diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index 23d576664c1..73b29ceea96 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,25 @@ on:
   merge_group:
   # ── THE SCHEDULED FULL RUN (#16467), the half this file owns ─────────────
   # Every 4 hours since #25771 (maintainer ruling Q6 = C), the same cadence as
-  # ci.yml's half and for the reason stated there; no step changed.
+  # ci.yml's half and for the reason stated there.
+  #
+  # ⭐ IT SKIPS WHEN THE PUSH RUN ALREADY COVERED THE COMMIT (#26071, ruling
+  # 6416984681, letter A (i)). A scheduled run tests `main`'s head, and the
+  # push run of that same commit ran the same battery over the same tree: on
+  # `push` the selector keeps every family and the workspace type check takes
+  # the whole universe, exactly as on `schedule`. Measured on 2026-10-28: all 12
+  # newest scheduled runs repeated a commit whose push run had already ended
+  # `success`. So the `schedule-gate` job (first under `jobs:`) asks the runs
+  # API for a completed `push` run of THIS workflow on `github.sha` that
+  # concluded `success`; when there is one, every lane skips and the two
+  # aggregates skip with them, and the run concludes `success` with one ran
+  # job. ⛔ It fails CLOSED toward running: no answer, an error, a 403 or a
+  # body it cannot read all mean "run the battery". Only `schedule` is gated:
+  # on `push`, `pull_request`, `merge_group` and `workflow_dispatch` the gate
+  # job is skipped, its output reads empty, and every lane runs as before.
+  # ci.yml's scheduled run is NOT gated: there `push` tests the affected set
+  # only, and the schedule is the full battery.
+  #
   # The card's ruling is that the scheduled run covers BOTH required-context
   # files, not just ci.yml, and the reason is measured rather than symmetric:
   # the push-on-`main` run of THIS workflow is the only post-merge full-battery
@@ -42,7 +60,8 @@ on:
   #
   # The selector already treats every event that is neither `merge_group` nor
   # `pull_request` as "run every family", so this trigger alone restores the
-  # full battery here — no step in this file changes.
+  # full battery here — no step in this file changes. That same sentence is
+  # why the gate above may skip it: the push run of the commit already ran it.
   #
   # ⛔ A NEW TRIGGER KEY, not a widening of `push:`; see ci.yml's `on:` block.
   schedule:
@@ -197,6 +216,61 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
 
+  schedule-gate:
+    # ── THE SCHEDULED RUN'S SKIP (#26071, ruling 6416984681, letter A (i)) ───
+    # The why is the `on:` block's ⭐ note. This job runs on `schedule` only, and
+    # every other job in this file needs it and carries the same `if:`:
+    #
+    #   if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
+    #
+    # On every other event this job is SKIPPED, a skipped job's outputs read as
+    # the empty string, and `!cancelled()` lets a job run past a skipped (or a
+    # failed) need, so each lane runs exactly as it did before this job existed.
+    # The two aggregates keep `always()` and add one schedule-only conjunct:
+    # they skip only on a scheduled run whose lanes skipped, never on a PR or a
+    # queue build, where a skipped required context would read as green.
+    #
+    # ⛔ FAIL CLOSED TOWARD RUNNING. Only a positive answer skips: a completed
+    # `push` run of THIS workflow on `github.sha`, concluded `success`, read
+    # from the runs API. A failed read, a 403, a body that does not parse, no
+    # such run, or a push run still in progress all leave `skip=false`, and a
+    # crash of this job leaves the output empty, which also runs the lanes.
+    name: Schedule gate · skip when a green push run covers the commit
+    if: github.event_name == 'schedule'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # The job-wall rule's floor (see the `lint` job): one API read, no checkout.
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    permissions:
+      actions: read
+    outputs:
+      skip: ${{ steps.probe.outputs.skip }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Look for a completed green push run on this commit
+        id: probe
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          OS_GATE_SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
+        run: |
+          set -uo pipefail
+          skip=false
+          reason="no completed push run of this workflow on $OS_GATE_SHA concluded success"
+          if green=$(gh api "repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/actions/workflows/lint.yml/runs?event=push&branch=main&head_sha=$OS_GATE_SHA&status=completed&per_page=10" \
+              --jq '.workflow_runs[] | select(.event == "push" and .status == "completed" and .conclusion == "success") | "\(.head_sha) \(.id)"' \
+              2> "$RUNNER_TEMP/schedule-gate.err"); then
+            while read -r sha id; do
+              if [ -n "$sha" ] && [ "$sha" = "$OS_GATE_SHA" ]; then
+                skip=true
+                reason="push run $id on $OS_GATE_SHA concluded success: $GITHUB_SERVER_URL/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$id"
+                break
+              fi
+            done <<< "$green"
+          else
+            reason="the runs API did not answer ($(head -c 300 "$RUNNER_TEMP/schedule-gate.err" | tr '\n' ' ')), so the battery runs"
+          fi
+          echo "skip=$skip" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "schedule-gate: skip=$skip -- $reason"
+          echo "schedule-gate: skip=$skip -- $reason" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+
   lint:
     # ⚠️ This `name:` IS the required-status-check context in repository
     # Settings → Rulesets (a job's check-run name is its `name:`), so it is
@@ -300,7 +374,12 @@ jobs:
