@@ -233,9 +233,57 @@ function run(dir) {
 // handshake is a flag rather than a returned sentinel.
 let selfTestReachedVerdict = false;
 
+// ── The self-test's own battery roster and floor (#13489) ──────────────────
+//
+// `failures.length === 0` used to be this self-test's ONLY success condition, so
+// "every case held" and "the cases never ran" printed the same line. Closed the
+// way PR #13487 validated on check-doc-authoring: what is pinned is the
+// registered NAMES, not a number. The floor requires the OPENED set to equal the
+// DECLARED set with each battery at or above its own count.
+//
+// This file declares ONE battery, opened at the top of the self-test body. It
+// carries fewer than the two named section banners the sectioning criterion
+// needs, and ⛔ a comment is NOT promoted to a section head — that is a
+// judgement per comment this transplant does not make. The hoisted single
+// battery is the shape PR #14896 and PR #15003 landed for exactly this case.
+//
+// ⛔ A pinned TOTAL is not the repair: a battery dropping from 9 cases to 3
+// keeps a total "right" the moment a sibling grows.
+//
+// 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.
+const SELF_TEST_BATTERIES = Object.freeze({
+  'check-dts-emitted self-test': 8,
+});
+
+// DELETING an entry silences that battery's floor exactly as effectively as
+// zeroing it, so the roster's own size is pinned too.
+const SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR = 1;
+
+// The key an assertion is filed under when no battery is open. It is not a
+// declared battery, so it reds by the same set difference rather than silently
+// inflating whichever battery happened to run last.
+const UNATTRIBUTED_BATTERY = '(no battery open)';
+
 function selfTest() {
+  // The battery ledger this self-test's floor is evaluated against (#13489).
+  // `battery()` opens a battery; every assertion below is attributed to the one
+  // most recently opened, so a section that stops running stops registering and
+  // names ITSELF at the floor rather than going quiet.
+  const batterySeen = new Map();
+  let openBattery = null;
+  const battery = (name) => {
+    openBattery = name;
+  };
+  const registerCase = () => {
+    const b = openBattery ?? UNATTRIBUTED_BATTERY;
+    batterySeen.set(b, (batterySeen.get(b) ?? 0) + 1);
+  };
+  battery('check-dts-emitted self-test');
   const failures = [];
   const eq = (label, actual, expected) => {
+    registerCase();
     const a = JSON.stringify(actual);
     const e = JSON.stringify(expected);
     if (a !== e) failures.push(`${label}\n    expected ${e}\n    actual   ${a}`);
@@ -295,6 +343,50 @@ function selfTest() {
     ['empty:dist/index.d.ts'],
   );
 
+  // ── The floor: every declared battery RAN, and ran its cases (#13489) ────
+  //
+  // Evaluated after every battery has had its chance and BEFORE the verdict, so
+  // the success line below can only be printed by a run in which the set of
+  // batteries that registered assertions EQUALS the set declared. A set
+  // difference names WHICH battery stopped; a count says only that something did.
+  const floorFailure = (message) => { failures.push(message); };
+  const declaredBatteries = Object.keys(SELF_TEST_BATTERIES);
+  let floorBreached = false;
+  if (declaredBatteries.length < SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR) {
+    floorBreached = true;
+    floorFailure(
+      `SELF_TEST_BATTERIES declares ${declaredBatteries.length} batteries, below the pinned `
+        + `${SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR} — a battery deleted from the roster takes its own floor with it.`,
+    );
+  }
+  for (const [name, count] of batterySeen) {
+    if (declaredBatteries.includes(name)) continue;
+    floorBreached = true;
+    floorFailure(
+      `self-test battery "${name}" registered ${count} case(s) but is not declared in `
+        + 'SELF_TEST_BATTERIES — an assertion attributed to no declared battery is one nothing floors.',
+    );
+  }
+  for (const name of declaredBatteries) {
+    const count = batterySeen.get(name) ?? 0;
+    if (count >= SELF_TEST_BATTERIES[name]) continue;
+    floorBreached = true;
+    floorFailure(
+      count === 0
+        ? `self-test battery "${name}" DID NOT RUN — 0 cases registered, ${SELF_TEST_BATTERIES[name]} pinned. `
+          + 'The verdict below would have claimed those cases hold.'
+        : `self-test battery "${name}" registered ${count} case(s), below its pinned floor of `
+          + `${SELF_TEST_BATTERIES[name]} — cases that used to run no longer do.`,
+    );
+  }
+  if (floorBreached) {
+    floorFailure(
+      'A battery at or below its floor means cases STOPPED RUNNING — the battery is the bug, not the '
+        + 'number. Find what stopped registering (an early return, a deleted block, a guard that now '
+        + 'skips) and restore it.',
+    );
+  }
+
   if (failures.length > 0) {
     console.error(`\nx check-dts-emitted self-test: ${failures.length} failure(s)\n`);
     for (const f of failures) console.error(`  - ${f}\n`);
 
@@ -583,9 +583,56 @@ function measure() {
 // as one that passed (#13798).
 const SELF_TEST_VERDICT = 'check-logger-receiver-detach self-test reached its verdict';
 
