diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/auth-config.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/auth-config.test.ts
index b77b9566293..ab99ea91144 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/auth-config.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/auth-config.test.ts
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ describe('AuthConfigSchema – new passthrough fields', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('AudienceConfigSchema (#11739)', () => {
+describe('AudienceConfigSchema — one closed audience posture, invite_only when undeclared', () => {
   it('defaults an undeclared posture to invite_only (the ruled safe default)', () => {
     const parsed = AudienceConfigSchema.parse({});
     expect(parsed.posture).toBe('invite_only');
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ describe('AudienceConfigSchema (#11739)', () => {
 // `updateAge: this.config.session?.updateAge || 60 * 60 * 24` straight into
 // better-auth's `session.updateAge`, whose unit is seconds. Only `expiresIn`
 // carried the marker; this closes the pair.
-describe('AuthConfig.session.updateAge declares seconds by mirror (#18124)', () => {
+describe('AuthConfig.session.updateAge declares seconds by mirror', () => {
   it('keeps the bare name, the default and the value it always accepted', () => {
     expect(AuthConfigSchema.parse({}).session).toBeUndefined();
     const parsed = AuthConfigSchema.parse({ session: { updateAge: 3 * 86_400 } });
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/book.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/book.test.ts
index 746cc6bacba..0f5d123f129 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/book.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/book.test.ts
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ describe('resolveDocAudiences — union over claiming books (§6.7)', () => {
 });
 
 // ── Inline translation maps retired in 17.0.0 (#4667, ADR-0049) ─────────────
-describe('retired book translation maps (#4667)', () => {
+describe('retired book translation maps', () => {
   it('rejects a book-level `translations` map and names the live neighbour', () => {
     // The prescription has to mention `doc.translations`: that key is live on
     // every doc render path and is what the author actually wanted. Without it
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ describe('retired book translation maps (#4667)', () => {
 // book-tree response contract (#12038)
 // ==========================================
 
-describe('ResolvedBookSchema is the book-tree response contract (#12038)', () => {
+describe('ResolvedBookSchema is the book-tree response contract', () => {
   // The conformance suite for the `GET /meta/book/:name/tree` ledger rows
   // (#3877's no-row-without-conformance rule). Stronger than the handwritten
   // captures its meta.* siblings use: `resolveBookTree()` is pure and lives in
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/cache.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/cache.test.ts
index 79588e59839..16206238734 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/cache.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/cache.test.ts
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ describe('DistributedCacheConfigSchema', () => {
 // Asserted on the issue CODE and the prescription text, never on "it threw":
 // a bare `toThrow()` would stay green against a schema that rejected for any
 // other reason, which is the failure this pin exists to catch.
-describe('cache duration keys carry their unit (#15679)', () => {
+describe('cache duration keys carry their unit in the key name', () => {
   it('REFUSES the retired `CacheTier.ttl` with the rename in the message', () => {
     const result = CacheTierSchema.safeParse({ name: 'l1', type: 'memory', ttl: 600 });
     expect(result.success).toBe(false);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/collaboration.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/collaboration.test.ts
index dd02ec023d0..50821bad75f 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/collaboration.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/collaboration.test.ts
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ describe('CollaborationSessionSchema', () => {
 // collision that got this population ruled: milliseconds here, seconds on the
 // tenant surface. Both old spellings are `retiredKey()` tombstones; asserted on
 // the issue CODE and the prescription, never on a bare `toThrow()`.
-describe('collaboration session durations carry their unit (#15679)', () => {
+describe('collaboration session durations carry their unit in the key name', () => {
   it('REFUSES the retired `idleTimeout` with the rename in the message', () => {
     const result = CollaborationSessionConfigSchema.safeParse({ mode: 'ot', idleTimeout: 600000 });
     expect(result.success).toBe(false);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/compliance-families-retirement.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/compliance-families-retirement.test.ts
index c3019404d6d..f350b5038cd 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/compliance-families-retirement.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/compliance-families-retirement.test.ts
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ const MUST_SURVIVE_SYSTEM = ['DataClassificationSchema', 'ComplianceFrameworkSch
 const SPEC_ROOT = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '../..');
 const SRC_ROOT = path.join(SPEC_ROOT, 'src');
 
-describe('[#15513] system/ compliance families retirement — the public surface', () => {
+describe('system/ compliance families retirement — the public surface', () => {
   it('every retired name has ZERO holders on any public entry; the survivors still stand', () => {
     for (const needed of ['.', './system', './kernel']) {
       expect(EXPORT_ENTRY_POINTS, `exports map must include ${needed}`).toContain(needed);
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ describe('[#15513] system/ compliance families retirement — the public surface
     expect(exportNamesOf('./system').length, './system must export a non-trivial surface').toBeGreaterThan(100);
 
     for (const name of RETIRED_NAMES) {
-      expect(holdersOf(name), `${name} must have zero holders after #15513`).toEqual([]);
+      expect(holdersOf(name), `${name} must have zero holders after the families' retirement`).toEqual([]);
     }
     const systemNames = exportNamesOf('./system');
     for (const name of MUST_SURVIVE_SYSTEM) {
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ describe('[#15513] system/ compliance families retirement — the public surface
       }
     };
     walk(SRC_ROOT);
-    expect(importers, 'a resurrected import means the retirement is being undone — re-read #15513').toEqual([]);
+    expect(importers, 'a resurrected import means the retirement is being undone — the three families were retired whole, none roadmapped').toEqual([]);
   });
 
   it('the generated shards no longer list any of the nineteen defs or forty-five names', () => {
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ describe('[#15513] system/ compliance families retirement — the public surface
   });
 });
 
-describe('[#15513] ADR-0087 registration', () => {
+describe('compliance families retirement — ADR-0087 registration', () => {
   it('declares all nineteen defs under major 18, with the three D3 semantic entries wired and no D2 conversion', () => {
     for (const def of RETIRED_DEFS) {
       expect(RETIRED_DEFS_BY_MAJOR[18], `${def} must be declared`).toContain(def);
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ describe('[#15513] ADR-0087 registration', () => {
     expect(step!.rationale).toMatch(/retires those three compliance-shaped families WHOLE/);
   });
 
