diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/action-confirmation-contract.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/action-confirmation-contract.pin.test.ts
index 00f627f8f6e..8cad375f1e9 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/action-confirmation-contract.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/action-confirmation-contract.pin.test.ts
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ const OWNER = '@objectstack/runtime';
 const asDetails = (d: ActionConfirmationRequiredDetails) => d;
 const asConfirmation = (c: AIActionConfirmation) => c;
 
-describe('action-confirmation contract (#16293)', () => {
+describe('action-confirmation contract — an unconfirmed gated action is refused', () => {
   it('the refusal code is ADMITTED by the closed `ErrorCode` union', () => {
     expect(ErrorCode.parse(CODE)).toBe(CODE);
     // Control: the union is closed, so a one-character near-miss is refused.
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/approval-service.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/approval-service.test.ts
index a3a7e9281cf..44472f92ecc 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/approval-service.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/approval-service.test.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import type {
     IApprovalService,
 } from './approval-service';
 
-describe('approval row organization_id declaration (#10331)', () => {
+describe('approval rows declare the organization_id they are stamped with', () => {
     it('is readable off ApprovalRequestRow without a cast, at the stamped shape', () => {
         // Reading the property off the declared type — no `as`, no indexing
         // through `any`. This line failing to compile is the regression.
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ export type ActedAsIsOptional = Assert<{} extends Pick<ApprovalActionRow, 'acted
 /** A string slot address — not a boolean flag, not an object, not nullable. */
 export type ActedAsIsAString = Assert<Eq<ApprovalActionRow['acted_as'], string | undefined>>;
 
-describe('[#21458] ApprovalActionRow.acted_as — the slot an approval action was taken as', () => {
+describe('ApprovalActionRow.acted_as — the slot an approval action was taken as', () => {
     it('is optional and string-typed: a row without it still conforms, and one with it reads back', () => {
         const read = (row: ApprovalActionRow): string | undefined => row.acted_as;
 
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ const minimalService = (): IApprovalService => ({
     listActions: async () => [],
 });
 
-describe('[#15389] continueRestoredRun — the approvals operator repair verb, declared', () => {
+describe('continueRestoredRun — the approvals operator repair verb, declared', () => {
     it('is optional: the minimal implementation still conforms and has no operator door', () => {
         const service = minimalService();
 
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-context-caller-param-keys.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-context-caller-param-keys.pin.test.ts
index 1cad94512f7..71fdb76e8f0 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-context-caller-param-keys.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-context-caller-param-keys.pin.test.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export const contextSupplyingSubject: AutomationContext = {
 // @ts-expect-error — a per-key boolean map is not the shape: the key lists names.
 export const contextWithAMap: AutomationContext = { params: { subject: 'x' }, callerParamKeys: { subject: true } };
 
-describe('[#19846] AutomationContext.callerParamKeys', () => {
+describe('AutomationContext.callerParamKeys — the keys the caller supplied', () => {
   it('reads back absent, empty and populated as three different values', () => {
     expect('callerParamKeys' in contextWithoutTheKey).toBe(false);
     expect(contextSupplyingNothing.callerParamKeys).toEqual([]);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-context-record-load-denied.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-context-record-load-denied.pin.test.ts
index ab5276b87d0..ece5f816d1e 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-context-record-load-denied.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-context-record-load-denied.pin.test.ts
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ export const contextWithTheKey: AutomationContext = { record: { id: 'rec-1' }, o
 // @ts-expect-error — `false` is not a member: the key is ABSENT, never `false` (handler-face convention, mirrored).
 export const contextWithFalse: AutomationContext = { record: { id: 'rec-1' }, object: 'crm_deal', recordLoadDenied: false };
 
-describe('[#14244] AutomationContext.recordLoadDenied mirrors the producer signal', () => {
+describe('AutomationContext.recordLoadDenied mirrors the producer signal', () => {
   it('reads the key back as exactly `true`, and its absence as `undefined` (anti-vacuity)', () => {
     expect(contextWithTheKey.recordLoadDenied).toBe(true);
     expect(contextWithoutTheKey.recordLoadDenied).toBeUndefined();
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-result-status.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-result-status.pin.test.ts
index 4e4a939462a..8f5294b2d34 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-result-status.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-result-status.pin.test.ts
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ export type WireStatusMatchesContract = Assert< Eq< WireStatus, ContractStatus >
 /** The wire enum, unwrapped from `.optional()` through the `lazySchema` Proxy. */
 const wireStatusEnum = TriggerFlowResponseSchema.shape.data.shape.status.unwrap();
 
-describe('[#14384] AutomationResult.status names the stranded run', () => {
+describe('AutomationResult.status names the stranded run', () => {
   it('reads a non-empty membership (anti-vacuity)', () => {
     expect(AUTOMATION_RESULT_STATUSES.length).toBe(5);
     expect(wireStatusEnum.options.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ describe('[#14384] AutomationResult.status names the stranded run', () => {
     expect([...wireStatusEnum.options]).toEqual([...AUTOMATION_RESULT_STATUSES]);
   });
 
-  it("names the terminally-failed-but-repairable run 'stranded' (#13937 shape 4)", () => {
+  it("names the terminally-failed-but-repairable run 'stranded'", () => {
     expect(AUTOMATION_RESULT_STATUSES).toContain('stranded');
     expect(wireStatusEnum.options).toContain('stranded');
   });
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ describe('[#14384] AutomationResult.status names the stranded run', () => {
     expect(parsed.data.runId).toBe('run_stranded_001');
   });
 
