========================================================================
 // 4. The mechanism, pinned where it bit — `.strip()` does not recurse
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('#5114 — why the flattened member could not rescue this block', () => {
+describe('why the flattened member could not rescue this block', () => {
   // Both assertions here run on the FILTER-FREE overlay on purpose: they are
   // controls for the member's own posture, so they must hold whichever way
   // `ViewFilterRuleSchema` is written — and they did, across the #5114 reopen
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-form-features-root.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-form-features-root.test.ts
index e59de96b9e7..dd5419c7178 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-form-features-root.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-form-features-root.test.ts
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ const formWithFieldPredicate = (visibleWhen: unknown) => ({
   sections: [{ fields: [{ field: 'phone', visibleWhen }] }],
 });
 
-describe('form-view predicates reject the features.* root (objectui#6262)', () => {
+describe('form-view predicates reject the features.* root', () => {
   it('refuses a field-level visibleWhen naming features.* (bare-string shorthand)', () => {
     const issues = reject(formWithFieldPredicate('features.multiOrgEnabled == true'));
     expectFeaturesRefusal(issues, ['sections', 0, 'fields', 0, 'visibleWhen']);
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ describe('positive controls — the scanner narrows exactly as far as the ruling
     accept(formWithFieldPredicate('record.tag == "features"'));
   });
 
-  it('an AST-only envelope no longer reaches this scanner — #15811 refuses it one layer up', () => {
+  it('an AST-only envelope no longer reaches this scanner — an evaluated slot requires a `source`, so it is refused one layer up', () => {
     // It used to pass here, and the reason was sound as far as it went: the
     // authoring shape is the source string, and an AST-only envelope has
     // nothing to scan. What that boundary left open is that the slot admitted
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-gantt-tree-config-closed-15469.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-gantt-tree-config-closed-15469.test.ts
index 0b53e14f8a6..59a5f9e34fe 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-gantt-tree-config-closed-15469.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-gantt-tree-config-closed-15469.test.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ const GANTT_REQUIRED = { startDateField: 'start_date', endDateField: 'end_date',
 // ===========================================================================
 // 1. The card's probe — five blocks, one undeclared key, two lit controls
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('the card\'s probe: every view config block refuses `bogus_key_xyz` (#15469)', () => {
+describe('the probe that found the gap: every view config block refuses `bogus_key_xyz`', () => {
   it('CONTROLS — the mechanism works in this zod, in this process', () => {
     // Two spellings of a closed object, so "the sibling schemas refuse" below
     // is measured against a lit instrument rather than assumed.
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ describe('the card\'s probe: every view config block refuses `bogus_key_xyz` (#1
     expect(issues.filter((i) => i.code !== 'unrecognized_keys'), 'the ONLY issue is the unknown key').toHaveLength(0);
   });
 
-  it('gantt — the strictObject error suggests the closest declared key (the #14471 typo)', () => {
+  it('gantt — the strictObject error suggests the closest declared key (the `colourField` typo)', () => {
     const [issue] = refuse(GanttConfigSchema, { ...GANTT_REQUIRED, colourField: 'status' });
     expect(issue.message).toContain('`colourField`');
     expect(issue.message).toMatch(/Did you mean .*`colourField` → `colorField`/);
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ const FULL_TEN = {
   },
 } as const;
 
-describe('the ten keys plugin-gantt read through the window are DECLARED (#15469)', () => {
+describe('the ten keys plugin-gantt read through the window are DECLARED', () => {
   it('the shape carries exactly the ten, beside the nineteen it already had', () => {
     const keys = Object.keys(GanttConfigSchema.shape);
     for (const k of Object.keys(FULL_TEN)) expect(keys, `${k} must be a declared member`).toContain(k);
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ describe('the ten keys plugin-gantt read through the window are DECLARED (#15469
 // ===========================================================================
 // 3. The doors — the closure reaches an author through the schemas they parse with
 // ===========================================================================
-describe('a gantt typo is refused AT `gantt` through the real doors (#15469)', () => {
+describe('a gantt typo is refused AT `gantt` through the real doors', () => {
   const typoView = { type: 'gantt', columns: ['name'], gantt: { ...GANTT_REQUIRED, colourField: 'status' } };
 
   it('ListViewSchema — refused at [gantt], naming the key and suggesting colorField', () => {
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-inline-object-binding.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-inline-object-binding.test.ts
index 617d4989146..77ed593bb61 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/ui/view-inline-object-binding.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/ui/view-inline-object-binding.test.ts
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ function refusalText(body: unknown): string {
   return JSON.stringify((r as { error?: { issues?: unknown } }).error?.issues ?? []);
 }
 
-describe('[#7741] the runtime write door refuses the unbound inline view config', () => {
+describe('the runtime write door refuses the unbound inline view config', () => {
   it('REFUSES the card\'s exact repro body through getMetadataTypeSchema(\'view\')', () => {
     const r = door().safeParse(REPRO);
     expect(r.success).toBe(false);
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ describe('[#7741] the runtime write door refuses the unbound inline view config'
   });
 });
 
-describe('[#7741] what the door still accepts, byte for byte', () => {
+describe('what the door still accepts, byte for byte', () => {
   it('ACCEPTS the properly bound inline body — and adds nothing to it', () => {
     const r = door().safeParse(BOUND);
     expect(r.success, JSON.stringify((r as { error?: { issues?: unknown } }).error?.issues)).toBe(true);
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ describe('[#7741] what the door still accepts, byte for byte', () => {
     expect(r.data).toEqual(record);
   });
 
-  it('ACCEPTS the container arm byte-identically — #6391\'s union membership is intact', () => {
+  it('ACCEPTS the container arm byte-identically — its union membership is intact', () => {
     const container = {
       object: 'showcase_task',
       list: { type: 'grid', columns: ['title'], data: { provider: 'object', object: 'showcase_task' } },
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ describe('[#7741] what the door still accepts, byte for byte', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('[#7741] the emitted contract declares what it enforces', () => {
+describe('the emitted contract declares what it enforces', () => {
   it('the inline arms\' JSON Schema marks `object` and `viewKind` required, in both io directions', () => {
     // Studio's SchemaForm is generated from this — declared = enforced means
     // an AI author is TOLD the binding is required before the 422 says so.