Doku-Hälfte zu 4.7.0: redundant_see_also in tools/CONTRACT.md und wiki-lint, xref-remove-Falle benannt (4.7.1, #49)

Files changed:
- CHANGES.md
- VERSION
- instructions/wiki-lint/SKILL.md
- tools/CONTRACT.md

CHANGES.md

@@ -35,6 +35,112 @@ dev-checkout concern - readable here, never shipped as something to parse.
 
 ---
 
+## 4.7.1 - 2026-09-04 - redundant_see_also in tools/CONTRACT.md und wiki-lint dokumentiert; xref-remove-Falle benannt
+
+**Author:** Torben Nehmer
+
+<!-- wikitool:bumps -->
+- redundant_see_also in tools/CONTRACT.md und wiki-lint; xref-remove-Falle beim Aufräumen benannt
+<!-- /wikitool:bumps -->
+
+Die Doku-Hälfte von `4.7.0`, beim Abschluss nachgezogen. Der Befund war ausgeliefert, aber
+`tools/CONTRACT.md`s `lint`-Zeile zählt die Befunde auf und kannte ihn nicht - eine Instanz hätte
+eine Sektion im Report gefunden, die ihr Contract nicht erklärt. `docs verify` prüft, dass die
+Kommandotabelle existiert, nie was in einer Zeile steht; genau die Lücke, für die AGENTS.md
+„a stack change is not finished until the human docs describe it" geschrieben ist.
+
+**Die eigentliche Änderung ist aber die Warnung in `wiki-lint`**, und sie ist keine Prosa-Politur.
+Der neue Befund liest sich wie etwas, das Schritt 7 („repariere, was mechanisch ist") abräumt, und
+der naheliegende Griff wäre `xref remove` - das die Referenz **beidseitig** löscht. Angewandt auf
+`Wine see-also Wine GE` neben `Wine GE depends-on Wine` hätte das die schwache *und* die
+spezifische Kante entfernt, und das Paar sagte danach gar nichts mehr. Ein Befund, dessen
+offensichtliche Reparatur Daten zerstört, ist schlechter als kein Befund: Schritt 1 nennt die
+Falle jetzt beim Namen und verweist auf `xref add` (fasst nur die Quellseite an) oder aufs
+Berichten. Dieselbe Asymmetrie hat in #30 schon einmal Daten gekostet.
+
+---
+
+## 4.7.0 - 2026-09-04 - Link-Katalog: authored, alternative-to, addresses; entity→entity-Lineage; Lint-Befund gegen redundante see-also
+
+**Author:** Torben Nehmer
+
+<!-- wikitool:bumps -->
+- Link-Katalog: authored, alternative-to, addresses; Lint-Befund gegen redundante see-also
+<!-- /wikitool:bumps -->
+
+Drei neue Label, zwei geschlossene Autorisierungslücken und ein Lint-Befund - ausgelöst von der
+anstehenden ersten produktiven Instanz. Katalog und `COLLECTION.md` gehen über `dist export` in
+jede neue Instanz; was hier fehlt, fehlt dort ab Tag eins, und nachträglich ist eine
+Katalogerweiterung eine Korpus-Migration statt einer Datenzeile. Gitea #43 und #49.
+
+**Die Messung, die den Zuschnitt bestimmt hat.** Die 180 `see-also`-Kanten des Korpus zerfallen
+exakt in drei Klassen: 57 (32 %) sind Spiegel einer bereits typisierten Gegenkante, 70 (39 %)
+sind wechselseitige `see-also`-Paare, 53 (29 %) stehen einseitig. Die erste Klasse ist kein
+Vokabularproblem - `Wine see-also Wine GE` steht neben `Wine GE depends-on Wine`, `RAG see-also
+NotebookLM` neben `NotebookLM implements RAG`. Der Katalog war für ein Drittel der Fälle längst
+ausreichend; es hat sie nur nichts gemeldet. Genau dafür ist der Lint-Befund unten da, und er ist
+der Grund, warum diese Version mehr ist als zwei Katalogzeilen.
+
+**`authored`** (operationales Register). „hat das Ziel als einmaligen Akt geschaffen." Der Katalog
+kannte fortlaufende Rechenschaft (`owns`) und fortlaufende Arbeit (`maintains`), aber nicht den
+historischen Ursprung - Urheberschaft stand im Korpus deshalb in vier unvereinbaren Formen
+nebeneinander: `source.author` als Freitext, `owns`, `see-also` und ein Prosa-Bullet. Eine davon
+war sachlich falsch: `Vannevar Bush owns Memex` behauptet laufende Rechenschaft für einen 1974
+Verstorbenen, und eine falsche maschinenlesbare Kante ist schlechter als eine schwache, weil sie
+geglaubt wird. Geschrieben wird das Label auf der Entity-Seite (`Andrej Karpathy authored LLM
+Wiki Pattern`) - die Gegenrichtung `authored-by` auf der Concept-Seite hätte `xref remove`
