@@ -117,13 +117,13 @@ concurrency:
 # A `pull_request` or `merge_group` run carries the FAST SET: `Build Core`,
 # `Test Core` (affected-only) and `Build Docs`. `main`'s 4-hourly `schedule` run,
 # its `push` runs and an on-demand `workflow_dispatch` carry the FULL BATTERY:
-# the fast set plus the three jobs below that spell
+# the fast set plus the four jobs below that spell
 #
 #     github.event_name != 'pull_request' && github.event_name != 'merge_group'
 #
-# in their `if:` — `temporal-conformance`, `dogfood` (three shards) and
-# `dogfood-verify`. Nothing is deleted: the jobs moved off the
-# per-PR path. A red in one of them is a main-red for the owning lane, and the
+# in their `if:` — `temporal-conformance`, `dogfood` (three shards),
+# `dogfood-verify` and `ui-published-artifacts`. Nothing is deleted: the jobs
+# moved off the per-PR path, the last one never had one (#26717). A red in one of them is a main-red for the owning lane, and the
 # publish lane reads the full battery before its approval (release.yml's
 # `full-battery` job, `scripts/ci/scheduled-full-run.mjs --release-gate`).
 #
@@ -4237,6 +4237,74 @@ jobs:
           fi
           echo "Console build artifact is ready."
 
+      # ── Two objectui gates that read this job's build (#26717) ──────────
+      # Rows 7 and 22 of the objectstack#25697 workflow roster, "kept,
+      # follow-up port": objectui ran them in its own workflows, which have run
+      # nowhere since #26058 deleted `ui/.github/workflows/`. Folded in here
+      # because this job already builds what they read, so neither pays a
+      # build of its own (row 22's note: no second Console build).
+      #
+      # The Console's eager-closure budget (objectui's performance-budget.yml).
+      # The Vite build above writes `ui/apps/console/dist/eager-closure.json`
+      # and `chunk-membership.json` in every build; the checker weighs them
+      # against the ceilings it carries, next to the reasoning behind each, so
+      # no size is copied into this file. Exit 1 is a size verdict, exit 2 a
+      # gauge that produced no trustworthy reading; both fail the step.
+      #
+      # On a pull request the checker also asks whether the ceilings it was
+      # checked out with are still the ones on the base branch (objectui#6245:
+      # GitHub does not re-run a PR's checks when the base moves). This step
+      # hands it the base branch's copy of the checker at two commits. It is
+      # `continue-on-error` and that is NOT a fail-open: when it cannot write
+      # both files the checker finds the variables unset and exits 2.
+      - name: check:eager-closure — resolve the base-branch ceiling constants
+        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
+        continue-on-error: true
+        env:
+          PR_BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
+          BASE_REF: ${{ github.base_ref }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          CHECKER='ui/scripts/check-eager-closure-budget.mjs'
+          OUT="${RUNNER_TEMP}/eager-closure-ceilings"
+          mkdir -p "$OUT"
+
+          # The commit the merge ref was computed against.
+          if ! git cat-file -e "${PR_BASE_SHA}^{commit}" 2>/dev/null; then
+            git fetch --no-tags --depth=1 origin "$PR_BASE_SHA"
+          fi
+          git cat-file -p "${PR_BASE_SHA}:${CHECKER}" > "$OUT/pr-base.partial"
+          mv "$OUT/pr-base.partial" "$OUT/pr-base.mjs"
+
+          # The base branch as it stands now, which the merge would land on.
+          git fetch --no-tags --depth=1 origin "+refs/heads/${BASE_REF}:refs/remotes/origin/${BASE_REF}"
+          BASE_SHA=$(git rev-parse "refs/remotes/origin/${BASE_REF}")
+          git cat-file -p "${BASE_SHA}:${CHECKER}" > "$OUT/base.partial"
+          mv "$OUT/base.partial" "$OUT/base.mjs"
+
+          # Written only after both moves: a half-written pair would let the
+          # checker compare against a file it takes for the base branch.
