diff --git a/docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5446.yaml b/docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5446.yaml
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+- id: PMAT-5446
+  github_issue: 5446
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'ci: shrink the slow quick-tier tests (apr-cli test_llm_band, contracts-cli ont4 gate tests) at the root'
+  status: in_progress
+  priority: medium
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  updated: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria:
+  - 'contracts-cli ont4_relations_gate, ont4b_shapes_gate and ont5_consistency_gate lint a planted fixture or copied files, not the full contracts tree, and each finishes well under 60 s (landed by #5893 via the EMR-001 integration PR #6309)'
+  - the pv-sat corpus() lint tests use a planted .pv fixture (same change)
+  - apr-cli commands::test_llm_band tests no longer take 60-240 s each (separate PR; not covered by #6309)
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: |-
+    Entry minted for the #5893 planted-.pv tests carried by #6309 (quorum handoff triage-quorum-tickets-6294-6309-0718Z). Issue #5446 names both slow families; #5893 is the contracts-cli half (gate tests lint a fixture, 11/11 per its body). The test_llm_band half has no PR yet, so the item stays in_progress.
+  epic: null
diff --git a/docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5803.yaml b/docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5803.yaml
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+++ b/docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5803.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+- id: PMAT-5803
+  github_issue: 5803
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'build: FLOW-010 cut 1 — move the tuner tests that need aprender-core out of aprender-compute so compute drops its dev-dependency on core'
+  status: in_progress
+  priority: medium
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  updated: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria:
+  - the tuner training-data-quality tests move from crates/aprender-compute/tests/tuner_falsification to crates/aprender-core/tests/tuner_training_data_quality.rs and still run (ci/explicit-test-commands.d fragments 295 and 298 name them)
+  - aprender-compute has no dev-dependency on aprender-core
+  - scripts/check_tuner_test_move.sh proves the move lost no test (count and names before and after)
+  - one PR, at most 400 lines or a recorded PMAT-Size-Waiver (the move was 810 lines in #6294 commit ebf773587a, waiver sanctioned by quorum triage-quorum-door6261-conditions-2136Z)
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: |-
+    Scope taken from #6294 (commit 2, PMAT-5803; issue #5803, FLOW-010 five-whys on crate fan-out, cut 1). Entry minted so w5032 can cut this piece as its own PR.
+  epic: null
diff --git a/docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5909.yaml b/docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5909.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2c550c0768
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+++ b/docs/roadmaps/entries/PMAT-5909.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+- id: PMAT-5909
+  github_issue: 5909
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'build: split env_key out of aprender-contracts into aprender-contracts-key so a contracts edit stops dirtying 47 of 85 crates'
+  status: in_progress
+  priority: medium
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  updated: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria:
+  - a new crate crates/aprender-contracts-key holds env_key (src/lib.rs, README, Cargo.toml) and aprender-contracts keeps its own src/env_key.rs (included by build.rs and build_helper.rs) and depends on the key crate as a dev-dependency only, where a test asserts the two builders agree
+  - the build.rs and Cargo.toml of each dependent crate (aprender-core, -compute, -db, -orchestrate, -present-cli, -present-core, -rag, -serve, -simulate, -train, -viz-ttop) depend on aprender-contracts-key instead of aprender-contracts
+  - cargo metadata --locked is clean and the crate is registered in scripts/release/publish-order.txt and scripts/cascade-publish.sh; publishing it stays on the release path
+  - one PR, at most 400 lines, no Sensitive-path change beyond the workspace member and publish order lines (cut from #6294 commit 4b8f637715)
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: |-
+    Scope taken from #6294 (commit 1, PMAT-5909; issue #5909: aprender-contracts is 24 commits in 30 days and dirties 47 of 85 crates). #6294 is split by quorum triage-quorum-tickets-6294-6309-0718Z into one PR per ticket; this entry lets w5032 cut this piece.