-  it("names the refused run 'refused' (#14945) — beside `'failed'`, never folded into it", () => {
+  it("names the refused run 'refused' — beside `'failed'`, never folded into it", () => {
     expect(AUTOMATION_RESULT_STATUSES).toContain('refused');
     expect(wireStatusEnum.options).toContain('refused');
     expect(wireStatusEnum.options).toContain('failed');
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-service.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-service.test.ts
index 9848ac8005c..75b13be2632 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-service.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/automation-service.test.ts
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ describe('Automation Service Contract', () => {
   // `verb(runId)` shorthand), and their docblocks carry the ruling's
   // persistent-face statement. The type-level identities are the exported
   // aliases above the suite; the compile of the literals below is the rest.
-  describe('[#16495] cancelRun / restoreConsumedSuspension — the operator verbs, declared', () => {
+  describe('cancelRun / restoreConsumedSuspension — the operator verbs, declared', () => {
     it('are optional: the minimal implementation still conforms and has no operator door', () => {
       const service: IAutomationService = {
         execute: async () => ({ success: true }),
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ describe('Automation Service Contract', () => {
  * passes these rows to Studio verbatim, so a shape with no reason field made a
  * policy-disabled flow indistinguishable from a broken binding on the wire.
  */
-describe('FlowRuntimeState — the unbound reason (#18235)', () => {
+describe('FlowRuntimeState — carries the reason a flow is unbound', () => {
   it('a row that explains itself and one that does not both satisfy the contract', () => {
     // PROBE: the reason-carrying row, in the shape the engine emits for a flow
     // the deployment switch refused.
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/confirmed-blueprint-identity-contract.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/confirmed-blueprint-identity-contract.pin.test.ts
index 7d011893e94..920fa0e787d 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/confirmed-blueprint-identity-contract.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/confirmed-blueprint-identity-contract.pin.test.ts
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ const asOptions = (o: ChatWithToolsOptions) => o;
 /** A plausible digest — the shape cloud stamps, opaque to this contract. */
 const DIGEST = 'sha256:3f6a1c0e9b2d4a7f8c5e1b0d9a2f4c6e8b0d3a5f7c9e1b3d5a7f9c1e3b5d7a9f';
 
-describe('confirmedBlueprintIdentity contract (#15937)', () => {
+describe('confirmedBlueprintIdentity — declared on the protocol ToolExecutionContext', () => {
   it('is declared on `ToolExecutionContext` and round-trips the digest', () => {
     const ctx = asCtx({
       actor: { id: 'usr_1' },
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/core-service-contracts.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/core-service-contracts.test.ts
index 75039301d06..2771355a603 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/core-service-contracts.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/core-service-contracts.test.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import type { IShareLinkService } from './share-link-service';
 type Expect<T extends true> = T;
 type Equals<A, B> = (<G>() => G extends A ? 1 : 2) extends (<G>() => G extends B ? 1 : 2) ? true : false;
 
-describe('CoreServiceName → contract map (#4127)', () => {
+describe('CoreServiceName → contract map', () => {
     it('maps every key to a declared CoreServiceName slot', () => {
         // The map's keys are checked against the enum at compile time below;
         // this asserts the same thing at runtime so a rename shows up as a
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ describe('CoreServiceName → contract map (#4127)', () => {
     });
 });
 
-describe('slot → contract ledger beyond the enum (#4127 batch 3)', () => {
+describe('slot → contract ledger beyond the enum', () => {
     it('keeps every core binding', () => {
         // The extension must not shadow or drop a core entry — `data` staying
         // `IDataEngine` is what makes the `objectql` alias below meaningful.
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ describe('slot → contract ledger beyond the enum (#4127 batch 3)', () => {
         expect(true).toBe(true);
     });
 
-    it('resolves objectql to the FULL engine contract, a strict widening of data (#4251 B3)', () => {
+    it('resolves objectql to the FULL engine contract, a strict widening of data', () => {
         // Same instance, two views: `data` is the engine as IDataEngine (the
         // data plane), `objectql` is the whole engine. The subtype relation is
         // the claim that they cannot drift apart — every IObjectQLEngine IS an
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/data-driver.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/data-driver.test.ts
index 4698cad35e5..e7d14580314 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/data-driver.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/data-driver.test.ts
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ describe('IDataDriver', () => {
   // unused directive is itself an error, so `pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec
   // typecheck` goes red on regression in either direction.
 
-  describe('introspectSchema (#11493)', () => {
+  describe('introspectSchema — an optional driver member at the spec shape', () => {
     /** The declared return type, read off the CONTRACT rather than re-spelled. */
     type DriverIntrospection = Awaited<ReturnType<NonNullable<IDataDriver['introspectSchema']>>>;
 
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/data-engine.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/data-engine.test.ts
index dcb250dc5ae..4f558a56578 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/data-engine.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/data-engine.test.ts
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ describe('Data Engine Contract', () => {
    * `IDataEngine[…]`, so nothing here can drift from the contract by being
    * modelled beside it.
    */
-  describe('the narrowed verb declarations are pinned, not just guarded (#16231)', () => {
+  describe('the narrowed verb declarations are pinned, not just guarded', () => {
     type FindOneAnswer = Awaited<ReturnType<IDataEngine['findOne']>>;
     type UpdateAnswer = Awaited<ReturnType<IDataEngine['update']>>;
     type DeleteAnswer = Awaited<ReturnType<IDataEngine['delete']>>;
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ describe('Data Engine Contract', () => {
    * re-opening Option A or has moved the member, and either way it is a
    * maintainer decision, not a merge conflict to resolve by hand.
    */
-  describe('strictReadonlyWrites stays OFF the serializable options bags (#5126)', () => {
+  describe('strictReadonlyWrites stays OFF the serializable options bags', () => {
     const shapeKeys = (schema: unknown): string[] =>
       Object.keys((schema as { shape: Record<string, unknown> }).shape);
 
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ describe('Data Engine Contract', () => {
   // it). The value-level optionality evidence already exists above: every
   // pre-existing minimal `IDataEngine` literal in this file omits
   // `introspectDatasource` and compiles.
-  describe('introspectDatasource (#11493)', () => {
+  describe('introspectDatasource — answers the spec introspection shape', () => {
     type Member = IDataEngine['introspectDatasource'];
     type EngineIntrospection = Awaited<ReturnType<NonNullable<Member>>>;
 
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ describe('Data Engine Contract', () => {
   // file, which omit all five and compile); every directive below is resolved
   // by tsc, so reverting a member makes its `@ts-expect-error` unused, and an
   // unused directive is itself an error.
-  describe('datasource resolution members (#12248, #11833 fork 1)', () => {
+  describe('datasource resolution members — declared, and optional', () => {
     type ResolveMember = IDataEngine['resolveEffectiveDatasource'];
     type DriverMember = IDataEngine['getDriverForObject'];
 
