[goosewobbler]

Completes #573 — the codebase sweep + enforcement, the deterministic counterpart to the AGENTS.md rework (#598) and the lint rules (#599). Stacked on #599 (needs its local/no-bare-issue-refs rule to flip to error); base retargets to main once #599 lands.

What changed

• Dropped ~237 bare #NNN provenance citations from packages/*/src comments. Every one was a standalone origin tag (the issue a piece of code came from) — the comment reads fine without it and git history is the canonical trace. None were load-bearing (until #X / remove when #X), so none needed converting to URLs.
• Flipped local/no-bare-issue-refs → error, scoped to packages/*/src. Test comments legitimately reference mock issue/PR data (fixture numbers, and even external-repo PRs like #224/#225 from wdio-desktop-mobile), so a releasekit-issue URL would be wrong there — the rule doesn't enforce test comments.
• Exempted three ref-parsing files whose #NNN are format examples, not citations: changelogRefs.ts, conventional-changelog.ts, commitParser.ts.
• Opportunistically dropped ~55 provenance refs from test comments too (cleanup, even though the rule doesn't enforce them).

Done via three parallel per-package triage passes + one test-comment pass, all applying the same drop-vs-link criteria.

Verification

• Comment-only — confirmed the entire diff touches only comments (the sole non-comment changes are the two intentional eslint.config.js edits).
• eslint packages/**/*.ts → 0 errors; pnpm typecheck → 15/15; biome check clean (8 pre-existing warnings).
• Test failures in a full run (templates, sync-tags, pipeline fixture) are pre-existing/environmental — they fail identically on the base with these changes stashed.

Release

Touches packages/*/src, so — per commitParser's "every merged change is surfaced" logic — this should drive a natural standing-PR 0.41.2 once the stack merges.

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Greptile Summary

This PR enforces linked issue references in production source comments. The main changes are:

• Removes bare issue-number provenance tags from package comments.
• Promotes local/no-bare-issue-refs from a warning to an error.
• Limits enforcement to packages/**/src/**/*.ts.
• Exempts three parsing files whose bare references are format examples.

Confidence Score: 5/5

This looks safe to merge.

• No blocking issues found in the changed code.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
eslint.config.js	Scopes comment-reference enforcement to production package sources and changes violations to errors.
packages/core/src/changelogRefs.ts	Exempts issue-reference examples used to document rendered formats.
packages/notes/src/input/conventional-changelog.ts	Exempts bare issue tokens used as parser and regular-expression examples.
packages/version/src/changelog/commitParser.ts	Exempts issue-reference examples used by commit parsing logic.

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