diff --git a/packages/core/package.json b/packages/core/package.json
index 16fc4331..6260aa8c 100644
--- a/packages/core/package.json
+++ b/packages/core/package.json
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
       "types": "./dist/detectors/index.d.ts",
       "import": "./dist/detectors/index.js"
     },
+    "./schemas/*": "./schemas/*",
     "./providers/claude": {
       "types": "./dist/providers/claude/index.d.ts",
       "import": "./dist/providers/claude/index.js"
diff --git a/packages/core/scripts/verify-dist.mjs b/packages/core/scripts/verify-dist.mjs
index dd21249d..cdd5ec32 100644
--- a/packages/core/scripts/verify-dist.mjs
+++ b/packages/core/scripts/verify-dist.mjs
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 // This script is the assertion that closes that gap. It runs from
 // `prepublishOnly` (after the build) and in CI, so it is exercised on every
 // push rather than only on the rare publish.
-import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { existsSync, readFileSync, readdirSync } from 'node:fs'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
-import { dirname, join } from 'node:path'
+import { dirname, join, relative } from 'node:path'
 
 const pkgRoot = join(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..')
 const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(pkgRoot, 'package.json'), 'utf8'))
@@ -21,16 +21,55 @@ const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(pkgRoot, 'package.json'), 'utf8'))
 const problems = []
 let checked = 0
 
-for (const [subpath, entry] of Object.entries(pkg.exports ?? {})) {
+for (const [subpath, rawEntry] of Object.entries(pkg.exports ?? {})) {
+  // A plain string target (e.g. "./schemas/*": "./schemas/*") applies to every
+  // condition; normalize it so the import/types checks below stay uniform.
+  const entry = typeof rawEntry === 'string' ? { import: rawEntry, types: rawEntry } : rawEntry
   for (const condition of ['import', 'types']) {
-    const relative = entry?.[condition]
-    if (!relative) {
+    const pattern = entry?.[condition]
+    if (!pattern) {
       problems.push(`exports["${subpath}"] declares no "${condition}" target`)
       continue
     }
     checked++
-    if (!existsSync(join(pkgRoot, relative))) {
-      problems.push(`exports["${subpath}"].${condition} -> ${relative} does not exist`)
+    if (!pattern.includes('*')) {
+      if (!existsSync(join(pkgRoot, pattern))) {
+        problems.push(`exports["${subpath}"].${condition} -> ${pattern} does not exist`)
+      }
+      continue
+    }
+    // Subpath pattern: every file it can reach on disk must exist, or some
+    // consumer resolves the export to nothing. Node's `*` spans "/" and does
+    // not special-case dotfiles, so the walk is recursive and does not skip
+    // dots — a shallower scan would let a nested tree (e.g. schemas/v2/) or a
+    // dotfile pass the validator while remaining reachable through the export.
+    const star = pattern.indexOf('*')
+    const literal = pattern.slice(0, star)
+    const suffix = pattern.slice(star + 1)
+    // A literal prefix with no "/" at all (e.g. "foo*") means the scan starts
+    // at the package root. lastIndexOf('/') would return -1 here, and
+    // slice(0, -1) on it would truncate the name into a bogus directory, so
+    // the "does not exist" report below would point at the wrong place.
+    const slash = literal.lastIndexOf('/')
+    const dir = slash === -1 ? pkgRoot : join(pkgRoot, literal.slice(0, slash))
+    if (!existsSync(dir)) {
+      problems.push(`exports["${subpath}"].${condition} -> ${pattern} directory does not exist`)
+      continue
+    }
+    const reachable = []
+    const walk = (d) => {
+      for (const name of readdirSync(d, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+        const full = join(d, name.name)
+        if (name.isDirectory()) walk(full)
+        else {
+          const rel = './' + relative(pkgRoot, full)
+          if (rel.startsWith(literal) && rel.endsWith(suffix)) reachable.push(rel)
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    walk(dir)
+    if (reachable.length === 0) {
+      problems.push(`exports["${subpath}"].${condition} -> ${pattern} matches no files`)
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/src/index.ts b/packages/core/src/index.ts
index ddfa1655..1dc0a744 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/index.ts
@@ -3,3 +3,22 @@ export * from './observations.js'
 export * from './diagnostics.js'
 export * from './fingerprint.js'
 export * from './contracts.js'
+// Detectors: re-export only the documented API — the detector functions, the
+// stable `detectors` list, and their id/algorithm-version constants. The
+// ./detectors subpath also re-exports ./shared.js, which drags internal
+// helpers (AVG_TOKENS_PER_READ, JUNK_RESOURCE_CLASSES, READ/EDIT_TOOL_NAMES,
+// clamp01, forEachCall) into any `export *` of it; those stay out of the root
+// barrel so tuning a constant or renaming a helper is not a 1.0 break. They
+// remain reachable via the './detectors' subpath.