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ describe('Data Engine Contract', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('datasource lifecycle members (#12248, #12010, #12805 via the #11833 ruling item 4)', () => {
+  describe('datasource lifecycle members — declared at the shape the engine keeps', () => {
     type RegisterMember = IDataEngine['registerDatasourceDef'];
     type ListMember = IDataEngine['listDatasourceDefs'];
     type MarkMember = IDataEngine['markDatasourceUnavailable'];
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ describe('Data Engine Contract', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('syncObjectSchema (#12482 — the #12010 "not verified" member, via the #11833 ruling item-4 precedent)', () => {
+  describe('syncObjectSchema — declared, since two services already call it', () => {
     type SyncMember = IDataEngine['syncObjectSchema'];
 
     it('is optional — only engines owning drivers and DDL answer', () => {
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/email-service.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/email-service.test.ts
index 715fd4a97b3..afbabe7d042 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/email-service.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/email-service.test.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import type { SendEmailInput, SendTemplateInput } from './email-service';
  *    BOTH `SendEmailInput` and `SendTemplateInput` (the template entry point
  *    forwards it into the send it performs).
  */
-describe('Email Service Contract — organization widening (#11741)', () => {
+describe('Email Service Contract — organization widening', () => {
   it('accepts the pre-widening SendEmailInput shape unchanged (organizationId optional, absent legal)', () => {
     const legacy: SendEmailInput = { to: 'a@b.com', subject: 'Hi', text: 'x' };
     expect(legacy).not.toHaveProperty('organizationId');
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ describe('Email Service Contract — organization widening (#11741)', () => {
  * itself a compile error (TS2578) under `check:test-typecheck` — the pin fails
  * loudly in both directions.
  */
-describe('Email Service Contract — SendTemplateInput.org retired (#11832)', () => {
+describe('Email Service Contract — SendTemplateInput.org retired', () => {
   it('refuses `org` at compile time (excess property; organizationId is NOT an overlay opt-in)', () => {
     const input: SendTemplateInput = {
       template: 'auth.password_reset',
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/http-server.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/http-server.test.ts
index e5a517da8dc..743c937bdd6 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/http-server.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/http-server.test.ts
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ describe('HTTP Server Contract', () => {
       await expect(server.close!()).resolves.toBeUndefined();
     });
 
-    describe('optional setFallbackHandler (#5040 E1)', () => {
+    describe('optional setFallbackHandler — a not-found hook, not a wildcard route', () => {
       /** A server with only the REQUIRED members. */
       const baseServer = (): IHttpServer => ({
         get: () => {},
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ describe('HTTP Server Contract', () => {
       });
     });
 
-    describe('optional afterResponse (#9835)', () => {
+    describe('optional afterResponse — a transport-agnostic response observer', () => {
       /** A server with only the REQUIRED members. */
       const baseServer = (): IHttpServer => ({
         get: () => {},
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ describe('HTTP Server Contract', () => {
         expect(typeof server.afterResponse).toBe('function');
       });
 
-      it('a delegating wrapper that forwards only required members ERASES detection (#5122 shape)', () => {
+      it('a delegating wrapper that forwards only required members ERASES detection', () => {
         const underlying: IHttpServer = {
           ...baseServer(),
           afterResponse: (_observer) => {},
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/job-service.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/job-service.test.ts
index 746a11f40e0..4161d9f978a 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/job-service.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/job-service.test.ts
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ describe('Job Service Contract', () => {
  * which reddens the `degraded` direction only, and leaves every legacy pin
  * green. That asymmetry IS additivity.
  */
-describe('[#6617] JobHandler degraded-outcome channel', () => {
+describe('JobHandler degraded-outcome channel — optional and additive', () => {
   /**
    * The handler type EXACTLY as it stood before #6617. Pinning it as a
    * standalone declaration is what makes the additivity claim falsifiable:
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ describe('[#6617] JobHandler degraded-outcome channel', () => {
  * signature back to `(name, data?)` — (b), (c) and the identity pin go red,
  * (a) stays green. That asymmetry IS additivity.
  */
-describe('[#14766] IJobService.replay force option — contract half of the #14501 A+a2 ruling', () => {
+describe('IJobService.replay force option — a succeeded window replays only when forced', () => {
   type Eq<A, B> = (<T>() => T extends A ? 1 : 2) extends (<T>() => T extends B ? 1 : 2) ? true : false;
   type ReplayParams = Parameters<NonNullable<IJobService['replay']>>;
 
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/metadata-service-roundtrip-conformance.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/metadata-service-roundtrip-conformance.test.ts
index c8577a78a1f..10957085dee 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/metadata-service-roundtrip-conformance.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/metadata-service-roundtrip-conformance.test.ts
@@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ function assertRegisterContract(type: string, name: string, data: unknown): void
         const shape = data === null ? 'null' : Array.isArray(data) ? 'an array' : `a ${typeof data}`;
         throw registerRefusal(
             `IMetadataService.register('${type}', '${name}'): data is ${shape}, not a metadata document — ` +
-                `refused, never accepted-and-dropped or coerced into storability (#7378 row 3).`,
+                `refused, never accepted-and-dropped or coerced into storability.`,
         );
     }
     const documentName = (data as { name?: unknown }).name;
     if (documentName !== undefined && documentName !== name) {
         throw registerRefusal(
             `IMetadataService.register('${type}', '${name}'): data.name is '${String(documentName)}', which disagrees ` +
-                `with the name argument '${name}' — refused, since silent resolution in either direction can misplace the item (#7378 row 1).`,
+                `with the name argument '${name}' — refused, since silent resolution in either direction can misplace the item.`,
         );
     }
 }
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ async function assertRefused(service: IMetadataService, testCase: MetadataRoundT
         () => undefined,
         (thrown: unknown) => thrown as Error & { code?: string; status?: number },
     );
-    expect(error, `register must REFUSE this write (#7378): ${testCase.id}`).toBeDefined();
+    expect(error, `register must REFUSE this write: ${testCase.id}`).toBeDefined();
     expect(error).toMatchObject({
         code: StandardErrorCode.enum.VALIDATION_ERROR,
         status: 400,
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/notification-service.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/notification-service.test.ts
index 55ed84a5f73..2455939c359 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/notification-service.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/notification-service.test.ts
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ describe('Notification Service Contract', () => {
    * Optional, and the first test is the reason: a send-only provider (SMTP,
    * Twilio, a Slack webhook) fills the slot legitimately with no inbox at all.
    */
-  describe('inbox (#4127)', () => {
+  describe('inbox — declared on the contract, and optional', () => {
     it('keeps a send-only provider valid — the inbox trio is optional', () => {
       const sendOnly: INotificationService = {
         send: async () => ({ success: true }),
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/objectql-engine-hook-scope.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/objectql-engine-hook-scope.test.ts
index 44083855763..6a54753d34f 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/objectql-engine-hook-scope.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/objectql-engine-hook-scope.test.ts
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ type Equals<A, B> = (<G>() => G extends A ? 1 : 2) extends (<G>() => G extends B
 
 type RegisterHookOptions = NonNullable<Parameters<IObjectQLEngine['registerHook']>[2]>;
 
