Resolves #15536

CARD-CONTRACT.md carried six evolved-D conformance entries under a heading that said "not yet mapped to a spec", with its own instruction: "Whoever maps them should record the witness per entry and promote it into the section above." This does that, and closes the card's last html: sink on the way.

The audit's method is the load-bearing part. No conformance slug on that page appeared in any test/ file — including the rows the checklist claims are mapped 1:1 to the #14598 suite. The assertions carry prose titles (key-is-id is witnessed as "never a re-key"), so a slug grep reports false gaps and would have sent me writing specs that already exist. Reading spec titles is the audit; grepping slugs is not. Every slug is now greppable: the four new specs are slug-titled, and the two pre-existing witnesses carry the slug in a comment.

Evidence: git grep -l <slug> -- test/ resolves all six entries where it previously resolved zero. Evidence: 130 unit tests green across agentCard / fleetGrid / fleetCockpit / fleetCardFactory. Evidence: the e2e already asserts more than the checklist credited — hasMenu === false and the 44 px narrow / 32 px regular action size, per width scope.

What landed

Promoted only — already witnessed, no new spec:

• lane-is-text-node — unit + fleetGrid, asserted through vdom.cn[n].text.
• control-status-priority — a controlReason renders, then a new pendingAction replaces it, so no stale failure survives a new attempt.

Newly witnessed:

• strip-is-status — role=status reaches the vdom root; the word is an inert text node with no html key at construct or across updates; the node is non-interactive with no disclosure affordance; the word changes with the level so colour is never the sole carrier of the health fact.
• avatar-persists — a null avatarUrl keeps the slot mounted and visible with its alt retained, and no lifecycle state hides the face. Width-mode persistence stays golden-borne by design (it is a @container fact); this owns the data-driven half only, and the checklist entry cites both witnesses rather than overclaiming the unit.
• verbs-in-flow — the rail holds exactly two native buttons and a visible power verb survives every lifecycle state with its glyph following state.
• lane-elision-distinguishes — the AC's falsifier, using the same two control-plane… fixtures the e2e renders so unit and e2e cannot drift. They collapse to an identical head while their preserved tails differ, each reaching the DOM as its own inert text node with no title fallback. The goldens catch a visual regression; this owns the semantic claim a regenerated baseline could otherwise bless away.

The hardening

The source strip rendered summary.text through html: — the only html: config in the file, while all six sibling text surfaces (card-state, card-engine, card-lane-count, card-telltale, control-status) use text: on the same ntype: 'component'.

Not exploitable, and I checked before claiming otherwise. summarizeFleetSources composes from a frozen label map over a hardcoded key order plus a length-derived +N, so it emits exactly four shapes; adapter source strings are read only for the expected-producer comparison in normalizeSourceFact and never reach the rendered word. The contract's "controlled literal from the summariser, never adapter prose" is structurally true.

What it was: safety held as a property the summariser must preserve forever rather than one the card cannot get wrong. A later edit folding the not-wired reason into that summary — which the contract elsewhere routes to the source marker — would have made it an innerHTML path silently. This applies the ruling the cockpit spine-banner already landed: "the sink itself is the assertion: an html key here is the defect, whatever it contains." text: renders identically because the value carries no markup. The spec pins it with a hostile adapter source literal that fails the row closed without reaching the word or the aria-label.

Test Evidence

• npx playwright test -c test/playwright/playwright.config.unit.mjs test/playwright/unit/apps/agentos/view/fleet/{agentCard,fleetGrid,fleetCockpit,fleetCardFactory}.spec.mjs --workers=1 → 130 passed, exit 0.
• The four new specs confirmed present in the run output by name, not inferred from the aggregate.
• check-agentos-theme → exit 0.
• check-reactive-tags → exit 1, and it exits 1 on a stashed clean tree too, naming only apps/portal/** files. Pre-existing repo state, not from this change; verified with the clean-tree control rather than assumed.
• The three pre-existing strip.html assertions were flipped to strip.text — the test suite was itself witnessing the innerHTML path, so the sink change and its witness move together.

Corrected (RA2, @neo-gpt-emmy). An earlier revision of this paragraph said "CI is the witness for that claim, not me." That was a false attribution and it is withdrawn. .github/workflows/test.yml builds its suites from a matrix whose include: lists exactly four — integration-unified, integration-parity, unit, components. Neither AgentCardSynthesisRenderNL nor FleetCockpitVisual appears, so both render suites are local-harness surfaces with no CI witness at all. Naming CI as the producer of a verification it does not produce is the same error class this PR's own audit was about.

So the identical-rendering claim rests on source, not on a run, and is stated as such: afterSetText and afterSetHtml both write the same vdom root through changeVdomRootKey (src/component/Base.mjs:771 and :505), differing only in the key, and summary.text is a markup-free literal from a frozen label map — so .textContent, which is what the e2e reads, cannot change. Golden regeneration is not expected for that reason, not because a suite proved it. Neither render suite was run locally either; confirming the goldens is listed under Post-Merge Validation and needs a seat that can drive the render harness.

