diff --git a/packages/cli/test/init-template-comments-self-contained.test.ts b/packages/cli/test/init-template-comments-self-contained.test.ts
index 2f880b7c9a..1afe7f6ba7 100644
--- a/packages/cli/test/init-template-comments-self-contained.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/test/init-template-comments-self-contained.test.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
 //
-// Every comment that ships into a project scaffolded by `objectstack init`
-// must be followable by the person reading it — someone who has that
-// project and nothing else.
+// Every comment that ships into a project this package scaffolds must be
+// followable by the person reading it — someone who has that project and
+// nothing else. This package has TWO scaffolders and both ship such text,
+// so both are swept: `objectstack init` and `objectstack create`.
 //
 // ## The defect
 //
@@ -16,19 +17,47 @@
 // bundled template *files*; this is the OTHER scaffolder, which renders its
 // templates as in-source string literals instead.
 //
+// ## Why the population spans BOTH scaffolders
+//
+// `packages/cli/src/commands/create.ts` exports a second, independent
+// template map (`templates`) whose entries render text — an
+// `objectstack.config.ts`, a plugin `src/index.ts`, a `README.md` — as
+// in-source string literals and write them straight into the user's
+// project. Same emitter shape, same population: text a scaffolded project
+// actually receives. While this pin read only `init`'s map, its three
+// assertions held for `init` only, and an edit to a `create` literal that
+// cited an ADR or linked a docs page that later moved shipped to every
+// `os create` user with every gate green. So the population is DERIVED
+// from both maps — never written down — the way
+// `scaffold-manifest-schema.test.ts` derives its own sweep: a template
+// added to either map is swept the day it is added, with nobody
+// remembering to extend this file.
+//
+// `create` has no `configContent` / `srcFiles` split. Every file it writes
+// lives in one `files` map keyed by the path it lands at and is rendered by
+// calling that entry, so this pin renders EVERY entry and serialises each
+// one exactly the way `Create.run()` does (a string verbatim, anything else
+// through `JSON.stringify(_, null, 2)`). Sweeping the whole map rather than
+// a chosen subset is deliberate: a filter is a place a future file can
+// escape through silently, which is the shape of the defect above.
+//
 // ## Why the population is the RENDERED output, not the source file
 //
 // `init.ts` also carries its own ordinary source comments that legitimately
 // cite ADRs and issue numbers (e.g. the `printCreatedFilesSummary` doc
 // comment cites #10499) — those never ship, because they live outside the
 // `configContent` / `srcFiles` functions the command actually writes to
-// disk. A pin that greps `init.ts` wholesale would match those too and
-// report on the wrong population. So this pin does not read the source
-// file at all: it calls the exact functions the `init` command calls
-// (`template.configContent(...)`, `writeTemplateSrcFiles(...)`) and scans
-// the files they actually write — the same real emitter
-// `init-scaffold-authoring-rules.test.ts` uses, for the same reason (so
-// neither test can drift from what `init` really does).
+// disk. `create.ts` is the same: its `run()` body cites `packages/plugins`
+// as a destination directory, which ships nowhere. A pin that grepped
+// either source file wholesale would match those too and report on the
+// wrong population. So this pin does not read the source files at all: it
+// calls the exact functions each command calls
+// (`template.configContent(...)`, `writeTemplateSrcFiles(...)`, and for
+// `create` the entries of `template.files`) and scans the files they
+// actually write — the same real emitters
+// `init-scaffold-authoring-rules.test.ts` and
+// `scaffold-manifest-schema.test.ts` use, for the same reason (so no test
+// can drift from what the commands really do).
 //
 // ## Why this pin has TWO halves, and why the second is the load-bearing one
 //
@@ -58,6 +87,7 @@ import fs from 'node:fs';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import { TEMPLATES, sanitizeNamespace, writeTemplateSrcFiles } from '../src/commands/init.js';
+import { templates as createTemplates } from '../src/commands/create.js';
 