-  it("keeps PR #15514's fourteen deadline-key registrations and three D3 entries as history", () => {
+  it("keeps the earlier deadline-key retirement's fourteen registrations and three D3 entries as history", () => {
     for (const key of HISTORY_KEYS) {
       expect(RETIRED_KEYS_BY_MAJOR[18], `${key} is history — keep it`).toContain(key);
     }
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ describe('[#15513] ADR-0087 registration', () => {
 // the very declaration the self-test refuses.)
 // The residue this leg covers is everything `tsc` does not compile: JSON,
 // YAML, MD, MDX, and (under `packages/`) untyped `.js` / `.mjs` / `.cjs`.
-describe('[#15513] tree-scoped absence: nothing inside the declared radius references a retired name', () => {
+describe('tree-scoped absence: nothing inside the declared radius references a retired name', () => {
   const REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(SPEC_ROOT, '../..');
   const THIS_FILE = path.relative(REPO_ROOT, fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)).split(path.sep).join('/');
 
@@ -491,6 +491,6 @@ describe('[#15513] tree-scoped absence: nothing inside the declared radius refer
     for (const root of WALK_ROOTS) walk(path.join(REPO_ROOT, root));
     // Anti-vacuity: the walk really covered the tree.
     expect(visited).toBeGreaterThan(1000);
-    expect(offenders, 'a reference to a retired name means the retirement is being undone — re-read #15513').toEqual([]);
+    expect(offenders, 'a reference to a retired name means the retirement is being undone — the three families were retired whole, none roadmapped').toEqual([]);
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/constants/system-names.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/constants/system-names.test.ts
index 505d1dbd0d4..6fb3bacd855 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/constants/system-names.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/constants/system-names.test.ts
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ describe('SystemFieldName', () => {
   // authorable, pinned in `../../data/object.test.ts`. The column reaching a row
   // and the tier being declarable are now BOTH true — a change from the split
   // state this comment used to record, not a restatement of it.
-  it('registers the ADR-0117 business-unit ownership stamp, distinct from the user attribute (#4611)', () => {
+  it('registers the ADR-0117 business-unit ownership stamp, distinct from the user attribute', () => {
     expect(SystemFieldName.OWNING_BUSINESS_UNIT_ID).toBe('owning_business_unit_id');
     // Guard the naming discipline ADR-0117 D10 spells out: the record stamp must
     // NOT be confused with `sys_user.primary_business_unit_id`, which is a USER
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/core-service-provider.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/core-service-provider.test.ts
index 27dfc0bdbf6..de07c831ad9 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/core-service-provider.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/core-service-provider.test.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ describe('CORE_SERVICE_PROVIDER', () => {
         }
     });
 
-    it('carries no entry for retired or never-real slots (#4451)', () => {
+    it('carries no entry for retired or never-real slots', () => {
         for (const slot of ['workflow', 'graphql']) {
             expect(
                 Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(CORE_SERVICE_PROVIDER, slot),
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/data-migration-flag-column-move.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/data-migration-flag-column-move.pin.test.ts
index 71a68b8985f..d07b28edad0 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/data-migration-flag-column-move.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/data-migration-flag-column-move.pin.test.ts
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ function baseRow(over: Partial<DataMigrationFlag> = {}): DataMigrationFlag {
   };
 }
 
-describe('columns_moved_at — absence is the contract (#16185, ruling on #15989 Q1)', () => {
+describe('columns_moved_at — absence is the contract (ruled: one nullable datetime on the flag row)', () => {
   it('parses green when the member is absent — every row alive today', () => {
     const result = DataMigrationFlagSchema.safeParse(baseRow());
     expect(result.success, JSON.stringify(result.error?.issues)).toBe(true);
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ describe('columns_moved_at — absence is the contract (#16185, ruling on #15989
   });
 });
 
-describe('the ONE arbiter is unchanged by this card (#16185 constraint 2)', () => {
+describe('the ONE arbiter is unchanged by the new member — read beside it, never inside it', () => {
   /** `(verified_at, blocking)` and the verdict recorded BEFORE the new member existed. */
   const CASES: Array<{ label: string; over: Partial<DataMigrationFlag>; verified: boolean }> = [
     { label: 'verified, no blocking', over: { verified_at: MOVED_AT, blocking: 0 }, verified: true },
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/disaster-recovery.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/disaster-recovery.test.ts
index 8250b7cbecc..11ea9042fe5 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/disaster-recovery.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/disaster-recovery.test.ts
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 // neighbouring `dns.ttl` is a DECLARED `externalVocabulary` mirror and must
 // survive this rename untouched, and no gate can catch its loss (the marker
 // exempts the key either way), so the pin is the only guard.
-describe('FailoverConfig.healthCheckInterval carries its unit (#15679)', () => {
+describe('FailoverConfig.healthCheckInterval carries its unit in the key name', () => {
   const regions = [
     { name: 'us-east-1', role: 'primary' as const },
     { name: 'eu-west-1', role: 'secondary' as const },
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/email-config.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/email-config.test.ts
index a7d3842f08c..a168a8f7c81 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/email-config.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/email-config.test.ts
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ describe('EmailProviderSchema', () => {
     expect(accepted).toEqual([...DELIVERABLE_PROVIDERS]);
   });
 