+// ── The self-test's own battery roster and floor (#13489) ──────────────────
+//
+// `failures.length === 0` used to be this self-test's ONLY success condition, so
+// "every case held" and "the cases never ran" printed the same line. Closed the
+// way PR #13487 validated on check-doc-authoring: what is pinned is the
+// registered NAMES, not a number. The floor requires the OPENED set to equal the
+// DECLARED set with each battery at or above its own count.
+//
+// This file declares ONE battery, opened at the top of the self-test body. It
+// carries fewer than the two named section banners the sectioning criterion
+// needs, and ⛔ a comment is NOT promoted to a section head — that is a
+// judgement per comment this transplant does not make. The hoisted single
+// battery is the shape PR #14896 and PR #15003 landed for exactly this case.
+//
+// ⛔ A pinned TOTAL is not the repair: a battery dropping from 9 cases to 3
+// keeps a total "right" the moment a sibling grows.
+//
+// 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.
+const SELF_TEST_BATTERIES = Object.freeze({
+    'check-logger-receiver-detach self-test': 47,
+});
+
+// DELETING an entry silences that battery's floor exactly as effectively as
+// zeroing it, so the roster's own size is pinned too.
+const SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR = 1;
+
+// The key an assertion is filed under when no battery is open. It is not a
+// declared battery, so it reds by the same set difference rather than silently
+// inflating whichever battery happened to run last.
+const UNATTRIBUTED_BATTERY = '(no battery open)';
+
 function selfTest() {
+    // The battery ledger this self-test's floor is evaluated against (#13489).
+    // `battery()` opens a battery; every assertion below is attributed to the
+    // one most recently opened, so a section that stops running stops
+    // registering and names ITSELF at the floor rather than going quiet.
+    const batterySeen = new Map();
+    let openBattery = null;
+    const battery = (name) => {
+        openBattery = name;
+    };
+    const registerCase = () => {
+        const b = openBattery ?? UNATTRIBUTED_BATTERY;
+        batterySeen.set(b, (batterySeen.get(b) ?? 0) + 1);
+    };
+    battery('check-logger-receiver-detach self-test');
     const failures = [];
-    const expect = (what, ok) => { if (!ok) failures.push(what); };
+    const expect = (what, ok) => { registerCase(); if (!ok) failures.push(what); };
 
     // The control corpus -- both halves.
     const problems = controlProblems();
@@ -691,6 +738,51 @@ function selfTest() {
     expect('and no hint names a root this gate does not walk',
         ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS.every((h) => SCAN_ROOTS.some((r) => h.startsWith(`${r}/`))));
 
+    // ── The floor: every declared battery RAN, and ran its cases (#13489) ────
+    //
+    // Evaluated after every battery has had its chance and BEFORE the verdict,
+    // so the success line below can only be printed by a run in which the set of
+    // batteries that registered assertions EQUALS the set declared. A set
+    // difference names WHICH battery stopped; a count says only that something
+    // did.
+    const floorFailure = (message) => { failures.push(message); };
+    const declaredBatteries = Object.keys(SELF_TEST_BATTERIES);
+    let floorBreached = false;
+    if (declaredBatteries.length < SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR) {
+        floorBreached = true;
+        floorFailure(
+            `SELF_TEST_BATTERIES declares ${declaredBatteries.length} batteries, below the pinned `
+            + `${SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR} — a battery deleted from the roster takes its own floor with it.`,
+        );
+    }
+    for (const [name, count] of batterySeen) {
+        if (declaredBatteries.includes(name)) continue;
+        floorBreached = true;
+        floorFailure(
+            `self-test battery "${name}" registered ${count} case(s) but is not declared in `
+            + 'SELF_TEST_BATTERIES — an assertion attributed to no declared battery is one nothing floors.',
+        );
+    }
+    for (const name of declaredBatteries) {
+        const count = batterySeen.get(name) ?? 0;
+        if (count >= SELF_TEST_BATTERIES[name]) continue;
+        floorBreached = true;
+        floorFailure(
+            count === 0
+                ? `self-test battery "${name}" DID NOT RUN — 0 cases registered, ${SELF_TEST_BATTERIES[name]} pinned. `
+                + 'The verdict below would have claimed those cases hold.'
+                : `self-test battery "${name}" registered ${count} case(s), below its pinned floor of `
+                + `${SELF_TEST_BATTERIES[name]} — cases that used to run no longer do.`,
+        );
+    }
+    if (floorBreached) {
+        floorFailure(
+            'A battery at or below its floor means cases STOPPED RUNNING — the battery is the bug, not '
+            + 'the number. Find what stopped registering (an early return, a deleted block, a guard that '
+            + 'now skips) and restore it.',
+        );
+    }
+
     if (failures.length > 0) {
         console.error(`x check-logger-receiver-detach --self-test (${failures.length} failure(s)):\n`);
         for (const f of failures) console.error(`  - ${f}`);
 
