diff --git a/scripts/check-react-page-adapter-contract.mjs b/scripts/check-react-page-adapter-contract.mjs
index 469cf6f2df..e3a634b8ef 100644
--- a/scripts/check-react-page-adapter-contract.mjs
+++ b/scripts/check-react-page-adapter-contract.mjs
@@ -130,16 +130,27 @@
 //                                      fourth instance of a defect that is not there.
 //
 // ⚠️ Both citations above name a SYMBOL or a FILE, never a line, and that is
-// deliberate (#15599). The first one read `packages/client/src/index.ts:310`
-// when it was written; the #15094 census found that declaration at `:392` and
-// triage read `:390` the same day -- a cross-file line citation that rotted
-// twice inside one day, which is an argument against citing a line at all
-// rather than for repointing it. The second read `client-sdk.mdx:659`; that
-// sample had drifted off the cited line too. ⛔ Every number in this paragraph
-// is a DATED rot record, not a pointer -- do not repair one. `scripts/**` is
-// outside `check-adr-symbol-anchors`'s corpus (`docs/adr/**`, `.md` only), so
-// nothing resolves these two for you -- but the form is this repo's own
-// declared grammar, whose last line reads
+// deliberate (#15599). The rot record that MADE it deliberate is kept below as
+// DATA -- file and line stated as separate cells, never as a `path:NNN`
+// anchor, because each number is a reading taken on a date rather than a
+// pointer anything can resolve:
+//
+//   the reading                       file                                line
+//   -------------------------------   ---------------------------------   ----
+//   the citation as first written     `packages/client/src/index.ts`        310
+//   the #15094 census found it at     `packages/client/src/index.ts`        392
+//   triage read, the same day         `packages/client/src/index.ts`        390
+//   the second citation, as written   `content/docs/api/client-sdk.mdx`     659
+//
+// One cross-file line citation rotted TWICE inside a single day -- an argument
+// against citing a line at all rather than for repointing it -- and the second
+// one had drifted off its cited line too. ⛔ Every number in this paragraph is
+// a DATED rot record, not a pointer: do not repair one, and do not write one
+// back into `path:NNN` form. Since #15806 this repo DOES resolve citations in
+// `scripts/**` comment prose (`scripts/check-scripts-symbol-anchors.mjs`, a
+// second corpus registration), so an anchor-shaped number here is judged and
+// reds -- which is the same conclusion the grammar already states, whose last
+// line reads
 // `⛔ <dir>/<file>.ts:4901  A LINE NUMBER IS NOT AN ANCHOR FORM.`
 // (`scripts/symbol-anchors.mjs#ANCHOR_GRAMMAR`), and a symbol name stays
 // checkable by grep where a number does not.
diff --git a/scripts/check-scripts-symbol-anchors.mjs b/scripts/check-scripts-symbol-anchors.mjs
index dd894c7121..33fe82dab3 100644
--- a/scripts/check-scripts-symbol-anchors.mjs
+++ b/scripts/check-scripts-symbol-anchors.mjs
@@ -145,16 +145,6 @@ export const CENSUS_15765 = {
  * The only admissible reason is the hot-file serial queue.
  */
 export const HELD_FILE_ALLOWANCES = Object.freeze([
-  Object.freeze({
-    file: 'scripts/check-react-page-adapter-contract.mjs',
-    dated: '2026-09-05',
-    heldBy: 'PR #15770 (#15599)',
-    why: 'The citation is the WORKED EXAMPLE of the rot this whole gate exists for, and its own '
-      + 'paragraph declares every number in it a DATED ROT RECORD that must not be repaired. '
-      + 'The file is also held by a live PR of this lane, so it is not this card\'s to edit. '
-      + 'Both halves are resolved by the same follow-up: that paragraph names the file and the '
-      + 'numbers as data rather than in anchor form, on the PR that lands after #15770.',
-  }),
   Object.freeze({
     file: 'scripts/check-adr-0087-registration.mjs',
     dated: '2026-09-05',
@@ -250,8 +240,14 @@ function assert(cond, msg) { if (!cond) { console.error(`❌ check-scripts-symbo
 // The count is a FLOOR, not an equality — adding cases is ordinary work and must
 // not red. A battery BELOW its floor means cases stopped running; the remedy is
 // to find what stopped registering.
+// ⛔ Four of these cases are registered PER `HELD_FILE_ALLOWANCES` row (the
+// exactness loop below runs four `check()`s over each row), so retiring a row
+// legitimately lowers this floor by 4 — and that is the ONLY reason it may be
+// lowered. 34 → 30 when the `scripts/check-react-page-adapter-contract.mjs`
+// row was retired (#15765). Any other drop is cases that STOPPED RUNNING; find what
+// stopped registering instead of moving the number.
 const SELF_TEST_BATTERIES = Object.freeze({
-  'check-scripts-symbol-anchors self-test': 34,
+  'check-scripts-symbol-anchors self-test': 30,
 });
 
 // DELETING an entry silences that battery's floor exactly as effectively as