-  it('accepts smtp — shipped by plugin-email since #5087 (ADR-0012)', () => {
+  it('accepts smtp — shipped by the SMTP transport in plugin-email (ADR-0012)', () => {
     // The single assertion #5104 is about: green after the enum gained
     // 'smtp', red on any revert of it.
     expect(EmailProviderSchema.safeParse('smtp').success).toBe(true);
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ describe('EmailServiceConfigSchema', () => {
 // assertion below reads `parsed.data`, so each one is green after the
 // declaration and red on a revert of it.
 // ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-describe('EmailServiceConfigSchema — keys the CLI reads (#5307)', () => {
+describe('EmailServiceConfigSchema — keys the CLI reads', () => {
   it('carries queueDelivery through the parse, not into the bin', () => {
     for (const queueDelivery of [true, false]) {
       const parsed = EmailServiceConfigSchema.safeParse({ queueDelivery });
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/email-template-floor-locale-parity.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/email-template-floor-locale-parity.pin.test.ts
index 8b5a4c36cec..57b2102159f 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/email-template-floor-locale-parity.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/email-template-floor-locale-parity.pin.test.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ const EMAIL_INDEX_SOURCE = join(REPO_ROOT, 'packages', 'plugins', 'plugin-email'
 /** `export const DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_LOCALE = '…';` — how plugin-email declares it. */
 const DECLARATION = /^export const DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_LOCALE = '([^']*)';\s*$/m;
 
-describe('#17614 — the published "must stay equal" claim, held', () => {
+describe('EMAIL_TEMPLATE_FLOOR_LOCALE — the published "must stay equal" claim, held', () => {
   it("plugin-email's DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_LOCALE literal equals EMAIL_TEMPLATE_FLOOR_LOCALE", () => {
     const source = readFileSync(EMAIL_SERVICE_SOURCE, 'utf8');
     const match = DECLARATION.exec(source);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/environment-artifact.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/environment-artifact.test.ts
index dafd866cb7e..b1fbf4c742a 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/environment-artifact.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/environment-artifact.test.ts
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ const RETIRED_V0_FAMILY = [
   'EnvironmentArtifactRequirement', 'EnvironmentArtifactRequirementSchema',
 ] as const;
 
-describe('[#4740] `EnvironmentArtifact(Schema)` resolves to the ./system declaration everywhere', () => {
+describe('`EnvironmentArtifact(Schema)` resolves to the ./system declaration everywhere', () => {
   it('resolves the export surface: one declaration in ./system, no other entry names it, the v0 family is gone', () => {
     // Anti-vacuity: the baseline must cover the real surface. (This used to
     // enumerate package.json's exports map and build its own `ts.createProgram`
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ describe('EnvironmentArtifactSchema (wire shape)', () => {
   // ⚠ #4666 pin — the checksum object→string convergence is a TYPE change
   // invisible to the key-level authorable-surface gates (`checksum` exists in
   // both shapes). These parses are the gate for it.
-  describe('checksum is a 64-char hex STRING (#4666 pin)', () => {
+  describe('checksum is a 64-char hex STRING (pinned here: a type change the key-level gates cannot see)', () => {
     it('accepts a 64-char lowercase hex digest', () => {
       expect(Sha256DigestSchema.parse(WIRE_CHECKSUM)).toBe(WIRE_CHECKSUM);
     });
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ describe('EnvironmentArtifactSchema (wire shape)', () => {
   // The v0 keys are tombstoned, not silently stripped: authoring one raises
   // the prescription itself (retiredKey, #3855), and `tsc` types the key
   // `never` at the authoring site.
-  describe('retired v0 keys are tombstoned (#4740, ADR-0049)', () => {
+  describe('retired v0 keys are tombstoned (ADR-0049)', () => {
     it('rejects `functions` with the prescription', () => {
       expect(() => EnvironmentArtifactSchema.parse({ ...wireMinimal, functions: [] }))
         .toThrow(/`environmentArtifact\.functions` was removed in @objectstack\/spec 17\.0\.0.*Delete the key/s);
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ describe('EnvironmentArtifactSchema (wire shape)', () => {
         .toThrow(/`environmentArtifact\.payloadRef` was removed in @objectstack\/spec 17\.0\.0.*Delete the key/s);
     });
 
-    it('a full pre-#4740 v0 artifact is rejected loudly, not half-parsed', () => {
+    it('a full v0 artifact is rejected loudly, not half-parsed', () => {
       const v0 = {
         schemaVersion: '0.1',
         environmentId: 'proj_01HABCDE',
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ describe('EnvironmentArtifactSchema (wire shape)', () => {
 // have gone passthrough to admit this key. Every pin here is a schema-reachable
 // parse, not a type-level assertion.
 
-describe('grantedPermissions — install-time granted set per plugin manifest `id` (#14865)', () => {
+describe('grantedPermissions — install-time granted set per plugin manifest `id`', () => {
   const granted = {
     '@acme/plugin-crm': {
       services: ['object', 'http'],
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/http-server.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/http-server.test.ts
index 7d031fcae77..73dbc43a253 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/http-server.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/http-server.test.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import { ApiEndpointSchema } from '../api/endpoint.zod';
  * what is pinned HERE is that the export is gone and that nothing else went
  * with it.
  */
-describe('HttpServerConfig retirement (#4938)', () => {
+describe('HttpServerConfig retirement', () => {
   // `HttpServerConfigSchema` and `HttpServerConfig` were both runtime VALUES
   // (the latter via `Object.assign(HttpServerConfigSchema, { create })`), so a
   // runtime `in` check is a real witness for them — reverse-verified by pasting
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ describe('MiddlewareConfigSchema', () => {
  * being removed. Replacing them wholesale with the pins below is the third
  * fixture disposition in the retirement playbook.
  */
-describe('server runtime vocabulary retirement (#5295)', () => {
+describe('server runtime vocabulary retirement', () => {
   // All four were runtime VALUES (`z.enum` and `lazySchema` both produce one),
   // so an `in` check is a real witness. Reverse verification, direction
   // predicted before running it: pasting any limb back turns exactly these
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/i18n-resolver.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/i18n-resolver.test.ts
index 5c06f5a49f4..7844e25eb27 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/i18n-resolver.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/i18n-resolver.test.ts
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ describe('resolveViewDescription', () => {
  * it spells identity, these expectations change with it instead of silently
  * describing a shape the runtime no longer produces.
  */
-describe('resolveViewLabel — served view-document shape (#4854)', () => {
+describe('resolveViewLabel — served view-document shape', () => {
   const container = {
     listViews: {
       all_accounts: {
@@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ describe('translateDashboard', () => {
   // (#7862); it now writes nothing into `options`. The bundle key is a
   // tombstone, so a well-typed bundle cannot carry it — the residue below is
   // cast, standing in for a stored row the conversion has not reached yet.
-  describe('widget options — the retired sub-caption overlay (#21257)', () => {
+  describe('widget options — the retired sub-caption overlay', () => {
     const residueBundle = {
       'zh-CN': {
         dashboards: {
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ describe('translateDashboard', () => {
 
 import { translatePage } from './i18n-resolver';
 