     # skipped required context is an absence, which reads as green in every
     # checks list and never blocks the queue. The `typecheck` job carries the
     # same contract and says so at length.
-    if: always()
+    # The one conjunct after it is the scheduled run's skip (`schedule-gate`):
+    # on `schedule` alone, lanes that skipped mean the gate found a green push
+    # run on the commit, and this aggregate skips with them rather than reding
+    # over lanes that were told not to run. On every other event the
+    # conjunct is true and `always()` alone decides, as before.
+    if: ${{ always() && !(github.event_name == 'schedule' && contains(needs.*.result, 'skipped')) }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # ⭐ JOB WALL — measured, and the rule for every job in this file. No step in
     # this workflow runs under `scripts/run-with-stall-guard.mjs` (if one ever
@@ -429,6 +508,8 @@ jobs:
     # test-double contract gate, the two heaviest always-on gates, side by
     # side.
     name: Lint · ESLint
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20, on the checkout step) + BODY BUDGET, the
     # scheme `typecheck-source-gates` argues for a full-history checkout. Body
@@ -511,6 +592,8 @@ jobs:
     # shared-module self-tests, the PM tooling self-tests, the Claude hook
     # guards, the docs authoring gates and both censuses.
     name: Lint · repo & tooling gates
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET, `typecheck-source-gates`'
     # scheme. Body after the checkout, rebuilt per run from the 70 runs the
@@ -1934,6 +2017,8 @@ jobs:
     # symbol anchors, and the product-code guards (CLI, error codes, routes,
     # logging, the objectui pin).
     name: Lint · docs & code guards
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET, `typecheck-source-gates`'
     # scheme. Body after the checkout, rebuilt per run from the 70 runs the
@@ -2953,6 +3038,8 @@ jobs:
     # them), the engine and packaging gates, and the issue-citation gate,
     # which is why this lane alone reads issues and pull requests.
     name: Lint · CI, release & engine gates
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET, `typecheck-source-gates`'
     # scheme. Body after the checkout, rebuilt per run from the 70 runs the
@@ -4090,6 +4177,8 @@ jobs:
     # argument is in this lane) and pays its setup even when the selector
     # skips everything in it: about a minute of runner, not of wall.
     name: Lint · scoped · query-options erasure
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET, `typecheck-source-gates`'
     # scheme. Body after the checkout, rebuilt per run from the 70 runs the
@@ -4246,6 +4335,8 @@ jobs:
     # entry-guard sweep and the comment-mask corpus walk. The slot-lookup
     # ratchet is the gate the checkout step's `fetch-depth: 0` note names.
     name: Lint · scoped · slot lookup & corpus
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET, `typecheck-source-gates`'
     # scheme. Body after the checkout, rebuilt per run from the 70 runs the
@@ -4390,6 +4481,8 @@ jobs:
     # self-test, the self-test workflow-command gate and the verify-lock
     # entry-point self-test.
     name: Lint · scoped · tooling self-tests
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET, `typecheck-source-gates`'
     # scheme. Body after the checkout, rebuilt per run from the 70 runs the
@@ -4576,6 +4669,8 @@ jobs:
     # `schedule` and `push` both tiers, the slow tier's daily home under the
     # ruling (`scripts/pm/check-dispatch-gates.mjs` decides, from the event).
     name: Lint · PM dispatch-gates
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET, `typecheck-source-gates`'
     # scheme. Body after the checkout, rebuilt per run from the 70 runs the
@@ -4722,6 +4817,8 @@ jobs:
   # missing or stale one. Build-dependent gates belong in the lanes below.
   typecheck-source-gates:
     name: Type Check · source gates
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL — why every job here has one and the rule (about 2× the measured
     # maximum, a 5-minute grain, never below 10, never above the queue's
@@ -5411,6 +5508,8 @@ jobs:
   # runs the `typecheck` task family and so the only one that can seed it.
   typecheck-workspace:
     name: Type Check · workspace
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET; the split, its window, the
