tests/deployment_scoping.bats

@@ -28,15 +28,16 @@ REMOTE_DEPLOY="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-remote.sh"
     ! grep -q 'frank_npu\|frank-npu' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
 }
 
-@test "the retired ik chat template plans nothing, and its archive is still here" {
+@test "the retired ik chat template plans nothing" {
     # scripts/chat-template.jinja existed only for the ik_llama.cpp runtime
     # (retired 2026-09-16 in favour of halogen-flash-server again). The
     # llama.cpp frank-zealot runtime serves the template the GGUF itself
     # carries, which is the one with reasoning_effort, preserve_thinking and
-    # the tool-call grammar. Editing the archive must deploy nothing -- and the
-    # archive must still be present, so this cannot pass by the file having
-    # vanished.
-    [ -f "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/.AGENTTRASH/chat-template.jinja.ik-llama-qwen-sharp" ]
+    # the tool-call grammar. The planner's rule is a PATH rule, so an edit at
+    # that path deploys nothing no matter where the bytes currently sit: the seam
+    # deliberately does not assert the archive exists. Trash is a purgeable hold
+    # (untracked in #111, and the deletion policy says the purger deletes it), so
+    # pinning it fails every fresh checkout and proves nothing about planning.
     run python3 "$PLANNER" --target dankclaw --paths scripts/chat-template.jinja
     [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
     [ -z "$output" ]