@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ const rows = foldStateCounts(Object.keys(types), Object.fromEntries(
 // The header's rule is that a RED gate is not fatal here — the gate is red
 // precisely when this artifact needs rewriting. This failure is the exception,
 // and it is the same exception the unparseable report above already carves out:
-// there is nothing to rewrite. The fold that produced `rows` reads four status
+// there is nothing to rewrite. The fold that produced `rows` reads the published status
 // names and drops everything else, so writing now would publish an understated
 // `classified` — and the gate's freshness leg would then compare those bytes
 // against a re-render of the SAME understated fold and call it current. A stale
 
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ describe('check:liveness — an unrecognized ledger `status` (#13083)', () => {
   // real statuses are the entire population today, so an unmutated run must be
   // green AND must show neither heading. "Exits 0" alone would also be satisfied
   // by a guard wired to nothing.
-  it('stays GREEN on the real ledgers, where every status is one of the four', () => {
+  it('stays GREEN on the real ledgers, where every status is one of the published names', () => {
     const { status, output } = runGate();
     expect(status, output).toBe(0);
     expect(output).not.toContain('whose `status` is not one of');
 
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ describe('reconcileStateCountTotals — the fold must not lose a property', () =
     classified: { object: 50, field: 66 },
   };
 
-  it('stays quiet when every property sits in one of the four published columns', () => {
+  it('stays quiet when every property sits in one of the published columns', () => {
     expect(reconcileStateCountTotals(HONEST)).toEqual([]);
   });