@@ -751,46 +751,68 @@ jobs:
             1. It releases something
                -> run 'pnpm changeset' and name the packages it releases.
 
-               WHICH LEVEL: A purely additive widening of a published package's
-               public surface (a new exported symbol on an `index`, a new accepted
-               key or value) takes at least `minor`. The commit type may raise a
-               bump but never lower it below what the act requires; a `fix(` that
-               widens an index is therefore `minor`, and a `fix(` that changes no
-               public surface stays `patch`. During the launch window `major` stays
-               refused by `check-changeset-no-major` and breaking-ness is carried by
-               the BREAKING banner plus the ADR-0087 disposition, not by the level.
-               Ruled by the maintainer on 2026-09-04 (decision batch #35) on #15294,
-               which recorded two contract reviews reading the repo's own history to
-               OPPOSITE bumps for the same additive act. The commit type is not the
-               discriminator it looked like: it correlates with the act, and when
-               they disagree the act wins. The 64 historical `patch` precedents are
-               pre-rule and nothing is retro-fixed.
+               WHICH LEVEL: the level follows the METADATA PROTOCOL alone -- the
+               change to what a metadata author can write -- and the commit type
+               never decides it (maintainer ruling A, 2026-10-21, on #25105; it
+               amends the 2026-09-04 rule of decision batch #35 on #15294, under
+               which nearly every release was a minor: of 95 pending changesets
+               about half were `minor` and about a dozen moved the protocol).
+               Declare the kind on a line of its own, in the PR body AND in the
+               changeset body, beside the `Clause-②:` line:
+
+                 Metadata-protocol: added     a new authorable key, a new accepted
+                                              value or enum member, a new metadata
+                                              type                       -> `minor`
+                 Metadata-protocol: narrowed  a key removed or tombstoned, a value
+                                              refused, a requirement tightened
+                                              (declare the `(narrowing)` arm too)
+                                                                         -> `minor`
+                 Metadata-protocol: semantic  the meaning or default of an
+                                              authorable key changes     -> `minor`
+                 Metadata-protocol: none      everything else: description or
+                                              error text, non-authorable internal
+                                              types, REST, drivers, services, the
+                                              console, `feat:` and `fix!:` alike
+                                                                         -> `patch`
+
+               `added` takes `minor` because spec schemas are not `.strict()`: an
+               older runtime silently strips a key it does not know, so an app
+               that writes a new key must be able to name a minor floor. Where
+               several kinds apply, name the one highest in breaking-ness:
+               `narrowed` over `semantic` over `added`. A non-protocol breaking
+               change ships `patch` and KEEPS its carriers: the BREAKING banner
+               and the ADR-0087 disposition are unchanged. `major` stays refused
+               by `check-changeset-no-major` during the launch window. The
+               GitHub Release body is grouped from these declarations by what the
+               reader must do: 需手动处理 / 自动迁移 / 新增能力 / 语义变化 / 其他修复.
 
                PART OF THIS IS A GATE, and which part is the difference between
                grading well and being refused. `check-changeset-no-major.mjs`
-               refuses `major` and says why in its header. Since #16055 the SAME
-               script also runs a LEVEL AXIS over the rule above, and that
-               script's header states its scope: "a PR that DECLARES clause ② (a
-               new key on a published payload) must grade AT LEAST ONE package
-               whose published source it moves `minor` or above". It mechanizes
-               this ruling "for exactly the PRs where the widening is already
-               DECLARED, and for no others", and its `judgeLevel` verdict table
-               spells both directions: `not-declared`, "the declaration reads
-               `no`", exits 0; `enforce`, "declared `yes`, moved packages graded
-               `patch` and NONE of them graded `minor` or above", exits 1. So on
-               a PR that declares clause ②, grading `patch` across the board is
-               refused; on every other PR the axis stands down and the two levels
-               below `major` are yours, as they always were.
+               refuses `major` and says why in its header. The SAME script runs
+               the LEVEL AXIS over the rule above, reading both lines from the PR
+               body on every `opened`, `synchronize` and `edited` event, and its
+               `judgeLevel` verdict table spells every direction: a declared kind
+               must grade at least ONE package whose published source the diff
+               moves `minor` or above (`enforce`, exit 1 otherwise); a declared
+               `none` must grade every entry it introduces `patch` (`none-minor`,
+               exit 1) and may not move a `packages/spec/authorable-surface/` or
+               `authorable-defaults/` shard (`none-baseline-moved`, exit 1);
+               `added` beside `Clause-②: no`, or `narrowed` beside a line without
+               the `(narrowing)` arm, is a `contradiction` (exit 1); and a PR that
+               introduces a changeset entry with no readable `Metadata-protocol:`
+               line is refused as NOT MEASURED (exit 1) rather than ticked -- the
+               body is re-read on `edited`, so that red clears with no push.
 
