diff --git a/src/scribe/models/code_shape.py b/src/scribe/models/code_shape.py
index 0e63964a..71e19f3c 100644
--- a/src/scribe/models/code_shape.py
+++ b/src/scribe/models/code_shape.py
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column
 from scribe.models import Base
 from scribe.models.base import TimestampMixin, iso
 
-# The classification vocabulary (note 2786). `unclassified` is the default and
+# The classification vocabulary. `unclassified` is the default and
 # THE todo state; every other status is a judgment, stamped with who made it —
-# except `scoped` (#2869): the coverage sync's mechanical stamp on shapes that
+# except `scoped`: the coverage sync's mechanical stamp on shapes that
 # are one-offs BY CONSTRUCTION (a Vue component's scoped <style> rules and its
 # <script setup> functions — unreachable from any other file). Scoped rows are
 # accounted for without a human judging them, so `exempt` keeps meaning "a
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ from scribe.models.base import TimestampMixin, iso
 SHAPE_STATUSES = ("canonical", "instance", "variant", "exempt", "scoped", "unclassified")
 SHAPE_CLASSIFIERS = ("agent", "audit", "hook", "mechanical", "import")
 
-# The reason catalogue (#2874): an OPTIONAL code beside the prose reason on
+# The reason catalogue: an OPTIONAL code beside the prose reason on
 # variant/exempt rows, so the ledger can be filtered and aggregated by kind
 # of one-off. The prose remains the record; the code is the index.
 REASON_CODES = (
-    "scoped-css",            # a scoped rule styling one element (pre-#2869 rows)
+    "scoped-css",            # a scoped rule styling one element (rows judged before `scoped`)
     "one-off-handler",       # a view/component handler or loader, one per surface
     "test-helper",           # a test module's stub, driver or fixture data
     "convention-plumbing",   # registration, wiring, app factory — one of each
@@ -40,17 +40,16 @@ REASON_CODES = (
     "typed-record",          # a NamedTuple / dataclass / error class — one each
 )
 
-# How the mechanical proposer (#2792) arrived at a proposal, strongest first.
+# How the mechanical proposer arrived at a proposal, strongest first.
 # `derive` is the odd one out: not "this is an instance of #N" but "this
-# shape repeats with NO canon — derive one first" (note 2786's derive-first
-# rule), so it carries a group key instead of a snippet.
+# shape repeats with NO canon — derive one first", so it carries a group key instead of a snippet.
 PROPOSAL_BASES = ("symbol", "text", "reference", "signature", "semantic", "derive")
 
 
 class CodeShape(Base, TimestampMixin):
-    """One extracted code shape and its classification against canon (#2787).
+    """One extracted code shape and its classification against canon.
 
-    The accounting half of the pattern system (governing note 2786): the
+    The accounting half of the pattern system: the
     snippet library records CANON (small); this ledger accounts for EVERY
     shape the coverage extractor finds in a bound repo (total). A row's
     status says how the shape relates to canon — it IS a snippet's reference
@@ -62,15 +61,15 @@ class CodeShape(Base, TimestampMixin):
 
     Identity is (project, repo_key, path, symbol, kind) — kind is part of it
     because one file can define `.foo` (css) and `foo` (sym) as distinct
-    shapes. A rename therefore reads as vanish + new row: accepted for v1,
+    shapes. A rename therefore reads as vanish + new row: accepted,
     because chasing renames needs content identity the extractor doesn't
     have. `vanished_at` keeps the history instead of deleting it.
 
     snippet_id is SET NULL on snippet deletion: the classification's target
-    is gone but the judgment happened; the sync pass (step 2) re-files such
+    is gone but the judgment happened; the sync pass re-files such
     rows as unclassified so they rejoin the todo instead of dangling.
 