+          {
+            echo "EAGER_CLOSURE_PR_BASE_SOURCE=$OUT/pr-base.mjs"
+            echo "EAGER_CLOSURE_BASE_SOURCE=$OUT/base.mjs"
+            echo "EAGER_CLOSURE_PR_BASE_SHA=$PR_BASE_SHA"
+            echo "EAGER_CLOSURE_BASE_SHA=$BASE_SHA"
+            echo "EAGER_CLOSURE_BASE_REF=$BASE_REF"
+          } >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+          echo "Ceilings resolved: ${PR_BASE_SHA} (this checkout's base) vs ${BASE_SHA} (${BASE_REF} now)"
+
+      - name: check:eager-closure — weigh the Console's eager closure against its budget
+        run: pnpm --dir ui run check:eager-closure
+
+      # The built-artifact pins of @object-ui/components (objectui's ci.yml
+      # "Test (dist pins)"). They import the package's `dist/`, which the
+      # Test UI lane never builds (it resolves every package to `src`), so this
+      # is the only lane that runs them. The task's `dependsOn: ["build"]`
+      # replays the build the SDUI manifest step above already ran.
+      - name: test:dist — run the built-artifact pins of @object-ui/components
+        run: pnpm exec turbo run test:dist --filter=@object-ui/components
+
       - name: Get the Playwright version
         id: playwright-version
         run: |
@@ -4289,3 +4357,101 @@ jobs:
         with:
           path: ~/.cache/ms-playwright
           key: playwright-${{ runner.os }}-${{ steps.playwright-version.outputs.version }}
+
+  # ── UI Published Artifacts: two objectui gates over a full build (#26717) ─
+  # Rows 23 and 21 of the objectstack#25697 workflow roster, "kept, follow-up
+  # port" (objectui's published-dist-gate.yml and node-esm-load-gate.yml), both
+  # of which have run nowhere since #26058 deleted `ui/.github/workflows/`.
+  # Each one grades BUILT artifacts of every published @object-ui package, so
+  # each costs a full build, and objectui#4846's ruling (comment 5307574139)
+  # refused that build on every pull request. So this job is in the full
+  # battery only (THE TWO SPEEDS above `jobs:`): a pull request and a queue
+  # entry skip it, `main`'s push and schedule runs carry it, and the publish
+  # lane reads it before its approval. The blocking copy of the published-dist
+  # scan is on the publish path itself, `scripts/release-publish.sh`, which
+  # refuses to run `changeset publish` when the scan exits non-zero.
+  # `ui/scripts/__tests__/check-published-dist-tooling.test.ts` pins both
+  # halves of that.
+  #
+  # The build is the release's own (`pnpm build`, the first command of
+  # `pnpm run release`), and both gates then read it with `--no-build`, the
+  # order the publish path runs the scan in. `--no-build` cannot pass
+  # vacuously: a published package with nothing built is `no-build-output`,
+  # each gate asserts a floor on how much it inspected, and the ESM gate's
+  # provenance leg refuses an artifact whose turbo task log names another tree.
+  ui-published-artifacts:
+    name: UI Published Artifacts
+    needs: filter
+    # Build & E2E UI's condition, in the full battery only.
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.filter.outputs.ui_tree != 'false' && (needs.filter.outputs.ui != 'false' || needs.filter.outputs.ui_consumers != 'false') && github.event_name != 'pull_request' && github.event_name != 'merge_group' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # objectui gave each gate's full build 60 minutes, "generous, because a
+    # timeout here reads as a gate failure". One build now serves both.
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    env:
+      NODE_OPTIONS: --max-old-space-size=4096
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
+
+      # The setup is spelled out, as in the ui jobs above, rather than the
+      # `setup-workspace` composite: `ui/scripts/check-pre-install-import-graph.mjs`
+      # finds a job's install by its `pnpm install` line, and reads every step
+      # of a job with none as running before `node_modules` exists, which the
+      # two gates below (they import `typescript`) cannot.
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v7
+        with:
+          node-version-file: .nvmrc
+
+      - name: Setup pnpm
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup-pnpm
+
+      - name: Get pnpm store directory
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          echo "STORE_PATH=$(pnpm store path --silent)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      # Restore-only, here and below: the per-push jobs above own saving the
+      # store and the turbo seeds.
+      - name: Restore pnpm cache
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@v6
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.STORE_PATH }}
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-store-v3-${{ hashFiles('**/pnpm-lock.yaml') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-store-v3-
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
+
+      - name: Restore Turbo cache
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@v6
+        with:
+          path: .turbo/cache
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-turbo-build-core-${{ github.ref_name }}-${{ github.sha }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-turbo-build-core-${{ github.ref_name }}-
+            ${{ runner.os }}-turbo-ui-deps-${{ github.ref_name }}-
+
+      - name: Build every package the release publishes
+        id: build
+        run: pnpm build
+
+      # objectui#4846: no published tarball may carry tooling material
+      # (`__tests__/`, `*.test.*`, `*.bench.*`, a `*.tsbuildinfo`, …). The file
+      # list is `npm pack --dry-run`'s, i.e. what npm would publish.