-describe('translateDashboard — global filters (#16772)', () => {
+describe('translateDashboard — global filters, addressable from a bundle', () => {
   const bundle: TranslationBundle = {
     'zh-CN': {
       dashboards: {
@@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ describe('translateDashboard — global filters (#16772)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('translateDashboard — the catalog loses to an explicit override (#20680, ADR-0029 D9.2a)', () => {
+describe('translateDashboard — the catalog loses to an explicit override (ADR-0029 D9.2a)', () => {
   // What the package shipped — the catalog's subject.
   const PACKAGED = {
     name: 'system_overview',
@@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ describe('translateDashboard — the catalog loses to an explicit override (#206
     expect(widget(out, 'widget_added').title).toBe('Added by the org');
   });
 
-  it('NO packaged base supplied → the pre-#20680 behaviour, catalog applies (the measured defect, as a control)', () => {
+  it('NO packaged base supplied → the behaviour before the override rule, catalog applies (the measured defect, as a control)', () => {
     const doc = clone(PACKAGED);
     doc.widgets[0].title = 'Total Users (edited)';
     expect(widget(translateDashboard(doc, BUNDLE, { locale: 'en' }), 'widget_total_users').title).toBe('Total Users');
@@ -1570,7 +1570,7 @@ describe('translatePage', () => {
   // rendered a translated header above English cards and English KPI blocks,
   // because `pages` had four keys and none of them could reach a component.
   // ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  describe('per-component copy (#6080)', () => {
+  describe('per-component copy, keyed by component id', () => {
     const homeBundle: TranslationBundle = {
       'zh-CN': {
         pages: {
@@ -1634,7 +1634,7 @@ describe('translatePage', () => {
       expect(byId(out, 'lead_picker').properties.emptyText).toBe('暂无记录');
     });
 
-    it('no longer overlays `submitLabel` — the key retired from the copy face (#10926)', () => {
+    it('no longer overlays `submitLabel` — the key retired from the copy face', () => {
       // Flipped, not deleted: this used to assert the overlay ('创建'). The
       // schema now refuses `submitLabel` in a bundle, but the resolver is
       // deliberately schema-independent (it reads whatever object it is
@@ -1814,7 +1814,7 @@ describe('translatePage', () => {
 // their labels stayed English while the header and card titles translated.
 // ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-describe('translatePage — nested `properties.children` descent (#12961)', () => {
+describe('translatePage — nested `properties.children` descent', () => {
   /**
    * Fixtures are typed through these open shapes instead of being left to
    * literal inference. `translatePage<T extends PageLike>` returns `T`, so an
@@ -1951,7 +1951,7 @@ describe('translatePage — nested `properties.children` descent (#12961)', () =
       }],
     });
 
-    it('does not descend into `body` — the back-compat spelling is not authorable (#5775)', () => {
+    it('does not descend into `body` — the back-compat spelling is not authorable', () => {
       // The renderers read `schema.children || schema.body` for STORED
       // documents, but `body` is deliberately NOT a declared authoring key.
       // Descending into it would resurrect a second composition spelling.
@@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@ describe('translatePage — nested `properties.children` descent (#12961)', () =
       expect((card(out).properties.body as any[])[0].properties.label).toBe('Deals Won');
     });
 
-    it('descends into `items[].children` — the contract call the #12961 line left open, made by #16772', () => {
+    it('descends into `items[].children` — the contract call the `children`-descent ruling left open, made for tab and accordion panels', () => {
       // `page:tabs` / `page:accordion` nest their children one level deeper,
       // under `properties.items[].children`. The 2026-08-29 ruling (commit 901355c3b) named
       // `properties.children` and recorded this one as "its own contract
@@ -1979,7 +1979,7 @@ describe('translatePage — nested `properties.children` descent (#12961)', () =
       expect((card(out).properties.items as any[])[0].label).toBe('Details');
     });
 
-    it('descends into `footer` — a declared, rendered slot, not a back-compat spelling (#20940)', () => {
+    it('descends into `footer` — a declared, rendered slot, not a back-compat spelling', () => {
       // `PageCardProps.footer` is declared "Card footer components (slot)" and
       // objectui's `PageCardRenderer` draws it under the body. It used to sit
       // beside `body` here as "the other back-compat spelling", so its copy
@@ -2212,7 +2212,7 @@ import {
 } from './i18n-resolver';
 import { ComponentPropsMap } from '../ui/component.zod';
 
-describe('walkAddressedPageComponents (#13218)', () => {
+describe('walkAddressedPageComponents — the one addressed-component walk, shared by the resolver and the CLI extractor', () => {
   /** Enumeration-style consumption: what the walk reports, in visit order. */
   const trace = (doc: any): AddressedPageComponentContext[] => {
     const rows: AddressedPageComponentContext[] = [];
@@ -2223,7 +2223,7 @@ describe('walkAddressedPageComponents (#13218)', () => {
     return rows;
   };
 
