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• What was wrong or hard: Two tests work out for themselves which Octatrack modules have no card form, and both count only C sources (and requires). The build (cardless_modules in scripts/build-module-packages.py) and the site (moduleUsbOnly/moduleCardless in src/catalog/usb-only.ts) also count a USB package marked usbOnly: true, as docs/OCTATRACK_RECONSTRUCTION.md describes. No module on main is marked usbOnly yet, so nothing failed. The first one fails both tests although the build and the site handle it correctly: module-release-scope.test.mjs hands the card-scope check a module the build would never pass it ("Unsupported reviewed module scope"), and usb-only.test.ts expects moduleUsbOnly to be false for it. Pattern Sample Locks 0.1.8, whose first release is ready on a branch, is that module.
• What this changes: module-release-scope.test.mjs takes the card scope from the builder's own cardless_modules, with a new case showing that a usbOnly package is left out and a usbOnly: false one is kept. usb-only.test.ts counts usbOnly in its expectation for every published package. No code under test changes. Changelog: changelog/2026-11-10-release-scope-test-usb-only.md.
• How I checked it: npm run pr:ready: Ready. Both test files pass on main (9 tests). On the Pattern Sample Locks release branch, which adds the first usbOnly package, both failed before this change and pass with it.
• What the guides lacked or got wrong, and where I fixed it: nothing. The reconstruction guide already says usbOnly uses the same card refusal path as C source runtimes; only these two tests had not caught up.

Separately, #1387 brings the module doctor to the same rule.

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Thanks, this is the better form of that test: it asks the builder's own cardless_modules instead of copying its rule. #1387 changed the same line and went in first, since Track Solo needs its doctor change. Please merge main into this branch and keep your version of that line and your new case; usb-only.test.ts is already the same on both. Once pr:ready says Ready and the checks are green, I'll merge it.