+      - name: check:published-dist — scan every published @object-ui tarball for tooling files
+        run: pnpm --dir ui run check:published-dist --no-build
+
+      # objectui#4538: every published ESM entry must load under Node's own
+      # resolver, with no bundler. The per-PR half is the specifier leg in
+      # Type Check UI (`check:esm-specifiers`); this is the load leg, the only
+      # one that sees a package broken by a DEPENDENCY. It runs whatever the
+      # scan above said, so one run reports both.
+      - name: check:node-esm-load — import every published ESM entry under plain Node
+        if: ${{ !cancelled() && steps.build.outcome == 'success' }}
+        run: pnpm --dir ui run check:node-esm-load --no-build
@@ -60,6 +60,21 @@ set -euo pipefail
 #   recomputes it and overrides whatever we export.
 unset npm_config_globalconfig NPM_CONFIG_GLOBALCONFIG
 
+# No published tarball may carry tooling material (objectui#4846): a test, a
+# mock, a benchmark that imports `vitest`, a `*.tsbuildinfo`. objectui ran this
+# scan in its own `changeset:publish`; the ruling on objectui#4846 (comment
+# 5307574139) put it on the publish path, where a red scan stops the publish
+# while stopping it is still free. `--no-build` because `pnpm run release` has
+# just built what is about to be packed, so the scan reads exactly those
+# artifacts; a published package with nothing built is a finding, never a pass.
+#
+# Before npm's record starts, on purpose: the scan's own `npm pack --dry-run`
+# runs must not land in the record that `release-verify-npm.mjs` reads back.
+if ! node ui/scripts/check-published-dist-tooling.mjs --no-build; then
+  echo "::error::check-published-dist-tooling found tooling material in (or no build output for) a published @object-ui package. Refusing to publish; the scan above names each package and file."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 # Keep npm's own answer for every package.
 #
 #   `changeset publish` (@changesets/cli 3.0.3, its pnpm branch) counts a
 
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ const SELF_TEST_BATTERIES = Object.freeze({
   '13. The backfill builds from the version commit\'s tree, as the publish does': 13,
   '14. The 18.0.0 publish window: console readable at +16m22s, past the old 900 s': 14,
   '15. Lag or loss: npm\'s own answer per package, parsed from its real log': 26,
-  '16. release-publish.sh keeps npm\'s record, prints it, and still pushes tags only after a clean publish': 8,
+  '16. release-publish.sh keeps npm\'s record, prints it, and still pushes tags only after a clean publish': 12,
 });
 
 // DELETING an entry silences that battery's floor exactly as effectively as
@@ -3014,9 +3014,13 @@ export async function selfTest() {
   battery('16. release-publish.sh keeps npm\'s record, prints it, and still pushes tags only after a clean publish');
   {
     // The script runs from this repository's root (it calls this file by its
-    // repo path), with `changeset` and `git` stubbed on PATH. The stub
+    // repo path), with `changeset`, `git` and `npm` stubbed on PATH. The stub
     // changeset records what npm would see and writes one npm log, for the
-    // anchor, into the logs dir it was handed.
+    // anchor, into the logs dir it was handed. The stub npm answers the
+    // published-dist scan's `npm pack --dry-run --json` for every published
+    // @object-ui package: one build-output file, plus a test file under
+    // `dist/` when STUB_PACK_TOOLING is set, which is the defect that scan
+    // refuses (objectui#4846).
     const box = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'release-verify-npm-publish-sh-'));
     try {
       const bin = join(box, 'bin');
@@ -3030,10 +3034,23 @@ export async function selfTest() {
         'exit "${STUB_CHANGESET_EXIT:-0}"',
       ].join('\n'));
       writeFileSync(join(bin, 'git'), '#!/bin/sh\necho "git $*" >> "$STUB_LOG"\n');
+      writeFileSync(join(bin, 'npm'), [
+        '#!/bin/sh',
+        'echo "npm $1" >> "$STUB_LOG"',
+        // Real npm writes a debug log of every run into its logs dir; so does
+        // this stub, so a scan moved inside npm's record would be counted.
