diff --git a/.changeset/6426-dashboard-test-header-compiled.md b/.changeset/6426-dashboard-test-header-compiled.md
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index 000000000..2e6e50ba7
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@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+---
+---
+
+Comment-only fix: two headers in `@object-ui/plugin-dashboard` still said this
+package's tests are "compiled by nothing", a debt that has since been paid. The
+paragraphs did not merely describe the old state — they prescribed against
+writing a compile-time pin in this package, and nearly misrouted the legitimate
+one that objectui#6373 landed a few files away.
+
+- `src/__tests__/MetricWidget.domPassthrough.test.tsx` — the header claimed
+  `tsconfig.json` excludes the tests, that the package is "the sole remaining
+  `TEST_DEBT` entry", and that a `@ts-expect-error` written there "would be
+  especially dishonest".
+- `src/domPassthroughPins.ts` — the counterpart half of the same contract
+  carried the same premise (plus a stale "6 errors, objectui#4118" count), so
+  fixing only the test file would have left the two halves disagreeing.
+
+Both now state today's arrangement and name the config that does it:
+`tsconfig.test.json` type-checks this package's tests, chained from the
+package's `type-check` script (`tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json`).
+The `src/` placement of the pins is kept and re-framed as a preference rather
+than a constraint — they still belong next to the contract and still emit zero
+runtime bytes, but a pin in a test file is checked now too.
+
+Measured on this tree: `tsconfig.test.json --listFiles` includes 81 of this
+package's test files (both edited-adjacent files among them);
+`node scripts/check-type-check-coverage.mjs` reports `test type-check coverage:
+41/41 packages compile their tests, 0 declared debt`; and an `@ts-expect-error`
+injected into the test file guarding nothing is reported as
+`error TS2578: Unused '@ts-expect-error' directive`.
+
+No behaviour change, no public surface change.
diff --git a/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/__tests__/MetricWidget.domPassthrough.test.tsx b/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/__tests__/MetricWidget.domPassthrough.test.tsx
index dda92dbb6..909e9dc43 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/__tests__/MetricWidget.domPassthrough.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/__tests__/MetricWidget.domPassthrough.test.tsx
@@ -30,14 +30,21 @@
  * The defect was type-only — `id` / `role` / `aria-label` reached the card the
  * whole time — so the fix's own direction cannot be observed by anything vitest
  * runs. The compile-time assertions therefore live in `../domPassthroughPins.ts`,
- * a SOURCE module the package's `tsc --noEmit` actually compiles. They are not
- * here, and deliberately so: this package's tests are compiled by nothing
- * (`tsconfig.json` excludes `**\/*.test.tsx`, the package is the sole remaining
- * `TEST_DEBT` entry in `scripts/check-type-check-coverage.mjs`, and vitest erases
- * types), which is objectui#3181 — assertions in an uncompiled test file read as
- * coverage and are decoration. A `@ts-expect-error` written here would be
- * especially dishonest: nothing would ever check that the error it expects still
- * happens.
+ * a SOURCE module the package's `tsc --noEmit` compiles, next to the contract
+ * they pin.
+ *
+ * That split is a PREFERENCE, not a constraint — do not read it as a rule against
+ * compile-time assertions in this file. It was a constraint when #4426 was
+ * written: this package's tests were then compiled by nothing, so an assertion
+ * here would have read as coverage while being decoration (objectui#3181). That
+ * debt is paid. `tsconfig.test.json` type-checks this package's tests, this file
+ * included, and this package's `type-check` script chains it
+ * (`tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json`) — which is what CI's Type Check
+ * job runs. So a `@ts-expect-error` written here IS checked: when the error it
+ * expects stops happening, `tsc` reports it UNUSED (TS2578). Write a
+ * compile-time pin wherever it reads best — the sibling
+ * `ObjectDataTable.emitBoundary-6373.test.tsx` keeps two directives in a test
+ * file for exactly that reason.
  *
  * What IS real here, and only here: that those attributes actually land on the
  * element, and that `title` does NOT. Case (c) is the one that would catch the
diff --git a/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/domPassthroughPins.ts b/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/domPassthroughPins.ts
index 820e97889..c454b4d7d 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/domPassthroughPins.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/domPassthroughPins.ts
@@ -12,28 +12,26 @@
  *
  * ## Why these live in `src/` and not in a test file
  *
- * They are TYPE assertions, and this package's tests are compiled by nothing:
- * `tsconfig.json` is the build and excludes `**\/*.test.tsx`,
- * `@object-ui/plugin-dashboard` is the sole remaining `TEST_DEBT` entry in
- * `scripts/check-type-check-coverage.mjs` (6 errors, objectui#4118), and vitest
- * erases types before running. Putting them in a test file is objectui#3181
- * exactly — a provably-false `Assert<Equal<1, 2>>` there passes
- * `pnpm type-check` at exit 0.
+ * They go where this repo already puts load-bearing compile-time assertions: in
+ * source, next to the contract, compiled by the package's own `tsc --noEmit`.
+ * That is `widgets/toDomProps.ts`'s shape in `@object-ui/fields`, which binds its
+ * DOM whitelist to its declaration in both directions the same way. Unlike that
+ * file these are `type`-only, so they emit ZERO runtime bytes — which matters
+ * here, because #4426 is a types-only change and must stay one.
  *
- * The narrow `tsconfig.typetests.json` rescue hatch is NOT the answer either,
- * however much the gate script's own comments read like an invitation:
- * objectui#4291 retired the last six, and
- * `scripts/__tests__/check-type-check-coverage.test.ts` now pins the terminal
- * state as a repository-state test — "a `tsconfig.typetests.json` reappearing
- * ANYWHERE turns this red". A first attempt at this change added one and CI said
- * so. The gate permits the SHAPE; the ratchet forbids a new USER.
- *
- * So the assertions go where this repo already puts load-bearing compile-time
- * assertions: in source, next to the contract, compiled by the package's own
- * `tsc --noEmit`. That is `widgets/toDomProps.ts`'s shape in `@object-ui/fields`,
- * which binds its DOM whitelist to its declaration in both directions the same
- * way. Unlike that file these are `type`-only, so they emit ZERO runtime bytes —
- * which matters here, because #4426 is a types-only change and must stay one.
+ * A PREFERENCE, not a constraint — though it was a constraint when this file was
+ * written. Then, this package's tests were compiled by nothing, so a
+ * provably-false `Assert<Equal<1, 2>>` in a test file passed `pnpm type-check` at
+ * exit 0 (objectui#3181), and the narrow `tsconfig.typetests.json` rescue hatch
+ * was no way round it (objectui#4291 retired the last six, and the ratchet in
+ * `scripts/__tests__/check-type-check-coverage.test.ts` still turns red on one
+ * reappearing anywhere — the gate permits the SHAPE, the ratchet forbids a new
+ * USER). That debt is paid, and by neither of those routes: `tsconfig.test.json`
+ * type-checks this package's tests and its `type-check` script chains it
+ * (`tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json`), so an assertion in a test file
+ * is checked now too. Nothing here argues against writing one — see the
+ * directives in `__tests__/ObjectDataTable.emitBoundary-6373.test.tsx`, which
+ * this package's `tsconfig.test.json` compiles.
  *
  * ## What each direction catches
  *