@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ pnpm changeset publish         # Publish to npm (CI only)
 
 | Path | Purpose |
 | --- | --- |
-| `packages/*` | 35 published packages (`@object-ui/*`), plus the private `vscode-extension`, `test-support` (test-only, never released), `runner` (workspace demo app, never released) and `app-shell` (the Console's shell and views, no longer published after 18.2.0) |
+| `packages/*` | The published `@object-ui/*` packages, plus the private `vscode-extension`, `test-support` (test-only, never released), `runner` (workspace demo app, never released) and `app-shell` (the Console's shell and views, no longer published after 18.2.0) |
 | `apps/console` | Full ObjectUI console app (Vite + React) |
 | `apps/site` | Public docs site at <https://www.objectui.org> (fumadocs) |
 | `examples/*` | Runnable examples and the schema catalog — see [`examples/README.md`](./examples/README.md) |
 
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ import { render } from '@testing-library/react';
 import '@object-ui/components';
 import { SchemaRenderer, toRenderableSchema } from '@object-ui/react';
 import { allExamples, getExample } from '../src/index.js';
+import { CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR } from './catalog-entry-floor.js';
 
 type Json = Record<string, unknown>;
 
@@ -245,10 +246,12 @@ const containers = entries.flatMap((entry) =>
 describe('catalog corpus: every `badge` node draws its authored `label` (objectui#6829 arm A)', () => {
   it('the walk is not vacuous — a broken collector would pass every case below', () => {
     // Floors, not equalities: catalog growth must not fail this file, only a
-    // walk that stopped working.
-    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(431);
-    expect(badges.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(40);
-    expect(new Set(badges.map((b) => b.where.split('/')[0])).size).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(12);
+    // walk that stopped working. About two thirds of the counts measured on
+    // objectstack 6a7c0fe3 (40 badges in 12 categories), so deleting an entry
+    // does not fail it either.
+    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR);
+    expect(badges.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(27);
+    expect(new Set(badges.map((b) => b.where.split('/')[0])).size).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(8);
     // …and it sees the seven nodes this card is about, by location.
     expect(badges.map((b) => b.where)).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(REAUTHORED_NODES));
   });
 
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ import '@object-ui/components';
 import { SchemaRenderer, toRenderableSchema } from '@object-ui/react';
 import { CardSchema } from '@object-ui/types/zod';
 import { allExamples } from '../src/index.js';
+import { CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR } from './catalog-entry-floor.js';
 
 type Json = Record<string, unknown>;
 
@@ -213,11 +214,13 @@ function unreadKeys(node: Json, allowed: readonly string[]): string[] {
 
 describe('catalog corpus: every `card` node authors keys `ui:card` reads (objectui#6788)', () => {
   it('the walk is not vacuous — a broken collector would pass every case below', () => {
-    // Measured on d06059f24; these are floors, not equalities, so growth of
-    // the catalog does not fail the file — only a walk that stopped working.
-    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(431);
-    expect(cards.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(93);
-    expect(new Set(cards.map((c) => c.where.split('/')[0])).size).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(19);
+    // Floors, not equalities, so growth of the catalog does not fail the file —
+    // only a walk that stopped working. About two thirds of the counts measured
+    // on objectstack 6a7c0fe3 (93 cards in 19 categories), so deleting an entry
+    // does not fail it either.
+    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR);
+    expect(cards.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(62);
+    expect(new Set(cards.map((c) => c.where.split('/')[0])).size).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(13);
   });
 
   it('every authored key is DECLARED by the shipped CardSchema', () => {
 
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ import { render } from '@testing-library/react';
 import '@object-ui/components';
 import { SchemaRenderer, toRenderableSchema } from '@object-ui/react';
 import { allExamples } from '../src/index.js';
+import { CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR } from './catalog-entry-floor.js';
 
 type Json = Record<string, unknown>;
 
@@ -150,7 +151,8 @@ const RENDERERS = [
     readKeys: ['type', 'orientation', 'height', 'width', 'className', 'children'],
     contentKey: 'children',
     issue: 'objectui#6805',
-    minNodes: 7,
+    // About two thirds of the 7 measured on objectstack 6a7c0fe3.
+    minNodes: 5,
   },
   {
     type: 'badge',
@@ -161,7 +163,8 @@ const RENDERERS = [
     readKeys: ['type', 'label', 'variant', 'className', 'body'],
     contentKey: 'label',
     issue: 'objectui#6806',
-    minNodes: 40,
+    // About two thirds of the 40 measured on objectstack 6a7c0fe3.
+    minNodes: 27,
   },
 ] as const;
 