 const HERE = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 const TMP_ROOT = path.resolve(HERE, '../tmp');
@@ -70,27 +100,60 @@ afterAll(() => {
 });
 
 interface Rendered {
-  templateKey: string;
+  /** `<command>:<template key>` — the command a user would have typed. */
+  scaffoldId: string;
   file: string;
   content: string;
+  /**
+   * The template entry rendered a STRING — an in-source literal, the only
+   * kind of emitted file that can carry prose. Used by the vacuity guard
+   * so "this arm was swept" cannot be satisfied by serialised JSON alone.
+   */
+  fromLiteral: boolean;
+}
+
+/** A throwaway project directory, registered for cleanup. */
+function makeRoot(scaffoldId: string): string {
+  fs.mkdirSync(TMP_ROOT, { recursive: true });
+  const root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(TMP_ROOT, `render-${scaffoldId.replace(':', '-')}-`));
+  roots.push(root);
+  return root;
 }
 
 /**
- * Render every built-in template through `init`'s own emitter — the exact
- * functions the command calls, writing to real files in a throwaway
- * directory (mirroring `init-scaffold-authoring-rules.test.ts`) — and
- * return every file it produced. This IS the population the defect lives
- * in: text a scaffolded project actually receives.
+ * Render every built-in template of BOTH scaffolders through its own
+ * emitter — the exact functions each command calls, writing to real files
+ * in a throwaway directory (mirroring `init-scaffold-authoring-rules.test.ts`)
+ * — and return every file they produced. This IS the population the defect
+ * lives in: text a scaffolded project actually receives.
  */
 function renderAll(): Rendered[] {
   const namespace = sanitizeNamespace(PROJECT_NAME);
   const out: Rendered[] = [];
-  fs.mkdirSync(TMP_ROOT, { recursive: true });
 
+  const collect = (scaffoldId: string, root: string, literals: Set<string>) => {
+    const walk = (dir: string) => {
+      for (const entry of fs.readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+        const abs = path.join(dir, entry.name);
+        if (entry.isDirectory()) walk(abs);
+        else {
+          const file = path.relative(root, abs);
+          out.push({
+            scaffoldId,
+            file,
+            content: fs.readFileSync(abs, 'utf8'),
+            fromLiteral: literals.has(file),
+          });
+        }
+      }
+    };
+    walk(root);
+  };
+
+  // ── `os init -t <key>`: every template renders a config plus src files ──
   for (const templateKey of Object.keys(TEMPLATES)) {
     const template = TEMPLATES[templateKey];
-    const root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(TMP_ROOT, `render-${templateKey}-`));
-    roots.push(root);
+    const root = makeRoot(`init:${templateKey}`);
 
     fs.writeFileSync(
       path.join(root, 'objectstack.config.ts'),
@@ -98,15 +161,38 @@ function renderAll(): Rendered[] {
     );
     writeTemplateSrcFiles(template.srcFiles, root, PROJECT_NAME, namespace);
 
-    const walk = (dir: string) => {
+    // Everything `init` emits here is an in-source string literal.
+    const literals = new Set<string>();
+    const markAll = (dir: string) => {
       for (const entry of fs.readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true })) {
         const abs = path.join(dir, entry.name);
-        if (entry.isDirectory()) walk(abs);
-        else out.push({ templateKey, file: path.relative(root, abs), content: fs.readFileSync(abs, 'utf8') });
+        if (entry.isDirectory()) markAll(abs);
+        else literals.add(path.relative(root, abs));
       }
     };
-    walk(root);
+    markAll(root);
+    collect(`init:${templateKey}`, root, literals);
+  }
+
+  // ── `os create <key> <name>`: one `files` map keyed by destination path ─
+  for (const templateKey of Object.keys(createTemplates)) {
+    const template = createTemplates[templateKey as keyof typeof createTemplates];
+    const root = makeRoot(`create:${templateKey}`);
+    const files = template.files as Record<string, (name: string) => unknown>;
+    const literals = new Set<string>();
+
+    for (const [filePath, render] of Object.entries(files)) {
+      const content = render(PROJECT_NAME);
+      // Exactly what `Create.run()` writes for this entry.
+      const text = typeof content === 'string' ? content : JSON.stringify(content, null, 2);
+      if (typeof content === 'string') literals.add(filePath);
+      const abs = path.join(root, filePath);
+      fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(abs), { recursive: true });
+      fs.writeFileSync(abs, text);
+    }
+    collect(`create:${templateKey}`, root, literals);
   }
+
   return out;
 }
 
