diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7932638..c8aea45 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ so entries say what changed, cite the issue, and stop.
 
 - BUILDER.md — the handed-off PR is the parked claim's fourth shape, its handoff is its declaration, and shape 2 covers the round awaiting its first verdicts (#109).
 - `labels-reconcile` — a degraded mergeability/checks read now logs gh's actual stderr (collapsed, bounded) beside the byte-identical counted line, and the blind-sweep warning leads with the observed reason instead of asserting the permissions cause (#101).
+- `LABELS.md` — drop the vendored scope-table enumeration; the per-repo set lives in `.github/labels.conf` and the repo's own CONTRIBUTING (#104).
 - Changelog publication — count entries instead of bytes, refuse dangling grouped headings, and seed grouped re-arms with Added/Changed/Fixed (#98).
 - `labels-reconcile` — grant callers private-repo check reads and warn when an entire PR sweep is blind (#95).
 - `labels-reconcile` — the bootstrap now retires the six GitHub defaults `LABELS.md` publishes as deleted, tolerating both an already-absent label and a refused delete (#93).
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index f4b9654..1384972 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -86,7 +86,11 @@ roster is config, not doctrine — swapping a vendor is an edit to this table
 (and to `panel=` in `.github/labels.conf` once #10 lands), nothing more.
 
 Each governed repo names its own roster in its CONTRIBUTING; this one is
-ceremony's.
+ceremony's. Its `scope:*` set is the same kind of repo-specific fact:
+ceremony's scopes are defined in [`.github/labels.conf`](.github/labels.conf)
+— one `name|color|description` row each, with PR path mapping in
+[`.github/labeler.yml`](.github/labeler.yml). The conf is the set; no prose
+table repeats it (#104).
 
 ## Code conventions
 
diff --git a/LABELS.md b/LABELS.md
index 2136a92..70f586d 100644
--- a/LABELS.md
+++ b/LABELS.md
@@ -170,15 +170,13 @@ re-arms mentions, but only the writer can declare that a move is owed (#83).
 ## Scope — which surface? (PRs and issues, any number)
 
 All scopes share one calm color, `#C5DEF5` — scopes locate, states alert. The
-set is per-repo (`.github/labels.conf`); PRs get theirs from changed paths via
-actions/labeler, issues get theirs from triage. This repo's set:
-
-| Label | Covers |
-|---|---|
-| `scope:release-flow` | the reusable release workflow, decide, the doors |
-| `scope:guards` | changelog-armed / changelog-monotonic / drill-recorded |
-| `scope:labels` | the labels workflow, reconciler, this taxonomy |
-| `scope:docs` | README doctrine, CONSUMERS.md, the role files |
+set is per-repo: PRs get theirs from changed paths via actions/labeler, issues
+get theirs from triage. This file never enumerates a set — it is mirrored
+byte-identically into every governed repo, and any list it carried would be
+true in one repo and false in the rest (#104). The set for the repo you are
+standing in lives in the two places that are true wherever you read them: its
+`.github/labels.conf` (the definitions, one `name|color|description` row per
+scope) and its own `CONTRIBUTING.md`, beside the other repo-specific facts.
 
 ## Issue types
 
diff --git a/test/labels.test.sh b/test/labels.test.sh
index 18f8c45..68b6b90 100755
--- a/test/labels.test.sh
+++ b/test/labels.test.sh
@@ -53,4 +53,12 @@ load_config "$TMP/good.conf"
 set_required_bots two
 check "PR author is recused from the required panel" 0 "one three" printf '%s\n' "${REQUIRED_BOTS[*]}"
 
+# LABELS.md is mirrored byte-identically into every governed repo, so any
+# scope enumeration it carries is true at home and false everywhere else —
+# 14 of 16 vendored rows were false across the family when this fired (#104).
+# The set lives in labels.conf and the repo's CONTRIBUTING; the mirror never
+# names it. grep -c prints the count and exits 1 when that count is 0.
+check "LABELS.md enumerates no repo's scope labels" 1 "0" \
+  grep -c 'scope:release-flow\|scope:guards\|scope:labels\|scope:docs' "$ROOT/LABELS.md"
+
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