+        '[ -z "$npm_config_logs_dir" ] || echo "0 verbose cli node npm" > "$npm_config_logs_dir/stub-npm-$$-debug-0.log"',
+        'if [ -n "$STUB_PACK_TOOLING" ]; then',
+        '  echo \'[{"files":[{"path":"package.json"},{"path":"dist/index.js"},{"path":"dist/__tests__/index.test.js"}]}]\'',
+        'else',
+        '  echo \'[{"files":[{"path":"package.json"},{"path":"dist/index.js"}]}]\'',
+        'fi',
+      ].join('\n'));
       chmodSync(join(bin, 'changeset'), 0o755);
       chmodSync(join(bin, 'git'), 0o755);
+      chmodSync(join(bin, 'npm'), 0o755);
 
-      const run = (exitCode) => {
+      const run = (exitCode, { packTooling = false } = {}) => {
         const runnerTemp = mkdtempSync(join(box, 'runner-'));
         const recordDir = npmRecordDir({ RUNNER_TEMP: runnerTemp });
         mkdirSync(recordDir, { recursive: true });
@@ -3049,6 +3066,7 @@ export async function selfTest() {
             STUB_SEEN: seen,
             STUB_LOG: stubLog,
             STUB_CHANGESET_EXIT: String(exitCode),
+            ...(packTooling ? { STUB_PACK_TOOLING: '1' } : {}),
             npm_config_globalconfig: '/home/runner/.config/pnpm/rc',
           },
           encoding: 'utf8',
@@ -3059,6 +3077,7 @@ export async function selfTest() {
           seen: existsSync(seen) ? readFileSync(seen, 'utf8') : '',
           calls: existsSync(stubLog) ? readFileSync(stubLog, 'utf8').trim().split('\n') : [],
           stale: existsSync(join(recordDir, '2026-01-01T00_00_00_000Z-debug-0.log')),
+          recordLogs: readdirSync(recordDir),
           recordDir,
         };
       };
@@ -3073,11 +3092,24 @@ export async function selfTest() {
         good.out.includes(`${ANCHOR_PACKAGE}@${cli.version} — npm ACCEPTED the upload: PUT 200 in 812 ms`) && /npm's answers: 1 of \d+ package\(s\) accepted/.test(good.out),
         good.out.split('\n').filter((l) => l.includes('npm\'s answers')).join(' | '),
       );
-      t('tags are pushed after the publish, in one push', good.calls.join(' ; ') === 'changeset ; git push origin --tags', good.calls.join(' ; '));
+      const notPack = (calls) => calls.filter((c) => c !== 'npm pack');
+      t('tags are pushed after the publish, in one push', notPack(good.calls).join(' ; ') === 'changeset ; git push origin --tags', good.calls.join(' ; '));
+      const packs = good.calls.filter((c) => c === 'npm pack').length;
+      t(
+        'the published-dist scan packs every published @object-ui package BEFORE the publish',
+        packs > 0 && good.calls.lastIndexOf('npm pack') < good.calls.indexOf('changeset') && good.out.includes(`Inspected ${packs} published package(s)`),
+        `${packs} npm pack call(s); ${good.out.split('\n').filter((l) => l.startsWith('Inspected ')).join(' | ')}`,
+      );
+      t('and its npm runs stay out of npm\'s record: the publish\'s log is the only one in it', good.recordLogs.length === 1 && !good.recordLogs.some((f) => f.startsWith('stub-npm-')), good.recordLogs.join(', '));
 
       const bad = run(1);
       t('a failed publish still fails the script, with npm\'s answers printed first', bad.status === 1 && bad.out.includes('npm\'s answer per package'), `status=${bad.status}`);
       t('and pushes no tag', !bad.calls.some((c) => c.startsWith('git')), bad.calls.join(' ; '));
+
+      // The defect the scan exists for: a test file inside a published `dist/`.
+      const tooling = run(0, { packTooling: true });
+      t('a tarball carrying tooling material fails the script, naming the scan', tooling.status === 1 && tooling.out.includes('tooling-in-published-output') && tooling.out.includes('Refusing to publish'), `status=${tooling.status} ${tooling.out.slice(-300)}`);
+      t('and changeset publish never runs, so nothing reaches npm and no tag is pushed', notPack(tooling.calls).length === 0, tooling.calls.join(' ; '));
     } finally {
       rmSync(box, { recursive: true, force: true });
     }