-describe('[#5928] IObjectQLEngine.registerHook scope faces', () => {
+describe('IObjectQLEngine.registerHook scope faces — global minus excluded objects', () => {
   it('declares `excludeObjects` in both accepted spellings', () => {
     // Fails to COMPILE if the declared type is anything else — `true` is not
     // assignable to `false`.
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/objectql-engine.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/objectql-engine.test.ts
index fb9ce17b77e..0b2f4db77e3 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/objectql-engine.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/objectql-engine.test.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import type { ExecutionContext } from '../kernel/execution-context.zod';
  * contract (`check:engine-double-contract` counts this file's doubles against
  * a shrink-only baseline, and a pin block is not a reason to grow it).
  */
-describe('getObject return contract (#12248, #11833 fork 3)', () => {
+describe('getObject return contract — a structured answer, not `unknown`', () => {
   type EngineAnswer = ReturnType<IObjectQLEngine['getObject']>;
   type RegistryAnswer = ReturnType<EngineSchemaRegistryView['getObject']>;
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ describe('getObject return contract (#12248, #11833 fork 3)', () => {
  * the contract, no engine double is stood up, and on a revert to `unknown` the
  * consumer reads below stop compiling with no `@ts-expect-error` needed.
  */
-describe('getSchema return contract (#12481 — #12248 one member over, #11833 fork 3 by inheritance)', () => {
+describe('getSchema return contract — the same answer as its alias getObject', () => {
   type SchemaAnswer = ReturnType<IObjectQLEngine['getSchema']>;
 
   it('answers exactly the spec registered-object type', () => {
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ describe('getSchema return contract (#12481 — #12248 one member over, #11833 f
  * Same discipline as the blocks above: member types read off the contract, no
  * engine double.
  */
-describe('judgeFilter contract (#20157, #19995 ruling C)', () => {
+describe('judgeFilter contract — the engine judges a filter without running it', () => {
   type Member = IObjectQLEngine['judgeFilter'];
 
   it('is OPTIONAL: a caller must work with an engine that lacks it', () => {
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/resume-failure-report.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/resume-failure-report.pin.test.ts
index f82aaf5f794..062150318e8 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/resume-failure-report.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/resume-failure-report.pin.test.ts
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ function interfaceDocblockOf(iface: string): string {
   return CONTRACT_SOURCE.slice(docStart, declaredAt);
 }
 
-describe('[#16559] ResumeFailureReport — the resume failure a success answer carries (batch #76)', () => {
+describe('ResumeFailureReport — the resume failure a success answer carries', () => {
   it('1. the wire schema parses a report and hands the three shared members back out (declared once, measured)', () => {
     // A strip-mode object drops undeclared keys silently and would parse
     // anything — so parse success alone proves nothing; the shared values
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/schema-diff-service.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/schema-diff-service.test.ts
index 2940842160b..a4126225c15 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/schema-diff-service.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/schema-diff-service.test.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ const col = (name: string, extra: Partial<IntrospectedColumn> = {}): Introspecte
   ...extra,
 });
 
-describe('IntrospectedTable.indexes (#11122: optional, absence ≠ empty)', () => {
+describe('IntrospectedTable.indexes (optional, absence ≠ empty)', () => {
   it('a table WITHOUT `indexes` typechecks — absence means "not read", and the in-tree producer emits exactly this', () => {
     const table: IntrospectedTable = {
       name: 'customers',
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ describe('IntrospectedTable.indexes (#11122: optional, absence ≠ empty)', () =
   });
 });
 
-describe('IntrospectedColumn.defaultValue (#11122: raw `unknown`, not `string`)', () => {
+describe('IntrospectedColumn.defaultValue (raw `unknown`, not `string`)', () => {
   it('accepts the measured emitted values — `null`, a dialect-quoted string, a native boolean', () => {
     // Measured on live in-memory SQLite (knex `columnInfo()` pass-through,
     // 2026-08-23): `null` for a column with no default; dialect-quoted
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/scoped-context.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/scoped-context.test.ts
index 11ceeec07b8..45722cbf948 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/scoped-context.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/scoped-context.test.ts
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ function jsdocUsageExample(): string {
   return body.join('\n');
 }
 
-describe('[#5945] the `HookContext.api` JSDoc example compiles', () => {
+describe('the `HookContext.api` JSDoc example compiles', () => {
   const example = jsdocUsageExample();
 
   it('extracts a real example from hook.zod.ts (anti-vacuity)', () => {
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ describe('[#5945] the `HookContext.api` JSDoc example compiles', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('[#5945] every corpus-measured call compiles', () => {
+describe('every corpus-measured call compiles', () => {
   /**
    * One probe per declared member, each written the way the corpus writes it,
    * so a failure names the member rather than "the big probe went red". The
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ describe('[#5945] every corpus-measured call compiles', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('[#5945] the evidence bar is enforced, not just documented', () => {
+describe('the evidence bar is enforced, not just documented', () => {
   /**
    * An undeclared member is TS2339 — a NAMED refusal, which is the point:
    * before this contract every one of these was TS18046 ("`ctx.api` is of type
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ describe('[#5945] the evidence bar is enforced, not just documented', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('[#16786] `updateById` DECLARES its answer, and the declaration is enforced', () => {
+describe('`updateById` DECLARES its answer, and the declaration is enforced', () => {
   /**
    * The spec remainder (commit 6059b29c0), after PR #17255 landed the `objectql` half.
    *
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ describe('[#16786] `updateById` DECLARES its answer, and the declaration is enfo
   });
 });
 
-describe('[#5945] IScopedContext is implementable', () => {
+describe('IScopedContext is implementable', () => {
   it('accepts a minimal implementation', async () => {
     const rows = [{ id: 'c1', stage: 'hired', position_id: 'p1' }];
 
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/security-service.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/security-service.test.ts
index 416f82fcee0..9e48e410df2 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/security-service.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/security-service.test.ts
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ describe('Security Service Contract', () => {
       .resolves.toEqual([]);
   });
 
-  it('[#20935] getQueryableFields is OPTIONAL — and a field served masked is readable but NOT queryable', async () => {
+  it('getQueryableFields is OPTIONAL — and a field served masked is readable but NOT queryable', async () => {
     const withoutIt: ISecurityService = makeService({ getReadableFields: async () => ['id', 'name', 'masked'] });
     expect(typeof withoutIt.getQueryableFields).toBe('undefined');
     const mustNotCompileWithoutAGuard = () =>
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ describe('Security Service Contract', () => {
       .resolves.toEqual([]);
   });
 
-  it('[#7616] resolvePermissionSetsForContext is OPTIONAL — absence keeps the consumer on its own resolution (compile-time)', () => {
+  it('resolvePermissionSetsForContext is OPTIONAL — absence keeps the consumer on its own resolution (compile-time)', () => {
     // THE structural pin behind "a consumer must keep its local resolution as
     // the fallback until a floor version carrying this method can be assumed".
     // Optional is what makes that a property of the TYPE: a security service
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ describe('Security Service Contract', () => {
     expect(typeof withoutIt.resolvePermissionSetNames).toBe('function');
   });
 
