diff --git a/tests/test_completeness.py b/tests/test_completeness.py
index 2103734..e5c1364 100644
--- a/tests/test_completeness.py
+++ b/tests/test_completeness.py
@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import ast
+import importlib.util
 import re
 import shutil
 from pathlib import Path
 
 from conftest import (  # noqa: F401  (sys.path side effect)
-    BASE_REPO, PINNED_REVISION, FakeGit, REPO_ROOT, staging_fragment, thin_fragment,
+    BASE_REPO, PINNED_REVISION, FakeGit, REPO_ROOT, carved_module_path,
+    staging_fragment, thin_fragment,
 )
 
 from doc_health import corpus
@@ -36,7 +38,13 @@
 from openxdox import completeness as C
 from openxdox.generator import generate_snapshot, live_topic_health
 
-SCRIPTS = REPO_ROOT / "scripts"
+# WHERE THE PURITY AND GATING-BOUND CHECKS READ, after the carve (plan 038
+# T103). Before it, one import root, openxFactory's `scripts/`, held both the
+# scoring module and `doc_health`. Now the scoring module and its importers are
+# this leg's, under `src/` (the `openxdox` package's import root), and
+# `doc_health` is openxFactory's, read where this process imports it from: the
+# composed tree.
+SRC = REPO_ROOT / "src"
 
 
 def _tree(tmp_path: Path) -> Path:
@@ -174,7 +182,7 @@ def test_the_scoring_module_touches_nothing_outside_its_arguments():
     # builtin escape hatch is called either. `doc_health.lines` is admitted
     # specifically because IT is itself pure by the same standard (asserted
     # below, not assumed): it imports only `re`, and defines no I/O.
-    tree = ast.parse((SCRIPTS / "ideation_dashboard" / "completeness.py").read_text("utf-8"))
+    tree = ast.parse(carved_module_path("completeness.py").read_text("utf-8"))
     modules: set[str] = set()
     for node in ast.walk(tree):
         if isinstance(node, ast.Import):
@@ -187,7 +195,8 @@ def test_the_scoring_module_touches_nothing_outside_its_arguments():
               if isinstance(node, ast.Call) and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)}
     assert not called & {"open", "eval", "exec", "input", "print", "compile"}, called
 
-    lines_tree = ast.parse((SCRIPTS / "doc_health" / "lines.py").read_text("utf-8"))
+    lines_tree = ast.parse(
+        Path(importlib.util.find_spec("doc_health.lines").origin).read_text("utf-8"))
     lines_modules: set[str] = set()
     for node in ast.walk(lines_tree):
         if isinstance(node, ast.Import):
@@ -501,14 +510,15 @@ def test_the_scoring_modules_only_importers_are_the_generator_and_the_guard():
         r"|from\s+\.completeness\s+import\b"
         r"|import\s+\S*\bcompleteness\b)")
     importers = sorted(
-        p.relative_to(SCRIPTS).as_posix()
-        for p in SCRIPTS.rglob("*.py")
+        p.relative_to(SRC).as_posix()
+        for p in SRC.rglob("*.py")
         if p.name != "completeness.py" and import_re.search(p.read_text("utf-8")))
-    assert importers == ["ideation_dashboard/generator.py",
-                         "ideation_dashboard/kickoff.py"], importers
+    assert importers == ["openxdox/generator.py",
+                         "openxdox/kickoff.py"], importers
     # ...and no doc-health / readiness path consults the score at all: the
     # per-document signal produces no finding and feeds no readiness tier.
-    for module in sorted((SCRIPTS / "doc_health").rglob("*.py")):
+    [doc_health] = importlib.util.find_spec("doc_health").submodule_search_locations
+    for module in sorted(Path(doc_health).rglob("*.py")):
         text = module.read_text("utf-8")
         assert not import_re.search(text), module
         assert "topic_health" not in text and "READY_MIN_SCORE" not in text, module
diff --git a/tests/test_doxbench_packet.py b/tests/test_doxbench_packet.py
index c097950..1b38f63 100644
--- a/tests/test_doxbench_packet.py
+++ b/tests/test_doxbench_packet.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 from conftest import REPO_ROOT  # noqa: F401  (sys.path side effect)
-from conftest import assert_not_at_this_leg, carved_module_path
+from conftest import assert_not_at_this_leg, carved_module_path, openxfactory_root
 
 from opendox import doxbench_knowledge as kn  # noqa: E402
 from opendox import doxbench_packet as pk  # noqa: E402
@@ -593,7 +593,10 @@ def test_the_status_read_agrees_with_the_repositorys_own_corpus_reader():
 
     assert pk.STATUS_SCAN_LINES == 15
     checked = 0
-    for path in sorted((REPO_ROOT / "docs").rglob("*.md"))[:80]:
+    # THE REPOSITORY'S OWN CORPUS is openxFactory's, the one its corpus reader
+    # reads, so it is read from the composed tree (plan 038 T103): this
+    # checkout's own `docs/` holds too few documents for the check to be one.
+    for path in sorted((openxfactory_root() / "docs").rglob("*.md"))[:80]:
         text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
         assert pk.lifecycle_status(text) == parse_status(text), path
         checked += 1
diff --git a/tests/test_gate_console.py b/tests/test_gate_console.py
index 5ea209e..e66ee9c 100644
--- a/tests/test_gate_console.py
+++ b/tests/test_gate_console.py
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@
 import pytest
 import yaml
 
-from conftest import BASE_REPO, PINNED_REVISION, REPO_ROOT, FakeGit, find_openxfactory_validator
+from conftest import (
+    BASE_REPO, PINNED_REVISION, REPO_ROOT, FakeGit, find_openxfactory_validator,
+    openxfactory_root,
+)
 
 from doc_health import families
 from openxdox import gate_console as gc
@@ -867,7 +870,7 @@ def test_the_cli_tells_the_human_the_snapshot_was_preserved(tmp_path, capsys):
     _fragment(root).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     _fragment(root).write_text(LIVE, encoding="utf-8")
 
-    from ideation_dashboard import cli
+    from opendox import cli
 
     # Through the REAL parser, not a hand-built Namespace: a Namespace's field set
     # can drift from the CLI's while the test keeps passing.
@@ -903,7 +906,9 @@ def test_the_cli_tells_the_human_the_snapshot_was_preserved(tmp_path, capsys):
 # demote that returned it.
 