-    `signature` / `body_sha` (#2792) are the shape's content fingerprint —
+    `signature` / `body_sha` are the shape's content fingerprint —
     its definition line and a whitespace/comment-insensitive hash of its
     block — refreshed by every sync. They are what the mechanical proposer
     matches on and what a later drift recheck compares against; the ledger
@@ -80,7 +79,7 @@ class CodeShape(Base, TimestampMixin):
     when a later sync sees the body change under an instance/variant, the
     row is flagged `recheck_at` (the judgment stands, it just asks to be
     confirmed again) and a `drifted` event is written. `diverges_from`
-    (#2793) is the button-B flag: a shape new since the previous refresh, in
+    is the button-B flag: a shape new since the previous refresh, in
     a directory+kind where one canon dominates the judged siblings, that the
     proposer did not match to that canon — "button B appeared where button
     A is canon: divergence or variant? classify it." Both clear on judgment.
@@ -119,7 +118,7 @@ class CodeShape(Base, TimestampMixin):
         BigInteger, ForeignKey("notes.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True
     )
     reason: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
-    reason_code: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)   # REASON_CODES (#2874)
+    reason_code: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)   # REASON_CODES
     classified_by: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
     classified_at: Mapped[datetime | None] = mapped_column(
         DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True
@@ -190,7 +189,7 @@ class CodeShape(Base, TimestampMixin):
         }
 
     def to_compact(self) -> dict:
-        """The row as an audit reads it (#2868): identity, standing, the
+        """The row as an audit reads it: identity, standing, the
         definition line and the proposer's word — none of the bookkeeping
         (commits, shas, timestamps). A 500-row page of these fits the tool
         budget; a page of to_dict() does not."""
@@ -217,16 +216,16 @@ class CodeShape(Base, TimestampMixin):
         return out
 
 
-# How a uses edge was established (#2870): who/what said "this shape calls
+# How a uses edge was established: who/what said "this shape calls
 # that canon". `reference` is the proposer's mechanical by-name hit on the
-# body (language-gated, #2871); `hook` is write-path evidence (pulled the
+# body (language-gated); `hook` is write-path evidence (pulled the
 # snippet, then wrote code naming its symbol); agent/audit/import are
 # judgments carried on classify_shapes(..., uses=[...]).
 USE_BASES = ("reference", "hook", "agent", "audit", "import")
 
 
 class CodeShapeUse(Base):
-    """One consumption edge: shape → canonical snippet it calls/uses (#2870).
+    """One consumption edge: shape → canonical snippet it calls/uses.
 
     Conformance (CodeShape.status/snippet_id) answers "what shape is this";
     this table answers "what does it use" — many per shape. A service function
@@ -265,7 +264,7 @@ class CodeShapeUse(Base):
         }
 
 
-# How a consumer edge was established (milestone 302). `template` is the
+# How a consumer edge was established. `template` is the
 # sync's mechanical read of a file's markup (class= / :class= / className=);
 # the vocabulary is a list so a later basis (a stylesheet `@apply`, a script's
 # classList) has a name without a schema change.
@@ -274,8 +273,8 @@ CONSUMER_BASES = ("template",)
 
 class CodeShapeConsumer(Base):
     """One consumer edge: CSS shape → the file whose markup names its class
-    (milestone 302; note 2917 — CSS is watched by name, by recipe, by token
-    and by WHAT USES IT). The analogue of CodeShapeUse for styling: `uses`
+    (CSS is watched by name, by recipe, by token and by WHAT USES IT). The
+    analogue of CodeShapeUse for styling: `uses`
     says what a shape calls, this says who renders a class. Rows, not prose,
     so "is this recipe shared or scoped?" is a count, not a guess.
 
@@ -311,7 +310,7 @@ class CodeShapeConsumer(Base):
         }
 
 
-# What a shape's history records (#2793). Not "appeared" — first_seen and
+# What a shape's history records. Not "appeared" — first_seen and
 # created_at already say that on the row; history is for what CHANGED:
 SHAPE_EVENTS = ("classified", "vanished", "reappeared", "drifted")