@@ -256,8 +259,9 @@ const nodesOf = (type: string): Located[] =>
 describe('catalog corpus: every node authors keys ITS renderer reads (objectui#6805 + objectui#6806)', () => {
   it('the walk is not vacuous — a broken collector would pass every case below', () => {
     // Floors, not equalities: catalog growth must not fail this file, only a
-    // walk that stopped working.
-    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(431);
+    // walk that stopped working — and at about two thirds of the measured
+    // counts, so deleting an entry does not fail it either.
+    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR);
     for (const renderer of RENDERERS) {
       expect(nodesOf(renderer.type).length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(renderer.minNodes);
     }
 
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/**
+ * The ONE anti-vacuity floor for the size of the catalog (`allExamples()`), read
+ * by every test here that guards its own sweep against an empty corpus.
+ *
+ * A floor, not a census: it answers "did the collector find a corpus at all?",
+ * so catalog growth never moves it and neither does deleting an entry. It sits
+ * at about two thirds of the 432 entries measured on objectstack `origin/main`
+ * `6a7c0fe3` (the `vite-dts-wiring-ratchet` precedent: measured 22, floor 15).
+ * Before it existed the same population was pinned at three different values
+ * across eight call sites, the tightest one entry under the measured count.
+ *
+ * Re-measure only when the corpus has shrunk to near it, and then move it to
+ * about two thirds of the new reading. ⛔ Never raise it to track growth.
+ */
+export const CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR = 288;
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ import { SchemaRenderer, SchemaRendererContext, toRenderableSchema } from '@obje
 import fs from 'node:fs';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { allExamples } from '../src/index.js';
+import { CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR } from './catalog-entry-floor.js';
 
 /**
  * The repo root, derived from THIS FILE's own location — never from
@@ -646,7 +647,7 @@ describe('objectui#4616 — every catalog entry renders in the docs gallery', ()
    * size and the registration set the sweep depends on.
    */
   it('the corpus is populated and every package the census needs is loaded', () => {
-    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(423);
+    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR);
     // One type per package below, chosen as the one the census actually needed.
     for (const type of [
       'dashboard',
@@ -1345,7 +1346,9 @@ describe('objectui#6025 — the gallery DECLARES the packages its entries need',
     expect(
       PLUGIN_CATEGORIES.length,
       'no plugin categories were derived, so this case would be vacuous',
-    ).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(13);
+      // About two thirds of the 13 measured on objectstack 6a7c0fe3: retiring a
+      // plugin package (and its category) must not red an anti-vacuity floor.
+    ).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(9);
 
     const undeclared = PLUGIN_CATEGORIES.map((category) => `@object-ui/${category}`).filter(
       (pkg) => !HOST_PACKAGES.includes(pkg),
 
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ import {
 } from '@object-ui/types/zod';
 import { enumOptions } from '@object-ui/test-support';
 import { allExamples, getExample } from '../src/index.js';
+import { CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR } from './catalog-entry-floor.js';
 
 type Json = Record<string, unknown>;
 
@@ -280,7 +281,7 @@ describe('catalog corpus: no fixture hangs an action object off a handler key (o
     expect(handlers.map((h) => h.where)).toContain(
       'components-feedback-toaster/with-toast-trigger.children[0].onClick',
     );
-    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThan(400);
+    expect(entries.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR);
   });
 
   it('every handler value in the corpus is a string expression, never an action object', () => {
@@ -565,7 +566,7 @@ describe('catalog corpus: every menubar item uses the declared MenuItem spelling
       ]),
     );
     expect(items).toHaveLength(13);
-    expect(allExamples().length).toBeGreaterThan(400);
+    expect(allExamples().length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR);
   });
 
   it('the walker descends into submenu `children` — synthetic positive control', () => {
@@ -773,7 +774,7 @@ describe('catalog corpus: no overlay-menu item authors the undeclared `value` ke
     // below. 25 items = menubar 13 + basic-context-menu 5 + basic-dropdown-menu
     // 4 + with-icons 3.
     expect(items).toHaveLength(25);
-    expect(allExamples().length).toBeGreaterThan(400);
+    expect(allExamples().length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR);
 