+gebraucht, das beidseitig abräumt, statt `xref add`, das relabelt. Vier Kanten im Korpus
+umgestellt, keine verloren.
+
+**`alternative-to`** (operationales Register, selbst-dual). „erfüllt denselben Zweck wie das Ziel,
+so dass ein Leser, der zwischen beiden wählt, beide will." Belegt durch rund 30 Paare, darunter
+die sieben Agent-CLIs, die untereinander *ausschließlich* `see-also` tragen - keine einzige
+typisierte Kante. Abgegrenzt gegen `contrasts` (behauptet einen lesenswerten Unterschied) und
+`compares-with` (wiegt auf benannten Dimensionen ab und führt in dieser Instanz auf eine
+`kb/comparisons/`-Seite): zwei Agent-CLIs sind austauschbar, zwei gegensätzliche Entwurfsprinzipien
+sind es nicht.
+
+Der Katalog sagt jetzt ausdrücklich, dass ein selbst-duales Label **einmal pro Paar** geschrieben
+wird. Ohne diesen Satz wäre aus einer 22-Kanten-`see-also`-Clique eine 22-Kanten-
+`alternative-to`-Clique geworden und nichts gewonnen: sieben austauschbare Werkzeuge sind 21
+Paare, beidseitig deklariert 42 Kanten, von denen die zweiten 21 nichts sagen.
+
+**`addresses`** (konzeptionelles Register). „ist eine Antwort auf das Problem, das das Ziel
+beschreibt." `types/concept.md` deklariert `problem` und `decision` als eigene Subtypen, und der
+Katalog hatte kein Label, das eine Entscheidung mit dem Problem verbindet, das sie löst - eine
+Collection konnte ein Problem benennen und nie sagen, was dagegen unternommen wurde. Abgegrenzt
+gegen `rests-on`, das das Ziel als *Prämisse* nimmt statt als zu lösendes Problem. Im Korpus nur
+vier belegte Paare, also dünn nach dem sonst geltenden „erst der Anwendungsfall"-Maßstab; die
+Ausnahme ist bewusst und gilt dem Auslieferungszeitpunkt, der die Kosten umdreht.
+
+**Zwei Autorisierungslücken entity→entity.** `kb/entities/COLLECTION.md` erlaubte bisher keine
+Lineage zwischen zwei Entities - ein Fork, eine Neuimplementierung, ein Nachbau war nicht
+ausdrückbar; `derived-from` und `adapted-from` sind jetzt freigegeben. Ebenso `implements`, für
+eine Entity, die eine als Entity geführte Konvention umsetzt. Ein autorisiertes Label ohne
+Live-Nutzung ist ausdrücklich in Ordnung (`instructions/dev/corpus-policy.md`).
+
+**Lint-Befund `redundant_see_also`.** Meldet eine `see-also`-Kante, deren Gegenrichtung bereits
+ein typisiertes Label trägt. Gegen den Korpus dieser Instanz meldet er genau die gemessenen 57.
+**Advisory, nicht hart**, aus zwei Gründen zugleich: eine schwache Kante neben einer spezifischen
+ist redundant, nicht kaputt - und der Befund kommt lange nach den Korpora, die er beurteilt, also
+würde eine harte Einstufung jede bestehende Instanz mit dem Upgrade rot schalten, das ihn
+ausliefert. Anders als `unlabelled_edges` ist er auch nicht migrations-gegatet: es gibt keine
+Version, ab der die Redundanz zum Fehler wird, nur einen Sweep, zu dem jemand kommt oder nicht.
+
+`links.SEE_ALSO` ist damit das einzige Katalog-Label, das das Werkzeug beim Namen kennt. Das ist
+eine begründete Ausnahme, keine Aufweichung: `see-also` ist der erklärte letzte Ausweg des
+Katalogs und behauptet nur, dass nichts Besseres passte - was der einzige Grund ist, warum `lint`
+eine Kante als *schwächer als* eine andere über demselben Paar beurteilen kann. Alles andere am
+Vokabular bleibt in `instructions/link-taxonomy.md` und den `outbound:`-Blöcken.
+
+**Nicht dabei, bewusst.** Der Sweep der 180 bestehenden Kanten (#48) - diese Version ändert außer
+den vier Urheberschaftskanten keine Korpus-Kante. Verworfen wurden außerdem `variant-of` (die
+Wine-Forks tragen bereits `depends-on Wine`), `implemented-by` (Spiegel von `implements`, den die
+Inbound-View rendert), `sibling-of` für die Concept-Cliquen (Über-Verlinkung, kein fehlendes Wort)
+und `builds-on` (Vokabularkollision mit `extends`/`derived-from`/`adapted-from`).
+
+---
+
 ## 4.6.1 - 2026-09-04 - DEVELOPMENT.md im Kommandotabellen-Check, selbstbeschriftete Release-Notes, Prosa-Korrekturen (#47 Block 3)
 