-  it('[#7616] the sets carry the four columns the names cannot: objects, fields, systemPermissions, tabPermissions', async () => {
+  it('the sets carry the four columns the names cannot: objects, fields, systemPermissions, tabPermissions', async () => {
     // Why the method exists at all. `resolvePermissionSetNames` answers an
     // AUDIENCE question ("does this caller hold `sales_manager`?"); a consumer
     // that must MERGE the caller's grants — the object/field map
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ describe('Security Service Contract', () => {
     expect(typeof partial.getReadableFields).toBe('undefined');
   });
 
-  it('[#5493] AuthoredRowWriteVerdict names exactly admit / abstain (compile-time)', () => {
+  it('AuthoredRowWriteVerdict names exactly admit / abstain (compile-time)', () => {
     const everyVerdict: AuthoredRowWriteVerdict[] = ['admit', 'abstain'];
     // Deliberately NO `deny`. This surface is evidence, not a gate: the caller
     // already holds a refusal and asks only whether a declared widener speaks
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ describe('Security Service Contract', () => {
     expect(notAWriteOperation).toBe('select');
   });
 
-  it('[#5493] checkAuthoredRowWrite is OPTIONAL — absence is the fail-closed default (compile-time)', () => {
+  it('checkAuthoredRowWrite is OPTIONAL — absence is the fail-closed default (compile-time)', () => {
     // THE structural pin behind "a deployment without this method behaves
     // byte-for-byte as today". Declaring it optional is what makes that a
     // property of the TYPE rather than a promise in prose: a security service
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ describe('Security Service Contract', () => {
     expect(withoutIt.checkAuthoredRowWrite?.('deal', 'r1', 'update', {})).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
-  it('[#5493] admit is a positive measurement; every other outcome is abstain', async () => {
+  it('admit is a positive measurement; every other outcome is abstain', async () => {
     // `admit` means "an app-authored, non-floor policy matches this row for
     // this operation" — it never means "the write is permitted" (CRUD, the
     // tenant wall, sharing and the post-image check all still apply), and it is
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/share-link-service.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/share-link-service.test.ts
index ef1f532d13c..4bbaeb19282 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/share-link-service.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/share-link-service.test.ts
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ function makeRecordingService(): {
   return { service, seen };
 }
 
-describe('share-link contract — enforcement takes the full ExecutionContext (#6430)', () => {
+describe('share-link contract — enforcement takes the full ExecutionContext', () => {
   it('accepts the whole resolveAuthzContext envelope at an enforcement call site', async () => {
     const { service, seen } = makeRecordingService();
 
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/sharing-rule-evaluation-result-grants-refused.pin.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/sharing-rule-evaluation-result-grants-refused.pin.test.ts
index 1008afa2caf..289fec98930 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/sharing-rule-evaluation-result-grants-refused.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/sharing-rule-evaluation-result-grants-refused.pin.test.ts
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ interface RequiresTheCount extends SharingRuleEvaluationResult {
   grantsRefused: number;
 }
 
-describe('[#14969] SharingRuleEvaluationResult.grantsRefused is optional, and absent is not zero', () => {
+describe('SharingRuleEvaluationResult.grantsRefused is optional, and absent is not zero', () => {
   it('reads a non-empty required set (anti-vacuity)', () => {
     expect(SHARING_RULE_EVALUATION_REQUIRED_KEYS).toHaveLength(6);
     const pinned: [SixCountsStayRequired, GrantsRefusedIsTheOnlyOptionalKey, GrantsRefusedIsANumberWhenPresent] = [true, true, true];
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/sharing-service.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/sharing-service.test.ts
index 9657de4c406..e289b316cdc 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/sharing-service.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/sharing-service.test.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ type Refute<T extends false> = T;
  * was renamed; these pins keep the two vocabularies honest about what they
  * each describe.
  */
-describe('Sharing Service Contract — recipient vocabularies (#4539)', () => {
+describe('Sharing Service Contract — recipient vocabularies, each under its own name', () => {
   it('RecordShareRecipientType matches the sys_record_share recipient_type select', () => {
     // The storage select on SysRecordShare (`@objectstack/plugin-sharing`) is
     // the gate on what a row can contain; the contract type mirrors it 1:1.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ describe('Sharing Service Contract — recipient vocabularies (#4539)', () => {
     expect(ruleRecipient).toBe(notAuthorable);
   });
 
-  it('the stored-row union is exactly the authoring enum plus the reserved `queue` (#14103)', () => {
+  it('the stored-row union is exactly the authoring enum plus the reserved `queue`', () => {
     // `plugin-sharing`'s declared-rule bootstrap copies `sharedWith.type` onto
     // `sys_sharing_rule.recipient_type` member-for-member (an unmapped value is
     // skipped with a warning), so a member added to one list and not the other
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ describe('Sharing Service Contract — recipient vocabularies (#4539)', () => {
  * the thing cross-package callers read instead of the plugin. Deleting the
  * sentence again turns this red.
  */
-describe('[#5125] ISharingService write-gate bypass documentation parity', () => {
+describe('ISharingService write-gate bypass documentation parity', () => {
   it('canEdit / canDelete / canManageShares each name the `modifyAllRecords` bypass', async () => {
     const ts = (await import('typescript')).default;
     const { readFileSync } = await import('node:fs');
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ describe('[#5125] ISharingService write-gate bypass documentation parity', () =>
  * that tsc evaluates (`tsconfig.test.json` compiles this file — #5286), and
  * prose ones, because prose is the other half of what was missing.
  */
-describe('[#5858] HierarchyScopeContext tenancy authority', () => {
+describe('HierarchyScopeContext tenancy authority — organizationId is authoritative', () => {
   it('requires `organizationId` and keeps `tenantId` optional (compile-time)', () => {
     // A caller with no active org states so EXPLICITLY. `null` is a value the
     // contract carries (platform/unscoped), never an omission.
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ describe('[#5858] HierarchyScopeContext tenancy authority', () => {
  * never scroll to. This pins the FILE-level comment rather than a member's, so
  * it reads the leading comment ranges instead of an interface member.
  */
-describe('[#5817] ISharingService module header — one gate per write verb', () => {
+describe('ISharingService module header — one gate per write verb', () => {
   it('routes `update` to canEdit() and `delete` to canDelete(), not both to canEdit()', async () => {
     const ts = (await import('typescript')).default;
     const { readFileSync } = await import('node:fs');
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ describe('[#5817] ISharingService module header — one gate per write verb', ()
  * and the fail-closed rule ("a failed lookup is `deny`, never `abstain`") are
  * obligations on IMPLEMENTERS that no type can carry.
  */
-describe('[#6428] ISharingService tri-state write verdict', () => {
+describe('ISharingService tri-state write verdict', () => {
   it('SharingWriteVerdict names exactly allow / abstain / deny (compile-time)', () => {
     const everyVerdict: SharingWriteVerdict[] = ['allow', 'abstain', 'deny'];
     // A fourth state would leave a composing caller with a case it cannot map
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ type RetiredSharingContextSpecimen = {
   isSystem?: boolean;
 };
 