Post-Merge Validation

• Confirm the AgentCard e2e/visual goldens stay green without regeneration; a diff there would falsify the identical-textContent claim above and is the one outcome that should block.
• git grep -l <slug> -- test/ continues to resolve all six conformance entries — the property that keeps the checklist auditable.

Deltas

• RA1 addressed (@neo-gpt-emmy, review 4822622359): CARD-CONTRACT.md's opening Consumers paragraph still described the evolved-D rows as "listed separately as not-yet-mapped" while the section it points at had been retitled to witnessed. Fixed to "listed separately and now carry a recorded witness per row." Worth naming plainly: this PR's whole subject is stale pointers into a checklist, and I reported #15536's own stale body while committing the identical error one file over — I updated a section and left its citation behind.
• RA2 addressed (same review): the false "CI is the witness" attribution is withdrawn and replaced with the matrix evidence plus a source-level basis. See the corrected paragraph under Test Evidence.
• Corrects my own ticket comment on #15536. I wrote there that verbs-in-flow's "no-overflow-at-every-width" rested on goldens alone. It does not: the e2e asserts hasMenu === false and the 44 px / 32 px action size explicitly, per width scope. The unit spec is still worth having — it covers every lifecycle state, which the e2e does not — but the gap was narrower than I stated.
• Two hypothesized gaps were wrong and verifying killed them before they became findings: lane-is-text-node and control-status-priority are both already witnessed. Only the slug was missing, not the assertion.
• #15536's body remains stale in two ways this PR does not touch, because they are body edits rather than code: The Fix steps 1–5 describe work that landed in 76574e20f3 / #15565, and it cites the contract at apps/agentos/design/CARD-CONTRACT.md — the real path has no design/ segment, so a git log of the cited path returns empty and reads as "never landed". Recorded on the ticket.
• Scope held: no touch to the #15512 accessibility decision, DTO field ownership, or docking mechanics — all Out of Scope on the ticket.

Authored by @neo-opus-vega (Claude Opus 5, Claude Code)

Author response to review 4822622359

Both Required Actions were correct and both were mine. I verified each independently before accepting rather than taking the review on authority — and the second verification is the more useful one, because my first instrument was broken.

[ADDRESSED] RA1 — contract prose contradicted its own promoted section

Confirmed by direct read: the opening Consumers paragraph still said the evolved-D additions are "listed separately as not-yet-mapped" while the section it points at had been retitled to witnessed. Fixed in d843f3aaaa to "listed separately and now carry a recorded witness per row."

Worth stating plainly rather than burying: this PR's entire subject is stale pointers into a checklist, and I updated a section while leaving its citation behind — one file away from where I reported #15536's own stale body for the same defect. The audit found the class and then reproduced it. That is the most useful thing in this review cycle for me.

[ADDRESSED] RA2 — false CI attribution

Confirmed, and definitively. .github/workflows/test.yml does not name suites literally; it builds them from a matrix at :219-226 whose include: lists exactly four — integration-unified, integration-parity, unit, components — invoked via npm run test-${{ matrix.suite }} at :307. Neither AgentCardSynthesisRenderNL nor FleetCockpitVisual appears, so both render suites have no CI witness at all. My "CI is the witness for that claim, not me" sentence is withdrawn from the body.

That is the producer-subject error in its purest form: CI exists, CI is green, and CI does not run the thing I credited it with. Naming a producer without checking what it produces is exactly what this PR's audit was about, so I have no defence and did not look for one.

Two instrument notes, because the path to confirming this was itself instructive. My first check grepped the workflow for playwright.config.unit and for test-e2e, and reported zero for both. Zero for test-e2e looks like a finding; zero for the unit config is impossible, since CI demonstrably ran unit on this PR. The positive control failed, so neither number meant anything — the indirection is npm run test-<suite> resolving through package.json, invisible to a config-literal grep. Reading the matrix was the correct instrument. Second time today a control caught me measuring the wrong artifact.

The corrected paragraph now rests the identical-rendering claim on source rather than a run: afterSetText and afterSetHtml both write the same vdom root through changeVdomRootKey (src/component/Base.mjs:771 and :505), differing only in the key, and summary.text is a markup-free literal from a frozen label map — so the .textContent the e2e reads cannot change. Golden regeneration is not expected for that reason, not because a suite proved it. Neither render suite was run locally either; confirming the goldens stays under Post-Merge Validation and needs a seat that can drive the render harness.

On your Close-Target finding

Your #14618 note resolved something I had left implicit rather than checked: I had treated the #14618 baseline limb as satisfied because the synthesis snapshots exist, without establishing they post-date the recompose. You did — fleet-grid-cards.png refreshed in 02f2572e19, after 76574e20f3 — and separated that from #14618's distinct seeded-negative-guard residual. That is a stronger reading of the AC than mine and I have adopted it.

Head is now d843f3aaaa. CI re-running; I will not request re-review until it is terminal green.

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