 **Author:** Torben Nehmer

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.6.1
+4.7.1

instructions/link-taxonomy.md

@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ That is why most labels below have no inverse. Only three pairs do, because in e
 direction is a genuine primary statement someone would write on its own: `depends-on` /
 `required-by`, `runs-on` / `hosts`, and `composition` / `part-of`.
 
+**A self-dual label is still written once.** `alternative-to` is its own inverse - the sentence
+reads identically from either end - and that makes it the easiest label in the catalogue to
+write twice by reflex. Symmetry means the relation holds in both directions, not that both pages
+must declare it: one edge per pair, and the other page's inbound view carries it. The difference
+is not cosmetic at scale. Seven mutually substitutable tools are 21 pairs; declared once each
+that is 21 edges, declared from both ends it is 42, and the second 21 say nothing the first did
+not. This is the shape a `see-also` clique already had in this corpus before the labels existed,
+and relabelling such a clique without dropping to one edge per pair moves the problem rather
+than fixing it.
+
 The third was added after the 4.0.0 migration, from measurement rather than from the desk. A
 parent-child structure - a tier list and its tiers, a spectrum and its levels - produces the
 question on nearly every page: the parent writes `composition`, and the child then reaches for
@@ -100,10 +110,23 @@ entity to entity.
 | `consumes` | — | reads the target as an artifact or data |
 | `maintains` | — | carries the upkeep of the target |
 | `owns` | — | is accountable for the target's existence and decisions |
+| `authored` | — | created the target as a one-time act |
+| `alternative-to` | itself | serves the same purpose as the target, so a reader choosing between them wants both |
 
 `uses` versus `depends-on` is the distinction worth keeping sharp: if removing the target breaks
-this thing, it is `depends-on`. `owns` versus `maintains`: accountability versus labour, and
+this thing, it is `depends-on`.
-they are often different people.
+
+`authored`, `owns` and `maintains` are three different sentences about the same pair, and often
+three different people: origination, accountability, labour. `owns` is a *standing* claim - it
+says someone answers for this thing now - so it reads false about a person who is dead or long
+gone from the project, however plainly they made it. That is the case `authored` exists for, and
+picking `owns` for it is not a weaker edge but a wrong one.
+
+`alternative-to` versus `contrasts` versus `compares-with`: `contrasts` asserts a *difference
+worth reading both for*, `alternative-to` asserts *substitutability* - two things a reader might
+pick between for the same job. `compares-with` weighs them on named dimensions, which in this
+instance is what routes to a `kb/comparisons/` page. Two agent CLIs are `alternative-to`; two
+opposed design principles are `contrasts`, and swapping the two says something false about both.
 
