@@ -280,6 +280,11 @@ jobs:
               - '.nvmrc'
               - '.github/actions/setup-workspace/**'
               - '.github/actions/setup-pnpm/**'
+              # setup-pnpm materialises the pnpm the root manifest's
+              # `packageManager` field pins (#27717), so a diff confined to
+              # that field changes the pnpm Build Docs installs with. `core:`
+              # already carries this row for its own jobs.
+              - 'package.json'
             core:
               - 'packages/**'
               - 'examples/**'
@@ -361,6 +366,19 @@ jobs:
               - 'ui/scripts/check-dist-completeness.mjs'
               - 'ui/scripts/invoked-as.mjs'
               - 'ui/scripts/vitest-invocation-guard.mjs'
+              # TEST INPUTS outside every package (#27961): each `$TURBO_ROOT$/…`
+              # input of turbo.json's generic `test` task. That task runs for
+              # every package Test Core tests, so a diff confined to one moves
+              # every `#test` hash, and before these rows Test Core first ran on
+              # it in the merge queue. `vitest.preset.mts` above and the
+              # `vite-*.ts` / `vitest-invocation-guard.mjs` build rows cover the
+              # other three; check-ci-filter-parity derives the set from
+              # turbo.json and reds while one is uncovered here.
+              - 'ui/vitest.config.mts'
+              - 'ui/vitest.setup.*'
+              - 'ui/scripts/test-shard-*'
+              - 'ui/apps/console/vitest.config.ts'
+              - 'ui/apps/console/vite.config.ts'
               # BUILD CORE'S GUARDS (#21341): every repository script the
               # build-core job's own steps run (named by a `run:` step or
               # reached through its `pnpm check:*` alias) and each one's
@@ -533,6 +551,11 @@ jobs:
               # PR, nor in the queue, where these outputs read the same diff.
               - '.nvmrc'
               - '.github/actions/setup-pnpm/**'
+              # The root manifest, because setup-pnpm reads its `packageManager`
+              # field to pick the pnpm every ui job runs (#27717). A diff
+              # confined to a pnpm bump matched no list here, so the ui jobs
+              # skipped on the PR and in the queue alike.
+              - 'package.json'
             # The seven packages objectui installs from this tree (the set its
             # `.objectstack-pin` used to pack). A change here compiles and builds
             # the Console in the same PR — the check the retired Spec Shape Gate
 
@@ -790,34 +790,41 @@ jobs:
       # explicitly does not ask for. ⛔ It is also not a licence to sweep the
       # rest of that remainder from here; that is a separate card.
       #
-      # What runs here is the self-tests, not the modules' callers: for the first
-      # three the callers are the two routing gates named above, which already run on
+      # `ui/scripts/invoked-as.mjs`, the ui tree's twin of the entry predicate,
+      # joined beside it (#27283): `ci.yml`'s `core:` filter names it as a build
+      # input, so `check:self-test-wired` counts it as a script CI runs, and its
+      # `--self-test` ran nowhere else.
+      #
+      # What runs here is the self-tests, not the modules' callers: for the three
+      # #10608 modules the callers are the two routing gates named above, which already run on
       # every PR; for `import-prerequisite` the callers are the 45 importing
       # gates, whose ordinary runs take the branch where the dependency IS
       # present and therefore observe none of what the self-test pins.
       # Invoked as `node` rather than through `pnpm check:*`: see the GATE
       # INVOCATION IDIOM note at the top of this file.
       # `ts-parse` spawns ~20 real node children (~10 s measured, and the spawns
       # are the point — they pin that a caller's try/catch cannot swallow the
-      # refusal); the other three are in-process fixtures, ~0.6 s combined.
+      # refusal); the others are in-process fixtures, ~0.9 s combined.
       #
       # ⭐ Collected rather than sequenced, for the reason spelled out at the
       # `Shallow-history guard self-tests` step below (#10814): under `bash -e` a
       # bare sequence stops at the first failure, so a red `ts-parse` would leave
       # the entry-predicate, comment-mask and prerequisite-frame self-tests UNRUN
       # while the log shows only the one failure. `ts-parse` is both the slowest
-      # of the four and the one that spawns real children, so it is the likeliest
-      # to be red — precisely the masking direction. The four modules are
-      # independent of one another, so collecting loses nothing.
+      # of them and the one that spawns real children, so it is the likeliest
+      # to be red — precisely the masking direction. The modules are
+      # independent of one another, so collecting loses nothing. This note, the
+      # step name and its last line name no member count: the list below is the
+      # one place that says how many run.
       #
       # ⭐ Collected is also why the fourth leg is HERE rather than in a step of
       # its own: Actions skips a job's remaining steps once a step fails, so a
       # standalone step further down this job would be masked by every gate above
       # it — the same defect one level up, and the split `check-step-collectors`
       # explicitly refuses as a remedy. Inside this block the frame's self-test
-      # prints its own verdict whatever the other three do, and it does so early
+      # prints its own verdict whatever the others do, and it does so early
       # in the job.
-      - name: scripts/ shared-module self-tests (parse · entry predicate · comment mask · prerequisite frame)
+      - name: scripts/ shared-module self-tests (parse · entry predicate, root and ui · comment mask · prerequisite frame)
         id: scripts-shared-module-self-tests-parse-entry
         continue-on-error: true
         run: |
@@ -850,7 +857,7 @@ jobs:
             printf "%s" "$failed"
             exit 1
           fi
-          echo "scripts/ shared-module self-tests — all four ran and passed"
+          echo "scripts/ shared-module self-tests — every one ran and passed"
 
       # Every `scripts/**` TypeScript parse goes through ONE module (#10133 /
       # #10573), and this is the half that keeps it that way (#10574).