ci(gates): retire the transcription pins — tests and gates that hold a hand-typed count or table equal to the tree and red on every unrelated move (parent of eight) #26431

Filing gate: ③ maintainer-directed. Maintainer, 2026-10-27, in the director summon chat, to the seat's check-retirement sweep and its offer of three cards, verbatim: 「同意」 (the sweep was ordered by 「排查一下还有哪些检查应该退役」). Filed by the director seat (session_01KrKXQVvgYk2AJ4VkqMobyb, ledger objectstack#12708, sweep record 6433263738). ⛔ Not a claim. Batch-of: 11 (director seat, 2026-10-27). Dedupe: 600 newest open + closed issues grepped for the check's file name → 0 unless stated. Reader: this is a ④ coordination parent; each child names its own lane. Done-when: every child closed; nothing lands on this card.

维护者速读

这组检查共同点：钉的是树的转录（一个清单的长度、一次手数的数字、散文里重述的计数），不是不变量；它们的红史全是「有人正常改了代码，数字没跟着改」——#26410 那份权限普查钉是同类里最贵的一个，你已裁 C。这里把其余八个按文件各立一张子单：退役钉本身，或者把数字改成从树推导，让它永远不能和树不一致。父单只收账，不派发。

Children (one lane each; filed in the same batch)

• test(rest): the registrar-file list's length is pinned as toHaveLength(18) in seven test files — drop the seven length pins, the list is the authority #26433 — registrar-file length pinned in seven test files (domain:server)
• test(rest): execctx-consumer-census.test.ts hand-counts 62 sites / 145 mentions / 16-46-12 catch shapes and is re-typed on every split slice — derive the census or retire the measurement file #26436 — execctx-consumer-census.test.ts hand counts (domain:server)
• test(spec): metadata-type-schemas.test.ts pins the registry at closed 27 / types 28 and is bumped on every new metadata kind — state the rule in words, drop the counts #26437 — metadata-type-schemas.test.ts closed 27 / types 28 (domain:spec)
• test(i18n): objectView-config-keys-retired pins SURVIVING_KEY_COUNT = 103 (and 229 total), so any legitimate key added to console.objectView reds it — pin the retired list only #26438 — SURVIVING_KEY_COUNT = 103 in the i18n retired-keys test (domain:ui)
• pm(check-expected-skips): the roster of jobs allowed to skip is a hand copy of ci.yml's if: gates and reds on every new or renamed job — derive the roster from the workflow #26439 — check-expected-skips hand roster (domain:skills)
• docs(gates): five gates exist only to hold a count re-typed in prose (lockstep "110 packages", route-ledger "105 rows", quick-reference "N of M", overlay-whitelist leg 3, spec-enumerations) — delete or generate the numbers, retire the holders #26441 — five prose-count holder gates: lockstep, route-ledger, quick-reference, overlay leg 3, spec-enumerations (domain:devx)
• docs(permissions): system-context.mdx is a hand-written per-site census of every isSystem read, edited 9 times in 30 days and held by a gate whose --fix is retired — generate it like tenant-audit-census.mdx #26442 — system-context.mdx hand census (domain:devx)
• ci(self-tests): the shard sizes /3, /8, /16 are copied into five self-tests and fixtures — read them from the workflow's matrix blocks #26443 — shard-size literals in five self-tests (domain:devx)

Siblings filed in the same batch, not children: #26444 (floors and two-sided baselines, loosened) and #26445 (decision: the three unread scheduled workflows).

Rule the children follow

• A pin is retired, not loosened, when the thing it pins already has an authority (a list, a registry, a generated file): the authority stays, the retyped number goes.
• A number in prose is deleted or generated; it is never "held" by a gate (the --fix gates in this batch exist only because the prose restates a count).
• A test that must stay keeps the rule in words ("every registered type is closed except view"), never the count of today.
• ⛔ No new gate, no new ledger; each child is one PR in its lane; Tier S/H per the paths it touches.

Related

#26410 (the authz census pin, ruled C — the archetype); PR #26367 (SDUI manifest records retired — the pattern); PR #26343 (had to bump five package-count floors to delete one package).