-  it('walks regions[].components[] AND slots.<slot> as roots — regions first, then slots in authored order (#16772)', () => {
+  it('walks regions[].components[] AND slots.<slot> as roots — regions first, then slots in authored order', () => {
     // A slot holds one component OR an array of them (`PageSchema.slots`);
     // both shapes are roots, at depth 0 and un-nested, exactly like a
     // region's entry. Before #16772 this walk visited `a` alone.
@@ -2245,7 +2245,7 @@ describe('walkAddressedPageComponents (#13218)', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
-  it('visits every root of a `kind: slotted` page that authors `regions: []` — the measured zero (#16772)', () => {
+  it('visits every root of a `kind: slotted` page that authors `regions: []` — the measured zero', () => {
     // The shape the card measured: `regions: []`, everything under `slots`.
     // `walkAddressedPageComponents(page, …)` visited NOTHING on it, so
     // `pages.<name>` carried exactly two addressable keys however many
@@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ describe('walkAddressedPageComponents (#13218)', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
-  it('descends properties.children, properties.footer AND properties.items[].children — body stays unvisited (#16772, #20940)', () => {
+  it('descends properties.children, properties.footer AND properties.items[].children — body stays unvisited', () => {
     const doc: any = {
       regions: [{
         name: 'main',
@@ -2303,7 +2303,7 @@ describe('walkAddressedPageComponents (#13218)', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
-  it('hands a malformed node in a `page:card` footer to the visitor, so a consumer that judges what the walk visits judges it (#20940)', () => {
+  it('hands a malformed node in a `page:card` footer to the visitor, so a consumer that judges what the walk visits judges it', () => {
     // The consumer shape objectui's validator has: judge each visited node's
     // props against its `ComponentPropsMap` row. Before #20940 the footer was
     // not descended, so the typo'd card below came back judged by nobody —
@@ -2500,7 +2500,7 @@ describe('walkAddressedPageComponents (#13218)', () => {
 // #16772 — a `kind: 'slotted'` page goes from unaddressable to addressable
 // ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-describe('translatePage — slotted page roots and tab panels (#16772)', () => {
+describe('translatePage — slotted page roots and tab panels', () => {
   /**
    * The measured shape, rebuilt as a minimal fixture rather than restated
    * from the card: a `kind: 'slotted'` record page authoring `regions: []`,
@@ -2649,7 +2649,7 @@ describe('translatePage — slotted page roots and tab panels (#16772)', () => {
 
 import { resolveTabLabel } from './i18n-resolver';
 
-describe('resolveTabLabel (#5377)', () => {
+describe('resolveTabLabel — filter-preset tab labels, keyed under `_tabs`', () => {
   const bundle: TranslationBundle = {
     'zh-CN': {
       objects: {
@@ -2722,7 +2722,7 @@ describe('resolveTabLabel (#5377)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('translatePage — filter-preset tab bar (#5377)', () => {
+describe('translatePage — filter-preset tab bar', () => {
   const bundle: TranslationBundle = {
     'zh-CN': {
       objects: {
@@ -2781,7 +2781,7 @@ describe('translatePage — filter-preset tab bar (#5377)', () => {
     expect(tabs(out)[0].label).toBe('进行中');
   });
 
-  it('leaves an inline-locale-map label alone rather than flattening it (#5728)', () => {
+  it('leaves an inline-locale-map label alone rather than flattening it', () => {
     // Since the union widening a tab label may itself be multilingual. That is
     // the author's own resolution route (`pickLocalized` picks at render time);
     // overwriting it with a bundle miss would turn four languages into one.
@@ -2804,7 +2804,7 @@ describe('translatePage — filter-preset tab bar (#5377)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('ObjectTranslationDataSchema._tabs (#5377)', () => {
+describe('ObjectTranslationDataSchema._tabs', () => {
   it('accepts a `_tabs` entry — the key a strict schema used to reject', () => {
     const data = TranslationDataSchema.parse({
       objects: { showcase_task: { _tabs: { urgent: { label: '紧急' } } } },
@@ -2937,7 +2937,7 @@ describe('translateObject system-field label fallback', () => {
 
 import { injectedSystemColumnDefs } from '../data/injected-system-column-provenance';
 
-describe('translateObject localises every platform-injected column (objectstack#14972)', () => {
+describe('translateObject localises every platform-injected column', () => {
   // The column definitions come from the provenance module itself — the same
   // objects `applySystemFields` spreads at registration and the `/meta` read
   // exits serve — so the English defaults this block starts from cannot drift
@@ -3046,7 +3046,7 @@ describe('translateObject localises every platform-injected column (objectstack#
   });
 });
 
-describe('translateObject inline actions (objectstack#3370)', () => {
+describe('translateObject inline actions — served with their `_actions` translations', () => {
   // The `sys_approval_request` shape: decision actions declared inline on the
   // object. The plugin ships `_actions` translations for them, but the object
   // document used to go out with the English literals regardless of locale —
@@ -3128,7 +3128,7 @@ describe('translateObject inline actions (objectstack#3370)', () => {
 // resolveObjectFieldLabels — the `/i18n/labels/:object/:locale` body
 // ==========================================
 
-describe('resolveObjectFieldLabels (objectstack#3833, #3847)', () => {
+describe('resolveObjectFieldLabels — the declared rich entries, read from the nested translation shape', () => {
   const data = TranslationDataSchema.parse({
     objects: {
       contact: {
@@ -3155,7 +3155,7 @@ describe('resolveObjectFieldLabels (objectstack#3833, #3847)', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  it('carries the help and options the bundle holds (#3847)', () => {
+  it('carries the help and options the bundle holds', () => {
     // These are the translations the endpoint used to discard by emitting a
     // bare string per field. objectui needs exactly them, and had to read the
     // full-bundle route to get them.
@@ -3206,7 +3206,7 @@ describe('resolveObjectFieldLabels (objectstack#3833, #3847)', () => {
    * mismatch no test compared, because none of them ever put the emitted
    * value and the declared contract in the same assertion.
    */
-  it('produces a body that satisfies GetFieldLabelsResponseSchema (#3847)', () => {
+  it('produces a body that satisfies GetFieldLabelsResponseSchema', () => {
     const response = {
       object: 'contact',
       locale: 'en-US',
@@ -3265,7 +3265,7 @@ describe('toLocaleDescriptors', () => {
     expect(toLocaleDescriptors([], 'en')).toEqual([]);
   });
 
-  it('sets `label` to the code, and the declaration promises exactly that (#7634)', () => {
+  it('sets `label` to the code, and the declaration promises exactly that', () => {
     // The SUBSTANCE pin: producer output vs the DECLARED shape, both halves.
     //
     // `GetLocalesResponseSchema` described `label` as "Display name of the
@@ -3285,7 +3285,7 @@ describe('toLocaleDescriptors', () => {
       expect(
         descriptor.label,
         `toLocaleDescriptors must set label to the code (${descriptor.code}) — producing a real `
-        + 'display name is a product decision nothing pulls for, and the describe promises the code (#7634)',
+        + 'display name is a product decision nothing pulls for, and the describe promises the code',
       ).toBe(descriptor.code);
     }
 
