diff --git a/src/commands/upgrade.ts b/src/commands/upgrade.ts
index 313ab4120..e9a4a9c10 100644
--- a/src/commands/upgrade.ts
+++ b/src/commands/upgrade.ts
@@ -397,11 +397,12 @@ export async function runPostUpgrade(args: string[] = []): Promise<void> {
   }
 
   // v0.28.5 (X1): explicitly apply pending schema migrations.
-  // apply-migrations runs orchestrator migrations and only WARNs about
-  // schema-version drift (apply-migrations.ts:296-302). Without this hook,
-  // `gbrain upgrade` leaves wedged brains wedged — the user has to read
-  // the WARN and run `gbrain init --migrate-only` themselves. We've shipped
-  // 11 wedge incidents asking users to read warnings; close the loop here.
+  // Since #3085, apply-migrations --yes applies schema-version drift itself
+  // (it previously only WARNed), so the in-process call above may have
+  // already run these — runMigrations is idempotent, making this hook a
+  // harmless second pass. It stays because it also covers paths where the
+  // preflight was skipped. We've shipped 11 wedge incidents asking users to
+  // read warnings; keep the loop closed here.
   // A1's hasPendingMigrations probe in connectEngine is belt-and-suspenders
   // for any path that bypasses upgrade (autopilot, direct CLI on stale brain).
   try {
diff --git a/src/core/link-extraction.ts b/src/core/link-extraction.ts
index 90bce0512..0d8830358 100644
--- a/src/core/link-extraction.ts
+++ b/src/core/link-extraction.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,10 @@ import { slugifyPath } from './sync.ts';
 // whitelist no longer drops markdown links / bare-slug refs / slash-shaped
 // wikilinks in non-whitelisted directories). Pages stamped by earlier sweeps
 // are re-flagged so the next --stale sweep re-extracts under both fixes.
-export const LINK_EXTRACTOR_VERSION_TS = '2026-08-01T00:00:00Z';
+// The watermark is the day AFTER the wave ships: the staleness predicate is
+// strict `<`, so a same-day stamp written by pre-wave code would otherwise
+// read as fresh and never re-extract.
+export const LINK_EXTRACTOR_VERSION_TS = '2026-08-02T00:00:00Z';
 
 // ─── Entity references ──────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -589,7 +592,14 @@ export async function extractPageLinks(
   // that happens to look like a path (`on/off`, `com/foo/bar` inside a URL)
   // is dropped by the callers' page-existence checks, never persisted.
   // Code blocks are stripped first — slugs in code samples are not real refs.
-  const strippedContent = stripCodeBlocks(content);
+  // Wikilink spans are masked too (equal-length blanks, so match indices stay
+  // valid for excerpt()): the wikilink pass above owns `[[...]]` interiors,
+  // and without the mask a dir-qualified wikilink like
+  // `[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]` leaves its lowercase prefix
+  // `llm-wiki/entities` as a bare-path match — a spurious edge to the parent
+  // page whenever that page exists.
+  const strippedContent = stripCodeBlocks(content)
+    .replace(/\[\[[^\]]*\]\]/g, (s) => ' '.repeat(s.length));
   const bareRe = new RegExp(
     `\\b(${ANY_DIR_SEGMENT}\\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9/-]*[a-z0-9])\\b`,
     'g',
diff --git a/src/core/pglite-engine.ts b/src/core/pglite-engine.ts
index 8a784b695..db7d2df8a 100644
--- a/src/core/pglite-engine.ts
+++ b/src/core/pglite-engine.ts
@@ -972,6 +972,11 @@ export class PGLiteEngine implements BrainEngine {
     return fn(conn);
   }
 
+  // NOTE: the tx-engine handed to `fn` proxies `db` to a PGLite Transaction,
+  // which has query/sql/exec but NO .transaction — so engine methods that
+  // open their own transaction (searchVector since #3613) will throw if
+  // called on the tx-engine. No current callback does; keep it that way or
+  // add pass-through nesting first.
   async transaction<T>(fn: (engine: BrainEngine) => Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
     return this.db.transaction(async (tx) => {
       const txEngine = Object.create(this) as PGLiteEngine;
diff --git a/test/link-extraction.test.ts b/test/link-extraction.test.ts
index c7bb5bc30..664c809fa 100644
--- a/test/link-extraction.test.ts
+++ b/test/link-extraction.test.ts
@@ -615,6 +615,31 @@ describe('extractPageLinks', () => {
     expect(resolved.map(c => c.targetSlug)).toEqual(['vault/llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
   });
 
+  test('wikilink interiors are masked from the bare-path pass (no parent-page edge)', async () => {
+    // Codex wave-i finding: `[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]` leaves its
+    // lowercase prefix `llm-wiki/entities` as a bare-path match if the
+    // scanner sees wikilink interiors — a spurious 'markdown' edge to the
+    // PARENT page whenever it exists. The mask blanks `[[...]]` spans before
+    // pass 2; the wikilink pass owns those interiors.
+    const resolver: SlugResolver = {
+      resolve: async () => null,
+      resolveBasenameMatches: async (name) =>
+        name === 'ai-3.0' ? ['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0'] : [],
+    };
+    const { candidates } = await extractPageLinks(
+      'llm-wiki/notes/roadmap',
+      'See [[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]] for the model. Also see ops/runbook.',
+      {}, 'concept', resolver,
+    );
+    // The parent-prefix must NOT appear from the wikilink interior...
+    expect(candidates.map(c => c.targetSlug)).not.toContain('llm-wiki/entities');
+    // ...while a genuine bare path in prose still produces its candidate,
+    expect(candidates.map(c => c.targetSlug)).toContain('ops/runbook');
+    // and the wikilink itself still resolves through its own pass.
+    expect(candidates.filter(c => c.linkSource === 'wikilink-resolved')
+      .map(c => c.targetSlug)).toEqual(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
+  });
+
   test('opts.skipFrontmatter suppresses the frontmatter pass', async () => {
     // Real resolver shape that WOULD resolve frontmatter source: too,
     // but skipFrontmatter blocks the path entirely.