     # checkout numbers and what the aggregate reads: `typecheck-source-gates`.
@@ -5656,6 +5755,8 @@ jobs:
   # semantics are untouched: same script, same flags, same command.
   typecheck-debt:
     name: Type Check · debt ledger
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET; the split, its window, the
     # checkout numbers and what the aggregate reads: `typecheck-source-gates`.
@@ -5858,6 +5959,8 @@ jobs:
   # api-surface family, the skill/docs example compilers and the i18n gates.
   typecheck-consumers:
     name: Type Check · consumer gates
+    needs: [schedule-gate]
+    if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # JOB WALL = CHECKOUT BUDGET (20) + BODY BUDGET; the split, its window, the
     # checkout numbers and what the aggregate reads: `typecheck-source-gates`.
@@ -6387,8 +6490,9 @@ jobs:
     # required context is not a red — it is an absence, which reads as green in
     # every checks list and never blocks the queue. The same contract
     # ci.yml's `test-gate` documents. With `always()` the job runs on every
-    # outcome and the verdict below is what decides.
-    if: always()
+    # outcome and the verdict below is what decides. Its one schedule-only
+    # conjunct is the `lint` job's, for the reason stated there.
+    if: ${{ always() && !(github.event_name == 'schedule' && contains(needs.*.result, 'skipped')) }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 10
     permissions:
diff --git a/scripts/check-required-contexts.mjs b/scripts/check-required-contexts.mjs
index 8f85c619e3c..d8f43759a4d 100644
--- a/scripts/check-required-contexts.mjs
+++ b/scripts/check-required-contexts.mjs
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ const SELF_TEST_BATTERIES = Object.freeze({
   'the recognizer itself, in BOTH directions': 10,
   '…and the NARROW recognizer beside it, in both directions': 6,
   'is the pin WIRED into the required job?': 3,
-  'the wiring recognizer, in BOTH directions': 13,
+  'the wiring recognizer, in BOTH directions': 23,
 });
 
 // DELETING an entry silences that battery's floor exactly as effectively as
@@ -991,6 +991,36 @@ function jobsCarriedByLint(doc) {
   return carried;
 }
 
+// The ONE job-level `if:` a lane hosting the pin may carry: lint.yml's scheduled-run skip
+// (#26071, ruling 6416984681, letter A (i)). The lane needs `schedule-gate`, a job that runs
+// on `schedule` only; on every other event that job is skipped, its output reads empty, and
+// `!cancelled()` runs the lane past it — so no PR, queue build or push can arrange that the
+// pin does not run on it without editing one of these two byte-exact spellings, which is
+// what the wiring assertion then refuses. Any other `if:` on the lane is still refused.
+const SCHEDULE_GATE_JOB = 'schedule-gate';
+const SCHEDULE_GATE_JOB_IF = "github.event_name == 'schedule'";
+const SCHEDULE_SKIP_LANE_IF = "${{ !cancelled() && needs.schedule-gate.outputs.skip != 'true' }}";
+
+/**
+ * Whether every lane hosting the pin carries either no job-level `if:` or exactly the
+ * scheduled-run skip, read from one parsed lint.yml. The `lint` aggregate itself is exempt by
+ * construction: its `if: always()` (plus its schedule-only conjunct) is what makes it report.
+ *
+ * @param {unknown} doc a parsed lint.yml
+ * @returns {boolean}
+ */
+function pinLanesCarryNoArrangeableIf(doc) {
+  const gate = doc && typeof doc === 'object' && doc.jobs && typeof doc.jobs === 'object' ? doc.jobs[SCHEDULE_GATE_JOB] : undefined;
+  const gateIsScheduleOnly = !!gate && typeof gate === 'object' && gate.if === SCHEDULE_GATE_JOB_IF;
+  return jobsCarriedByLint(doc)
+    .filter(([, job]) => pinSteps(job).length > 0)
+    .every(([id, job]) => {
+      if (id === 'lint' || !Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(job, 'if')) return true;
+      const needs = Array.isArray(job.needs) ? job.needs.map(String) : typeof job.needs === 'string' ? [job.needs] : [];
+      return gateIsScheduleOnly && job.if === SCHEDULE_SKIP_LANE_IF && needs.includes(SCHEDULE_GATE_JOB);
+    });
+}
+
 /**
  * Judge a registry against already-parsed workflows.
  *
@@ -3277,9 +3307,11 @@ async function selfTest() {
     // …and, since the pin moved into a lane (#22991), neither may the LANE: a job-level `if:` is
     // the same arrangement one level up, and it is the one a step-level read cannot see. The
     // aggregate itself is exempt by construction — its `if: always()` is what makes it report.
