@@ -864,11 +864,11 @@ type FormMode = 'create' | 'edit' | 'view';
  * ## The verdict
  *
  * The delegation branch in `renderContent` below reads 30 distinct keys off
- * the object-view node through `(schema as any).K` and forwards them to the
- * host's list renderer. Three of them — `data`, `navigation`,
- * `searchableFields`, listed in
+ * the object-view node and forwards them to the host's list renderer. Three
+ * of them — `data`, `navigation`, `searchableFields`, listed in
  * {@link OBJECT_VIEW_DECLARED_FORWARDED_KEYS} — are declared members of
- * `ObjectViewSchema`. The other 27, listed here, are not, and stay that way:
+ * `ObjectViewSchema` and are read without a cast. The other 27, listed here,
+ * are read through `(schema as any).K`, are not declared, and stay that way:
  * they are HOST-COMPOSITION surface, not authored surface. This constant is
  * their single home; the branch is fenced by `#region` markers so the pin in
  * `src/__tests__/objectViewHostSurface.test.tsx` fails BY NAME when a read is
@@ -986,9 +986,10 @@ export const OBJECT_VIEW_HOST_COMPOSITION_KEYS = [
 ] as const;
 
 /**
- * The other three keys the same branch reads through `(schema as any)`: these
- * ARE declared members of `ObjectViewSchema` (`data` via `BaseSchema`), so
- * they are authored surface and are NOT part of the objectui#5097 exemption.
+ * The other three keys the same branch reads off the node: these ARE declared
+ * members of `ObjectViewSchema` (`data` via `BaseSchema`), so they are
+ * authored surface, are read as `schema.K` with no cast, and are NOT part of
+ * the objectui#5097 exemption.
  * They are listed so the pin can assert the split, not just the exempt half —
  * a read that moves from this list into the one above is a key losing its
  * declaration, and must fail loudly.
@@ -2954,9 +2955,11 @@ export const ObjectView: React.FC<ObjectViewProps> = ({
     // If a custom renderListView is provided, use it
     // #region object-view HOST-COMPOSITION SURFACE (objectui#5097)
     //
-    // 30 of the values assembled below are read off the object-view node with
-    // `(schema as any).K`. Three are declared members of `ObjectViewSchema`;
-    // the other 27 are NOT, deliberately: the maintainer ruling of 2026-08-18
+    // 30 of the values assembled below are read off the object-view node. Three
+    // are declared members of `ObjectViewSchema`
+    // (`OBJECT_VIEW_DECLARED_FORWARDED_KEYS`) and are read as `schema.K`, with
+    // no cast; the other 27 are read with `(schema as any).K` because they are
+    // NOT declared, deliberately: the maintainer ruling of 2026-08-18
     // on objectui#5097 (verbatim 「同意」) ruled them HOST-COMPOSITION surface,
     // not authored surface, because this branch is entered only when a HOST
     // passes `renderListView` and the registered renderer never does.
@@ -3106,16 +3109,16 @@ export const ObjectView: React.FC<ObjectViewProps> = ({
           // never reaches the renderer.
           // objectui#8980 / objectui#7928's open half: the cast on the
           // named-view config is GONE — `data` is a declared `NamedListView`
-          // member now, so the read and the declaration are one fact. The
-          // `activeView` and node rungs keep their casts: the host `views` entry
-          // is an untyped host shape and `data` on the node is one of the 27
-          // objectui#5097 host-composition keys.
-          data: currentNamedViewConfig?.data ?? (activeView as any)?.data ?? (schema as any).data,
+          // member now, so the read and the declaration are one fact. The node
+          // rung is uncast for the same reason: `data` is declared on the node
+          // (via `BaseSchema`). The `activeView` rung keeps its cast: the host
+          // `views` entry is an untyped host shape.
+          data: currentNamedViewConfig?.data ?? (activeView as any)?.data ?? schema.data,
           // Propagate new spec properties (P0/P1/P2)
-          navigation: currentNamedViewConfig?.navigation ?? activeView?.navigation ?? (schema as any).navigation,
+          navigation: currentNamedViewConfig?.navigation ?? activeView?.navigation ?? schema.navigation,
           selection: currentNamedViewConfig?.selection ?? activeView?.selection ?? (schema as any).selection,
           pagination: currentNamedViewConfig?.pagination ?? activeView?.pagination ?? (schema as any).pagination,
-          searchableFields: currentNamedViewConfig?.searchableFields ?? activeView?.searchableFields ?? (schema as any).searchableFields,
+          searchableFields: currentNamedViewConfig?.searchableFields ?? activeView?.searchableFields ?? schema.searchableFields,
           resizable: currentNamedViewConfig?.resizable ?? activeView?.resizable ?? (schema as any).resizable,
           hiddenFields: currentNamedViewConfig?.hiddenFields ?? activeView?.hiddenFields ?? (schema as any).hiddenFields,
           // objectui#8980 — TWO SLOTS THAT HAD NO RUNG ON THIS BRANCH AT ALL.
 