@@ -3296,16 +3296,16 @@ describe('toLocaleDescriptors', () => {
     expect(description.length, 'the `label` field must carry a describe at all').toBeGreaterThan(0);
     expect(
       description,
-      'the `label` describe must not promise a display name while every producer sets the code (#7634)',
+      'the `label` describe must not promise a display name while every producer sets the code',
     ).not.toMatch(/display name/i);
     expect(
       description,
-      'the `label` describe must state the code-equality convention it actually ships (#7634)',
+      'the `label` describe must state the code-equality convention it actually ships',
     ).toMatch(/equals `code`/i);
   });
 });
 
-describe('normalizeSupportedLocales (#7679)', () => {
+describe('normalizeSupportedLocales — the declared supportedLocales narrow the advertised set', () => {
   // The narrowing rule both providers of the `i18n` slot share. Held here,
   // next to `toLocaleDescriptors`, because both of them can be the thing
   // mounting `GET /i18n/locales` and a second copy is how that route came to
@@ -3383,7 +3383,7 @@ describe('normalizeSupportedLocales (#7679)', () => {
  * end-to-end shape is pinned in
  * `packages/qa/dogfood/test/showcase-object-extension-scalar-divergence.dogfood.test.ts`.
  */
-describe('translateObject — catalog vs explicit override (#8284)', () => {
+describe('translateObject — catalog vs explicit override', () => {
   /** The packaged declaration, as the owner contributor holds it. */
   const PACKAGED = {
     name: 'showcase_account',
@@ -3472,7 +3472,7 @@ describe('translateObject — catalog vs explicit override (#8284)', () => {
     expect(out.label).toBe('Customer');
   });
 
-  it('NO packaged base supplied → pre-#8284 behaviour, catalog applies', () => {
+  it('NO packaged base supplied → the behaviour before the override rule, catalog applies', () => {
     // "Unknown" is not "authored". A host whose protocol cannot answer (or a
     // runtime-authored object with no code owner) keeps every translation it
     // has today rather than losing them to an inference nobody can support.
@@ -3729,7 +3729,7 @@ import {
 } from './i18n-resolver';
 import { type TranslationBundle as FlowTestBundle } from './translation.zod';
 
-describe('translateFlow (#11287)', () => {
+describe('translateFlow — screen-flow copy from the `flows` bundle group', () => {
   // Mirrors #11287's measurement: HotCRM's real `lead_conversion` flow with
   // the real zh-CN bundle carrying the `flows` section. The probe
   // `i18n.t('flows.lead_conversion.screens.screen_1.title','zh-CN') = 转化详情`
@@ -3930,7 +3930,7 @@ describe('translateFlow (#11287)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('translateFlow — screens inside ADR-0031 regions (#11745)', () => {
+describe('translateFlow — screens inside ADR-0031 regions', () => {
   // The fourth pass in this repo written against a flat `flow.nodes` walk
   // (#4347 `applyConversionsToFlow`, #4380 the flow lint rules, #5383
   // `flow-inert-node-condition` were the first three). `FlowNode.config`
@@ -4131,7 +4131,7 @@ describe('translateFlow — screens inside ADR-0031 regions (#11745)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('resolveFlowScreenTitle (#11287)', () => {
+describe('resolveFlowScreenTitle — a screen title from the `flows` bundle group', () => {
   const bundle: FlowTestBundle = {
     'zh-CN': {
       flows: { lead_conversion: { screens: { screen_1: { title: '转化详情' } } } },
@@ -4176,7 +4176,7 @@ describe('resolveFlowScreenTitle (#11287)', () => {
  * or the pin describes a shape the runtime never produces — the #4854 lesson,
  * one level in.
  */
-describe('translateView — bulkActionDefs (#14253)', () => {
+describe('translateView — bulkActionDefs', () => {
   const container = {
     listViews: {
       open_duties: {
@@ -4318,7 +4318,7 @@ describe('translateView — bulkActionDefs (#14253)', () => {
 
 import { translateView } from './i18n-resolver';
 
-describe('translateView — the catalog loses to an explicit override (#20731, ADR-0029 D9.2a)', () => {
+describe('translateView — the catalog loses to an explicit override (ADR-0029 D9.2a)', () => {
   // The view container as the package ships it. The served documents below are
   // what `expandViewContainer` emits from it — the same composer the boot
   // registers each packaged view with — so the base and the served view share
@@ -4486,7 +4486,7 @@ describe('translateView — the catalog loses to an explicit override (#20731, A
     expect(param(out, 'mark_done', 'note').label).toBe('备注');
   });
 
-  it('NO packaged base supplied → the pre-#20731 behaviour, catalog applies (the measured defect, as a control)', () => {
+  it('NO packaged base supplied → the behaviour before the override rule, catalog applies (the measured defect, as a control)', () => {
     const doc = clone(PACKAGED);
     doc.label = 'In Progress (edited)';
     expect(translateView(doc, BUNDLE, { locale: 'zh-CN' }).label).toBe('进行中');
@@ -4542,7 +4542,7 @@ describe('translateView — the catalog loses to an explicit override (#20731, A
   });
 });
 
