'Checked nothing' means a lint that exits 0 in the docs chapter and a refused check that must never exit 0 in the lint chapter

'Checked nothing' means a lint that exits 0 in the docs chapter and a refused check that must never exit 0 in the lint chapter

A terminology drift (severity nitpick) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/10-docs.md:39 — "A lint that checked nothing (no rule armed,"
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/16-lint.md:35 — "exits 2 as the target alone does, never 0 over a check that never ran"

10-docs uses 'a lint that checked nothing' for a run with no rule armed or roots holding no document, and keeps its exit at 0. 16-lint uses 'checked nothing' for a target that refused, raises an error and exits 2, 'never 0 over a check that never ran'. The same phrase names two states with opposite exit codes, so a reader cannot tell whether a docs lint with nothing armed is a check that never ran.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 571.