diff --git a/.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.i18n.yaml b/.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.i18n.yaml
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+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write .agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.md
+2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.md: 91bfd0b9cf19db0c62831f74a9621ac99b7d44f2
+2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.zh.md: 123434b9017b66dfa4f4b1c1cb4aa62d42db5d8c
diff --git a/.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.md b/.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.md
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+# Agent Note: Deleted stale and duplicative knip.json workspace entries
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[中文](2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.zh.md) | English
+
+## Problem
+
+`knip.json` carried workspace entries that did no work. Some pointed at packages that no longer exist, and some duplicated the `packages/*/*` glob default exactly. Both kinds made the file larger — 790 lines — and signaled a config that had outgrown the packages it described, so a reader could not tell which entries protected real behavior and which were inert.
+
+## Decision
+
+Deleted 15 `workspaces` entries: 2 stale keys naming packages absent from the working tree and from `HEAD`, and 13 entries whose `entry`/`project` values were byte-identical to the `packages/*/*` glob default.
+
+- Stale keys: `packages/util/home` (removed in `4a09d9b34d`, the harness-home resolver collapse) and `packages/client/web-ui` (no directory and no git history, an orphan key). knip 6.16 does not flag stale workspace keys — that stability check arrived in knip 6.18 — so these were inert config that only deleted when their packages disappeared.
+- Glob-duplicate entries: `packages/host/webserver`, `packages/client/runtime`, `packages/core/tools`, `packages/context/tmux-context`, `packages/util/timeout`, `packages/util/output-retention`, `packages/goal/goal-round-driver`, `packages/goal/tool-goal`, `packages/util/home-paths`, `packages/fs/tool-fs-search`, `packages/client/ui-settings`, `packages/client/modules`, `packages/client/hmr`. Each declared exactly `entry: ["tests/**/*.spec.ts"]` and `project: ["src/**/*.ts", "tests/**/*.ts"]`, which equals the `packages/*/*` glob, and each package still exists, so the glob now covers it identically.
+
+The change is a deletion only: `knip.json` went from 790 to 655 lines with no behavioral change. `pnpm run knip` runs clean (zero issues, exit 0) before and after, because knip selects one workspace config per matched key (`getConfigKeyForWorkspace` uses specificity, not array merge), so a removed entry either lost an unresolvable target or fell back to an identical glob config.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- Fold `zod` and other workspace-level `ignoreDependencies` up to the root. Rejected: the root `ignoreDependencies` is a repository-wide fallback, and these exemptions are deliberately workspace-scoped (the README of `cordis-host-runner` records why `src` cannot import the flagged dependency while the generated TypeRT face in `lib` needs it). Widening scope would mask a genuinely misplaced dependency in any future package.
+- Upgrade knip to 6.18+ to get an automatic stale-workspace check. Deferred: 6.32.2 (latest at the time) re-flags many `@deepseek-ai/...` test dependencies as unused, i.e. it changes analysis semantics, not just adds hints. That is a separate dependency-upgrade decision with its own CI blast radius, not part of this cleanup.
+- Keep the entries as documentation of intent. Rejected: an entry identical to the glob it sits under documents nothing beyond the glob itself, and a key naming an absent package actively misleads.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- `knip.json` is 135 lines shorter and names only packages that exist with config that differs from the glob default.
+- Still-explicit entries (54) all carry a real reason to differ — an `e2e`/fixture/tsx `entry`, a `project` outside the default, or a workspace-scoped `ignoreDependencies`.
+- knip 6.16 cannot itself detect the next stale key, so a package removal must still remember to drop its `knip.json` key; upgrading to 6.18+ (after the analysis-semantics change is separately assessed) restores that guard.
+- This realizes the "never a restatement of the default stanza" criterion of the package-inventory proposal ([topic](../../proposed/process/2026-06-20-discover-package-inventory.md)); its remaining items — the e2e entry folding and the generated inventory — stay open there.
