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@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+---
+'@object-ui/core': patch
+---
+
+Withdraw the entry-surface justification on core's `SchemaNode` re-export, and put
+the gauge that can actually fail in its place (objectui#5673).
+
+`packages/core/src/types/index.ts` carried, as the justification for the #4580
+re-export convergence, *core's own entry surface is unchanged (`dist/index.d.ts` is
+byte-identical across the change — measured, both rounds)*. The reading was real and
+it certified nothing. `core/dist/index.d.ts` is emitted from a barrel that only
+FORWARDS the symbol, and forwarding never restates a shape — not `export *`, and not
+the `export type { … }` line that names this one. Only the module that DECLARES the
+symbol can move, so that file is byte-identical under any change to a re-exported
+declaration's shape, and it could not have failed for the change class it was quoted
+against.
+
+Measured for this change rather than argued. One optional key was injected into
+`BaseSchema` — the shape `SchemaNode` publishes — both packages were rebuilt from a
+cleared `dist/` and a cleared `tsconfig.tsbuildinfo`, then the probe was dropped and
+both rebuilt again:
+
+| emitted file | base | with probe | probe dropped |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `@object-ui/types` `dist/base.d.ts` — declares the shape | `31b5a01d…` | `8487500e…` **moved** | `31b5a01d…` |
+| `@object-ui/core` `dist/types/index.d.ts` — forwards it | `0e64c8c6…` | `0e64c8c6…` | `0e64c8c6…` |
+| `@object-ui/core` `dist/index.d.ts` — entry barrel, names it | `5cca207a…` | `5cca207a…` | `5cca207a…` |
+
+The corrected block states that calibration as a recipe with its failure mode, so the
+next reader inherits a gauge that can be checked instead of a sentence that cannot.
+The `ComponentRendererProps` block below it already reached the right verdict, but
+gave a narrower reason for it — that core's entry is an `export *` barrel — which is
+not the mechanism, and is wrong for a symbol the barrel names on its
+`export type { … }` line; it now states the forwarding rule.
+
+Documentation only, in a published declaration file: these docblocks sit on export
+specifiers, so `core/dist/types/index.d.ts` carries them into the tarball, while
+`core/dist/index.d.ts` does not move for them either — the same insensitivity,
+demonstrated once more on this very change. No type moves and no runtime behaviour
+changes.
diff --git a/packages/core/src/types/index.ts b/packages/core/src/types/index.ts
index dfa836373..0a10dfe24 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/types/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/types/index.ts
@@ -31,8 +31,46 @@
  * rather than restated, so there is exactly one declaration left to disagree
  * with — a structural copy would reproduce the defect the moment either side
  * moved. This package already depends on `@object-ui/types`, so the edge exists
- * and adds no cycle, and core's own entry surface is unchanged (`dist/index.d.ts`
- * is byte-identical across the change — measured, both rounds).
+ * and adds no cycle.
+ *
+ * ## The entry-surface sentence that used to close this block is WITHDRAWN
+ *
+ * It read: *core's own entry surface is unchanged (`dist/index.d.ts` is
+ * byte-identical across the change — measured, both rounds)*. The reading was
+ * real, and it certified nothing (objectui#5673).
+ *
+ * `core/dist/index.d.ts` is emitted from a barrel that only FORWARDS this
+ * symbol, and forwarding never restates a shape — not `export *`, and not the
+ * `export type { SchemaNode, … } from './types/index.js'` line that names it.
+ * Only the module that DECLARES the symbol can move. So that file is
+ * byte-identical under any change to a re-exported declaration's shape, naming
+ * the symbol or not, and a gauge that cannot fail for the change class it is
+ * quoted against has discharged nothing.
+ *
+ * ## The gauge that can fail — and how to prove it can, before believing it
+ *
+ * 1. Watch the emitted `.d.ts` of the module that DECLARES the symbol. For
+ *    `SchemaNode` that is `@object-ui/types`' `dist/base.d.ts`, in another
+ *    package — not core's entry, and not core's own `dist/types/index.d.ts`
+ *    either, which forwards exactly as the entry does. For the shape claim
+ *    itself, resolve the symbol through the TypeScript CHECKER from
+ *    `core/dist/index.d.ts`.
+ * 2. Build both legs from a cleared `dist/` AND a cleared
+ *    `tsconfig.tsbuildinfo` — the build info lives outside `dist/`, so
+ *    composite `tsc` skips emit if it survives and two stale trees compare
+ *    equal for free.
+ * 3. CALIBRATE: inject a probe key into the declaring module, rebuild, and
+ *    require the hash you are watching to MOVE; drop the probe, rebuild, and
+ *    require it to come back to its original value. A probe that leaves your
+ *    hash unmoved means the gauge is not wired to this symbol — that is what
+ *    failure looks like here, and no "byte-identical" sentence may be written
+ *    from a gauge that just failed it.
+ *
+ * Run against this file's own claim — probe: one additive optional key on
+ * `BaseSchema`, the shape `SchemaNode` publishes — `@object-ui/types`'
+ * `dist/base.d.ts` moved and came back, while `core/dist/index.d.ts` and
+ * `core/dist/types/index.d.ts` held one hash across all three legs. The
+ * withdrawn sentence was watching the two files that cannot move.
  *
  * The collision is only observable from a package that resolves BOTH through
  * `node_modules`; the pin therefore lives in `@object-ui/react`
@@ -66,10 +104,12 @@ export type { SchemaNode } from '@object-ui/types';
  * ## What the re-export moves, and how that was measured
  *
  * It is NOT surface-neutral, and the gauge that would have said so is vacuous.
- * `core/src/index.ts` is a 95-line `export *` barrel; `core/dist/index.d.ts` is
- * therefore byte-identical under ANY change to a re-exported module and cannot
- * fail for this change class (objectui#5673 — which is also why the sentence
- * above `SchemaNode` citing that byte-identity is not repeated here).
+ * `core/dist/index.d.ts` is emitted from a barrel that only FORWARDS this
+ * symbol — its `export type { … }` line names it, and naming is not restating
+ * — so that file is byte-identical under ANY change to a re-exported
+ * declaration's shape and cannot fail for this change class (objectui#5673,
+ * where the `SchemaNode` block above withdraws the same reading and carries the
+ * probe calibration that tells a live gauge from this one).
  *
  * Measured instead by resolving the symbol through the TypeScript CHECKER from
  * `core/dist/index.d.ts`, over a `dist/` + `tsconfig.tsbuildinfo` clean rebuild