@@ -3791,9 +3791,10 @@ jobs:
           pnpm --dir ui run check:bash32-floor
 
       # ── objectui's Repo Gates (objectstack#25880) ────────────────────────
-      # The nineteen gates of `ui/.github/workflows/repo-gates.yml`, which
-      # GitHub stopped running when the tree moved under `ui/` (it reads only
-      # this repository's `.github/workflows/`). They judge what objectui ships
+      # The gates of objectui's `repo-gates.yml`, which GitHub stopped running
+      # when the tree moved under `ui/` (it reads only this repository's
+      # `.github/workflows/`), and which objectstack#25712 deleted with the
+      # rest of `ui/.github/workflows/`. They judge what objectui ships
       # — `ui/content/docs/**`, `ui/skills/**`, the package READMEs and the
       # documented component types — so the change most likely to trip them is
       # a docs-only or skills-only PR, which the `filter` job's `ui` globs
@@ -3808,15 +3809,14 @@ jobs:
       # `.objectstack-pin` restore / build / save (the merged tree builds
       # `@objectstack/*` from the workspace, see the header above
       # `type-check-ui`) and the turbo-cache report / prune bookkeeping (this
-      # job's own restore and save serve the build below).
+      # job's own restore and save serve the build below). Retired since: the
+      # Action Ref Convention scan, which judged objectui's own workflows and
+      # went with them (objectstack#25712); a repository-wide action-ref
+      # convention needs a home that no `ui` path filter skips (sub-issue 4).
       - name: Control Byte Scan — Scan tracked text files for raw control bytes
         if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
         run: pnpm --dir ui run check:control-bytes
 
-      - name: Action Ref Convention — Check action reference spelling against the declared convention
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-        run: pnpm --dir ui run check:action-ref-convention
-
       # Self-test first: a scan whose recogniser is broken reports a clean
       # tree. It derives its population from this repository's workflows, so
       # it walks this job's install-free steps, itself included.
 
@@ -210,14 +210,9 @@ const NON_PARSERS = [
     file: SELF,
     why: 'this gate -- it carries the keyword set as its own MUTATION ANCHORS (X4) and as the specimen the sweep self-test plants',
   },
-  // The three below arrived with the objectui import under ui/. The closer copy
-  // IS a parser in its own repository, but GitHub runs workflows only from the
-  // root .github/workflows, so here it never executes; the governance fold that
-  // deletes ui/.github removes the first row and, with the harness, the third.
-  {
-    file: 'ui/.github/workflows/cross-repo-issue-closer.yml',
-    why: 'the imported objectui copy of the closer -- inert in this repository (GitHub runs only the root .github/workflows), so it closes nothing here; it goes when ui/.github is folded into the root',
-  },
+  // The two below arrived with the objectui import under ui/. A third, objectui's
+  // copy of the closer workflow, left with ui/.github/workflows (objectstack#25712);
+  // the harness row goes with the closer's roster row in sub-issue 4.
   {
     file: 'ui/AGENTS.md',
     why: 'the imported objectui agent guide -- it quotes the keyword alternation in prose, warning that the closer ignores negation; it parses nothing',