@@ -472,6 +472,21 @@ jobs:
               - '.github/workflows/**'
               - '.github/prompts/**'
               - 'skills/objectui/**'
+              # turbo.json's `globalDependencies`: every build task hashes
+              # them, so they move what the ui jobs build, the SDUI manifest's
+              # regeneration included (#26137).
+              - 'tsconfig.json'
+              - 'tsconfig.base.json'
+              - 'tsconfig.test.base.json'
+              - 'tsup.config.ts'
+              # The committed SDUI manifest, its record, its producer and its
+              # offline gate. Build & E2E UI regenerates the manifest and
+              # compares it with the committed bytes (#26137), so a diff that
+              # moves only one of these still runs that comparison.
+              - 'sdui.manifest.json'
+              - 'scripts/sdui-manifest.record.json'
+              - 'scripts/gen-sdui-manifest-node.mjs'
+              - 'scripts/check-sdui-manifest.mjs'
             # The seven packages objectui installs from this tree (the set its
             # `.objectstack-pin` used to pack). A change here compiles and builds
             # the Console in the same PR — the check the retired Spec Shape Gate
@@ -3734,6 +3749,10 @@ jobs:
   #   - Build & E2E UI: n=51, min 106 s, median 170 s, p95 423 s, max 457 s
   #     (7.6 min) => max(22.9, 22.6) => 25, down from objectui's 30 plus the
   #     15 the port added for the in-job build, which no derivation backed.
+  #     Re-derived for the SDUI manifest regeneration (objectstack#26137),
+  #     which adds 213 s cold (the 27 @object-ui builds plus the enumeration,
+  #     measured on main 81bba6c3f): 457 + 213 = 670 s (11.2 min)
+  #     => max(33.5, 26.2) => 35.
   # Re-derive when a job's work changes; ui/scripts/__tests__/
   # turbo-cache-save-bound.test.ts holds both values.
   lint-ui:
@@ -4063,7 +4082,7 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.filter.outputs.ui_tree != 'false' && (needs.filter.outputs.ui != 'false' || needs.filter.outputs.ui_consumers != 'false') }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Derived above Lint UI.
-    timeout-minutes: 25
+    timeout-minutes: 35
     permissions:
       contents: read
     env:
@@ -4122,6 +4141,30 @@ jobs:
             --filter=@objectstack/sdui-parser... \
             --filter=@objectstack/types...
 
+      # The repo-root SDUI manifest, regenerated from this tree and compared
+      # with the committed bytes (#26137). The generator builds the registry
+      # with turbo: the 36 tasks of the step above replay, and the 27
+      # @object-ui packages build (3m25s cold, measured on 4 cores, on main
+      # 81bba6c3f), then it enumerates the registry under plain Node (~8 s; ~6 s
+      # for the whole run when nothing moved). It serialises through the
+      # @objectstack/sdui-parser the step above built, so a parser edit moves
+      # this verdict too, which no committed digest does. On merge_group it runs
+      # on the queue's combined tree, the one run that sees two entries' effect
+      # on the manifest together. Only the artefact is compared: the records the
+      # generator rewrites beside it are held by `check-sdui-manifest` in
+      # lint.yml. The Console build below reads the registry through its src/
+      # aliases, so the dist this step builds does not reach it.
+      - name: The committed SDUI manifest is the one this tree generates
+        run: |
+          node scripts/gen-sdui-manifest-node.mjs
+          if ! git diff --quiet -- sdui.manifest.json; then
+            echo "::error file=sdui.manifest.json::sdui.manifest.json is not the manifest this tree generates. Run 'node scripts/gen-sdui-manifest-node.mjs' and commit what it writes."
+            git diff --stat -- sdui.manifest.json
+            git diff -- sdui.manifest.json | head -n 200
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "sdui.manifest.json is byte-identical to this tree's regeneration."
+
       - name: Build the Console for E2E
         env:
           VITE_BASE_PATH: /console/
 