                WHAT THE AXIS DOES NOT JUDGE, in its own words: "WHICH of the
                packages above received that widening is NOT something this gate
-               can read, and it does not claim to. Clause ② is declared ONCE, FOR
-               THE PR" -- the declaration line in the PR body names no package.
-               The axis cross-checks a declaration
-               against the levels; it never reads the diff to find the act.
-               Judging the act is still yours, this paragraph is still where the
-               rule lives, and everything in it the axis does not reach is still
-               prose.
+               can read, and it does not claim to. The kind is declared ONCE, FOR
+               THE PR" -- the declaration lines in the PR body name no package. A
+               refused value, a narrowed enum or a changed meaning is invisible to
+               the baselines, so the declaration, not the diff, is the carrier.
+               The axis cross-checks the declarations against the levels; it never
+               reads the diff to find the act. Judging the act is still yours,
+               this paragraph is still where the rule lives, and everything in it
+               the axis does not reach is still prose.
 
             2. It releases nothing (.github/, .claude/, docs/, content/,
                examples/, tests-only, and the like)
 
@@ -1081,24 +1081,24 @@ Both non-handshake shapes, and how to classify and probe your own:
    surface** (Prime Directive #14 names them — more than ADRs): push it, open the PR, and stop
    there; landing waits for its tier's record — the maintainer's word, or a seat's contract-tier
    review. For that class, a finished task = a PR left visibly awaiting that record.
-3. **Add a changeset for anything that publishes.** Feature, functional improvement or fix — run `pnpm changeset`
-   (or add a `.changeset/*.md` entry) describing it before committing. A bug fix in a released package takes a
-   **`patch`** changeset — never none, and ⛔ never `skip-changeset`: that label is for a diff that publishes
-   nothing from any released package. The declaration is `Clause-②: yes|no` plus at most one arm from the closed pair
-   `(widening)`/`(narrowing)`: `yes` takes at least **`minor`**, `(narrowing)` is BREAKING, `no (widening)` malformed.
-   **Breaking changesets must carry their migration.** If the change removes or renames anything an author can write (a
-   spec key, an export, a config field), the changeset body must state the FROM → TO mapping and the one-line fix —
-   this text ships to consumers as `CHANGELOG.md` inside the npm package and is what an upgrading agent greps after the
-   tombstone error. Removing an authorable spec key also requires a tombstone so the rejection itself carries the
-   prescription — `retiredKey()` (`packages/spec/src/shared/retired-key.ts`) on the schema whether or not it is
-   `.strict()`, and an entry in the shape's `*_RETIRED_KEY_GUIDANCE` map (see `data/mapping.zod.ts`) only for a
-   spelling the shape never declared, such as the retired key's old alias, where a tombstone has no property to
-   replace. The changeset is one of fourteen surfaces a retirement touches — follow the
-   `spec-property-retirement` skill (`.claude/skills/`) rather than reconstructing the kit, and note that a tombstone
-   keeps its liveness-ledger row while a key deleted without one loses it.
-   **A breaking changeset must also state its ADR-0087 disposition, in writing** — exactly one marker in the changeset
-   body, which also carries the PR's `Clause-②` line: `pnpm check:adr-0087-registration` reads the arm there. ⛔ The
-   categories are NOT copied here — the gate prints the full set when it fails.
+3. **Add a changeset for anything that publishes** (`pnpm changeset` before committing). A bug fix in a released
+   package takes a **`patch`** changeset — never none, and ⛔ never `skip-changeset`: that label is for a diff that
+   publishes nothing from any released package. Two line-initial declarations, in the PR body and the changeset body:
+   `Clause-②: yes|no` plus at most one arm from the closed pair `(widening)`/`(narrowing)` (`(narrowing)` is
+   BREAKING, `no (widening)` malformed), and `Metadata-protocol: added|narrowed|semantic|none`, the change to what a
+   metadata author can write — a new key, accepted value or metadata type is `added`; a key removed or tombstoned, a
+   value refused or a requirement tightened is `narrowed`; a changed meaning or default is `semantic`; all else is
+   `none`; several ⇒ `narrowed` over `semantic` over `added`. The level follows the kind alone: a kind takes at least
+   **`minor`** on a package the diff moves, `none` takes **`patch`**; a non-protocol change, widening or breaking,
+   ships `patch` and keeps its BREAKING banner and ADR-0087 disposition. **Breaking changesets must carry their
+   migration**: removing or renaming anything an author can write (a spec key, an export, a config field) puts the FROM
+   → TO mapping and the one-line fix in the body, which ships as `CHANGELOG.md` in the npm package. Removing an
+   authorable spec key also needs a tombstone (`retiredKey()`, `packages/spec/src/shared/retired-key.ts`) so the
+   rejection carries the prescription — one of fourteen retirement surfaces; follow the `spec-property-retirement`
+   skill (`.claude/skills/`), never reconstruct the kit. **A breaking changeset must also state its ADR-0087
+   disposition, in writing** — exactly one marker in the changeset body, which also carries both declaration lines
+   (`pnpm check:adr-0087-registration` reads the arm and the kind there). ⛔ The categories are NOT copied here —
+   the gate prints the full set when it fails.
 4. **A removal that breaks the pinned sibling checkout ships together with the sibling fix and the pin bump — or it
    does not ship.** The full battery's `Console Pin Gate` builds objectui at the pinned `.objectui-sha` against
    **current** `main`, so such a removal is a main-red the moment it merges; its ruling therefore authorizes the
 