@@ -124,17 +210,36 @@ const MONOREPO_ONLY = [
   { label: 'a monorepo package path', re: /\bpackages\/[a-z0-9][\w-]*\//i },
 ];
 
-describe('rendered init templates are followable by a stranger', () => {
+describe('rendered scaffold templates are followable by a stranger', () => {
   const rendered = renderAll();
 
   // ── vacuity guard: prove this is reading real rendered output ──────────
-  it('rendered a real, non-empty project per template (vacuity guard)', () => {
+  it('rendered a real, non-empty project per template of BOTH scaffolders (vacuity guard)', () => {
     expect(Object.keys(TEMPLATES).length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(Object.keys(createTemplates).length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
     expect(rendered.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
     for (const templateKey of Object.keys(TEMPLATES)) {
-      const files = rendered.filter((r) => r.templateKey === templateKey);
-      expect(files.map((f) => f.file), `template "${templateKey}"`).toContain('objectstack.config.ts');
+      const files = rendered.filter((r) => r.scaffoldId === `init:${templateKey}`);
+      expect(files.map((f) => f.file), `template "init:${templateKey}"`).toContain('objectstack.config.ts');
+    }
+
+    // `create`'s templates are NOT checked for that one filename: its
+    // `plugin` template emits no `objectstack.config.ts` at all (its
+    // `src/index.ts` declares a `Plugin` object instead), so requiring one
+    // would report on a surface that scaffolder does not have. What must
+    // hold for every `create` template is that the sweep reached its
+    // in-source LITERALS — the only emitted files that can carry prose —
+    // which is where this pin's three assertions have anything to read.
+    for (const templateKey of Object.keys(createTemplates)) {
+      const literals = rendered.filter((r) => r.scaffoldId === `create:${templateKey}` && r.fromLiteral);
+      expect(
+        literals.length,
+        `template "create:${templateKey}" contributed no rendered string literal — the sweep ` +
+          'reached none of its prose, so every assertion below passes vacuously for it',
+      ).toBeGreaterThan(0);
     }
+
     // The two templates that emit an object (app, plugin) must have reached
     // the OWD comment's file, or assertion 2 below would vacuously pass.
     // Selected STRUCTURALLY (anything under src/objects/ that is not the
@@ -145,16 +250,28 @@ describe('rendered init templates are followable by a stranger', () => {
     expect(objectFiles.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
   });
 
