diff --git a/scripts/check-api-validation-contracts.ts b/scripts/check-api-validation-contracts.ts
index 3f66bbc8a2f..bb66f38e3f8 100644
--- a/scripts/check-api-validation-contracts.ts
+++ b/scripts/check-api-validation-contracts.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ const CONTRACTS_DIR = path.join(ROOT, 'apps/sim/lib/api/contracts')
 const QUERY_HOOKS_DIR = path.join(ROOT, 'apps/sim/hooks/queries')
 const SELECTOR_HOOKS_DIR = path.join(ROOT, 'apps/sim/hooks/selectors')
 
+/**
+ * `totalRoutes` is reported, never gated.
+ *
+ * The invariant worth holding is that every route is contract-backed, and
+ * `nonZodRoutes` states exactly that: it is 0, and rises the moment a route ships
+ * without one. Failing on the total as well meant a fully compliant new route
+ * still turned CI red, fixable only by editing the number here. A ratchet
+ * survives on the habit of never bumping it casually, and a gate that must be
+ * bumped to add a compliant route teaches precisely the opposite habit — on a
+ * file whose other seven baselines depend on that habit holding.
+ */
 const BASELINE = {
   totalRoutes: 1162,
   zodRoutes: 1162,
@@ -1373,9 +1384,6 @@ async function main() {
   if (!checkOnly) return
 
   const failures: string[] = []
-  if (totalRoutes > BASELINE.totalRoutes) {
-    failures.push(`route count increased from ${BASELINE.totalRoutes} to ${totalRoutes}`)
-  }
   if (nonZodRoutes > BASELINE.nonZodRoutes) {
     failures.push(
       `non-Zod routes increased from ${BASELINE.nonZodRoutes} to ${nonZodRoutes} (${zodRoutes} Zod-backed routes)`