ci: remove the scheduled link-check issue caller

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -472,7 +472,6 @@ jobs:
             .github/workflows/claude-security-review.yml
             .github/workflows/dependabot-miro-bundle.yml
             .github/workflows/hook-utils-timing.yml
-            .github/workflows/link-check.yml
             .github/workflows/silent-revert-canary.yml
 
       - name: Verify shebang files are executable

.github/workflows/silent-revert-canary.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ name: silent-revert-canary
 #     aggregate, which is the single required check the org ci-gate ruleset
 #     keys on. Adding it there would make a detection heuristic able to block
 #     merges, which is how canaries acquire a constituency for switching them
-#     off. Same posture as link-check.yml: advisory lane, outside ci-status.
+#     off. Advisory lane, outside ci-status.
 #   * Nothing here changes any ruleset. The global
 #     `strict_required_status_checks_policy` stays off under the accepted ADR
 #     in melodic-software/github-iac

.github/workflows/video-digest-source-liveness.yml

@@ -5,15 +5,14 @@ name: video-digest-source-liveness
 # upstream drift (yt-dlp / YouTube / X). It is deliberately NOT in ci.yml and
 # NOT in the ci-status aggregate — a red run annotates the job, writes a step
 # summary, and uploads the probe report as an artifact. It never opens or
-# updates GitHub issues (drain forbids filing). Same non-blocking posture as
-# link-check.yml, without the tracker-item side effect.
+# updates GitHub issues (drain forbids filing).
 #
 # pull_request: hermetic --offline self-test only (no network).
 # schedule / workflow_dispatch: live yt-dlp probes + annotate/upload on failure.
 
 on:
   schedule:
-    # Weekly Monday 07:17 UTC — staggered off the link-check Monday 06:23 slot.
+    # Weekly Monday 07:17 UTC.
     - cron: '17 7 * * 1'
   workflow_dispatch:
   pull_request:

docs/architecture/landscape.json

@@ -88,6 +88,6 @@
     {"from":"claude-code-plugins","to":"actions/setup-node","type":"uses-workflow","relation":"external","count":5,"files":[".github/workflows/ci.yml",".github/workflows/dependabot-miro-bundle.yml",".github/workflows/video-digest-source-liveness.yml"]},
     {"from":"claude-code-plugins","to":"actions/setup-python","type":"uses-workflow","relation":"external","count":3,"files":[".github/workflows/ci.yml"]},
     {"from":"claude-code-plugins","to":"actions/upload-artifact","type":"uses-workflow","relation":"external","count":1,"files":[".github/workflows/video-digest-source-liveness.yml"]},
-    {"from":"claude-code-plugins","to":"melodic-software/ci-workflows","type":"uses-workflow","relation":"internal","count":24,"files":[".github/workflows/ci.yml",".github/workflows/claude-review.yml",".github/workflows/claude-security-review.yml",".github/workflows/issue-triage-label.yml",".github/workflows/link-check.yml"]}
+    {"from":"claude-code-plugins","to":"melodic-software/ci-workflows","type":"uses-workflow","relation":"internal","count":23,"files":[".github/workflows/ci.yml",".github/workflows/claude-review.yml",".github/workflows/claude-security-review.yml",".github/workflows/issue-triage-label.yml",".github/workflows/managed-files-guard.yml"]}
   ]
 }

docs/architecture/landscape.md

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ C4Context
   Rel(melodic_software_claude_code_plugins, melodic_software_runner_policy_runtime, "cites (1)")
   Rel(melodic_software_claude_code_plugins, melodic_software_standards, "cites (53)")
   Rel(melodic_software_claude_code_plugins, actions_checkout, "uses-workflow (15)")
-  Rel(melodic_software_claude_code_plugins, melodic_software_ci_workflows, "uses-workflow (24)")
+  Rel(melodic_software_claude_code_plugins, melodic_software_ci_workflows, "uses-workflow (23)")
 ```
 
 64 external repositories are referenced but not drawn; the record carries

docs/specs/provenance-convention-engagement.md

@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ is recorded in the build plan's Phase 7 as scheduled, not drifted.
   findings over pointers this plugin wrote route to the demotion path
   (`reference/dispositions.md`: pointer demotes to stamped record or archived-snapshot
   citation). Recorded here because it is consuming-repo wiring, not plugin machinery.
+  Dated note, 2026-09-14: this repository's own weekly online link-check lane
+  (`.github/workflows/link-check.yml`) was removed in #4166 under the
+  no-auto-issue-filing owner decision, since its only output was a tracking
+  issue. The dead-pointer trigger this wiring fed is dormant here until a
+  non-issue-filing replacement lane is wired; other consuming repos are
+  unaffected.
 - **Adopters table.** If the sweep leaves this repository conforming (no unstamped carriers in
   scope), the fleet's open-carriers issue (#2297) gets its closure evidence; rows are added
   only for surfaces that actually conform, per the table's own admission rule.