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
  * `ObjectViewSchema`; 27 are not. objectui#13118 dropped one of the four,
  * `filterableFields`, with the spec's retirement of the key (objectstack#24640,
  * ruling C), so the branch reads 30 today: three declared, the 27 unchanged.
+ * objectstack#25918 dropped the cast from the three declared reads, so only
+ * the 27 are still read through `(schema as any).K`.
  *
  * The maintainer ruled on 2026-08-18 (verbatim 「同意」) that the 27 are HOST
  * surface, exempted with reasons — not authored surface — on a MEASURED
@@ -129,6 +131,18 @@ const castReadsIn = (slice: string): string[] =>
     ),
   ].sort();
 
+/**
+ * Every UNCAST read of a key off `schema` in a slice of CODE, distinct, sorted.
+ * The lookbehind keeps `objectSchema.K` and `x.schema.K` out; the cast form
+ * never matches, because `schema` is followed by ` as any)` there, not `.`.
+ */
+const uncastReadsIn = (slice: string): string[] =>
+  [
+    ...new Set(
+      [...stripComments(slice).matchAll(/(?<![\w$.])schema\.([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)/g)].map((m) => m[1]),
+    ),
+  ].sort();
+
 const regionSlice = (): string => {
   const start = SOURCE.indexOf(REGION_OPEN);
   const end = SOURCE.indexOf(REGION_CLOSE);
@@ -153,8 +167,14 @@ describe('the forwarded key set equals the documented exemption (objectui#5097)'
   const exempt: string[] = [...OBJECT_VIEW_HOST_COMPOSITION_KEYS].sort();
   const declared: string[] = [...OBJECT_VIEW_DECLARED_FORWARDED_KEYS].sort();
 
-  it('the fence reads exactly the 27 exempt keys plus the 3 declared ones', () => {
-    expect(castReadsIn(regionSlice())).toEqual([...exempt, ...declared].sort());
+  it('the fence reads exactly the 27 exempt keys through the cast, and the 3 declared ones without it', () => {
+    // The three declared members are read as `schema.K` since objectstack#25918:
+    // a cast on a key the type already declares hides nothing and is retired.
+    // ⛔ That is the ONLY kind of cast this card removed; the 27 stay cast,
+    // because they are undeclared by ruling.
+    expect(castReadsIn(regionSlice())).toEqual(exempt);
+    const uncast = uncastReadsIn(regionSlice());
+    for (const k of declared) expect(uncast, `\`${k}\` is no longer read off the node uncast`).toContain(k);
   });
 
   it('subtracting the declared members leaves exactly the exempt list — by name', () => {
@@ -342,7 +362,7 @@ describe('the fence reads the named view first for every protocol member it rela
       expect(cast, `\`${k}\` is now read off the node through a cast`).not.toContain(k);
       expect(namedViewReadsIn(regionSlice())).toContain(k);
     }
-    expect(cast).toHaveLength(OBJECT_VIEW_HOST_COMPOSITION_KEYS.length + OBJECT_VIEW_DECLARED_FORWARDED_KEYS.length);
+    expect(cast).toHaveLength(OBJECT_VIEW_HOST_COMPOSITION_KEYS.length);
   });
 });
 
 
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ const READ_TEXT: Record<ReadMirrored, ReadonlyArray<readonly [file: string, text
   // objectui#10885: the node's `navigation` is still read, now as the fallback
   // behind the active named view's.
   navigation: [[READER, 'const navigationConfig: ViewNavigationConfig | undefined = currentNamedViewConfig?.navigation ?? schema.navigation;']],
-  searchableFields: [[READER, 'searchableFields: currentNamedViewConfig?.searchableFields ?? activeView?.searchableFields ?? (schema as any).searchableFields,']],
+  searchableFields: [[READER, 'searchableFields: currentNamedViewConfig?.searchableFields ?? activeView?.searchableFields ?? schema.searchableFields,']],
   allowCreateView: [
     [READER, 'allowCreateView: schema.allowCreateView,'],
     [SWITCHER, 'const createViewButton = schema.allowCreateView ? ('],
@@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ describe('objectui#7779 — the renderer reads the eight mirrored keys, which is
     expect(namedViewReads()).not.toContain(SPEC_RETIRED_UNREAD);
     expect(src).not.toContain('activeView?.filterableFields');
     // Control on the same file and the same spelling: its sibling's rung stands.
-    expect(src).toContain('searchableFields: currentNamedViewConfig?.searchableFields ?? activeView?.searchableFields ?? (schema as any).searchableFields,');
+    expect(src).toContain('searchableFields: currentNamedViewConfig?.searchableFields ?? activeView?.searchableFields ?? schema.searchableFields,');
     // …and `NamedListView` carries the tombstone, while the node's two faces keep
     // the spec's slot by reference, which carries the spec's own tombstone in at
     // the pin bump that takes the retirement.
@@ -1656,10 +1656,11 @@ describe('objectui#7924 — the per-member liveness census on `NamedListView`, r
     expect(declared.has('data'), '`data` is a declared member since objectui#8980; the census arithmetic subtracts the whole read set').toBe(true);
     expect(reads.reads).toContain('data');
     // …and it is reached through the DECLARED path: the cast on the named-view
-    // config is gone. The two neighbouring casts are untouched and stay — the
-    // host `views` entry is an untyped host shape, and `data` on the node is one
-    // of the 27 objectui#5097 host-composition keys.
-    expect(readRepo(READER)).toContain('data: currentNamedViewConfig?.data ?? (activeView as any)?.data ?? (schema as any).data,');
+    // config is gone, and so is the one on the node (objectstack#25918) — `data`
+    // is declared there too, via `BaseSchema`, and is not one of the 27
+    // objectui#5097 host-composition keys. The `activeView` cast stays: the
+    // host `views` entry is an untyped host shape.
+    expect(readRepo(READER)).toContain('data: currentNamedViewConfig?.data ?? (activeView as any)?.data ?? schema.data,');
     expect(readRepo(READER)).not.toContain('(currentNamedViewConfig as any)?.data');
   });