@@ -1095,9 +1095,56 @@ async function judgeFixture(src) {
 // as one that passed (#13798).
 const SELF_TEST_VERDICT = 'check-objectql-double-limit self-test reached its verdict';
 
+// ── The self-test's own battery roster and floor (#13489) ──────────────────
+//
+// `failures.length === 0` used to be this self-test's ONLY success condition, so
+// "every case held" and "the cases never ran" printed the same line. Closed the
+// way PR #13487 validated on check-doc-authoring: what is pinned is the
+// registered NAMES, not a number. The floor requires the OPENED set to equal the
+// DECLARED set with each battery at or above its own count.
+//
+// This file declares ONE battery, opened at the top of the self-test body. It
+// carries fewer than the two named section banners the sectioning criterion
+// needs, and ⛔ a comment is NOT promoted to a section head — that is a
+// judgement per comment this transplant does not make. The hoisted single
+// battery is the shape PR #14896 and PR #15003 landed for exactly this case.
+//
+// ⛔ A pinned TOTAL is not the repair: a battery dropping from 9 cases to 3
+// keeps a total "right" the moment a sibling grows.
+//
+// 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.
+const SELF_TEST_BATTERIES = Object.freeze({
+  'check-objectql-double-limit self-test': 47,
+});
+
+// DELETING an entry silences that battery's floor exactly as effectively as
+// zeroing it, so the roster's own size is pinned too.
+const SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR = 1;
+
+// The key an assertion is filed under when no battery is open. It is not a
+// declared battery, so it reds by the same set difference rather than silently
+// inflating whichever battery happened to run last.
+const UNATTRIBUTED_BATTERY = '(no battery open)';
+
 async function selfTest() {
+  // The battery ledger this self-test's floor is evaluated against (#13489).
+  // `battery()` opens a battery; every assertion below is attributed to the one
+  // most recently opened, so a section that stops running stops registering and
+  // names ITSELF at the floor rather than going quiet.
+  const batterySeen = new Map();
+  let openBattery = null;
+  const battery = (name) => {
+    openBattery = name;
+  };
+  const registerCase = () => {
+    const b = openBattery ?? UNATTRIBUTED_BATTERY;
+    batterySeen.set(b, (batterySeen.get(b) ?? 0) + 1);
+  };
+  battery('check-objectql-double-limit self-test');
   const failures = [];
-  const expect = (label, cond) => { if (!cond) failures.push(label); };
+  const expect = (label, cond) => { registerCase(); if (!cond) failures.push(label); };
   const one = async (src) => {
     const { found, results } = await judgeFixture(src);
     return { found, r: results[0], n: found.length };
@@ -1242,6 +1289,50 @@ async function selfTest() {
     + 'is under the same root and is NOT in the walk',
     Boolean(nonTestSibling) && !admitted.has(nonTestSibling));
 
+  // ── The floor: every declared battery RAN, and ran its cases (#13489) ────
+  //
+  // Evaluated after every battery has had its chance and BEFORE the verdict, so
+  // the success line below can only be printed by a run in which the set of
+  // batteries that registered assertions EQUALS the set declared. A set
+  // difference names WHICH battery stopped; a count says only that something did.
+  const floorFailure = (message) => { failures.push(message); };
+  const declaredBatteries = Object.keys(SELF_TEST_BATTERIES);
+  let floorBreached = false;
+  if (declaredBatteries.length < SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR) {
+    floorBreached = true;
+    floorFailure(
+      `SELF_TEST_BATTERIES declares ${declaredBatteries.length} batteries, below the pinned `
+        + `${SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR} — a battery deleted from the roster takes its own floor with it.`,
+    );
+  }
+  for (const [name, count] of batterySeen) {
+    if (declaredBatteries.includes(name)) continue;
+    floorBreached = true;
+    floorFailure(
+      `self-test battery "${name}" registered ${count} case(s) but is not declared in `
+        + 'SELF_TEST_BATTERIES — an assertion attributed to no declared battery is one nothing floors.',
+    );
+  }
+  for (const name of declaredBatteries) {
+    const count = batterySeen.get(name) ?? 0;
+    if (count >= SELF_TEST_BATTERIES[name]) continue;
+    floorBreached = true;
+    floorFailure(
+      count === 0
+        ? `self-test battery "${name}" DID NOT RUN — 0 cases registered, ${SELF_TEST_BATTERIES[name]} pinned. `
+          + 'The verdict below would have claimed those cases hold.'
+        : `self-test battery "${name}" registered ${count} case(s), below its pinned floor of `
+          + `${SELF_TEST_BATTERIES[name]} — cases that used to run no longer do.`,
+    );
+  }
+  if (floorBreached) {
+    floorFailure(
+      'A battery at or below its floor means cases STOPPED RUNNING — the battery is the bug, not the '
+        + 'number. Find what stopped registering (an early return, a deleted block, a guard that now '
+        + 'skips) and restore it.',
+    );
+  }
+
   if (failures.length > 0) {
     console.error(`x check-objectql-double-limit --self-test (${failures.length} failure(s)):\n`);
     for (const f of failures) console.error(`  - ${f}`);