diff --git a/.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/contract-review.md b/.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/contract-review.md
index 5a2999b156..264290ebf5 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/contract-review.md
+++ b/.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/contract-review.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # 契约复核细则(按面)
 
-见 landing-operations.md 〈入队与落地〉的条款②闸门;本文只放复核归属与资格。
+见 landing-operations.md 〈入队与落地〉的条款②闸门;本文只放复核归属、资格与等复核标记。
 
 ## 复核归属与资格(按面)
 
@@ -26,3 +26,11 @@
 - 例外:纯重生成 head 后移原记录继续管;判据机读已提交树;PR 落 `Regen-provenance:` 行。
 - ② PR check 全绿,⛔ 非 required 子集;例外:merge-base 同签名的红不计、按设计而红见 SKILL.md。
 - 签名 = 失败步 + 首错行,读 base check runs 的 API ⛔ 不凭口述;主干红止血立单不变。
+
+## 等复核标记 `needs:contract-review`
+
+- 只作等复核标记,⛔ 不是闸门;单载体 = PR,卡上副本在规则外、不是要求。
+- 挂:ACCEPT 时条款②任一肢命中而现 head 无同形 PASS 在案 ⇒ 派发席同笔挂于 PR。
+- 摘:现 head 同形 PASS 在案 ⇒ 写记录的席同笔摘;PR 合并或关闭 ⇒ 派发席摘;FAIL 不摘。
+- 读者 = 维护者过滤 `is:pr is:open label:needs:contract-review` 与席位巡查、交接。
+- ⛔ 无 check、workflow、队列守卫或巡查脚本读它;入队只认同形记录,标记有无不改判。
diff --git a/.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/landing-operations.md b/.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/landing-operations.md
index 2a686cb151..c7dca9335c 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/landing-operations.md
+++ b/.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/landing-operations.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 - 路径肢 = diff 触及契约面 `packages/spec/src/**` 非测试,含 error-code-ledger、`*.zod.ts` 契约 schema。
 - 声明肢 = 认领评论声明 `Clause-②: yes`,与路径无关;错误的 `no` 是可审计的假申报。
 - 交付后复核按面欠 ⛔ 不按车道(五面见 `references/contract-review.md`);双肢命中即 spec 车道。
-- 子代理起不来 ⇒ 复核缺席,PR 留 draft 队列外等档;唯一旁路是维护者亲审,逐次为准。
+- 子代理起不来 ⇒ 复核缺席,PR 带 `needs:contract-review` 留 draft 队列外;旁路仅维护者逐次亲审
 - PASS ⇒ ready、auto-merge;FAIL ⇒ 补丁轮;⛔ 免复核不放行。
 - DELIBERATE CORRECTION 红(`check-empty-changeset`):同 head 达档复核 PASS 记录即确认,⛔ 不等维护者。
 - 记录须点名被改 note、逐句判改写句,缺一不算;算即按 SKILL.md 三条件带红入队,门禁不改。
diff --git a/scripts/pm/ensure-pm-labels.sh b/scripts/pm/ensure-pm-labels.sh
index 27aadbef27..1bc07e3fd5 100644
--- a/scripts/pm/ensure-pm-labels.sh
+++ b/scripts/pm/ensure-pm-labels.sh
@@ -325,6 +325,24 @@ done
 # would assert a kinship the paragraph above spends its length denying.
 gh label create needs:pack-smoke -R objectstack-ai/objectstack -c 006b75 -d "Opt-in pre-merge pack smoke: self-declared breaking auth/audience change (see CONTRIBUTING.md)" 2>/dev/null || true
 
+# needs:contract-review — a MARKER, never a gate; rules in
+# .claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/contract-review.md 〈等复核标记〉. The
+# dispatching seat hangs it on the PR at ACCEPT when either clause-② limb hits
+# and no same-form PASS is on the current head; the seat posting that PASS, or
+# the dispatching seat at merge/close, clears it (a FAIL leaves it on). Named
+# readers: the maintainer's PR-list filter
+# `is:pr is:open label:needs:contract-review` and each seat's patrol and
+# handover. ⛔ No check, workflow, queue guard or patrol script reads it — the
+# queue releases on the `## Contract review` record alone.
+# Restored by the maintainer's instruction recorded on #19973, verbatim:
+# 「恢复 needs:contract-review，把这句原话写进一张 skills 车道的卡」 — answering a
+# question that proposed a marker, not a gate. The gate role, `--pair`, the
+# double carrier and the independence pair that ruling record 5770886272
+# retired stay retired. Main repo only: the clause-② contract surface lives
+# here. Colour bfdadc sits outside the state and red (blocked / decision)
+# families.
+gh label create needs:contract-review -R objectstack-ai/objectstack -c bfdadc -d "Marker only — PR awaits its at-tier Contract review PASS; no check reads it, the record decides" 2>/dev/null || true
+
 # Routing labels exist only on the main backlog repo, and mark SEAM cards only
 # (file-at-destination ruling: pure sibling-repo fixes live in the target repo).
 #