The migrate-and-retire audit left the surviving carriers as the only
files still describing the retired combined.ww amalgamator as live:
m2wwi/m3sep headers claimed .wwi was dead code, four byteid carriers
carried dead cleanup of never-written .combined.ww intermediates, and
sepbuild's enumeration mirror plus lib_byteid's completeness scan
still skipped the retired artifact form (the same silent
accommodation just removed from both drivers — dropping it here
surfaced and flushed 39 stale untracked amalgamator outputs across
lib/, which the gates now reject loudly). Remaining mentions are
past-tense history or quoted diagnostics.