+  // The second scaffolder, named — so a future edit that drops it from the
+  // population fails with this card's own vocabulary rather than a bare
+  // count that a shrinking sweep satisfies just as well.
+  it('sweeps the `os create` scaffolder, not just `os init`', () => {
+    const ids = [...new Set(rendered.map((r) => r.scaffoldId))];
+    expect(ids).toContain('create:example');
+    expect(ids).toContain('create:plugin');
+    expect(ids.filter((id) => id.startsWith('init:')).length).toBe(Object.keys(TEMPLATES).length);
+    expect(ids.filter((id) => id.startsWith('create:')).length).toBe(Object.keys(createTemplates).length);
+  });
+
   // ── assertion 1: nothing unfollowable ───────────────────────────────────
-  it.each(rendered.map((r) => [`${r.templateKey}/${r.file}`, r] as const))(
+  it.each(rendered.map((r) => [`${r.scaffoldId}/${r.file}`, r] as const))(
     '%s cites nothing that only exists in this monorepo',
     (_label, r) => {
+      const command = r.scaffoldId.startsWith('init:') ? 'os init' : 'os create';
       for (const { label, re } of MONOREPO_ONLY) {
         const hit = re.exec(r.content);
         expect(
           hit,
-          `${r.templateKey}/${r.file} cites ${label} (${JSON.stringify(hit?.[0])}). A project ` +
-            'scaffolded by `os init` ships no ADRs, no issue tracker and none of this repo\'s ' +
+          `${r.scaffoldId}/${r.file} cites ${label} (${JSON.stringify(hit?.[0])}). A project ` +
+            `scaffolded by \`${command}\` ships no ADRs, no issue tracker and none of this repo's ` +
             'scripts, so this reads as a reference the newcomer is failing to follow. State the ' +
             'fact self-contained, or link a public docs page — do not delete the rationale.',
         ).toBeNull();
@@ -165,26 +282,26 @@ describe('rendered init templates are followable by a stranger', () => {
   // ── assertion 2: the rationale survives ─────────────────────────────────
   // The FACT each removed reference was carrying, matched loosely enough
   // that rewording is free and deletion is not.
-  it.each(rendered.filter((r) => r.file === 'objectstack.config.ts').map((r) => [r.templateKey, r] as const))(
-    'template "%s" objectstack.config.ts still explains the protocol range',
-    (_templateKey, r) => {
-      expect(r.content, `${r.templateKey}/${r.file} must still explain why the range exists`).toMatch(
+  it.each(rendered.filter((r) => r.file === 'objectstack.config.ts').map((r) => [r.scaffoldId, r] as const))(
+    'scaffold "%s" objectstack.config.ts still explains the protocol range',
+    (_scaffoldId, r) => {
+      expect(r.content, `${r.scaffoldId}/${r.file} must still explain why the range exists`).toMatch(
         /refuses this (app|plugin) at the boundary|incompatible runtime/i,
       );
-      expect(r.content, `${r.templateKey}/${r.file} must still explain it was stamped by scaffolding`).toMatch(
+      expect(r.content, `${r.scaffoldId}/${r.file} must still explain it was stamped by scaffolding`).toMatch(
         /stamped/i,
       );
     },
   );
 
   const objectFiles = rendered.filter((r) => /^src\/objects\/(?!index\.ts$)[^/]+\.ts$/.test(r.file));
-  it.each(objectFiles.map((r) => [`${r.templateKey}/${r.file}`, r] as const))(
+  it.each(objectFiles.map((r) => [`${r.scaffoldId}/${r.file}`, r] as const))(
     '%s still explains the org-wide default',
     (_label, r) => {
-      expect(r.content, `${r.templateKey}/${r.file} must still explain what OWD means`).toMatch(
+      expect(r.content, `${r.scaffoldId}/${r.file} must still explain what OWD means`).toMatch(
         /org-wide default|OWD/i,
       );
-      expect(r.content, `${r.templateKey}/${r.file} must still explain declaring it is required`).toMatch(
+      expect(r.content, `${r.scaffoldId}/${r.file} must still explain declaring it is required`).toMatch(
         /required|refuses/i,
       );
     },
@@ -210,7 +327,7 @@ describe('rendered init templates are followable by a stranger', () => {
     const urls: { where: string; url: string; route: string }[] = [];
     for (const r of rendered) {
       for (const m of r.content.matchAll(/https:\/\/objectstack\.ai\/docs\/([\w./-]*[\w-])/g)) {
-        urls.push({ where: `${r.templateKey}/${r.file}`, url: m[0], route: m[1] });
+        urls.push({ where: `${r.scaffoldId}/${r.file}`, url: m[0], route: m[1] });
       }
     }
     // Non-vacuity: the rewrite puts docs links in every template on