-describe('ObjectTranslationDataSchema — _views.<view>.bulkActions (#14253)', () => {
+describe('ObjectTranslationDataSchema — _views.<view>.bulkActions', () => {
   it('accepts the measured key face', () => {
     const data = ObjectTranslationDataSchema.parse({
       _views: {
@@ -4609,7 +4609,7 @@ describe('ObjectTranslationDataSchema — _views.<view>.bulkActions (#14253)', (
  * the two ends from drifting: `objectFieldLabelKey` / `objectLabelKey` exist
  * for the same reason.
  */
-describe('objectValidationMessageKey (#14253)', () => {
+describe('objectValidationMessageKey', () => {
   it('spells the address the `_validations` group declares', () => {
     expect(objectValidationMessageKey('duly_duty', 'standing_no_frequency'))
       .toBe('objects.duly_duty._validations.standing_no_frequency.message');
@@ -4634,7 +4634,7 @@ describe('objectValidationMessageKey (#14253)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('ObjectTranslationDataSchema — _validations (#14253)', () => {
+describe('ObjectTranslationDataSchema — _validations', () => {
   it('accepts a rule message keyed by rule name', () => {
     const data = ObjectTranslationDataSchema.parse({
       _validations: { standing_no_frequency: { message: '常规任务必须设置频率。' } },
@@ -4690,7 +4690,7 @@ describe('ObjectTranslationDataSchema — _validations (#14253)', () => {
  * addresses members by a name the authoring schema does not carry is
  * unresolvable, which is the trap the whole file is built to keep out.
  */
-describe('translateDataset (#14253)', () => {
+describe('translateDataset', () => {
   const dataset = () => DatasetSchema.parse({
     name: 'duty_pulse',
     label: 'Duty pulse',
@@ -4723,7 +4723,7 @@ describe('translateDataset (#14253)', () => {
     },
   };
 
-  it('is registered in the dispatch table, so the REST boundary follows (#3786)', () => {
+  it('is registered in the dispatch table, so the REST boundary follows — one derived list, no hand-kept copy', () => {
     // `TRANSLATABLE_METADATA_TYPES` is DERIVED from `METADATA_DOCUMENT_TRANSLATORS`
     // and `@objectstack/rest` reads the derived set — this is the assertion that
     // the wiring is one edit, not two.
@@ -4752,7 +4752,7 @@ describe('translateDataset (#14253)', () => {
     expect(out.dimensions.find((d: any) => d.name === 'status').label).toBe('Status');
   });
 
-  it('leaves an inline locale map intact when the bundle does not cover it (#5728)', () => {
+  it('leaves an inline locale map intact when the bundle does not cover it', () => {
     // `label` is `I18nLabelSchema`, so the author may already have written a
     // map. Resolving over it would flatten four languages down to one.
     const inline = DatasetSchema.parse({
@@ -4796,7 +4796,7 @@ describe('translateDataset (#14253)', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('TranslationDataSchema — datasets (#14253)', () => {
+describe('TranslationDataSchema — datasets', () => {
   it('accepts the measured key face', () => {
     const data = TranslationDataSchema.parse({
       datasets: {
@@ -4850,7 +4850,7 @@ describe('TranslationDataSchema — datasets (#14253)', () => {
 // #14882 — the fallback chain is the DECLARED one, not a literal `en`
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-describe('#14882 — a declared fallback chain, at the resolver', () => {
+describe('a declared fallback chain, not a literal `en`, at the resolver', () => {
   /**
    * The card's workspace, at the resolver: labels authored in the default
    * locale (`zh-CN`), a courtesy `en` bundle for English users, NO `zh-CN`
@@ -4941,7 +4941,7 @@ describe('#14882 — a declared fallback chain, at the resolver', () => {
   // #15711 — ruled A: the authored label IS the default-locale text
   // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-  it('[#15711] a chain that DECLARES en does not outrank the authored label for a default-locale request', () => {
+  it('a chain that DECLARES en does not outrank the authored label for a default-locale request (ruled: the authored label is the default-locale text)', () => {
     // A stack declaring `defaultLocale: 'zh-CN'` with a reflexive
     // `fallbackLocale: 'en'` and no zh-CN bundle — the trap #14882 pinned as
     // it answered then (`Entry Sheet`, the declared `en` outranking the
@@ -4957,7 +4957,7 @@ describe('#14882 — a declared fallback chain, at the resolver', () => {
       .toBe('Entry Sheet');
   });
 
-  it('[#15711] a NON-default request still walks the declared chain: fr → en bundle → authored', () => {
+  it('a NON-default request still walks the declared chain: fr → en bundle → authored', () => {
     // `fallbackLocale` keeps its full meaning for every non-default request.
     const fr = { locale: 'fr', fallbackChain: ['en'], defaultLocale: 'zh-CN' };
     expect(labelsOf(translateMetadataDocument('object', SHEET, EN_ONLY, fr))).toEqual(ENGLISH);
@@ -4967,7 +4967,7 @@ describe('#14882 — a declared fallback chain, at the resolver', () => {
     expect(labelsOf(translateMetadataDocument('object', SHEET, EN_ONLY, en))).toEqual(ENGLISH);
   });
 
-  it('[#15711] a default-locale bundle, when shipped, still wins over the authored label', () => {
+  it('a default-locale bundle, when shipped, still wins over the authored label', () => {
     // Only the CHAIN is skipped: the requested locale's own bundle is
     // consulted first, so the reporter's `os i18n extract --locales=zh-CN`
     // layout keeps working — optional now, not dead.
@@ -4982,12 +4982,12 @@ describe('#14882 — a declared fallback chain, at the resolver', () => {
     expect(out.fields.name.label).toBe('填报单名称');
   });
 
-  it('[#15711] the default-locale match is a BCP-47 comparison: zh-cn names zh-CN', () => {
+  it('the default-locale match is a BCP-47 comparison: zh-cn names zh-CN', () => {
     const lower = { locale: 'zh-cn', fallbackChain: ['en'], defaultLocale: 'zh-CN' };
     expect(translateMetadataDocument('object', SHEET, EN_ONLY, lower).label).toBe('填报单');
   });
 