 ### Realization
 
@@ -135,6 +158,7 @@ Inference and comparison between ideas.
 | `contrasts` | differs from the target in a way worth reading both for |
 | `compares-with` | is weighed against the target on shared dimensions |
 | `contradicts` | asserts something the target denies |
+| `addresses` | is a response to the problem the target describes |
 | `composition` | is composed of the target |
 | `part-of` | is a component of the target |
 
@@ -149,6 +173,13 @@ about the same fact.
 listed separately rather than as inverses because either page may legitimately carry only its
 own side.
 
+`addresses` is the edge from a solution to the problem it answers - a decision to the trouble
+that forced it, a mechanism to the failure it prevents. Keep it apart from `rests-on`, which
+takes the target as a *premise* the source argues from: a decision usually does both, and the
+one worth writing is the one a reader here would follow. `addresses` has no inverse. The problem
+page's inbound view already answers "what did anyone do about this?", which is the only reason
+someone would want the reverse.
+
 ### Lineage
 
 Where something came from, and what replaced it.

instructions/wiki-lint/SKILL.md

@@ -26,8 +26,18 @@ never something an agent has to remember.
    unreadable frontmatter, broken wikilinks, dangling frontmatter references, orphan pages,
    catalog drift, missing fields, duplicate titles, filename/title mismatches, broken
    `raw_files:` references, raw files claimed by more than one source page, invalid type paths,
-   schema failures and citation/frontmatter drift. **Do not re-derive any of it by reading
+   schema failures, citation/frontmatter drift, and edges whose label is missing, not authorised
-   pages.**
+   by the source collection, or redundant beside a specific label on the reverse direction.
+   **Do not re-derive any of it by reading pages.**
+
+   The *Redundant see-also* section is the one that looks mechanical and is not - do **not**
+   clear it under step 7. It names a `see-also` edge standing beside a specific label on the
+   reverse direction, and the obvious repair destroys the thing worth keeping: `xref remove`
+   clears the reference in *both* directions (see [tools/CONTRACT.md](../../tools/CONTRACT.md)),
+   so removing the weak edge takes the labelled one with it and the pair ends up saying nothing
+   at all. Either relabel the weak edge to something true with `xref add`, which only ever
+   touches the source page, or leave it and report it at step 9. Clearing a batch of these is a
+   planned corpus sweep with its own run, never a reaction inside a lint.
 
    **To see more of the report, read the file - never run `lint` again.** A second run costs a
    budget slot and re-measures a corpus that has not changed. The file at step 9 overwrites this

kb/concepts/COLLECTION.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 profile: concepts
 outbound:
-  concepts: [extends, grounds, rests-on, enables, precondition, exemplifies, abstracted-from, contrasts, compares-with, contradicts, composition, part-of, supersedes, derived-from, adapted-from, see-also]
+  concepts: [extends, grounds, rests-on, enables, precondition, exemplifies, abstracted-from, contrasts, compares-with, contradicts, addresses, alternative-to, composition, part-of, supersedes, derived-from, adapted-from, see-also]
-  entities: [operationalized-from, mechanism, procedure, applies-when, operates-on, invokes, exemplifies, see-also]
+  entities: [operationalized-from, mechanism, procedure, applies-when, operates-on, invokes, exemplifies, alternative-to, see-also]
   sources: [evidenced-by, derived-from, adapted-from, defined-in, see-also]
   comparisons: [compares-with, see-also]
 required_by_stack: false
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ nothing on its own.
 
 The widest authorisation in this instance, because argumentation is what concept pages do. Note that the operational labels are absent: a concept does not `depend-on` anything - the entity implementing it does.
 
+`addresses` is the one that pairs with this collection's own subtypes: a `concept_type: decision`
+or a mechanism pointing at the `concept_type: problem` it answers. Without it, the collection can
+declare a problem and never say what was done about it. `alternative-to` is self-dual and written
+once per pair - see [instructions/link-taxonomy.md](../../instructions/link-taxonomy.md).
+
 Adding a label here is a deliberate contract change, not a way around a refusal.
 
