diff --git a/packages/cli/test/exit-signal.pin.test.ts b/packages/cli/test/exit-signal.pin.test.ts
index 752ef174360..e63791dc05e 100644
--- a/packages/cli/test/exit-signal.pin.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/test/exit-signal.pin.test.ts
@@ -468,28 +468,20 @@ const FLOW = new Map(
 );
 
 /**
- * Floors, not counts of today: the population and the `this.exit`-in-`try`
- * sites this was widened over, on `f9a8eb889e`. That is 65 commands: 46
- * JSON-capable (32 `--json`, 14 `--format json`, the first population) and 19
- * text-face only. It is 127 sites: 105 in the first population, 21 of them
- * `os build`'s through `compile.ts`, and 22 in the three text-face commands
- * the widening was filed on. A discovery or analyzer that silently stops
- * finding anything returns zero, and zero passes every per-member assertion —
- * these are what notice. A drop below them is a broken detector or a
- * deliberate removal; say which when you lower one.
- *
- * Seeding `this.error` raised the site floor to 131, measured on
- * `bee8d1c62c` over the same 65 commands: the 127 `this.exit` sites, plus
- * four `this.error` sites — `compile.ts`'s bundling refusal, counted for
- * `os compile` and again for `os build` through it, and `os init`'s two
- * refusals inside its outer `try`. Those four sites now spell `this.exit(2)`
- * (the status `this.error` raised, with the sentence rendered once): both
- * spellings are seeds, so the floor is unchanged.
+ * Vacuity floors, not counts of today. A discovery or analyzer that silently
+ * stops finding anything returns zero, and zero passes every per-member
+ * assertion; these are what notice. Each sits at about two thirds of its
+ * measured count, so deleting a command is an ordinary green change while a
+ * walk or scan that resolves nothing is not. The site count is every
+ * signal-raising call inside a `try` (`this.exit`, and `this.error`, which
+ * raises the same signal in another spelling), summed over each member's
+ * inheritance chain, so `compile.ts`'s sites count for `os build` too. Raise
+ * one only alongside a reason that the smaller number is impossible.
  */
-const POPULATION_FLOOR = 65;
-const SITE_FLOOR = 131;
-/** The first population's floor, kept so a face-label regression is seen too. */
-const JSON_FACE_FLOOR = 46;
+const POPULATION_FLOOR = 48; // measured 72 on 2026-10-27 (`185512cc`)
+const SITE_FLOOR = 109; // measured 164 on 2026-10-27 (`185512cc`)
+/** The first population (the JSON-capable commands), kept so a face-label regression is seen too. */
+const JSON_FACE_FLOOR = 35; // measured 53 on 2026-10-27 (`185512cc`)
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // 1. The analyzer, against fixtures — it must be able to fail
@@ -622,7 +614,7 @@ describe('every command lets the exit signal through', () => {
   });
 
   it('the population is not vacuous — the floor holds and the commands this was filed on are in it', () => {
-    expect(POPULATION.length, 'fewer commands discovered than this pin was widened over').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(POPULATION_FLOOR);
+    expect(POPULATION.length, 'fewer commands discovered than the vacuity floor').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(POPULATION_FLOOR);
     // The population IS the walk: every module the walk lists is a member.
     expect(POPULATION).toHaveLength(COMMAND_FILES.length);
     expect(
@@ -643,7 +635,7 @@ describe('every command lets the exit signal through', () => {
 
   it('the scan reaches the sites — including the completed-apply exit and the text-face refusals this was filed on', () => {
     const total = [...FLOW.values()].reduce((n, f) => n + f.sites.length, 0);
-    expect(total, 'fewer signal-raising calls inside a try found than this pin was widened over').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(SITE_FLOOR);
+    expect(total, 'fewer signal-raising calls inside a try found than the vacuity floor').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(SITE_FLOOR);
     expect(FLOW.get('migrate recorded-by')?.sites.map((s) => s.call)).toContain(
       "this.exit(result.status === 'completed' ? 0 : 1)",
     );
diff --git a/packages/cli/test/refusal-renders-once.test.ts b/packages/cli/test/refusal-renders-once.test.ts
index 1455f399f3d..6256e9a8312 100644
--- a/packages/cli/test/refusal-renders-once.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/test/refusal-renders-once.test.ts
@@ -216,20 +216,22 @@ const FILES = commandFiles(COMMANDS_DIR);
 const SCANS = FILES.map((file) => ({ file: relative(PKG_ROOT, file), scan: scanRefusalPairs(file, readFileSync(file, 'utf8')) }));
 
 /**
- * Floors, measured on `fd5a1cd597`: 65 command modules, 57 of them calling a
- * refusal printer, and `this.error` raised from 3 (`os datasource introspect`,
- * `list-tables`, `validate`) once `init.ts` and `compile.ts` stopped. A scan
- * that silently finds nothing reports zero pairs, and zero passes every
- * assertion below; these are what notice. A drop below them is a broken
- * detector or a deliberate removal — say which when you lower one.
+ * Vacuity floors, not counts of today. A scan that silently finds nothing
+ * reports zero pairs, and zero passes every assertion below; these are what
+ * notice. Each sits at about two thirds of its measured count, so deleting a
+ * command is an ordinary green change while a walk or scan that resolves
+ * nothing is not. `this.error` is raised from only 3 modules (`os datasource
+ * introspect`, `list-tables`, `validate`), too few for a fraction, so that
+ * floor only says the population is not empty. Raise one only alongside a
+ * reason that the smaller number is impossible.
  */
-const FILE_FLOOR = 60;
-const PRINTER_FILE_FLOOR = 50;
-const ERROR_FILE_FLOOR = 3;
+const FILE_FLOOR = 48; // measured 72 on 2026-10-27 (`185512cc`)
+const PRINTER_FILE_FLOOR = 42; // measured 64 on 2026-10-27 (`185512cc`)
+const ERROR_FILE_FLOOR = 1; // non-empty: measured 3 on 2026-10-27 (`185512cc`)
 
 describe('no command renders a refusal and also raises it with this.error', () => {
   it('the population is not vacuous — the floors hold', () => {
-    expect(FILES.length, 'fewer command modules than this pin was written over').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(FILE_FLOOR);
+    expect(FILES.length, 'fewer command modules than the vacuity floor').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(FILE_FLOOR);
     expect(SCANS.filter((s) => s.scan.printerCalls > 0).length, 'refusal printers not found').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(PRINTER_FILE_FLOOR);
     expect(SCANS.filter((s) => s.scan.errorCalls > 0).length, '`this.error` not found').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(ERROR_FILE_FLOOR);
   });