-  it("[#15711] a caller that declares NO chain gets 'requested locale, then the authored label' — no literal en", () => {
+  it("a caller that declares NO chain gets 'requested locale, then the authored label' — no literal en", () => {
     // The ruling's second facet: `fallbackChain ?? ['en']` became
     // `fallbackChain ?? []`. A chain-less caller (a host outside this repo;
     // the core in-memory i18n fallback, #15694) no longer has `en` consulted
@@ -5008,7 +5008,7 @@ describe('#14882 — a declared fallback chain, at the resolver', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('resolveMetadataFormSchemaTitles (#16458)', () => {
+describe('resolveMetadataFormSchemaTitles — bundle labels overlaid as JSON Schema titles, repeater rows included', () => {
   const bundle: TranslationBundle = {
     'zh-CN': {
       metadataForms: {
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/job.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/job.test.ts
index c0142670dcc..73414559c35 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/job.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/job.test.ts
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ describe('CronScheduleSchema', () => {
  * default, which ECMA-402 requires every runtime to carry, so the narrowing can
  * never refuse an omitted key — and `'UTC+8'`, an offset that names no zone.
  */
-describe('CronScheduleSchema.timezone — iana_time_zone membership (#16292)', () => {
+describe('CronScheduleSchema.timezone — iana_time_zone membership', () => {
   const parseTz = (timezone: string) =>
     CronScheduleSchema.safeParse({ type: 'cron', expression: '0 0 * * *', timezone });
 
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ describe('JobSchema', () => {
   // rejection must carry the RENAME (the prescription is the payload), not a
   // bare unrecognized-key error, and the value must survive the rename at the
   // same magnitude.
-  describe('job.timeout → job.timeoutMs (#14478, ADR-0087 `job-timeout-to-timeout-ms`)', () => {
+  describe('job.timeout → job.timeoutMs (ADR-0087 `job-timeout-to-timeout-ms`)', () => {
     const base = {
       name: 'long_running_job',
       schedule: { type: 'cron' as const, expression: '0 0 * * *' },
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ describe('Job Scheduling Integration', () => {
 });
 
 // ── `job.id` retired in 17.0.0 (#4667, ADR-0049) ────────────────────────────
-describe('retired job.id (#4667)', () => {
+describe('retired job.id', () => {
   const base = {
     name: 'nightly_sync',
     schedule: { type: 'cron' as const, expression: '0 0 * * *' },
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ describe('retired job.id (#4667)', () => {
  * package-wide `@example` question is its own card — ⛔ do not grow this into a
  * family sweep here.
  */
-describe("JobSchema's own @example (#19184)", () => {
+describe("JobSchema's own @example — copied verbatim, it parses", () => {
   const HERE = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
   const SOURCE = readFileSync(resolve(HERE, './job.zod.ts'), 'utf8');
   const ANCHOR = '@example Metadata Sync Job (Cron)';
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/logging.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/logging.test.ts
index 3a54c8fe27d..ef5b81d15a4 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/logging.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/logging.test.ts
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ describe('LoggingConfigSchema', () => {
 // `flushInterval` was declared TWICE on this file, in two different defs with
 // two different defaults, so each def is pinned separately below: they are
 // different keys and each carries its own prescription.
-describe('logging duration keys → *Ms (#17782, #15939, #14478)', () => {
+describe('logging duration keys → *Ms', () => {
   describe('HttpDestinationConfig.batch.flushInterval → flushIntervalMs', () => {
     it('REFUSES the retired spelling with a rename naming `flushIntervalMs`', () => {
       const result = HttpDestinationConfigSchema.safeParse({
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/message-queue-retirement.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/message-queue-retirement.test.ts
index b7e1baa0220..f7503ba624b 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/message-queue-retirement.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/message-queue-retirement.test.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ import {
 // Form follows #4988 / #5055: resolved symbol identity over every public entry
 // via the build-time `export-origins/` artifact, plus the file-deletion probe
 // in the #4988 direction (whole-file retirement, no surviving occupant).
-describe('[#8075] system/ message-queue config family retirement', () => {
+describe('system/ message-queue config family retirement', () => {
   /** The 14 names the five retired defs exported (5 schema consts + 9 types). */
   const RETIRED_NAMES = [
     'MessageQueueProviderSchema', 'MessageQueueProvider',
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ describe('[#8075] system/ message-queue config family retirement', () => {
     // ── ABSENCE (every entry — exact names, so the near-namesakes cannot
     //    satisfy these by substring) ────────────────────────────────────────
     for (const name of RETIRED_NAMES) {
-      expect(holdersOf(name), `${name} must have zero holders after #8075`).toEqual([]);
+      expect(holdersOf(name), `${name} must have zero holders after the family's retirement`).toEqual([]);
     }
 
     // ── SURVIVAL ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ describe('[#8075] system/ message-queue config family retirement', () => {
       }
     };
     walk(srcRoot);
-    expect(importers, 'a resurrected import means the retirement is being undone — re-read #8075').toEqual([]);
+    expect(importers, 'a resurrected import means the retirement is being undone — the family had no consumer and carried an inline credential').toEqual([]);
   });
 
   it('runtime namespace agrees with the compiler view', async () => {
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/system/metadata-form-declared-rows.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/system/metadata-form-declared-rows.pin.test.ts
index 05e57111a76..e806b0555e5 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/system/metadata-form-declared-rows.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/system/metadata-form-declared-rows.pin.test.ts
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ function topLevelRows(form: unknown): FormEntry[] {
 const rowsFor = (type: string) => topLevelRows(METADATA_FORM_REGISTRY[type]);
 const rowFor = (type: string, key: string) => rowsFor(type).filter((r) => r.field === key);
 
-describe('declared keys that now have a form row (#19085)', () => {
+describe('declared keys that now have a form row', () => {
   // The probe is only a reading if it can also report a zero. Both controls
   // run against the SAME helper the assertions use, so a helper that stopped
   // finding rows would fail here rather than passing everything vacuously.
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ describe('object.imageField is offered as a plain text row beside nameField, wit
  * fix) cannot otherwise tell this row apart from a real script row
  * (`body.source`, `action.source`, both genuinely `'javascript'`).
  */
-describe('hook.condition declares the CEL predicate language it edits (#20439)', () => {
+describe('hook.condition declares the CEL predicate language it edits', () => {
   it('hook.condition is a `code` row declaring language: expression, not javascript', () => {
     const [row, ...extra] = rowFor('hook', 'condition');
     expect(row, '`condition` is declared by HookSchema; the hook form must offer it').toBeDefined();