diff --git a/scripts/__tests__/check-doc-component-types.test.ts b/scripts/__tests__/check-doc-component-types.test.ts
index acb7868fe..f21b0fc39 100644
--- a/scripts/__tests__/check-doc-component-types.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/__tests__/check-doc-component-types.test.ts
@@ -87,12 +87,14 @@ describe('the registered-key universe is derived from the registration calls', (
         'packages/demo/src/index.tsx',
         [
           // No import of a workspace package here, not even as fixture TEXT.
-          // `scripts-type-check.test.ts` greps this project's files for the
-          // `from '<at>object-ui/…'` shape to pin the claim that
-          // `pnpm type-check:scripts` needs no build, and that grep cannot tell a
-          // string literal — or a comment quoting one — from a real import. The
-          // fixture does not need the import line: the derivation reads the
+          // The fixture does not need the import line: the derivation reads the
           // register CALL, not what the file imports.
+          //
+          // (This used to say the line was omitted because
+          // `scripts-type-check.test.ts` matched the `from '@object-ui/...'`
+          // shape in the file's TEXT. It reads import edges from the AST now —
+          // see `workspaceImportSpecifiers()` there — so the omission is a
+          // choice about this fixture, not a constraint a sibling gate imposes.)
           "ComponentRegistry.register('object-grid', Renderer, {",
           "  namespace: 'plugin-grid',",
           "  label: 'Object Grid',",
diff --git a/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-call-site-keys.test.ts b/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-call-site-keys.test.ts
index 4fb35852c..bffab5680 100644
--- a/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-call-site-keys.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-call-site-keys.test.ts
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ const tempRoots: string[] = [];
  * would pull a 3.2k-line package source into `tsconfig.scripts.json`'s program,
  * and that project's placement in `ci.yml` rests on the premise that it reads
  * nothing outside `scripts/` — pinned by `scripts-type-check.test.ts`, whose
- * regex only looks for workspace-package specifiers and would not have caught a
- * relative one. Computing the path keeps the premise true instead of stepping
+ * AST walk reports only workspace-package specifiers and would not have
+ * caught a relative one. Computing the path keeps the premise true instead of stepping
  * around the pin that guards it.
  */
 const realEn: unknown = (
@@ -99,13 +99,17 @@ const realEn: unknown = (
 ).default;
 
 /**
- * Module specifiers that appear inside the FIXTURE SOURCES below — text to be
- * analysed, not imports of this file. They are interpolated rather than written
- * out because `scripts-type-check.test.ts` greps this directory for import
- * statements naming a workspace package, to pin that the scripts project needs
- * no workspace build, and its regex cannot tell a string literal from an import
- * statement. (Nor a code comment from either — which is why this paragraph does
- * not spell the pattern out.)
+ * The workspace specifier that appears inside the FIXTURE SOURCES below — text
+ * to be analysed, not an import of this file. Held in a constant so every
+ * fixture spells it one way and a package rename stays one edit.
+ *
+ * It is NOT interpolated to keep the specifier away from a text-level scan,
+ * which is what this comment used to say. That reason expired:
+ * `workspaceImportSpecifiers()` in `scripts-type-check.test.ts` reads import
+ * edges from the AST, so a specifier sitting in a string or a template
+ * literal's static text is not an edge to it — that function's docstring is the
+ * authoritative account. `check-i18n-dead-keys.test.ts` holds the same constant
+ * for the same reason.
  */
 const I18N_PKG = '@object-ui/i18n';
 
diff --git a/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-dead-keys.test.ts b/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-dead-keys.test.ts
index 49ff579ed..1fd07bf6d 100644
--- a/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-dead-keys.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-dead-keys.test.ts
@@ -29,12 +29,17 @@ import { propertyChainProbe, sweep, textFootprint } from '../check-i18n-dead-key
 const tempRoots: string[] = [];
 
 /**
- * Interpolated into the fixture SOURCES below rather than written out —
- * `scripts-type-check.test.ts` greps this directory for import statements
- * naming a workspace package, to pin that `scripts/` needs no workspace
- * build, and its regex cannot tell a string literal (or a template literal's
- * static text) from a real import statement. Same reason
- * `check-i18n-call-site-keys.test.ts` does this for the same specifier.
+ * The workspace specifier the fixture SOURCES below import, in a constant so
+ * this suite and `check-i18n-call-site-keys.test.ts` spell it one way.
+ *
+ * It is NOT held here to keep the specifier away from a text-level scan, which
+ * is what this comment used to say. That reason expired:
+ * `workspaceImportSpecifiers()` in `scripts-type-check.test.ts` reads import
+ * edges from the AST, so a specifier sitting in a string or a template
+ * literal's static text is not an edge to it — that function's docstring is the
+ * authoritative account, and a `describe` block beside it pins the
+ * string-literal case directly. Writing these fixtures out plainly would be
+ * green; the constant is kept for one spelling, not for concealment.
  */
 const I18N_PKG = '@object-ui/i18n';
 
