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+---
+"@objectstack/spec": patch
+---
+
+**Docs:** `APPROVER_ORG_SCOPED`'s docblock stops justifying `team: false` with "the engine never scoped it", which the team organization screen made false (#10548).
+
+The docblock over `APPROVER_ORG_SCOPED` carried two clauses about `team`, and after #10230 they no longer agreed. "`sys_team_member` carries no organization column" is still true — it is still why a team's *members* are not individually placed. "the engine never scoped it" no longer described the engine: `expandTeamUsers` (`packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.ts`) opens with `teamIsProvablyOutsideOrg`, which reads `sys_team`'s `organization_id` and drops the team when it names an organization other than the request's, at both of its call sites.
+
+The **flag value is unchanged and deliberately so**. The table answers ADR-0105 D9 *retargetability* — "does an `organization:` declaration apply to this type" — and `team` still consults no org-scoped directory, so a declaration on it still has nothing to redirect and is still rightly refused by `resolveApproverDirectoryOrg`. Only the justification had drifted, by resting on an engine behaviour that has since changed. The replacement text says the flag is about **targeting, not tenancy**: org-agnostic for retargeting because no directory is consulted, and screened to the request's organization on the team's own `organization_id` regardless.
+
+The risk repaired is the ordinary one for a load-bearing comment: the next reader deciding whether `team` needs an organization screen would find a spec docblock asserting the engine has none and conclude the work is outstanding when it has landed — or read the `team: false` / `manager: false` pairing as still marking "the unscreened types", which after #10153 and #10230 it does not.
+
+Prose only: no schema shape, no `.describe()` text, no runtime behaviour, and no authorable-surface movement. It is graded rather than skipped because the text ships to consumers on **two** surfaces — `@objectstack/spec`'s `files` list publishes `src/**/*.zod.ts`, so the docblock travels in the npm tarball as source, and unlike a property-level comment inside a `z.object({ … })` literal, a docblock over a top-level `export const` survives declaration emit: the stale sentence is present in the built `dist/automation/index.d.ts` and `dist/automation/index.d.mts`, which is what a consumer's editor surfaces on hover.
diff --git a/packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts b/packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts
index aa3eacb6ba..23e81dc8cf 100644
--- a/packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts
+++ b/packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts
@@ -255,9 +255,12 @@ export type ApproverOrgSymbol = (typeof APPROVER_ORG_SYMBOLS)[number];
  * `user` / `field` / `manager` name a person directly or derive one from the
  * record, so they are org-agnostic: an `organization` on them is not a narrower
  * routing, it is a misunderstanding, and the lint says so rather than silently
- * ignoring it. `team` is org-agnostic too — `sys_team_member` carries no
- * organization column and the engine never scoped it (unlike position /
- * membership-tier / department, which all do).
+ * ignoring it. `team` is org-agnostic for RETARGETING too — it consults no
+ * org-scoped directory, so an `organization` on it has nothing to redirect and
+ * is refused the same way (unlike position / membership-tier / department,
+ * which all do); its expansion is nonetheless screened to the REQUEST's
+ * organization on the team's own `sys_team.organization_id` (#10230), so this
+ * flag is about targeting, not tenancy.
  *
  * `satisfies` keeps this exhaustive for the same reason
  * {@link APPROVER_VALUE_BINDINGS} is: a new {@link ApproverType} must state