@@ -39,9 +39,12 @@ repo and bundled into `@objectstack/console` at a pinned commit recorded in
 [`.objectui-sha`](../.objectui-sha). A SHA bump alone used to leave **no trace** in
 the history. `scripts/bump-objectui.sh` now closes that gap: on every bump it emits
 a `@objectstack/console` changeset summarising the objectui `OLD_SHA..NEW_SHA`
-commit range (auto-typed `minor` if the range contains any `feat`, else `patch`).
-So frontend deltas flow through the *same* pipeline as the backend — they land in
-`@objectstack/console`'s changelog and roll up into the platform version.
+commit range, graded `patch`: the platform's version line follows the metadata
+protocol, which the console never changes, so the file carries
+`Metadata-protocol: none` and `CONSOLE_BUMP` is the only thing that grades it
+otherwise. So frontend deltas flow through the *same* pipeline as the backend —
+they land in `@objectstack/console`'s changelog and roll up into the platform
+version.
 
 ```bash
 scripts/bump-objectui.sh              # bump to ../objectui HEAD, write the changeset, commit
@@ -167,6 +170,25 @@ platform version maps to.
   page under a "What's new in N.x" running section, or leave them to the generated
   per-package changelogs.
 
+### Release notes are grouped by what the reader must do
+
+The GitHub Release body is not the raw CHANGELOG section. `scripts/release-github-releases.mjs`
+regroups that section's entries — byte for byte, none dropped — under five headings, in this
+order, each read from the declarations the changeset already carries (`Metadata-protocol:`, the
+`Clause-②:` arm, the BREAKING banner, the ADR-0087 disposition marker):
+
+| Section | What places an entry there |
+|:--|:--|
+| 需手动处理 | breaking (`Metadata-protocol: narrowed`, a `(narrowing)` arm, a BREAKING banner or a `!` summary) with no `registered` ADR-0087 conversion |
+| 自动迁移 | breaking, with a `registered` conversion that `objectstack migrate meta` applies |
+| 新增能力 | `Metadata-protocol: added`, or a non-breaking `Clause-②: yes` widening |
+| 语义变化 | `Metadata-protocol: semantic` |
+| 其他修复 | everything else — `none`, dependency bumps, and entries written before the declaration existed |
+
+A section with nothing in it is omitted. A curated `vN.mdx` section for the same release uses the
+same five headings in the same order, so the hand-written page and the generated body agree on
+what a reader must do; the per-package `CHANGELOG.md` keeps changesets' own level grouping.
+
 ### Sourcing the Console section for a release
 
 Backend content comes from the spec/package changesets. Frontend content comes from