-describe('[#6523] sharing / approval enforcement takes the full ExecutionContext', () => {
+describe('sharing / approval enforcement takes the full ExecutionContext', () => {
   it('declares the full envelope on every adjudicating signature, by type identity', () => {
     // Type-level assertions are the substance of this case; the runtime
     // expectation below only keeps vitest from reporting an empty test. tsc
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/contracts/startup-orchestrator.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/contracts/startup-orchestrator.test.ts
index db9f919baf4..1a5a6b6252e 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/contracts/startup-orchestrator.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/contracts/startup-orchestrator.test.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ describe('Startup Orchestrator Contract — the surviving result shape', () => {
     expect(result.durationMs).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
-  it('types a timed-out startup with a SERIALIZABLE error (#4538)', () => {
+  it('types a timed-out startup with a SERIALIZABLE error', () => {
     const result: PluginStartupResult = {
       pluginName: 'broken-plugin',
       success: false,
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ describe('Startup Orchestrator Contract — the surviving result shape', () => {
     expect(result.error!.name).toBe('Error');
   });
 
-  it('is the SAME declaration the kernel entry exports (#4538)', () => {
+  it('is the SAME declaration the kernel entry exports', () => {
     const value: PluginStartupResult = { pluginName: 'x', success: true };
     const parsed = PluginStartupResultSchema.safeParse(value);
     expect(parsed.success).toBe(true);
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/conversions/action-aria-removed.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/conversions/action-aria-removed.test.ts
index e9010b1e849..0e4b16294c7 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/conversions/action-aria-removed.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/conversions/action-aria-removed.test.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import type { ConversionNotice } from './types.js';
  *     against `ActionSchema`, and the stored-row seam replays it (the entry is
  *     `retiredFromLoadPath`, so only data-at-rest seams apply it).
  */
-describe('[#20323] action-aria-removed (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
+describe('action-aria-removed (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
   const ARIA = { ariaLabel: 'Escalate this case', role: 'button' } as const;
 
   it('is registered for protocol 18 and retired from the authoring load path', () => {
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/conversions/action-block-endpoint-to-target.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/conversions/action-block-endpoint-to-target.test.ts
index 314d560b2e6..35a14b07572 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/conversions/action-block-endpoint-to-target.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/conversions/action-block-endpoint-to-target.test.ts
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ function replayStored(page: Record<string, unknown>) {
   };
 }
 
-describe('[#21005] action-block-endpoint-to-target (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
+describe('action-block-endpoint-to-target (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
   it('is registered for protocol 18 and retired from the authoring load path', () => {
     const entry = ALL_CONVERSIONS.find((c) => c.id === ID);
     expect(entry, 'the conversion is registered').toBeDefined();
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/conversions/conversions.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/conversions/conversions.test.ts
index bb416793f6b..fad00ada93e 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/conversions/conversions.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/conversions/conversions.test.ts
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
    * case by whether the two values actually disagree; these tests pin both
    * halves, because only one of them is a change.
    */
-  describe('shadowed alias, split by value (#4923)', () => {
+  describe('shadowed alias, split by value', () => {
     const crudFlow = (config: Record<string, unknown>) => ({
       flows: [{ name: 'f', nodes: [{ id: 'a', type: 'create_record', config }] }],
     });
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
    * and a second replay is a no-op. The flow rehydration seam's refusal by id
    * is pinned where that seam lives (`service-automation`).
    */
-  describe('flow-decision-mode-inclusive-explicit (#15429)', () => {
+  describe('flow-decision-mode-inclusive-explicit', () => {
     const ID = 'flow-decision-mode-inclusive-explicit';
     const entry = () => ALL_CONVERSIONS.find((c) => c.id === ID)!;
     const decisionFlow = (edges: Record<string, unknown>[], config?: Record<string, unknown>) => ({
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('flow-node-wait-timeout-keys-removed (#4158)', () => {
+  describe('flow-node-wait-timeout-keys-removed', () => {
     const wecFlow = (waitEventConfig: Record<string, unknown>) => ({
       flows: [
         {
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('flow-node-script-branch-keys-removed (#4343)', () => {
+  describe('flow-node-script-branch-keys-removed', () => {
     /** One `script` node in a flow shaped the way the conversion walks it. */
     const scriptFlow = (config: Record<string, unknown>) => ({
       flows: [
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('flow-node-wait-event-config-lift (PD #12 retirement, #4045)', () => {
+  describe('flow-node-wait-event-config-lift (PD #12 retirement)', () => {
     /**
      * One `wait` node in a flow that `FlowSchema` can actually parse — `label` is
      * required on both the flow and every node, which the conversion fixtures
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
   // that never runs the conversion is NOT broken. Either alone would be the
   // wrong shape — a rename that breaks old rows, or a rename that leaves one
   // deployment holding two spellings of one driver forever.
-  describe('datasource-driver-mongo-to-mongodb (#6345)', () => {
+  describe('datasource-driver-mongo-to-mongodb', () => {
     const convert = (datasources: unknown[]) =>
       collectConversionNotices({ datasources }, { includeRetired: true });
 
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
   // driver-scoped by construction; these pin the two edges the flat fixture
   // pair cannot express as sharply: the same key converting under one driver
   // and not another, and the load-path posture.
-  describe('datasource-config-driver-key-aliases (#4456)', () => {
+  describe('datasource-config-driver-key-aliases', () => {
     const convert = (datasources: unknown[]) =>
       collectConversionNotices({ datasources }, { includeRetired: true });
 
@@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
       expect(notices.filter((n) => n.conversionId === 'datasource-config-driver-key-aliases')).toHaveLength(1);
     });
 