 ## Outbound linking

kb/entities/COLLECTION.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ---
 profile: entities
 outbound:
-  entities: [depends-on, required-by, runs-on, hosts, uses, produces, consumes, maintains, owns, part-of, composition, supersedes, see-also]
+  entities: [depends-on, required-by, runs-on, hosts, uses, produces, consumes, maintains, owns, authored, alternative-to, implements, part-of, composition, supersedes, derived-from, adapted-from, see-also]
-  concepts: [implements, exemplifies, rests-on, applies-when, operates-on, invokes, see-also]
+  concepts: [implements, exemplifies, rests-on, applies-when, operates-on, invokes, authored, alternative-to, see-also]
   sources: [evidenced-by, defined-in, see-also]
   comparisons: [compares-with, see-also]
 required_by_stack: false
@@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ nothing on its own.
 
 Operational labels dominate here because an entity's relationships are mostly to other concrete things. `implements` points *out* to a concept; the concept does not point back unless that direction is a statement of its own.
 
+Three of these carry a caveat this area produces more often than the others. `authored` belongs
+on a person page pointing at what they made, and it is the label a dead or departed creator
+takes - `owns` claims someone answers for the thing *now*. `alternative-to` is self-dual and is
+written **once per pair**, never from both ends: a set of interchangeable tools is where a
+mirrored clique grows fastest. `derived-from` and `adapted-from` are here for the fork and the
+re-implementation - one tool worked up out of another - which is a lineage claim the operational
+labels cannot make.
+
 Adding a label here is a deliberate contract change, not a way around a refusal.
 
 ## Outbound linking

kb/entities/people/Andrej Karpathy.md

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ tags: [researcher, ai, machine-learning, open-source]
 created: 2026-07-26
 modified: 2026-08-29
 related:
-  - see-also: LLM Wiki Pattern
+  - authored: LLM Wiki Pattern
-  - see-also: Three-Layer Architecture
+  - authored: Three-Layer Architecture
-  - see-also: Knowledge Compounding
+  - authored: Knowledge Compounding
 sources: [Source - LLM Wiki v2, Source - LLM Wiki Pattern]
 confidence: 0.95
 confidence_base: 0.95
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Seine ursprüngliche Einsicht - "stop re-deriving, start compiling" - bildet die
 <!-- wikitool:links -->
 ## Beziehungen
 
-- **see-also:** [[LLM Wiki Pattern]]
+- **authored:** [[LLM Wiki Pattern]]
-- **see-also:** [[Three-Layer Architecture]]
+- **authored:** [[Three-Layer Architecture]]
-- **see-also:** [[Knowledge Compounding]]
+- **authored:** [[Knowledge Compounding]]
 <!-- /wikitool:links -->

kb/entities/people/Vannevar Bush.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ created: 2026-07-26
 modified: 2026-08-29
 related:
   - see-also: LLM Wiki Pattern
-  - owns: Memex
+  - authored: Memex
 sources: [Source - LLM Wiki Pattern]
 confidence: 0.90
 confidence_base: 0.90
@@ -72,5 +72,5 @@ Laut dem Artikel [[LLM Wiki Pattern]] war Bushs Memex-Vision:
 ## Beziehungen
 
 - **see-also:** [[LLM Wiki Pattern]]
-- **owns:** [[Memex]]
+- **authored:** [[Memex]]
 <!-- /wikitool:links -->