@@ -966,15 +966,13 @@ jobs:
       # repo-root `sdui.manifest.json` is absent or unreadable, so nothing in
       # the production path ever says "the gate lost its whitelist" — this step
       # is the thing that notices. Offline record checks only (existence, shape,
-      # sha256 vs the provenance record, record pin vs `.objectui-sha`): the
-      # regenerate-and-compare half runs where a regeneration can (the Node
-      # generator reads objectui's BUILT tree at the pin, which only
-      # `pnpm objectui:build` materialises — see
-      # scripts/gen-sdui-manifest-node.mjs), and a pin bump goes red HERE until
-      # it has been re-run — the same moment the lockstep step above forces the
-      # parser parity re-verification, with an objectui checkout guaranteed in
-      # hand. Unfiltered for the same reason as its neighbour: filtering to the
-      # artefact would go dormant on exactly the PR that moves the pin.
+      # sha256 vs the provenance record, and with no pin each registry
+      # package's source digest vs its record): the regenerate-and-compare half
+      # runs where the registry is built, as ci.yml's Build & E2E UI step "The
+      # committed SDUI manifest is the one this tree generates" (#26137), on
+      # pull_request and on the merge queue's combined tree. Unfiltered:
+      # filtering it to the artefact would go dormant on exactly the PR that
+      # moves the artefact's inputs and not the artefact.
       # Direct invocation per the GATE INVOCATION IDIOM at the top of this file.
       - name: SDUI manifest is present, intact and fresh at the objectui pin
         id: sdui-manifest-is-present-intact-and-fresh
 
@@ -85,6 +85,16 @@ the same package, or a PR that changes the artefact, still conflict once, and th
 later one merges `main` and re-runs the command. ⛔ There is no npm install route to the manifest; that was
 deleted by ruling 丙 on #17735.
 
+CI also regenerates the manifest and compares it with the committed bytes (#26137):
+the `Build & E2E UI` step "The committed SDUI manifest is the one this tree
+generates" runs the same command after the registry is built, on every PR that
+touches `ui/`, one of the seven packages objectui consumes (the parser among them)
+or the manifest's own files, and again on the merge queue's combined tree. A
+difference fails the step with the diff and the command to run. That covers what
+the source digests cannot see: an edit to `@objectstack/sdui-parser`, to a package
+the registry imports, and two queued PRs whose effect on the manifest only shows
+together.
+
 **One producer, one artefact.** `packages/console/build-dist.sh` copies the tracked
 `sdui.manifest.json` into `packages/console/dist/`, so the published console carries the
 same bytes CI gates.
 
@@ -85,10 +85,11 @@
  *        line, and so does a PR that moves the artefact (it re-records every
  *        package against the new sha256): those still conflict, on purpose,
  *        because only a regeneration on the merged tree can say what the
- *        manifest of the combination is. What is NOT forced is the case where
- *        two PRs on different packages each leave the artefact unchanged and
- *        their combination would not; the next regeneration of any registry
- *        package sees the combination.
+ *        manifest of the combination is. What is NOT forced HERE is the case
+ *        where two PRs on different packages each leave the artefact unchanged
+ *        and their combination would not. The regeneration in ci.yml (below)
+ *        runs on the merge queue's combined tree, and that is where it is
+ *        caught (#26137).
  *   4.   none. The in-tree `@object-ui/core` version moves with every release
  *        of the one fixed version group while the registry does not, so the
  *        record carries it as provenance and the success line prints it.
@@ -98,14 +99,18 @@
  *
  * ## What this deliberately does NOT do, and where that risk is held
  *
- * No per-PR regeneration: that would put an objectui clone and build (network,
- * minutes) inside a required lint job, a network dependency this repo
- * declines in a lint job. Under an unchanged pin the pinned
- * commit's registry is immutable, so content drift per-PR is not a live axis.
- * The residual axis — this repo's OWN adapter (`manifestFromConfigs`) changing
- * while the pin stands still — is held by `packages/sdui-parser`'s unit suite, and by regeneration being byte-deterministic (two runs
- * over one built tree, identical bytes), so the remedy this gate prints always
- * converges.
+ * No regeneration in this gate: it runs in a required lint job that builds
+ * nothing, and the registry takes minutes to build. The regeneration runs where
+ * the registry is built: ci.yml's Build & E2E UI step "The committed SDUI
+ * manifest is the one this tree generates" (#26137) runs the generator and
+ * compares the committed artefact with its output byte for byte, on
+ * pull_request and on the merge queue's combined tree. It serialises through
+ * the built `@objectstack/sdui-parser`, so an edit to this repo's OWN adapter
+ * (`manifestFromConfigs`) moves its verdict, which no digest here does.
+ * Regeneration is byte-deterministic (two runs over one built tree, identical
+ * bytes), so that comparison and the remedy this gate prints both converge.
+ * With a pin, the pinned commit's registry is immutable, so content drift
+ * per-PR is not a live axis there.
  *
  * Check 4 relates two fields of the record; it does not re-run the producer.
  * That the artefact describes the pinned SOURCE (rather than a tarball objectui
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ const CEILINGS: Record<string, number> = {
   [DEPS_JOB]: 25,
   [UI_JOBS.typeCheck]: 40,
   [UI_JOBS.lint]: 40,
-  [UI_JOBS.buildE2e]: 25,
+  [UI_JOBS.buildE2e]: 35,
 };
 
 function job(key: string): Job {