+    // One spelling is admitted, the scheduled-run skip (`pinLanesCarryNoArrangeableIf`, #26071):
+    // it can skip the lane on `schedule` alone, never on a PR or a queue build.
     assert(
-      hosts.every((h) => h.id === 'lint' || !Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(h.job, 'if')),
-      'wiring: the lane hosting the required-context pin must carry NO job-level `if:` — a skipped lane is a pin that did not run',
+      pinLanesCarryNoArrangeableIf(lintDoc),
+      'wiring: the lane hosting the required-context pin must carry NO job-level `if:` other than the scheduled-run skip — a skipped lane is a pin that did not run',
     );
 
     // ── the wiring recognizer, in BOTH directions ────────────────────────────
@@ -3358,8 +3390,9 @@ async function selfTest() {
     );
     // (q) ⭐ #22991: the pin in a LANE of the `lint` aggregate — declared AND needed — is wired.
     // The checked-in lint.yml is this shape; the fixture pins the reading apart from it.
-    const aggregateFixture = ({ declare, need, laneIf = null }) =>
+    const aggregateFixture = ({ declare, need, laneIf = null, gateIf = null, laneNeedsGate = false }) =>
       lintFixture(
+        ...(gateIf ? ['  schedule-gate:', `    if: ${gateIf}`, '    runs-on: ubuntu-latest', '    steps:', '      - run: echo skip=false'] : []),
         '  lint:',
         '    name: Lint & Repo Gates',
         ...(need ? ['    needs: [lint-lane]'] : []),
@@ -3370,6 +3403,7 @@ async function selfTest() {
         '      - name: Verify every lint lane succeeded',
         '        run: node verify.mjs',
         '  lint-lane:',
+        ...(laneNeedsGate ? ['    needs: [schedule-gate]'] : []),
         ...(laneIf ? [`    if: ${laneIf}`] : []),
         '    runs-on: ubuntu-latest',
         '    steps:',
@@ -3401,6 +3435,36 @@ async function selfTest() {
         'wiring: a job-level `if:` on the lane hosting the pin is SEEN by the hosts read (#22991) — the live no-`if:` assertion depends on it',
       );
     }
+    // (u) #26071: the live no-`if:` predicate itself, in BOTH directions. The scheduled-run skip
+    // is admitted only as the whole shape — the lane's byte-exact `if:`, its `needs:` on the gate,
+    // and a gate job that runs on `schedule` alone; any one half missing is refused again.
+    {
+      const skip = { declare: true, need: true, laneIf: SCHEDULE_SKIP_LANE_IF, gateIf: SCHEDULE_GATE_JOB_IF, laneNeedsGate: true };
+      assert(
+        pinLanesCarryNoArrangeableIf(parse(aggregateFixture({ declare: true, need: true }))),
+        'wiring: a pin lane with NO job-level `if:` passes the live predicate (#26071 control)',
+      );
+      assert(
+        pinLanesCarryNoArrangeableIf(parse(aggregateFixture(skip))),
+        'wiring: the scheduled-run skip (lane `if:` + `needs: [schedule-gate]` + a schedule-only gate) is admitted on the pin lane (#26071)',
+      );
+      assert(
+        !pinLanesCarryNoArrangeableIf(parse(aggregateFixture({ declare: true, need: true, laneIf: "github.event_name != 'pull_request'" }))),
+        'wiring: any other job-level `if:` on the pin lane is still refused (#26071)',
+      );
+      assert(
+        !pinLanesCarryNoArrangeableIf(parse(aggregateFixture({ ...skip, gateIf: "github.event_name != 'merge_group'" }))),
+        'wiring: the skip spelling is refused when the gate job also runs on a PR — there it could say skip (#26071)',
+      );
+      assert(
+        !pinLanesCarryNoArrangeableIf(parse(aggregateFixture({ ...skip, gateIf: null }))),
+        'wiring: the skip spelling is refused when no `schedule-gate` job exists to bound it (#26071)',
+      );
+      assert(
+        !pinLanesCarryNoArrangeableIf(parse(aggregateFixture({ ...skip, laneNeedsGate: false }))),
+        'wiring: the skip spelling is refused when the lane does not need the gate it reads (#26071)',
+      );
+    }
     // (n) the genuine article, spelled the way lint.yml spells it.
     assert(
       pinWiredIn(lintJobFixture('      - name: Required-context name pin', `        run: pnpm ${PIN_SCRIPT}`)),