+  epic: null
diff --git a/docs/roadmaps/roadmap.yaml b/docs/roadmaps/roadmap.yaml
index b5bd1bc998..571b77a054 100644
--- a/docs/roadmaps/roadmap.yaml
+++ b/docs/roadmaps/roadmap.yaml
@@ -25319,6 +25319,28 @@ Not done, pending the ruling: moving the 31 fixture files to an obviously synthe
   - kind:code
   notes: null
   epic: 4780
+- id: PMAT-5446
+  github_issue: 5446
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'ci: shrink the slow quick-tier tests (apr-cli test_llm_band, contracts-cli ont4 gate tests) at the root'
+  status: in_progress
+  priority: medium
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  updated: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria:
+  - 'contracts-cli ont4_relations_gate, ont4b_shapes_gate and ont5_consistency_gate lint a planted fixture or copied files, not the full contracts tree, and each finishes well under 60 s (landed by #5893 via the EMR-001 integration PR #6309)'
+  - the pv-sat corpus() lint tests use a planted .pv fixture (same change)
+  - apr-cli commands::test_llm_band tests no longer take 60-240 s each (separate PR; not covered by #6309)
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: |-
+    Entry minted for the #5893 planted-.pv tests carried by #6309 (quorum handoff triage-quorum-tickets-6294-6309-0718Z). Issue #5446 names both slow families; #5893 is the contracts-cli half (gate tests lint a fixture, 11/11 per its body). The test_llm_band half has no PR yet, so the item stays in_progress.
+  epic: null
 - id: PMAT-5463
   github_issue: 5463
   item_type: task
@@ -25375,6 +25397,29 @@ Not done, pending the ruling: moving the 31 fixture files to an obviously synthe
   - kind:code
   notes: null
   epic: 3863
+- id: PMAT-5803
+  github_issue: 5803
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'build: FLOW-010 cut 1 — move the tuner tests that need aprender-core out of aprender-compute so compute drops its dev-dependency on core'
+  status: in_progress
+  priority: medium
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  updated: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria:
+  - the tuner training-data-quality tests move from crates/aprender-compute/tests/tuner_falsification to crates/aprender-core/tests/tuner_training_data_quality.rs and still run (ci/explicit-test-commands.d fragments 295 and 298 name them)
+  - aprender-compute has no dev-dependency on aprender-core
+  - scripts/check_tuner_test_move.sh proves the move lost no test (count and names before and after)
+  - one PR, at most 400 lines or a recorded PMAT-Size-Waiver (the move was 810 lines in #6294 commit ebf773587a, waiver sanctioned by quorum triage-quorum-door6261-conditions-2136Z)
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: |-
+    Scope taken from #6294 (commit 2, PMAT-5803; issue #5803, FLOW-010 five-whys on crate fan-out, cut 1). Entry minted so w5032 can cut this piece as its own PR.
+  epic: null
 - id: PMAT-5817
   github_issue: 5817
   item_type: task
@@ -25550,6 +25595,29 @@ Not done, pending the ruling: moving the 31 fixture files to an obviously synthe
   - kind:measurement
   notes: null
   epic: 5510
+- id: PMAT-5909
+  github_issue: 5909
+  item_type: task
+  title: 'build: split env_key out of aprender-contracts into aprender-contracts-key so a contracts edit stops dirtying 47 of 85 crates'
+  status: in_progress
+  priority: medium
+  assigned_to: null
+  created: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  updated: 2026-10-25T07:50:00Z
+  spec: null
+  acceptance_criteria:
+  - a new crate crates/aprender-contracts-key holds env_key (src/lib.rs, README, Cargo.toml) and aprender-contracts keeps its own src/env_key.rs (included by build.rs and build_helper.rs) and depends on the key crate as a dev-dependency only, where a test asserts the two builders agree
+  - the build.rs and Cargo.toml of each dependent crate (aprender-core, -compute, -db, -orchestrate, -present-cli, -present-core, -rag, -serve, -simulate, -train, -viz-ttop) depend on aprender-contracts-key instead of aprender-contracts
+  - cargo metadata --locked is clean and the crate is registered in scripts/release/publish-order.txt and scripts/cascade-publish.sh; publishing it stays on the release path
+  - one PR, at most 400 lines, no Sensitive-path change beyond the workspace member and publish order lines (cut from #6294 commit 4b8f637715)
+  phases: []
+  subtasks: []
+  estimated_effort: null
+  labels:
+  - kind:code
+  notes: |-
+    Scope taken from #6294 (commit 1, PMAT-5909; issue #5909: aprender-contracts is 24 commits in 30 days and dirties 47 of 85 crates). #6294 is split by quorum triage-quorum-tickets-6294-6309-0718Z into one PR per ticket; this entry lets w5032 cut this piece.
+  epic: null
 - id: PMAT-5914
   github_issue: 5914
   item_type: task