-    it('still lands for a row whose driver id is ITSELF being renamed (#6345)', () => {
+    it('still lands for a row whose driver id is ITSELF being renamed', () => {
       // The pairs are keyed by CANONICAL driver id, and commit e2798fab7 renamed mongo's.
       // A stored `driver: 'mongo'` must therefore still find the mongo pairs
       // (through the alias) even as the sibling conversion rewrites its id —
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
    * into a kind would turn a loud rejection into a wrong comparison — the exact
    * failure class #5011 exists to end.
    */
-  describe('dashboard-widget-compareto-converged (#5011)', () => {
+  describe('dashboard-widget-compareto-converged', () => {
     const dash = (compareTo: unknown) => ({
       dashboards: [{
         name: 'revenue_review',
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
    * every case here runs the plain load posture (no `includeRetired`) — that
    * the rewrite happens without it is the property objectui is waiting on.
    */
-  describe('page-header-subtitle-alias (#4827 — the `subtitle ?? description` retirement)', () => {
+  describe('page-header-subtitle-alias (the `subtitle ?? description` retirement)', () => {
     const pageWith = (...components: Record<string, unknown>[]) => ({
       pages: [{ name: 'crm_lead_detail', regions: [{ name: 'header', components }] }],
     });
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
    * out of the same key. Both are ways this rewrite could be lossy, and neither
    * is visible in a fixture that only carries the happy path.
    */
-  describe('inline-action-api-params-to-body-extra (#5777)', () => {
+  describe('inline-action-api-params-to-body-extra', () => {
     const button = (action: Record<string, unknown>) => ({
       pages: [{
         name: 'showcase_contact_form',
@@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
       expect(applyConversions(stack)).toBe(stack);
     });
 
-    it('keeps BOTH when `bodyExtra` already says something different (#4923 house rule)', () => {
+    it('keeps BOTH when `bodyExtra` already says something different', () => {
       const stack = button({ type: 'api', target: '/x', params: { a: 1 }, bodyExtra: { b: 2 } });
       const out = applyConversions(stack);
       expect(out).toBe(stack);
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
    *   - the **acceptance face in both directions**, since a rename moves what
    *     the schema accepts as well as what it refuses.
    */
-  describe('page-tabs-type-to-tab-style (#6776)', () => {
+  describe('page-tabs-type-to-tab-style', () => {
     const regionPage = (properties: Record<string, unknown>) => ({
       pages: [{ name: 'sys_position_detail', regions: [{ name: 'main', components: [{ type: 'page:tabs', properties }] }] }],
     });
@@ -1463,14 +1463,14 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
       expect(applyConversions(stack, { includeRetired: true })).toBe(stack);
     });
 
-    it('keeps BOTH when `tabStyle` already says something different (#4923 house rule)', () => {
+    it('keeps BOTH when `tabStyle` already says something different', () => {
       const stack = regionPage({ tabStyle: 'pill', type: 'card', items: [] });
       const { out, notices } = convert(stack);
       expect(out).toBe(stack);
       expect(notices).toEqual([]);
     });
 
-    it('drops the redundant twin when both spellings agree (#4923)', () => {
+    it('drops the redundant twin when both spellings agree', () => {
       const { out, notices } = convert(regionPage({ tabStyle: 'pill', type: 'pill', items: [] }));
       expect(propsOf(out, 'region')).toEqual({ tabStyle: 'pill', items: [] });
       expect(notices).toHaveLength(1);
@@ -1531,7 +1531,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
    * down, through the very machinery meant to repair it. `retiredFromLoadPath`
    * is what buys that, so it is asserted directly rather than inferred.
    */
-  describe('app-hidden-to-unpublished (#4829)', () => {
+  describe('app-hidden-to-unpublished', () => {
     const storedApp = (app: Record<string, unknown>) => ({ apps: [{ name: 'production_management', ...app }] });
     const convertStored = (stack: Record<string, unknown>) => {
       const notices: ConversionNotice[] = [];
@@ -1556,7 +1556,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
       expect(notices).toEqual([]);
     });
 
-    it('#4923: a row that already carries `_unpublished` keeps BOTH keys, untouched', () => {
+    it('a row that already carries `_unpublished` keeps BOTH keys, untouched', () => {
       // The machine has already spoken about this row. Reconciling a
       // disagreeing pair is a human's call, not the loader's — and it is what
       // makes the pass idempotent on a row that has already converted.
@@ -1671,7 +1671,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
    * `includeRetired` (the stored posture); the one case without it pins that
    * the load seam does NOT quietly accept the dialect.
    */
-  describe('field-reference-to-alias (#13700 — the stored `reference_to` dialect canonicalizes)', () => {
+  describe('field-reference-to-alias (the stored `reference_to` dialect canonicalizes)', () => {
     const stackWith = (fields: Record<string, unknown>) => ({
       objects: [{ name: 'crm_contact', label: 'Contact', fields }],
     });
@@ -1796,7 +1796,7 @@ describe('conversion layer (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
  * Written against the SEAM rather than the id, so re-adding the behaviour
  * under a different id fails here too.
  */
-describe('no conversion invents a NOT NULL column (ADR-0113, #16693)', () => {
+describe('no conversion invents a NOT NULL column (ADR-0113)', () => {
   const requiredOnly = () => ({
     objects: [{
       name: 'clm_party',
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/conversions/dataset-count-measure-empty-field-removed.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/conversions/dataset-count-measure-empty-field-removed.test.ts
index 27ffb48abe3..2628ba9dcdb 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/conversions/dataset-count-measure-empty-field-removed.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/conversions/dataset-count-measure-empty-field-removed.test.ts
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ function fieldIssuePaths(row: unknown): string[] {
   return r.success ? [] : r.error.issues.map((i) => i.path.join('.')).filter((p) => p.endsWith('field'));
 }
 
-describe('[#21220] dataset-count-measure-empty-field-removed (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
+describe('dataset-count-measure-empty-field-removed (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
   it('is registered for protocol 18, retired from the authoring load path, and linked from its D3 entry', () => {
     const entry = ALL_CONVERSIONS.find((c) => c.id === ID);
     expect(entry, 'the conversion is registered').toBeDefined();
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/conversions/page-component-walk.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/conversions/page-component-walk.test.ts
index a8181c8814d..6f2520da21c 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/conversions/page-component-walk.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/conversions/page-component-walk.test.ts
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ const regionPage = (...components: unknown[]) => ({
 const componentAt = (stack: Record<string, unknown>, ...steps: (string | number)[]) =>
   steps.reduce<any>((node, step) => node[step], (stack.pages as any[])[0]);
 
-describe('#6775 — a conversion reaches a component nested in another component', () => {
+describe('a conversion reaches a component nested in another component', () => {
   /**
    * The four container shapes this walker descends, spelled out by hand as the
    * fixture — `body` included: it is a RETIRED spelling the authoring walks
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ describe('#6775 — a conversion reaches a component nested in another component
     });
   }
 
