diff --git a/test/docs/library-examples.test.ts b/test/docs/library-examples.test.ts
index 2955d73a..b3a4c483 100644
--- a/test/docs/library-examples.test.ts
+++ b/test/docs/library-examples.test.ts
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
 
 import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
 import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
-import { existsSync, readFileSync, symlinkSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { readFileSync, symlinkSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { join, resolve } from "node:path";
 import { ROOT } from "../root.js";
-import { SETTINGS_SCHEMA_PATH, schemaNotBuilt } from "../settings-schema.js";
+import { SETTINGS_SCHEMA_PATH } from "../settings-schema.js";
 import { withTempDir } from "../temp-dir.js";
 
 const PAGE = "docs/reference/library.md";
@@ -55,13 +55,9 @@ export function tsFences(markdown: string): Fence[] {
  * The fences as one module: only the two package paths are rewritten, on the
  * lines they already occupy, so a program line is a page line by offset alone
  * and nothing else about a fence is repaired before tsc sees it. The page
- * imports each name once, in the first example that uses it. `schema` is where
- * the package's schema subpath lands.
+ * imports each name once, in the first example that uses it.
  */
-export function examplesProgram(
-  fences: readonly Fence[],
-  schema: string,
-): {
+export function examplesProgram(fences: readonly Fence[]): {
   text: string;
   pageLine: (programLine: number) => number;
 } {
@@ -71,7 +67,7 @@ export function examplesProgram(
   for (const fence of fences) {
     starts.push(line);
     const body = fence.body
-      .replaceAll(`"${PACKAGE}/settings.schema.json"`, JSON.stringify(schema))
+      .replaceAll(`"${PACKAGE}/settings.schema.json"`, JSON.stringify(SETTINGS_SCHEMA_PATH))
       .replaceAll(`"${PACKAGE}"`, JSON.stringify(ENTRY));
     parts.push(body);
     line += body.split("\n").length;
@@ -96,39 +92,15 @@ export function examplesProgram(
 /** `tsc --pretty false` prints `<file>(<line>,<col>): error TS<code>: <message>`, continuation lines indented. */
 const DIAGNOSTIC = /^(.+?)\((\d+),(\d+)\): error (TS\d+): (.*)$/;
 
-/**
- * Whether the program imports `module` (a static import, a re-export, a dynamic import, each spelled as the page
- * spells it: `from`, or `import` and an optional parenthesis, then the quoted path); a string value naming the path
- * is not a dependency.
- */
-function importsModule(program: string, module: string): boolean {
-  const quoted = JSON.stringify(module);
-  for (let at = program.indexOf(quoted); at !== -1; at = program.indexOf(quoted, at + 1)) {
-    if (/\b(?:from|import)\s*\(?\s*$/.test(program.slice(0, at))) {
-      return true;
-    }
-  }
-  return false;
-}
-
 /**
  * Every diagnostic tsc reports for the page's fences, as `<label>:<page line>: TS<code>: <message>`.
  * A diagnostic outside the examples file keeps its own path. The compile runs in a temp project
  * that symlinks this checkout's node_modules, so `types` and the runtime dependencies resolve
- * exactly as they do for src/; the project is removed on every path. A fence that imports the
- * schema subpath needs the built schema, so its absence is named before tsc would misreport it as
- * a module the page cannot find.
+ * exactly as they do for src/; the project is removed on every path.
  */
-export function compileExamples(
-  markdown: string,
-  label: string,
-  schema = SETTINGS_SCHEMA_PATH,
-): Promise<string[]> {
+export function compileExamples(markdown: string, label: string): Promise<string[]> {
   const fences = tsFences(markdown);
-  const { text, pageLine } = examplesProgram(fences, schema);
-  if (importsModule(text, schema) && !existsSync(schema)) {
-    return Promise.reject(schemaNotBuilt(schema));
-  }
+  const { text, pageLine } = examplesProgram(fences);
   return withTempDir("gsac-library-examples-", (dir) => {
     symlinkSync(join(ROOT, "node_modules"), join(dir, "node_modules"), "dir");
     const examples = join(dir, "examples.ts");
@@ -261,31 +233,4 @@ describe(`${PAGE} examples`, () => {
       }
     },
   );
-
-  // The schema subpath resolves to a built file no checkout starts with; a page importing it names the build step,
-  // and a page that only spells the subpath as a string value compiles without the file.
-  test("a fence importing the schema subpath on an unbuilt checkout fails naming the build step, not a missing module", () =>
-    withTempDir("gsac-library-unbuilt-", async (dir) => {
-      const unbuilt = join(dir, "lib", "settings.schema.json");
-      const importsSchema = [
-        "```ts",
-        'import schema from "@vivswan/github-settings-as-code/settings.schema.json" with { type: "json" };',
-        "",
-        "console.log(schema.$schema);",
-        "```",
-        "",
-      ].join("\n");
-      await expect(compileExamples(importsSchema, "page.md", unbuilt)).rejects.toThrow(
-        /lib\/settings\.schema\.json is not built; run `bun run build:schema`$/,
-      );
-      const noSchema = [
-        "```ts",
-        'import { SECTION_KEYS } from "@vivswan/github-settings-as-code";',
-        "",
-        'console.log(SECTION_KEYS.length, "@vivswan/github-settings-as-code/settings.schema.json");',
-        "```",
-        "",
-      ].join("\n");
-      expect(await compileExamples(noSchema, "page.md", unbuilt)).toEqual([]);
-    }));
 });
diff --git a/test/sections/refusal-messages.test.ts b/test/sections/refusal-messages.test.ts
index df4816bd..1358c20a 100644
--- a/test/sections/refusal-messages.test.ts
+++ b/test/sections/refusal-messages.test.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  */
 