     // One representative position per container shape, including the deeper
     // `menus[].items[]` nesting only `menubar` has.
@@ -935,11 +936,12 @@ describe('catalog corpus: no `select` option authors the undeclared `type` key (
 
   it('the sweep reaches every select option in the corpus — non-vacuity', () => {
     // Floors, not equalities: catalog growth must not fail this file, only a
-    // walker that stopped working. 66 options on 19 select nodes across 7
-    // categories at `b6e83be6a`.
-    expect(options.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(66);
-    expect(new Set(options.map((o) => o.where.split('/')[0])).size).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(7);
-    expect(allExamples().length).toBeGreaterThan(400);
+    // walker that stopped working. About two thirds of the 66 options across 7
+    // categories measured on objectstack 6a7c0fe3, so deleting an entry does
+    // not fail it either.
+    expect(options.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(44);
+    expect(new Set(options.map((o) => o.where.split('/')[0])).size).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(5);
+    expect(allExamples().length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(CATALOG_ENTRY_FLOOR);
 
     // One representative position per authoring shape, including the two
     // nesting depths a shallow walker would silently miss: a select inside a
 
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
 import { uiTurboConfigPath } from '../workspace-root.mjs';
+import { UI_TSC_BUILT_PACKAGE_FLOOR } from './helpers/ui-package-population.mjs';
 import fs from 'node:fs';
 import os from 'node:os';
 import path from 'node:path';
@@ -269,7 +270,9 @@ describe('this repository', () => {
   const tscPackages = discoverTscPackages(repoRoot) as Array<{ name: string; dir: string }>;
 
   it('finds the tsc-built packages', () => {
-    expect(tscPackages.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(11);
+    // A floor against an empty walk, not a census: about two thirds of the 11
+    // measured on objectstack 6a7c0fe3, so retiring a package leaves it green.
+    expect(tscPackages.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(UI_TSC_BUILT_PACKAGE_FLOOR);
   });
 
   it.each(tscPackages.map((p) => [p.name, p.dir] as const))(
 
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   stripCode,
 } from '../check-doc-links.mjs';
 import { GithubSlugger as VendoredSlugger, slug as vendoredSlug } from '../github-slug.mjs';
+import { UI_PUBLISHED_PACKAGE_FLOOR } from './helpers/ui-package-population.mjs';
 
 /**
  * objectui#3479 — the behaviour test for `scripts/check-doc-links.mjs`.
@@ -514,16 +515,18 @@ describe('the repo it guards', () => {
     expect(scanned['README.md']).toBe(1);
     expect(scanned['CONTRIBUTING.md']).toBe(1);
     expect(scanned['ROADMAP.md']).toBe(1);
-    // Three READMEs since the two host-console examples were deleted (#25922):
-    // the index, hello-world and schema-catalog.
-    expect(scanned['examples']).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(3);
+    // A floor against an empty scan, not a census: three READMEs today (the
+    // index, hello-world and schema-catalog, measured on objectstack 6a7c0fe3),
+    // so deleting one example leaves it green.
+    expect(scanned['examples']).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
     expect(scanned['docs']).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(15);
     expect(scanned['content/docs']).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(100);
-    // objectui#3622. 38 of the 39 package directories carry a README today
-    // (`sdui-parser` does not), and this row is the only one whose path needs
-    // expanding before anything is opened — so a floor here is also the floor
-    // under `expandWildcard()`.
-    expect(scanned['packages/*/README.md']).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(35);
+    // objectui#3622. This row is the only one whose path needs expanding before
+    // anything is opened, so a floor here is also the floor under
+    // `expandWildcard()`. Every published package carries a README, so the
+    // shared published-package floor bounds it (39 READMEs measured on
+    // objectstack 6a7c0fe3); deleting a package moves no floor.
+    expect(scanned['packages/*/README.md']).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(UI_PUBLISHED_PACKAGE_FLOOR);
     // objectui#4148. Both apps carry one today; the floor is 2 rather than the
     // exact count because this row exists precisely so the NEXT app is scanned
     // without anyone editing the table.
 
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import fs from 'node:fs';
 import os from 'node:os';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { UI_PUBLISHED_PACKAGE_FLOOR } from './helpers/ui-package-population.mjs';
 
 import {
   ESM_MODULE_EDGE,
@@ -448,7 +449,10 @@ describe('the load leg evaluates rather than resolves', () => {
 
 describe('the gate cannot be green about nothing', () => {
   it('keeps a floor under both legs', () => {
-    expect(MIN_PACKAGES).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(30);
+    // The package floor is the shared ui published-package floor, not a number of
+    // its own: re-measuring the population moves it in one place for every reader.
+    expect(MIN_PACKAGES).toBe(UI_PUBLISHED_PACKAGE_FLOOR);
+    expect(MIN_PACKAGES).toBeGreaterThan(0);
     expect(MIN_LOADED).toBeGreaterThan(0);
   });