diff --git a/.harness/scripts/ci/46-validate-derived-artifact-order.mjs b/.harness/scripts/ci/46-validate-derived-artifact-order.mjs
index c8b05701..247d0061 100644
--- a/.harness/scripts/ci/46-validate-derived-artifact-order.mjs
+++ b/.harness/scripts/ci/46-validate-derived-artifact-order.mjs
@@ -90,6 +90,41 @@ const FIX = argv.includes('--fix');
  * Keep this list SHORT and true. A chain that lists artifacts nobody derives is
  * worse than no chain, because it turns a real ordering claim into noise.
  */
+/**
+ * Artifacts a generator emits ONE PER SOURCE, resolved from disk instead of listed.
+ *
+ * `generate-adr-rulesets.mjs` writes one conformance ruleset per ADR — 135 files at
+ * the time of writing, and one more every time an ADR is authored. Hand-listing them
+ * would rot on the next ADR and rot silently, since a `writes` entry that stops
+ * existing fails LOUDLY but one that was never added simply is not checked. Reading
+ * the directory keeps the declaration true by construction.
+ *
+ * Returns repo-relative POSIX paths, sorted, so the order is stable across machines.
+ */
+function emittedPerSource(dir, suffix) {
+  const abs = path.join(root, dir);
+  // ABSENT is legitimate: a synthetic `--root` has no such tree, and the missing
+  // producer is what fails there. EMPTY is not — a directory that exists and yields
+  // nothing means the generator's output moved, and returning [] would hand the
+  // chain a link that verifies zero artifacts while reporting success. That is the
+  // zero-element scan this repo has been bitten by before (GT-557).
+  if (!fs.existsSync(abs)) return [];
+  const found = fs.readdirSync(abs)
+    .filter((f) => f.endsWith(suffix))
+    .sort()
+    .map((f) => `${dir}/${f}`);
+  if (found.length === 0) {
+    fail([
+      `${dir} exists but holds no ${suffix} files.`,
+      'A link that declares zero artifacts checks nothing and still reports success.',
+      'Either the generator stopped writing there, or the path moved — fix the declaration.',
+    ]);
+  }
+  return found;
+}
+
+const ADR_RULESETS = emittedPerSource('src/rulesets/adr/generated', '.rules.json');
+
 export const CHAIN = [
   {
     name: 'ABAC rego tool sets',
@@ -121,6 +156,25 @@ export const CHAIN = [
       'src/sdk/cli/src/commands/api/api.catalog.tool-schemas.generated.ts',
     ],
   },
+  {
+    name: 'ADR conformance rulesets',
+    producer: '.harness/scripts/generate-adr-rulesets.mjs',
+    checkArgs: ['--check'],
+    // Its input is the ADR corpus itself: the generator reads every decision record
+    // and emits one conformance ruleset per ADR, lifting the decision text into the
+    // rule's `statement`. So editing an ADR's PROSE drifts a generated artifact —
+    // which is how a one-word correction to ADR-0126 ("Sixteen" -> "Seventeen") turned
+    // `Validate documentation` red on a PR that touched no ruleset at all.
+    //
+    // It sits HERE, before the snapshot, because the snapshot classifies the whole
+    // ruleset corpus and these files are part of it. That edge was already known and
+    // written down one link below — "documentation-only moved 129 -> 136 purely
+    // because seven generated ADR rulesets appeared" — but only in prose: the
+    // generator was not a link, so nothing replayed it in order and `--fix` could not
+    // repair it. Declaring it makes the ordering claim machine-checked.
+    consumes: ['reference/core/architecture/adrs'],
+    writes: ADR_RULESETS,
+  },
   {
     name: 'native evaluability snapshot',
     producer: 'src/rulesets/standards/capture-native-evaluability-snapshot.mjs',
@@ -134,6 +188,10 @@ export const CHAIN = [
       'src/packages/core-domain/test/rule-corpus-triage.ts',
       'src/packages/core-domain/src/application/validators/rule-evaluability.ts',
       'src/packages/core-domain/src/application/validators/evaluators/native-evaluator.ts',
+      // The corpus half, now DECLARED. Listing these turns the sentence above into an
+      // assertion: move the ADR link after this one and `validateChainShape` fails
+      // with "consumes X, which a LATER link writes" instead of quietly reordering.
+      ...ADR_RULESETS,
     ],
     writes: ['src/rulesets/standards/native-evaluability-snapshot.json'],
   },
diff --git a/.harness/scripts/ci/46-validate-derived-artifact-order.test.mjs b/.harness/scripts/ci/46-validate-derived-artifact-order.test.mjs
index 3c698094..31cc6040 100644
--- a/.harness/scripts/ci/46-validate-derived-artifact-order.test.mjs
+++ b/.harness/scripts/ci/46-validate-derived-artifact-order.test.mjs
@@ -58,7 +58,11 @@ test('the real repository is current and at a fixed point', () => {
   // both appended so no other link's
   // reported position moved. Pinned rather than loosened to `\d+` — the count is the point:
   // a link silently dropped from the chain is an artifact nobody verifies any more.
-  assert.match(out, /links declared \.+ 8/);
+  // 8 -> 9 (GT-703 follow-on): the ADR conformance rulesets joined the chain, inserted
+  // BEFORE the native evaluability snapshot that classifies them. Still pinned, for the
+  // reason above — and the insertion does move later links' positions, which is why the
+  // assertions that care use `linkPosition` rather than a typed index.
+  assert.match(out, /links declared \.+ 9/);
 });
 
 test('the guard leaves the real tree byte-identical', () => {
@@ -104,6 +108,11 @@ const stubProducer = (artifacts) =>
   "for (const f of files) fs.writeFileSync(f, 'stable\\n');\n";
 
 const PRELUDE_STUBS = {
+  // The ADR conformance rulesets link. In a synthetic root its `writes` resolve to
+  // NOTHING — the generated directory does not exist there — so the stub writes no
+  // artifacts; what the fixture has to supply is the producer, or the chain fails on
+  // "declared producer does not exist" long before the assertion under test.
+  '.harness/scripts/generate-adr-rulesets.mjs': stubProducer([]),
   // link 7 — universal phase artifacts (GT-650 / ADR-0125), derived from the artifact registry
   '.harness/scripts/generate-universal-phase-artifacts.mjs': stubProducer([
     'src/packages/core-domain/src/application/services/universal-phase-artifacts.generated.ts',