tools/CONTRACT.md

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ tools/wikitool <command> --help
 | `index rebuild [--dry-run]` | Regenerate the catalog from every page's frontmatter: `kb/index.md` becomes a map (statistics, one row per collection and per area, links to the shards) and the page tables are written to a generated `INDEX.md` in each collection. An area past 50 rows gets its own shard. Stale shards from removed collections/areas are deleted in the same pass |
 | `log append --op ingest\|query\|lint\|create\|update\|delete\|rename --title "..." [--body "..."\|--body-file path]` | Append a formatted entry to `kb/log.md` |
 | `log status` | Read-only: count `ingest` entries logged since the last `lint` entry - the deterministic trigger behind the Maintenance Schedule's "every 10 sources" full-lint cadence |
-| `lint [--json] [--markdown out.md] [--full] [--fail-on-error]` | Structural + provenance checks: broken wikilinks, dangling frontmatter references, orphan pages, index drift, schema gaps, duplicate titles, title mismatches, uncovered raw files, broken `raw_files:` refs, raw files claimed by more than one source page, unmarked provenance, citation/frontmatter drift, unbalanced generated-region markers, edges whose label is missing or not authorised by the source collection's `outbound:` (both hard once `kb_version` has reached the release that introduced labelled edges - advisory below it, so a corpus mid-migration is not refused by the check measuring it), quote-limit overages (>2 blockquoted lines/page, advisory only). Prints only the sections that found something and always writes the full report to `reports/Lint Report <date>.md` (or `--markdown`), naming the path - `--full` prints everything, `--json` prints the findings and writes nothing |
+| `lint [--json] [--markdown out.md] [--full] [--fail-on-error]` | Structural + provenance checks: broken wikilinks, dangling frontmatter references, orphan pages, index drift, schema gaps, duplicate titles, title mismatches, uncovered raw files, broken `raw_files:` refs, raw files claimed by more than one source page, unmarked provenance, citation/frontmatter drift, unbalanced generated-region markers, edges whose label is missing or not authorised by the source collection's `outbound:` (both hard once `kb_version` has reached the release that introduced labelled edges - advisory below it, so a corpus mid-migration is not refused by the check measuring it), `see-also` edges whose reverse direction already carries a specific label (advisory only - redundant rather than wrong, and never migration-gated, since no version turns the redundancy into an error), quote-limit overages (>2 blockquoted lines/page, advisory only). Prints only the sections that found something and always writes the full report to `reports/Lint Report <date>.md` (or `--markdown`), naming the path - `--full` prints everything, `--json` prints the findings and writes nothing |
 | `search ["<text>"] [--field <predicate> ...] [--kind/--subtype/--collection/--tag <v>] [--regex] [--limit N] [--sort [-]<field>] [--backend <name>] [--matches] [--json]` | Find pages in `kb/` without reading the index. Text search runs through a pluggable backend (`rg` today); `--field` predicates are evaluated on frontmatter - `f=v`, `f~substring`, `'f>=v'`, `'f:*'` (present), `'!f'` (absent), repeatable and ANDed. With no text this is a pure structured query. Results carry kind/summary/confidence so a hit can be judged without opening the page. A page whose frontmatter does not parse can match no positive predicate, so it is **named** rather than dropped: `--json` always carries an `unreadable` list of `{path, reason}` (usually empty), and the table form writes the same lines to stderr. `--regex` is applied by `rg` alone, whose engine is linear; the ranking boosts for title and summary are literal-containment only, so a non-literal pattern is ranked by match count. `rg` is killed after 30 s and reported as a failure. Read-only, and **exempt from the Iteration Budget Gate** |
 | `confidence decay [--apply]` | Recompute every page's derived `confidence` as `confidence_base * (1 - 0.01/month)`, floored at 0.2; dry-run by default |
 | `confidence init-base [--apply]` | One-time backfill: set `confidence_base` from the current `confidence` on pages that predate the derived-confidence model |

tools/chemenu/evals/scorecard.py

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ ADVISORY_KEYS = (
     "unmarked_provenance",
     "missing_from_index",
     "title_mismatches",
+    "redundant_see_also",
 )
 
 

tools/chemenu/links.py

@@ -33,6 +33,17 @@ from typing import Any, Iterable, Optional
 # so `lint` cannot be satisfied by declaring the placeholder legal.
 UNLABELLED = None
 
+# The one catalogue label this tool knows by name. Everything else about the
+# vocabulary lives in `instructions/link-taxonomy.md` and each collection's
+# `outbound:` block, on purpose - an instance may authorise any label it likes
+# and the tool never has an opinion about which. `see-also` is the exception
+# because it is the catalogue's declared last resort: it asserts only that
+# nothing better fit, which is what lets `lint` judge it as *weaker than*
+# another edge on the same pair rather than merely different. No behaviour
+# depends on the string beyond that comparison, and an instance that dropped
+# `see-also` from every contract would simply never see the finding.
+SEE_ALSO = "see-also"
+
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
 class Edge:

