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@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+---
+"@objectstack/plugin-audit": patch
+---
+
+Published README points at the `services.audit` reference again, in the form a published reader can follow (#9589)
+
+PR #9531 dropped this README's "See Also" pointer to the runtime-services audit
+page because the page was measured wrong — it documented `record()` /
+`'set' | 'reset'` (the settings sink) as if that were the `audit` slot. PR #9587
+rewrote the page around the real slot, so the reason for the omission has stopped
+holding, and the link is restored.
+
+It is restored because the page carries three things this README deliberately
+does not, each verified against the page as it stands on `main` rather than
+against the PR title that rewrote it:
+
+- **the failure posture of the slot itself** — `recordAuthEvent` never throws; a
+  failed ledger insert is reported at `error` level once per process and then
+  drops to `debug`, the row is lost and nothing retries it, and the call silently
+  no-ops when no data engine resolves or when `userId` is absent. This README
+  documents the *record-view batcher's* two failure postures, which are a
+  different code path; it says nothing about this one.
+- **the event's field-by-field shape** — that `userId` must be a real `sys_user`
+  id, that `sessionId` lands on `record_id` with `object_name` fixed to
+  `sys_session`, that `organizationId` stamps the tenant columns and an unstamped
+  row is one non-administrator members can never see, and that `context` is
+  serialized into `metadata`. This README states the slot's interface and its
+  closed `'login' | 'logout'` action union, and deliberately stops there.
+- **the settings-sink disambiguation** — that `SettingsAuditSink.record()` is
+  never registered as or resolved from this slot, and that
+  `getService('audit').record({ ... })` therefore fails with a `TypeError`.
+
+The restored line is **not** the line #9531 removed. That one read
+`[Audit Logging Best Practices](/content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/audit-service.mdx)`
+— a label describing a best-practices guide the page has never been, and a
+repo-path-rooted URL that resolves for neither of this README's published
+audiences. A README in the package's `files` array is rendered on npm and on
+GitHub, where a root-relative href resolves against `npmjs.com` / `github.com`,
+not against the docs site. The replacement uses the absolute
+`https://docs.objectstack.ai/docs/...` form that `create-objectstack`'s published
+READMEs already use, and its annotation states what the page adds — so the next
+author weighing the same omission can check the justification instead of
+reconstructing it.
+
+The one pre-existing site-root-relative docs link in this same file
+(`/docs/permissions/permission-sets#access-depth...`, added by the same PR) is
+converted to the same absolute form. Its target page and heading anchor both
+exist; only the spelling was unfollowable off the docs site.
diff --git a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/README.md b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/README.md
index 15d77c3bae..15be3bc659 100644
--- a/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/README.md
+++ b/packages/plugins/plugin-audit/README.md
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ Permission sets that use the **hierarchy-relative depth scopes** (`own_and_repor
 `@objectstack/security-enterprise`. The open edition ships no resolver, so those scopes
 **fail closed to `own`** — they never widen visibility without it. A grant written to let
 managers read their reports' audit rows will, on an open build, show them only their own.
-See [Access depth](/docs/permissions/permission-sets#access-depth--readscope--writescope-adr-0057-d1).
+See [Access depth](https://docs.objectstack.ai/docs/permissions/permission-sets#access-depth--readscope--writescope-adr-0057-d1).
 
 `sys_comment`'s record-level edit gates resolve the `sharing` service lazily; without it
 those checks degrade to parent-record read visibility. If the engine exposes no middleware
@@ -394,3 +394,6 @@ Apache-2.0. See [LICENSING.md](../../../LICENSING.md).
 
 - [@objectstack/plugin-security](../plugin-security/) — permissions, RLS and field-level security
 - [@objectstack/plugin-auth](../plugin-auth/) — the caller of the `audit` slot's auth-event ingress
+- [`services.audit` reference](https://docs.objectstack.ai/docs/kernel/runtime-services/audit-service) — the slot's
+  full event shape, its never-throws failure posture, and why `SettingsAuditSink.record()`
+  is not this slot