@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ import { maskComments, maskCommentsAndLiterals } from './js-comment-mask.mjs';
 // #16421 — the DIRECTION ARM, read through the fleet's one declaration reader.
 // ⛔ Not re-implemented here: the ruling's condition on the arm is that it has a
 // single legal spelling read in a single place, and every reader imports it.
-import { readClause2Line } from './pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs';
+import { readClause2Line } from './pm/clause2-line.mjs';
 // #16421 — the staging manifest for this gate's own I1/I2 fixture, derived from
 // the module graph rather than typed out. Shared with the OTHER site that copies
 // this gate into a sandbox (`objectui-changeset-digest.mjs`), because two hand
@@ -7024,8 +7024,8 @@ function selfTest() {
     // ⭐ DERIVED, not listed, and derived by a module BOTH staging sites of this
     // gate import (#16421). It was a two-name list here and the same two-name
     // list in `objectui-changeset-digest.mjs`'s `fw-gate` sandbox. Signal (4)
-    // added an edge to `pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs`, whose own closure is nine
-    // modules deep; this site was updated in the same edit and the other was not,
+    // added an edge to the clause-② declaration reader, then ten thousand lines
+    // of sweep behind it; this site was updated in the same edit and the other was not,
     // and `check:objectui-changeset` went red in CI with an error naming neither
     // the import nor the manifest. One in two is the measured hit rate of "the
     // next author remembers", so neither site holds an opinion about the graph
@@ -7037,7 +7037,7 @@ function selfTest() {
     // moment signal (4) is reached, and the two I-cases below would again report
     // about the wrong thing. This names the one edge that made the list a graph.
     assert(
-      staged.includes(copy) && staged.includes('scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs'),
+      staged.includes(copy) && staged.includes('scripts/pm/clause2-line.mjs'),
       `I1/I2: the staged closure must carry the gate AND the declaration reader it imports — got ${staged.length} file(s): ${staged.join(', ')}`,
     );
     w(
 
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ import { isEntrypoint } from './invoked-as.mjs';
 // from the gate the PM protocol actually runs. Both modules import node
 // builtins only, so this file still runs before `pnpm install`.
 import { CONTRACT_REVIEW_LABEL } from './pm/check-half-states.mjs';
-import { readClause2Line } from './pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs';
+import { readClause2Line } from './pm/clause2-line.mjs';
 
 const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 const REPO_ROOT = resolve(__dirname, '..');
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ export function render(result) {
 //   ① the CLAUSE-② declaration — "this PR puts a new key on a published
 //      payload" — carried by the `needs:contract-review` gate label and/or by
 //      the fixed `Clause-②: yes` line the PM protocol spells (read here through
-//      `check-clause2-carriers.mjs`'s own `readClause2Line`, imported rather
+//      `clause2-line.mjs`'s own `readClause2Line`, imported rather
 //      than restated, so the two readers cannot drift);
 //   ② the CHANGESET LEVEL for the package whose `packages/**/src/**` the diff
 //      moves.
@@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ export function packagesTouched({ cwd, from, head }) {
 // `readClause2Line` returns a REASON with every near miss, and this gate used
 // to print the offending line without it: the reader knew which of three
 // different mistakes the author had made, and the refusal said only "a near
-// miss". The three owe different remedies — `check-clause2-carriers.mjs` says
+// miss". The three owe different remedies — `clause2-line.mjs` says
 // so in its own words ("⛔ The reason changes the sentence, never the state") —
 // so the sentence is what this map supplies.
 //
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ export function clause2NearMissRemedy(reason, line) {
   }
   return (
     `this gate carries no remedy sentence for a near miss of reason ${JSON.stringify(reason ?? null)} — ` +
-    '`readClause2Line` (scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs) reports a reason this file has not been taught, ' +
+    '`readClause2Line` (scripts/pm/clause2-line.mjs) reports a reason this file has not been taught, ' +
     `and the reason plus the line are printed rather than swallowed. The offending line is: ${line}. Whatever the ` +
     'reason, a declaration is `Clause-②: yes` or `Clause-②: no`, bare, at the start of a line of its own. Add the ' +
     'sentence for this reason to CLAUSE2_NEAR_MISS_REMEDIES in scripts/check-changeset-no-major.mjs.'
 
@@ -2321,8 +2321,8 @@ function selfTest() {
     // moved.
     //
     // ⭐ It was a hand MANIFEST, and the manifest is what broke (#16421). That
-    // gate gained one import — `pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs`, the fleet's one
-    // clause-② declaration reader, whose own closure is nine modules deep — and
+    // gate gained one import — the fleet's one clause-② declaration reader, then
+    // living inside ten thousand lines of sweep with a nine-module closure — and
     // the author updated the gate's OWN I1/I2 staging site in the same edit and
     // not this one. CI went red HERE, on a gate about objectui changesets, with
     // an error naming neither the new import nor this list. Both sites now DERIVE
@@ -2346,7 +2346,7 @@ function selfTest() {
     for (const rel of gateDeps) gw(rel, readFileSync(join(__dirname, '..', rel), 'utf8'));
     check(
       '#6494 the staged gate carries its whole first-party closure — DERIVED, not a hand manifest',
-      gateDeps.includes('scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs') && gateDeps.length >= 2,
+      gateDeps.includes('scripts/pm/clause2-line.mjs') && gateDeps.length >= 2,
       `${gateDeps.length} dependenc(ies): ${gateDeps.join(', ')}`,
     );
     gg('add', '-A');