 _SUPPORT_SPEC = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(
-    "proposal_support_for_round_trip", REPO_ROOT / "scripts" / "proposal-support.py")
+    "proposal_support_for_round_trip",
+    # openxFactory's own forward gate, read from the composed tree (plan 038 T103).
+    openxfactory_root() / "scripts" / "proposal-support.py")
 support = importlib.util.module_from_spec(_SUPPORT_SPEC)
 sys.modules[_SUPPORT_SPEC.name] = support
 _SUPPORT_SPEC.loader.exec_module(support)
@@ -1814,7 +1819,7 @@ def test_the_hostile_gate_descriptors_still_reach_the_real_cli(tmp_path):
     refuse it — inside the process, which is the layer that can refuse."""
     import shlex
 
-    from ideation_dashboard import cli
+    from opendox import cli
 
     out = _hostile_gate_commands(tmp_path)
     parser = cli.build_parser()
@@ -2251,22 +2256,35 @@ def test_new_verb_constants_are_the_contract_spellings():
 import subprocess as _subprocess
 import sys as _sys
 
+from conftest import CONTRACTS_DIR as _CONTRACTS_DIR
 from conftest import find_openxfactory_validator as _find_validator
+from openxdox import contracts as _packaged_contracts
 
 _VALIDATOR = _find_validator()
 _NEW_VERBS = ("promote-to-staging", "derive-possibles", "research-brief")
 
 
 def _contract_carries_the_new_verbs() -> bool:
-    """True once the reachable openxFactory contract enumerates the new verbs."""
-    if _VALIDATOR is None:
-        return False
-    schemas = _VALIDATOR.parent.parent / "contracts" / "schemas"
-    try:
-        intent = (schemas / "gate-intent.schema.yaml").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-        record = (schemas / "gate-action-record.schema.yaml").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-    except OSError:
+    """True once the reachable openxFactory contract enumerates the new verbs.
+
+    Each schema is read where the pinned validator reads it (plan 038 T103,
+    OQ-R9-3). Before the carve both sat beside the validator; this leg carries
+    no `contracts/schemas/` there, so that read found nothing and the group
+    never ran. `gate-action-record`, one of the validator's own three, is the
+    installed distribution's packaged copy. `gate-intent`, one of the family's
+    other seven, is in the contracts directory `CONTRACTS_DIR` names, which
+    only a composed run supplies; a lone checkout has none, and there the
+    group still skips.
+
+    Once a run supplies that directory, a schema it cannot read is a broken
+    composed source, not an unreleased contract: the read error is left to
+    fail collection, so the five cases cannot skip green over it."""
+    if _VALIDATOR is None or _CONTRACTS_DIR is None:
         return False
+    intent = (_CONTRACTS_DIR / "schemas" / "gate-intent.schema.yaml").read_text(
+        encoding="utf-8")
+    record = _packaged_contracts.verified_path("gate-action-record").read_text(
+        encoding="utf-8")
     return all(v in intent and v in record for v in _NEW_VERBS)
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_round_trip.py b/tests/test_round_trip.py
index 6a7307f..efa6243 100644
--- a/tests/test_round_trip.py
+++ b/tests/test_round_trip.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 import pytest
 
-from conftest import REPO_ROOT
+from conftest import carved_module_path, openxfactory_root
 
 from doc_health import families
 from openxdox import gate_console as gc
@@ -461,7 +461,9 @@ def test_round_trip_and_doc_health_agree_about_every_fence(name):
 # fenced-flag vector each module computes, which is the thing all four actually
 # share.
 
-_MOVER = REPO_ROOT / "scripts" / "proposal-support.py"
+# openxFactory's own forward gate, which the carve left in openxFactory: read
+# from the composed tree (plan 038 T103).
+_MOVER = openxfactory_root() / "scripts" / "proposal-support.py"
 
 
 def _mover_module():
@@ -727,9 +729,11 @@ def test_the_shared_predicate_is_spelled_the_same_in_all_three():
     """The algorithm, not just its outcome on these fixtures: all three lstrip (or
     trimStart) and then test the literal three backticks. A fixture set can only
     ever sample the input space; this pins the rule itself."""
-    mine = (REPO_ROOT / "scripts/ideation_dashboard/round_trip.py").read_text(
-        encoding="utf-8")
-    fam = (REPO_ROOT / "scripts/doc_health/families.py").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    # Each read where its module now lives (plan 038 T103): `round_trip.py` at
+    # its carved home, this leg's `src/openxdox/`, and `families.py` where this
+    # process imports it from, openxFactory's composed tree.
+    mine = carved_module_path("round_trip.py").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    fam = Path(families.__file__).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
     js = OUTLINE_MODEL_JS.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
     assert 'return line.lstrip().startswith("```")' in mine
     assert 'if line.lstrip().startswith("```")' in fam