-  it('reaches every position `pageComponentSlotPositions()` names, the retired spelling included (#20940)', () => {
+  it('reaches every position `pageComponentSlotPositions()` names, the retired spelling included', () => {
     const positions = pageComponentSlotPositions();
     // Guards the case against passing vacuously on an empty list, and ties it
     // to the four explicit shapes above.
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ describe('#6775 — a conversion reaches a component nested in another component
   });
 });
 
-describe('#6775 — the page-component walk stays copy-on-write and shape-gated', () => {
+describe('the page-component walk stays copy-on-write and shape-gated', () => {
   it('returns the identical reference when nothing nested converts', () => {
     const clean = regionPage({
       type: 'page:section',
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/conversions/region-walk.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/conversions/region-walk.test.ts
index 3851b17df83..ab40067dc4d 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/conversions/region-walk.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/conversions/region-walk.test.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ const httpNode = (id: string) => ({ id, type: 'http', label: id, config: { url:
 
 const region = (...nodes: unknown[]) => ({ nodes, edges: [] });
 
-describe('#4347 — conversions reach nodes inside structured regions', () => {
+describe('conversions reach nodes inside structured regions', () => {
   it('converts a node in a `loop` body exactly as it converts its top-level twin', () => {
     const { stack, notices } = collectConversionNotices({
       flows: [{
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ describe('#4347 — conversions reach nodes inside structured regions', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('#4347 — the region walk stays copy-on-write and shape-gated', () => {
+describe('the region walk stays copy-on-write and shape-gated', () => {
   it('returns the identical reference when nothing inside a region converts', () => {
     const clean = {
       flows: [{
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ describe('#4347 — the region walk stays copy-on-write and shape-gated', () =>
  * covers every declared container, so a fourth construct added to the shared
  * table cannot land while the conversion pass keeps skipping it.
  */
-describe('#4401 — the conversion walk descends into every declared container', () => {
+describe('the conversion walk descends into every declared container', () => {
   it('reaches a region node under each container type in the shared table', () => {
     for (const nodeType of FLOW_REGION_SLOTS_BY_TYPE.keys()) {
       for (const { key, arity } of FLOW_REGION_SLOTS_BY_TYPE.get(nodeType)!) {
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/conversions/retired-after.census.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/conversions/retired-after.census.test.ts
index 7e8ed77a042..61df3941bea 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/conversions/retired-after.census.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/conversions/retired-after.census.test.ts
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ function publishedRetiredAfter(id: string): string | null {
 const RETIRED = ALL_CONVERSIONS.filter((c) => c.retiredFromLoadPath === true);
 const LIVE = ALL_CONVERSIONS.filter((c) => c.retiredFromLoadPath !== true);
 
-describe('[#20390] retiredAfter census — every retired entry stamped from the published tarballs', () => {
+describe('retiredAfter census — every retired entry stamped from the published tarballs', () => {
   it('the census is well-formed: stable releases in ascending order, never ahead of the package label', () => {
     expect(CENSUS.releases.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
     const versions = [CENSUS.precedingRelease, ...CENSUS.releases.map((r) => r.version)];
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/conversions/stored.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/conversions/stored.test.ts
index 1770351c92a..1f5d99a652e 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/conversions/stored.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/conversions/stored.test.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { CONVERSION_TODO_CODE, type ConversionNotice, type ConversionTodoNotice
 // rest was written under some past protocol and has no author to be taught by
 // a tombstone, so `retiredFromLoadPath` entries — which the authored load seam
 // skips — MUST apply here.
-describe('applyConversionsToStoredItem (stored sys_metadata rows, #3903)', () => {
+describe('applyConversionsToStoredItem (stored sys_metadata rows)', () => {
   it('replays a RETIRED conversion over a stored object row (conditionalRequired → requiredWhen)', () => {
     const row = {
       name: 'crm_task',
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ describe('applyConversionsToStoredItem (stored sys_metadata rows, #3903)', () =>
   // drops the meaningless key (behaviour-preserving — #7501's enforcement
   // deliberately skipped malformed declarations, so it enforced nothing)
   // and the rest of the row survives byte-identically.
-  it('drops a malformed stored scale/precision instead of breaking the row (#8321)', () => {
+  it('drops a malformed stored scale/precision instead of breaking the row', () => {
     const row = {
       name: 'crm_deal',
       label: 'Deal',
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ describe('applyConversionsToStoredItem (stored sys_metadata rows, #3903)', () =>
   // stored pass MUST serve it canonical, because the factory now reads exactly
   // one spelling per key (deleting the fallbacks without this replay would
   // silently move a sqlite `file:` row's data to `:memory:`).
-  describe('stored datasource rows (datasource-config-driver-key-aliases, #4456)', () => {
+  describe('stored datasource rows (datasource-config-driver-key-aliases)', () => {
     // The fourth column is the driver id the stored pass SERVES, which differs
     // from the stored one for exactly one row: commit e2798fab7 renamed the canonical mongo
     // id to `mongodb`, and `datasource-driver-mongo-to-mongodb` converges the
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ describe('applyConversionsToStoredItem (stored sys_metadata rows, #3903)', () =>
   // replayed a translation conversion over one. The item door's `settings` is
   // the case that made it matter: a stored item's copy overrides the
   // platform's, because the runtime-authored layer is read over the bundles.
-  describe('stored translation rows (translation-per-app-settings-removed, #19620)', () => {
+  describe('stored translation rows (translation-per-app-settings-removed)', () => {
     const storedItem = () => ({
       name: 'zh-CN',
       locale: 'zh-CN',
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/conversions/time-default-utc-suffix-dropped.test.ts b/packages/spec/src/conversions/time-default-utc-suffix-dropped.test.ts
index 719bf796221..606c4c6f0f8 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/conversions/time-default-utc-suffix-dropped.test.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/conversions/time-default-utc-suffix-dropped.test.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ function defaultValueIssuePaths(row: unknown): string[] {
   return r.success ? [] : r.error.issues.map((i) => i.path.join('.')).filter((p) => p.endsWith('defaultValue'));
 }
 
-describe('[#20740] time-default-utc-suffix-dropped (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
+describe('time-default-utc-suffix-dropped (ADR-0087 D2)', () => {
   it('is registered for protocol 18 and retired from the authoring load path', () => {
     const entry = ALL_CONVERSIONS.find((c) => c.id === ID);
     expect(entry, 'the conversion is registered').toBeDefined();