+export {
+  detectors,
+  junkReadsDetector,
+  duplicateReadsDetector,
+  contextBloatDetector,
+  JUNK_READS_DETECTOR_ID,
+  JUNK_READS_ALGORITHM_VERSION,
+  DUPLICATE_READS_DETECTOR_ID,
+  DUPLICATE_READS_ALGORITHM_VERSION,
+  CONTEXT_BLOAT_DETECTOR_ID,
+  CONTEXT_BLOAT_ALGORITHM_VERSION,
+} from './detectors/index.js'
diff --git a/packages/core/tests/harness/schema-resolve-child.mjs b/packages/core/tests/harness/schema-resolve-child.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c87195b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/tests/harness/schema-resolve-child.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// Resolves a concrete schema subpath through @codeburn/core's own exports map
+// via Node's self-reference (the nearest package.json up from this file has
+// "name" + "exports"), then loads it as a JSON module — exactly the resolution
+// a consumer's `import '@codeburn/core/schemas/...'` performs. Exits non-zero
+// if the subpath is not exported, the file is missing, or the JSON is invalid.
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+
+const subpath = process.argv[2]
+if (!subpath) {
+  console.error('schema-resolve: expected a package subpath argument')
+  process.exit(2)
+}
+
+const mod = await import(subpath, { with: { type: 'json' } })
+const schema = mod.default
+const version = schema?.definitions?.ObservationEnvelope?.properties?.schemaVersion?.const
+if (version == null) {
+  console.error(`schema-resolve: ${subpath} loaded but is not the observation envelope schema`)
+  process.exit(3)
+}
+console.log(`SCHEMA_EXPORT_OK ${version}`)
diff --git a/packages/core/tests/import-smoke.test.ts b/packages/core/tests/import-smoke.test.ts
index 5db308f8..58765837 100644
--- a/packages/core/tests/import-smoke.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/tests/import-smoke.test.ts
@@ -25,8 +25,15 @@ function exportsTargets(): string[] {
   const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(resolve(pkgRoot, 'package.json'), 'utf8'))
   const targets: string[] = []
   for (const [subpath, entry] of Object.entries<Record<string, string>>(pkg.exports)) {
-    const rel = entry.import
+    const rel = typeof entry === 'string' ? entry : entry.import
+    // Every export entry must declare an import target: assert that FIRST so
+    // a malformed entry fails loudly instead of being skipped. Only after the
+    // assertion do we skip non-module subpaths — wildcard patterns (e.g.
+    // `./schemas/*`) and JSON schema data files, which ship as data rather
+    // than modules (importing .json would need import attributes the child
+    // does not use, and the I/O guardrail only covers code that runs).
     expect(rel, `exports["${subpath}"] must declare an import target`).toBeTruthy()
+    if (rel.includes('*') || rel.endsWith('.json')) continue
     targets.push(resolve(pkgRoot, rel))
   }
   // Barrel first so the child finds the full export set quickly.
diff --git a/packages/core/tests/schema-exports.test.ts b/packages/core/tests/schema-exports.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ab155483
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/tests/schema-exports.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process'
+import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path'
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+
+/**
+ * SCHEMAS EXPORT GUARDRAIL.
+ *
+ * import-smoke proves the package's code imports with all I/O blocked; this
+ * file proves the *data* subpath actually serves a real schema. It resolves a
+ * concrete subpath through the package's exports map via Node's self-reference
+ * (the nearest package.json has `exports`), exactly as a consumer's import
+ * would, instead of reading the file directly from disk — so a dropped
+ * `./schemas/*` entry, a missing file, or a malformed JSON module all fail
+ * the child process. It deliberately lives outside the import-smoke preload:
+ * loading a JSON module is inherent fs I/O, and that guardrail is about
+ * import-time purity of code while this one is about reachability of shipped
+ * data.
+ */
+const here = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url))
+const pkgRoot = resolve(here, '..')
+const childScript = resolve(here, 'harness/schema-resolve-child.mjs')
+
+describe('schemas exports map', () => {
+  it('resolves a concrete published schema through the exports map and loads it', () => {
+    const result = spawnSync(
+      process.execPath,
+      [childScript, '@codeburn/core/schemas/observation-0.2.0.json'],
+      { cwd: pkgRoot, encoding: 'utf8' },
+    )
+    expect(result.status, `status ${result.status}\nstderr:\n${result.stderr}`).toBe(0)
+    expect(result.stdout).toContain('SCHEMA_EXPORT_OK 0.2.0')
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/core/tsup.config.ts b/packages/core/tsup.config.ts
index 396313a9..8af7b2db 100644
--- a/packages/core/tsup.config.ts
+++ b/packages/core/tsup.config.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,16 @@ export default defineConfig({
   outDir: 'dist',
   clean: true,
   splitting: false,
-  sourcemap: true,
+  // No source maps. esbuild embeds sourcesContent by default, so the maps are
+  // self-contained: debugging the published package works with or without them,
+  // and the decision is about weight, not resolvability. Measured on this entry
+  // set, 41 maps total ~1.2 MB against ~420 kB of JavaScript — nearly 3x the
+  // shipped JS bytes. What the maps would buy: stepping into @codeburn/core
+  // frames while debugging an app, and symbolication of consumer stack traces.
+  // dist is unminified, so the loss is small: names and line numbers survive,
+  // only the original TS sources are absent. Local debugging runs src via
+  // vitest/tsx, never dist, so nothing in-repo consumes them either.
+  sourcemap: false,
   // Declarations come from `tsc -p tsconfig.build.json` instead. tsup's dts
   // worker bundles types for all 41 entries in one pass and exhausts the heap
   // (ERR_WORKER_OUT_OF_MEMORY) on Node 22 through 26.