@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
  * [ADR-0131 D3, ADR-0066 D1] The curated platform capabilities as declared
  * `capability` metadata, read off a REAL boot of this plugin: what the security
  * catalog read lists, what the boot writes into `sys_capability`, and what the
- * capability seeders report.
+ * capability seeder reports.
  *
  * The boot is the plugin's own — `init`, `start`, then its `kernel:ready`
- * handlers in registration order (both capability seeding passes included) —
+ * handlers in registration order (the declared-capability seeding included) —
  * over a real `ObjectQL` engine on a SQLite file, so a second boot can open the
  * database the first one seeded.
  *
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
  *
  * Read off the producers, never off a registry: the curated entries from
  * `PLATFORM_CAPABILITIES`, the stack's from its declaration. The census is the
- * one the boot wrote before the curated capabilities were declared — the
- * curated pass's rows plus the stack's package row — which is why an
- * unchanged census is the pin that the declarations changed no row.
+ * stack's package row and nothing else: the curated capabilities live in the
+ * registry, and the boot writes no `sys_capability` row for them (the curated
+ * seeder is retired), on a fresh database or on one it opened again.
  */
 
 import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll, vi } from 'vitest';
@@ -192,9 +192,8 @@ async function census(engine: ObjectQL): Promise<string[]> {
     .sort();
 }
 
-/** The census the boot writes, read off the producers (module doc). */
+/** The census the boot writes, read off the producers (module doc): no curated row. */
 const EXPECTED_CENSUS = [
-  ...PLATFORM_CAPABILITIES.map((c) => [c.name, 'platform', '-', c.label, c.description, c.scope, true].join(' | ')),
   [STACK_CAPABILITY.name, 'package', STACK_PACKAGE, STACK_CAPABILITY.label, STACK_CAPABILITY.description, STACK_CAPABILITY.scope, true].join(' | '),
 ].sort();
 
@@ -248,10 +247,10 @@ describe.each(SCENARIOS)('a $posture boot, the stack capability $declared', ({ p
     }
   });
 
-  it('the boot writes the census it wrote before the declarations, on a fresh and on a seeded database', async () => {
+  it('the boot writes no curated row — only the stack’s package row — on a fresh and on a seeded database', async () => {
     expect(await census(fresh.engine)).toEqual(EXPECTED_CENSUS);
     expect(await census(reseeded.engine)).toEqual(EXPECTED_CENSUS);
-    // The seeded database needs no write at all: every row already reads as declared.
+    // The seeded database needs no write at all: the package row already reads as declared.
     expect(reseeded.writes).toEqual([]);
   });