diff --git a/.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.zh.md b/.agents/notes/implemented/simplification/2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.zh.md
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+# Agent Note: 删除 knip.json 中失效与重复的 workspace 条目
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-08-19-knip-config-cleanup.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+`knip.json` 携带了大量不产生任何作用的 workspace 条目。其中一些指向已经不复存在的包，另一些与 `packages/*/*` 通配默认完全重复。这两类都让文件变大——790 行——并显现出配置已经超出了它所描述的包：读者无法分辨哪些条目在保护真实行为、哪些是惰性的。
+
+## 决策
+
+删除了 15 个 `workspaces` 条目：2 个指向工作树与 `HEAD` 中都不存在的包的失效键，以及 13 个 `entry`/`project` 与 `packages/*/*` 通配默认逐字节相同的条目。
+
+- 失效键：`packages/util/home`（在 `4a09d9b34d`，harness home 解析器的合并改动中删除）和 `packages/client/web-ui`（无对应目录、无 git 历史，是孤儿键）。knip 6.16 不会标记失效的 workspace 键——这项稳定性检查在 knip 6.18 才引入——所以这些是本应在包消失时一并删除、却残留的惰性配置。
+- 通配重复条目：`packages/host/webserver`、`packages/client/runtime`、`packages/core/tools`、`packages/context/tmux-context`、`packages/util/timeout`、`packages/util/output-retention`、`packages/goal/goal-round-driver`、`packages/goal/tool-goal`、`packages/util/home-paths`、`packages/fs/tool-fs-search`、`packages/client/ui-settings`、`packages/client/modules`、`packages/client/hmr`。每个都恰好声明了 `entry: ["tests/**/*.spec.ts"]` 和 `project: ["src/**/*.ts", "tests/**/*.ts"]`，与 `packages/*/*` 通配相等，且这些包仍然存在，因此通配现在以完全相同的方式覆盖它们。
+
+本改动只做删除：`knip.json` 从 790 行降到 655 行，行为不变。`pnpm run knip` 在改动前后都干净通过（零问题、退出码 0），因为 knip 为每个已匹配的键选取一条 workspace 配置（`getConfigKeyForWorkspace` 按特定优先、不做数组合并），所以被删条目要么丢掉了无法解析的目标，要么回退到一个完全相同的通配配置。
+
+## 备选方案
+
+- 把 `zod` 及其它 workspace 级 `ignoreDependencies` 上提到根级。否决：根级 `ignoreDependencies` 是全仓库兜底，而这些豁免是刻意限定在 workspace 的（`cordis-host-runner` 的 README 记录了为什么 `src` 无法 import 被标记的依赖、而生成的 `lib` 里的 TypeRT 契约面需要它）。扩大作用域会掩盖未来任何包里真正放错位置的依赖。
+- 升级 knip 到 6.18+ 以获得自动的失效 workspace 检查。延后：撰写时的最新版 6.32.2 会把大量 `@deepseek-ai/...` 测试依赖重新标记为未使用——也就是改变了分析语义，而不仅是新增提示。那是独立的依赖升级决定，带自己的 CI 影响面，不属于本次清理。
+- 保留这些条目作为意图的文档。否决：与它挂在下面的通配完全相同的条目，除了通配本身外不记录任何东西；而指向不存在包的键确实会误导人。
+
+## 结果
+
+- `knip.json` 缩短了 135 行，并且只列出确实存在、且配置与通配默认有差异的包。
+- 仍然显式的条目（54 个）都带有真实的特例理由——`e2e`/fixture/tsx 的 `entry`、超出默认的 `project`、或 workspace 级的 `ignoreDependencies`。
+- knip 6.16 自身无法检测下一个失效键，因此删除包时仍须记得清理它的 `knip.json` 键；升级到 6.18+（在分析语义的改动被单独评估之后）会恢复这道守卫。
+- 本改动落实了包清单提案中「绝不复述默认 stanza」的标准（[议题](../../proposed/process/2026-06-20-discover-package-inventory.md)）；其剩余项——e2e 入口折叠与生成的清单——仍在提案中保持开放。
diff --git a/knip.json b/knip.json
index 8733835187..280d10a1f0 100644
--- a/knip.json
+++ b/knip.json
@@ -79,24 +79,6 @@
         "@deepseek-ai/.+"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/util/home": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
-    "packages/host/webserver": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "packages/host/directory-picker-auto": {
       "ignoreDependencies": [
         "@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-directory-picker-browse",
@@ -125,24 +107,6 @@
         "tests/**/*.{ts,tsx}"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/client/web-ui": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.{ts,tsx}"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.{ts,tsx}",
-        "tests/**/*.{ts,tsx}"
-      ]
-    },
-    "packages/client/runtime": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "packages/api/remotes": {
       "entry": [
         "tests/**/*.e2e.ts"
@@ -247,15 +211,6 @@
         "tests/**/*.ts"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/core/tools": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "packages/typert/generator": {
       "entry": [
         "tests/**/*.spec.ts",
@@ -307,15 +262,6 @@
         "tests/**/*.ts"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/context/tmux-context": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "packages/lsp/lsp-stdio": {
       "entry": [
         "tests/**/*.spec.ts",
@@ -360,24 +306,6 @@
         "src/**/*.ts"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/util/timeout": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
-    "packages/util/output-retention": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "packages/test-support/acp-snapshot": {
       "entry": [
         "tests/**/*.spec.ts",
@@ -418,24 +346,6 @@
         "tests/**/*.ts"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/goal/goal-round-driver": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
-    "packages/goal/tool-goal": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "packages/session-query/session-query-sqlite": {
       "entry": [
         "tests/**/*.spec.ts",
@@ -526,15 +436,6 @@
         "tests/**/*.ts"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/util/home-paths": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "packages/web/web-search-exa": {
       "entry": [
         "tests/**/*.spec.ts",
@@ -673,15 +574,6 @@
         "tests/**/*.ts"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/fs/tool-fs-search": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "packages/mcp/mcp-client": {
       "entry": [
         "tests/**/*.spec.ts",
@@ -713,15 +605,6 @@
         "tests/**/*.tsx"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/client/ui-settings": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "apps/web": {
       "entry": [
         "tests/**/*.e2e.ts",
@@ -757,24 +640,6 @@
         "@deepseek-ai/.+"
       ]
     },
-    "packages/client/modules": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
-    "packages/client/hmr": {
-      "entry": [
-        "tests/**/*.spec.ts"
-      ],
-      "project": [
-        "src/**/*.ts",
-        "tests/**/*.ts"
-      ]
-    },
     "packages/subagent/subagent-dsh-sdk": {
       "entry": [
         "tests/**/*.spec.ts",