tools/chemenu/lint_core.py

@@ -181,6 +181,26 @@ def run_lint(kb_dir: Path) -> dict:
     malformed_edges: list[dict] = []
     unlabelled_edges: list[dict] = []
     unauthorised_labels: list[dict] = []
+    redundant_see_also: list[dict] = []
+
+    # Every specific thing any page asserts about any pair, collected before the
+    # loop below because the reverse direction of an edge is not known while
+    # standing on the page that carries it.
+    #
+    # What it is for: `see-also` is the catalogue's declared last resort - it
+    # asserts that nothing better fit. When the *other* page already says
+    # something specific about the same pair (`Wine GE depends-on Wine` opposite
+    # `Wine see-also Wine GE`), the weak edge adds nothing a reader did not
+    # have: direction is authored but the inbound view is rendered, so the
+    # labelled edge already shows on both pages. Measured once on this corpus,
+    # that was 57 of 180 `see-also` edges - the largest single class, and none
+    # of it a vocabulary gap.
+    typed_edges: dict[tuple[str, str], str] = {}
+    for source_title, source_page in pages.items():
+        for edge in links.edges(source_page.frontmatter, "related"):
+            if edge.is_labelled and edge.label != links.SEE_ALSO:
+                typed_edges[(source_title, edge.target)] = edge.label
+
     for title, page in sorted(pages.items()):
         type_path = page.frontmatter.get("type")
         if not type_path:
@@ -211,6 +231,16 @@ def run_lint(kb_dir: Path) -> dict:
                 if not edge.is_labelled:
                     unlabelled_edges.append({"page": title, "target": edge.target})
                     continue
+                if edge.label == links.SEE_ALSO:
+                    reverse_label = typed_edges.get((edge.target, title))
+                    if reverse_label is not None:
+                        redundant_see_also.append(
+                            {
+                                "page": title,
+                                "target": edge.target,
+                                "reverse_label": reverse_label,
+                            }
+                        )
                 target_page = pages.get(edge.target)
                 if source_collection is None or target_page is None:
                     continue
@@ -301,6 +331,7 @@ def run_lint(kb_dir: Path) -> dict:
         "malformed_edges": malformed_edges,
         "unlabelled_edges": unlabelled_edges,
         "unauthorised_labels": unauthorised_labels,
+        "redundant_see_also": redundant_see_also,
         "unbalanced_markers": unbalanced_marker_findings,
         "quote_limit_violations": quote_limit_violations,
         "invalid_type_paths": invalid_type_paths,
@@ -403,6 +434,11 @@ def render_markdown(report: dict) -> str:
         report.get("unauthorised_labels", []),
         lambda i: f"[[{i['page']}]] `{i['label']}` -> kb/{i['destination']}/ ([[{i['target']}]])",
     )
+    _section(
+        lines, "Redundant see-also (the other page already says something specific)",
+        report.get("redundant_see_also", []),
+        lambda i: f"[[{i['page']}]] `see-also` -> [[{i['target']}]], but [[{i['target']}]] already asserts `{i['reverse_label']}` back - drop the weaker edge, the inbound view renders the other one here",
+    )
     _section(
         lines, "Dangling Frontmatter References", report["dangling_frontmatter_refs"],
         lambda i: f"[[{i['page']}]] `{i['field']}:` names `{i['target']}`, which is not a page",
@@ -485,7 +521,13 @@ def default_report_path(report: dict) -> Path:
 # Findings that make a tree structurally wrong rather than merely untidy.
 # `orphan_pages` is deliberately absent: many pages are validly reachable
 # through the index or navigation only. `quote_limit_violations` is advisory
-# too - it flags a habit, not a broken tree.
+# too - it flags a habit, not a broken tree. `redundant_see_also` joins them for
+# both of those reasons at once: a weak edge beside a specific one is redundant
+# rather than wrong, and the check arrived long after the corpora it judges, so
+# promoting it would turn every existing instance red on the upgrade that
+# shipped it. Unlike `unlabelled_edges` it is not migration-gated either - there
+# is no version at which the redundancy becomes an error, only a sweep someone
+# does or does not get to.
 #
 # `malformed_edges` and `unbalanced_markers` are hard from the start: neither
 # describes an unconverted page, only a broken one.