 import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
-import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { walk as walkTree } from "estree-walker";
 import { parseSync } from "oxc-parser";
@@ -865,11 +865,6 @@ function read(root: string, path: string): string {
 export function refusalSources(root: string): Source[] {
   const sources: Source[] = [];
   const add = (path: string, sites: Sites) => {
-    if (!existsSync(join(root, path))) {
-      throw new Error(
-        `${path} is a refusal source of this census but does not exist; a moved or renamed source is listed again under its new path`,
-      );
-    }
     sources.push({ path, text: read(root, path), sites });
   };
   const sectionDirs = readdirSync(join(root, "src/sections"), { withFileTypes: true })
@@ -960,9 +955,7 @@ describe("every parse-refusal message a user can read is pinned by a test", () =
     withTempDir("refusal-sources-", (root) => {
       mkdirSync(join(root, "src/sections/planted"), { recursive: true });
       writeFileSync(join(root, "src/sections/planted/schema.ts"), "export const a = 1;\n");
-      expect(() => refusalSources(root)).toThrow(
-        /^src\/sections\/planted\/index\.ts is a refusal source of this census but does not exist/,
-      );
+      expect(() => refusalSources(root)).toThrow(/ENOENT.*src\/sections\/planted\/index\.ts/);
     }));
 
   /** One literal per exclusion position, then a message in every spelling a source can give one. */
diff --git a/test/settings-schema.ts b/test/settings-schema.ts
index 4ee047b7..f5b730e1 100644
--- a/test/settings-schema.ts
+++ b/test/settings-schema.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { join, relative } from "node:path";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
 import { ROOT } from "./root.js";
 
 /** The built, gitignored schema; `bun run test` and `bun run fuzz` run `bun run build:schema` before loading it. */
@@ -11,20 +11,8 @@ export interface SettingsSchemaFile {
   [keyword: string]: unknown;
 }
 
-/**
- * The one line a test fails with when the built schema is absent, raised before any step that would misreport the
- * absence as a defect of its own (tsc's TS2307 against a docs page, ajv's compile error): the generator only writes
- * the file into the tree, so a test cannot build it elsewhere and names the build step instead.
- */
-export function schemaNotBuilt(path: string): Error {
-  return new Error(`${relative(ROOT, path)} is not built; run \`bun run build:schema\``);
-}
-
 /** Read at run time rather than imported: `tsc` resolves a JSON import, so an import would fail every typecheck on
  * a checkout that has not built the file. */
 export function readSettingsSchema(): SettingsSchemaFile {
-  if (!existsSync(SETTINGS_SCHEMA_PATH)) {
-    throw schemaNotBuilt(SETTINGS_SCHEMA_PATH);
-  }
   return JSON.parse(readFileSync(SETTINGS_SCHEMA_PATH, "utf8")) as SettingsSchemaFile;
 }