diff --git a/.changeset/30053-liveness-search-fields-repoint.md b/.changeset/30053-liveness-search-fields-repoint.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/spec': patch
+---
+
+fix(spec): the liveness ledger's `query.searchFields` row cites `engine-find.ts#expandSearchOnAst`, where the hand-off lives, so `check:liveness` is green again
+
+Clause-②: no
+Metadata-protocol: none
+
+- The row cited `engine.ts#expandSearchOnAst`. The body has lived in `engine-find.ts` since the `engine.ts` codemod split, and the last mention of `searchFields` in `engine.ts`, a private docblock, moved out with the first slice of the hand-series docblock move, so the check found no mention of the key in the cited file.
+- Nothing to do on upgrade: only the shipped `liveness/query.json` evidence text changes.
diff --git a/packages/spec/liveness/query.json b/packages/spec/liveness/query.json
index 031403a1fae..24f3f3c0ad1 100644
--- a/packages/spec/liveness/query.json
+++ b/packages/spec/liveness/query.json
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@
     "searchFields": {
       "status": "live",
       "verifiedAt": "2026-08-28",
-      "note": "Formally declared by #3899 (ADR-0061 P1, 'formalize $searchFields'): the per-query narrowing override the executor has served since the ADR landed — server-intersected with the object's allowed searchable set, can only narrow, never widen. The schema-side declaration caught up with the executor when #3899's entry validation started rejecting bodies the schema did not describe. 2026-08-28: RE-ANCHORED (commit 8cb96ec41) and REPOINTED — `engine.ts:2893-2898` had rotted onto `const row = rows[index];`, and the `search-filter.ts` leg was PATH-ONLY. Both halves of a two-hop claim (`requestedFields hand-off` → `resolveSearchFields`) were unfalsifiable in different ways: one bounded to a line that had stopped meaning anything, the other bounded to nothing. Re-closed by hand against 93ea19bca.",
-      "evidence": "packages/objectql/src/engine.ts#expandSearchOnAst (the hand-off — the requested fields ride into the expansion); packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts#resolveSearchFields (the intersection with the object's allowed searchable set: narrows only, never widens); proof showcase-search.dogfood.test.ts + search-conformance.ledger.ts row search-fields-override"
+      "note": "Formally declared by #3899 (ADR-0061 P1, 'formalize $searchFields'): the per-query narrowing override the executor has served since the ADR landed — server-intersected with the object's allowed searchable set, can only narrow, never widen. The schema-side declaration caught up with the executor when #3899's entry validation started rejecting bodies the schema did not describe. 2026-08-28: RE-ANCHORED (commit 8cb96ec41) and REPOINTED — `engine.ts:2893-2898` had rotted onto `const row = rows[index];`, and the `search-filter.ts` leg was PATH-ONLY. Both halves of a two-hop claim (`requestedFields hand-off` → `resolveSearchFields`) were unfalsifiable in different ways: one bounded to a line that had stopped meaning anything, the other bounded to nothing. Re-closed by hand against 93ea19bca. 2026-11-05: REPOINTED to `engine-find.ts#expandSearchOnAst`, where the body has lived since the engine.ts codemod split: the first slice of #30053 moved the private docblock that named `$searchFields` out of engine.ts, which no longer names the key.",
+      "evidence": "packages/objectql/src/engine-find.ts#expandSearchOnAst (the hand-off — the requested fields ride into the expansion); packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts#resolveSearchFields (the intersection with the object's allowed searchable set: narrows only, never widens); proof showcase-search.dogfood.test.ts + search-conformance.ledger.ts row search-fields-override"
     },
     "orderBy": {
       "status": "live",