tools/chemenu/tests/test_lint.py

@@ -579,3 +579,93 @@ def test_a_tree_that_never_declared_a_kb_version_keeps_every_key(kb_dir):
     migration for a gated finding to be the noise of."""
     assert kb_state.read_kb_version() is None
     assert hard_error_keys() == HARD_ERROR_KEYS
+
+
+# --- `redundant_see_also` --------------------------------------------------
+#
+# `see-also` is the catalogue's declared last resort. The finding is about the
+# case where the *other* page already said something specific about the same
+# pair, so the weak edge carries nothing the inbound view did not already
+# render. Measured once on this repo's corpus, that was 57 of 180 see-also
+# edges - which is why it is worth a check rather than a habit.
+
+
+def _pair(kb_dir, forward, backward):
+    """Two tool pages asserting `forward` and `backward` about each other."""
+    for name, edge in (("nearside", forward), ("farside", backward)):
+        other = "farside" if name == "nearside" else "nearside"
+        write_page(
+            kb_dir / f"entities/tools/{name}.md",
+            {"type": "types/entity.md", "entity_type": "tool", "tags": [],
+             "created": "2026-09-04", "modified": "2026-09-04",
+             "related": [] if edge is None else [{edge: other}],
+             "sources": [], "confidence": 0.8, "provenance": "general",
+             "summary": f"One half of a pair, asserting {edge} about the other."},
+            f"\n# {name}\n\nHalf a pair.\n",
+        )
+
+
+def test_see_also_is_redundant_when_the_other_page_asserts_something_specific(kb_dir):
+    """`nearside see-also farside` beside `farside depends-on nearside`: the
+    labelled edge already shows on both pages, so the weak one says nothing."""
+    _pair(kb_dir, "see-also", "depends-on")
+    report = run_lint(kb_dir)
+    assert {
+        "page": "nearside", "target": "farside", "reverse_label": "depends-on"
+    } in report["redundant_see_also"]
+
+
+def test_a_see_also_with_no_reverse_edge_at_all_is_not_redundant(kb_dir):
+    """The ordinary case the label exists for - nothing more specific fits, and
+    the other page says nothing back."""
+    _pair(kb_dir, "see-also", None)
+    assert [
+        i for i in run_lint(kb_dir)["redundant_see_also"] if i["page"] == "nearside"
+    ] == []
+
+
+def test_a_mutual_see_also_pair_is_not_reported_here(kb_dir):
+    """Two weak edges about one pair is a different finding - a mirror, which
+    the catalogue's 'direction is authored, never mirrored' rule covers and a
+    corpus sweep resolves. This check must not claim it: it is about a weak
+    edge standing beside a *specific* one, and reporting the mutual case here
+    would tell an author to drop an edge without saying which."""
+    _pair(kb_dir, "see-also", "see-also")
+    assert [
+        i for i in run_lint(kb_dir)["redundant_see_also"]
+        if i["page"] in ("nearside", "farside")
+    ] == []
+
+
+def test_the_specific_edge_is_never_the_one_reported(kb_dir):
+    """Only the `see-also` side is a finding. Reporting the labelled edge too
+    would make the pair unfixable - dropping both loses the assertion."""
+    _pair(kb_dir, "see-also", "depends-on")
+    assert [
+        i for i in run_lint(kb_dir)["redundant_see_also"] if i["page"] == "farside"
+    ] == []
+
+
+def test_redundant_see_also_is_advisory_at_every_kb_version(kb_dir):
+    """Redundant, not wrong - and the check arrived long after the corpora it
+    judges, so promoting it would turn every existing instance red on the
+    upgrade that shipped it. Unlike `unlabelled_edges` there is no version at
+    which it becomes an error, so it is not migration-gated either."""
+    _pair(kb_dir, "see-also", "depends-on")
+    report = run_lint(kb_dir)
+    assert report["redundant_see_also"] != []
+    for version in (Version(3, 0, 0), Version(4, 0, 0), Version(5, 0, 0)):
+        kb_state.write_kb_state(version, [])
+        assert "redundant_see_also" not in hard_error_keys()
+    assert has_hard_errors({"redundant_see_also": report["redundant_see_also"]}) is False
+
+
+def test_redundant_see_also_reaches_the_rendered_report_and_the_summary(kb_dir):
+    """A finding nobody prints is a finding nobody acts on. `render_summary`
+    drops every empty section, so this also proves the section is not empty."""
+    _pair(kb_dir, "see-also", "depends-on")
+    report = run_lint(kb_dir)
+    assert "Redundant see-also" in render_markdown(report)
+    summary = render_summary(report)
+    assert "Redundant see-also" in summary
+    assert "[[nearside]]" in summary and "depends-on" in summary