diff --git a/examples/app-multi-package/README.md b/examples/app-multi-package/README.md
index f930c1187f..721be701dc 100644
--- a/examples/app-multi-package/README.md
+++ b/examples/app-multi-package/README.md
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ is one package ASSEMBLED (manifest fields plus the collections that package
 owns), declared by `AssembledPackageBodySchema`. `GET /api/v1/packages` on a
 booted instance lists both rows.
 
-`orders` carries **no `scope` key** on purpose; the App's navigation lives with
-the App package because a package's own navigation may not point at a foreign
-object, while cross-package lookups (which `crm_order.account` is) are accepted.
+Both rows are served with **`scope: "project"`**. `defineStack` parses every
+`packages[]` entry through `ManifestSchema`, whose `scope` defaults to
+`project`, so no package of a compiled artifact is ever scope-less — what marks
+these two read-only is the server's own **`writable: false`** verdict (ADR-0070
+D2), which reads `engine.manifests` before it reads any scope.
+
+The App's navigation lives with the App package because a package's own
+navigation may not point at a foreign object, while cross-package lookups (which
+`crm_order.account` is) are accepted.
diff --git a/examples/app-multi-package/src/packages/orders/index.ts b/examples/app-multi-package/src/packages/orders/index.ts
index a53b70dfc7..096c8a18cd 100644
--- a/examples/app-multi-package/src/packages/orders/index.ts
+++ b/examples/app-multi-package/src/packages/orders/index.ts
@@ -12,10 +12,21 @@ import { defineStack } from '@objectstack/spec';
  *  - It declares the **same namespace** as the App package. That is what
  *    ADR-0130 D1 buys: co-ownership of one namespace inside one artifact, so
  *    `crm_order` keeps its name instead of becoming `orders_order`.
- *  - It carries **no `scope` key**. `ManifestSchema.scope` defaults to
- *    `'project'`, so a scope-less module is the row that separates the server's
- *    writability verdict from a client-side `scope !== 'project'` heuristic
- *    (ADR-0070 D2 / ADR-0130 Consequences row 6).
+ *  - Its served row carries **`writable: false`** — the server's OWN verdict
+ *    (ADR-0070 D2 / ADR-0130 Consequences row 6). `isWritablePackage` reads
+ *    `engine.manifests` FIRST, so a package booted from an artifact is
+ *    read-only whatever its `scope` says.
+ *
+ * ⛔ This module is NOT a scope-less row, and no package of a compiled artifact
+ * can be. It authors no `scope` key, but `defineStack` parses every `packages[]`
+ * entry through `ManifestSchema` (`spec/src/stack.zod.ts`,
+ * `ArtifactPackageEntrySchema`), whose `scope` is `.default('project')` — so
+ * `dist/objectstack.json` and every served row carry `scope: 'project'`. A
+ * genuinely scope-less row exists only where a manifest reaches the registry
+ * WITHOUT that parse: a marketplace / offline-imported package (booted, hence
+ * read-only) or a Studio-created base via `POST /api/v1/packages` (writable).
+ * That discriminating pair is pinned in
+ * `packages/runtime/src/domains/packages-writable-verdict.test.ts`, not here.
  *
  * `crm_order.account` looks up an object this package does NOT own. That is
  * legal and is the whole point of the split: cross-package lookups are accepted
diff --git a/packages/qa/dogfood/test/multi-package-artifact.dogfood.test.ts b/packages/qa/dogfood/test/multi-package-artifact.dogfood.test.ts
index d83ea1a5f2..b6a7adf5f2 100644
--- a/packages/qa/dogfood/test/multi-package-artifact.dogfood.test.ts
+++ b/packages/qa/dogfood/test/multi-package-artifact.dogfood.test.ts
@@ -94,14 +94,34 @@ describe('dogfood: one artifact, two co-owning packages (ADR-0130 D4)', () => {
     expect(orders?.manifest?.namespace).toBe('crm');
   });
 
+  it('both rows carry the schema default `scope: "project"` — nothing here is scope-less', () => {
+    // [#14597] This file used to document `orders` as being SERVED with no
+    // `scope` key. It authors none, but `defineStack` parses every `packages[]`
+    // entry through `ManifestSchema` (`ArtifactPackageEntrySchema`), whose
+    // `scope` is `.default('project')` — so the default is materialised at
+    // compile time, into `dist/objectstack.json` and into both served rows.
+    // Pinned on a real boot because that is the only place the old claim could
+    // ever have been checked, and it never was: every unit pin around it
+    // asserted a hand-built scope-less manifest instead of this artifact's.
+    const core = rows.find((r) => r.manifest?.id === CORE);
+    const orders = rows.find((r) => r.manifest?.id === ORDERS);
+
+    expect(core?.manifest?.scope).toBe('project');
+    expect(orders?.manifest?.scope).toBe('project');
+  });
+
   it('both rows are read-only — the server\'s own verdict, not a scope heuristic', () => {
     // ADR-0070 D2 / ADR-0130 Consequences row 6: a package booted from an
     // artifact through `registerApp` is read-only whatever its scope says,
-    // because `isWritablePackage` reads `engine.manifests` FIRST. The module is
-    // the row that separates that verdict from Studio's client-side
-    // `scope !== 'project'` heuristic — it is authored with no `scope` key at
-    // all, and a client rule reading the row alone cannot tell it from a
-    // Studio-created writable base.
+    // because `isWritablePackage` reads `engine.manifests` FIRST. That is the
+    // whole content of the verdict here — and it is NOT reproducible from these
+    // rows, which carry `scope: 'project'` (pinned above). ⛔ This fixture is
+    // therefore not the row that separates the server rule from a client-side
+    // `scope !== 'project'` one: the scope-less pair that does (a booted
+    // marketplace import, read-only, vs a Studio-created base, writable) only
+    // arises where a manifest reaches the registry without a `ManifestSchema`
+    // parse, and is pinned in
+    // `packages/runtime/src/domains/packages-writable-verdict.test.ts` (#14597).
     const core = rows.find((r) => r.manifest?.id === CORE);
     const orders = rows.find((r) => r.manifest?.id === ORDERS);