diff --git a/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-en-drift.test.ts b/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-en-drift.test.ts
index 2b6ca320d..726f4fcb4 100644
--- a/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-en-drift.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/__tests__/check-i18n-en-drift.test.ts
@@ -59,8 +59,9 @@ const tempRoots: string[] = [];
  * A COMPUTED dynamic import on purpose. A static specifier would pull a
  * 3.2k-line package source into `tsconfig.scripts.json`'s program, and that
  * project's position in `ci.yml` rests on the premise that it reads nothing
- * outside `scripts/` — pinned by `scripts-type-check.test.ts`, whose regex looks
- * for workspace-package specifiers and would not have caught a relative one.
+ * outside `scripts/` — pinned by `scripts-type-check.test.ts`, whose AST walk
+ * reports only workspace-package specifiers and would not have caught a
+ * relative one.
  * `check-i18n-call-site-keys.test.ts` reads the same pack the same way, for the
  * same reason.
  */
diff --git a/scripts/__tests__/check-package-self-import.test.ts b/scripts/__tests__/check-package-self-import.test.ts
index ff1f7dbfe..88514c728 100644
--- a/scripts/__tests__/check-package-self-import.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/__tests__/check-package-self-import.test.ts
@@ -188,9 +188,12 @@ describe('a package name that is not a module edge is not a finding', () => {
     // rewrite of this gate breaks on a documented import example that quotes
     // its own package name exactly as it would on a test constant.
     //
-    // (Spelled without the quoted specifier on purpose. `scripts-type-check.test.ts`
-    // greps every file in the scripts tsconfig program for that literal shape and
-    // cannot tell a comment from an import — see objectui#4902.)
+    // (Spelled as bare package names rather than whole import phrases. That was
+    // once required — `scripts-type-check.test.ts` matched the import shape in
+    // the file's TEXT — and it is not any more: objectui#4902 moved that gate to
+    // an AST walk, `workspaceImportSpecifiers()`, whose docstring is the
+    // authoritative account. The spelling is kept because the map wants
+    // specifiers, not import statements.)
     const specimens: Record<string, string> = {
       'packages/i18n/src/__tests__/perm-home-namespace-3546.test.tsx': '@object-ui/i18n',
       'packages/core/src/utils/freeze-schema.ts': '@object-ui/core',
@@ -454,11 +457,14 @@ describe('objectui itself', () => {
     );
     expect(body).toContain("from './index'");
     // The quoted SPECIFIER alone, without the import keyword in front of it: a
-    // quoted package name is a module edge in any of the five forms, and this
-    // is also the stronger assertion. Spelling the whole import phrase here
-    // would trip `scripts-type-check.test.ts`, whose regex cannot tell an
-    // assertion string from a real import — which is precisely the reason the
-    // gate under test parses rather than greps.
+    // quoted package name is a module edge in any of the five forms, and that
+    // is the reason this assertion is spelled the way it is: it is the stronger
+    // one. It once had a second reason — spelling the whole import phrase here
+    // would trip `scripts-type-check.test.ts` — and that one expired when
+    // objectui#4902 moved the sibling gate to the AST walk
+    // `workspaceImportSpecifiers()`, which does not read assertion strings as
+    // imports. The gate under test parses rather than greps for the same
+    // reason, and that half still stands.
     expect(body).not.toContain("'@object-ui/fields'");
   });
 
diff --git a/scripts/__tests__/check-spec-symbol-derivation.test.ts b/scripts/__tests__/check-spec-symbol-derivation.test.ts
index 88d6a16c3..1b6fcac8b 100644
--- a/scripts/__tests__/check-spec-symbol-derivation.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/__tests__/check-spec-symbol-derivation.test.ts
@@ -187,11 +187,15 @@ export type ViewNavigationConfig = z.infer<typeof NavigationConfigSchema>;
     // `SpecAuthoredInput` is recognised by NAME (it is the repo's own helper for
     // binding a local type to a spec schema's authoring input), so the module it
     // comes from does not change the verdict. Spelled as the relative import a
-    // file inside the react package would really use, and deliberately not as a
-    // bare workspace specifier: `scripts-type-check.test.ts` pins that no file in
-    // the scripts tsconfig program imports an `@object-ui` package, and it looks
-    // for that import TEXT — so a fixture string carrying one trips it and would
-    // move a CI step below the workspace build for no real dependency.
+    // file inside the react package would really use, which is what such a file
+    // would carry anyway.
+    //
+    // (Not, as this used to say, because a bare workspace specifier in a fixture
+    // string would trip `scripts-type-check.test.ts`. That gate still pins that
+    // no file in the scripts tsconfig program imports an `@object-ui` package,
+    // but objectui#4902 moved it to the AST walk `workspaceImportSpecifiers()`,
+    // which reads import edges rather than import TEXT — a fixture string is not
+    // one. See that function's docstring.)
     withFixture(
       {
         'authored.ts': `
diff --git a/scripts/__tests__/scripts-type-check.test.ts b/scripts/__tests__/scripts-type-check.test.ts
index 09f18ae24..378572949 100644
--- a/scripts/__tests__/scripts-type-check.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/__tests__/scripts-type-check.test.ts
@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ function parsedConsoleNodeProject(): ts.ParsedCommandLine {
  * kinds, only that shape. What it missed entirely was
  * `import core = require('…')` (`ImportEqualsDeclaration`), which has no
  * `from` token at all; this walk covers that form deliberately instead.
+ *
+ * Sibling suites in this directory explain their own fixture spellings by
+ * pointing HERE rather than restating what this matcher does. Keep it that way:
+ * objectui#6996 swept the directory and found six of them describing this
+ * matcher in their own words, every one of them still describing the TEXT match
+ * this walk replaced. One account can be corrected; six drift apart.
  */
 function workspaceImportSpecifiers(fileName: string, sourceText: string): string[] {
   const sourceFile = ts.createSourceFile(fileName, sourceText, ts.ScriptTarget.Latest, false);