diff --git a/plugins/config-audit/commands/tokens.md b/plugins/config-audit/commands/tokens.md
index d156cac..92e1342 100644
--- a/plugins/config-audit/commands/tokens.md
+++ b/plugins/config-audit/commands/tokens.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Use the Read tool on `$TMPFILE`. Extract:
 
 - `total_estimated_tokens` — top-line number
 - `hotspots[]` — top 10 ranked sources
-- `findings[]` — Opus 4.7 pattern findings (CA-TOK-001..004)
+- `findings[]` — Opus 4.7 pattern findings (CA-TOK-001..003)
 - `counts` — severity breakdown
 
 Render as markdown:
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ rm -f "$TMPFILE"
 - **`/config-audit whats-active`** — full inventory of what loads (plugins, skills, MCP, hooks)
 - **`/config-audit posture`** — overall health scorecard (Token Efficiency is the 8th area)
 - **`/config-audit fix`** — auto-fix deterministic issues (where applicable)
-- See `knowledge/opus-4.7-patterns.md` for the full pattern catalogue (CA-TOK-001 … 004)
+- See `knowledge/opus-4.7-patterns.md` for the full pattern catalogue (CA-TOK-001 … 003)
 ```
 
 ## Scope and limits
diff --git a/plugins/config-audit/knowledge/opus-4.7-patterns.md b/plugins/config-audit/knowledge/opus-4.7-patterns.md
index 28b5946..caf09c6 100644
--- a/plugins/config-audit/knowledge/opus-4.7-patterns.md
+++ b/plugins/config-audit/knowledge/opus-4.7-patterns.md
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ telemetry and is explicitly out of scope.
 | 1 | Cache-breaking volatile top-of-file content in CLAUDE.md (timestamps, session ids, rolling activity logs above stable content) | CA-TOK-001 | medium | Move volatile sections to the bottom of CLAUDE.md, or extract to an `@import`-ed file that lives outside the prompt-cache prefix. Keep the first 30 lines stable across turns. |
 | 2 | Redundant tool/permission declarations in settings.json (e.g., both `"Read"` and `"Read(**)"`, duplicate Bash matchers, overlapping glob patterns) | CA-TOK-002 | low | Deduplicate the `permissions.allow` and `permissions.deny` arrays. Prefer the most specific entry that still grants the intended access. Each duplicate entry inflates the tool-schema payload sent on every turn. |
 | 3 | Deep `@import` chain in CLAUDE.md (more than 2 hops, e.g., A → B → C → D) | CA-TOK-003 | medium | Flatten the chain to ≤ 2 hops. Each `@import` boundary fragments the prompt-cache prefix; deeply chained imports defeat caching for the deepest content even when it never changes. |
-| 4 | Sonnet-era configuration signature: clean structural baseline with no Opus 4.7 features enabled (no skills, no managed-settings, no plugins, no rules) | CA-TOK-004 | info | Informational only. The configuration is structurally clean but does not yet leverage Opus 4.7-specific features (managed settings, deeper plugin integration). Not a defect — a hint that token-efficiency-driven optimisations have not been applied. Threshold calibration pending Topic 3 research. |
+
+> The v4 sonnet-era signature pattern was removed in v5 F5 — too noisy and not
+> actionable. Hotspots ranking and per-pattern findings cover the same ground
+> with concrete, file-anchored signal.
 
 ## Detection notes
 
@@ -30,9 +33,6 @@ telemetry and is explicitly out of scope.
   `Bash(*)` is also present), or exact duplicates.
 - **Pattern 3 (deep imports)** uses the existing IMP scanner's chain depth as
   the input — anything > 2 hops triggers TOK-003 as well as the IMP finding.
-- **Pattern 4 (sonnet-era)** is informational and emitted only when a config
-  is otherwise clean (no skills, no managed-settings, no plugins, minimal
-  hooks). The threshold is heuristic until Topic 3 research lands.
 
 ## Threshold calibration
 
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ All thresholds in this catalogue are **structural** — derived from the
 existing `estimateTokens(bytes, kind)` heuristic in
 `scanners/lib/active-config-reader.mjs:29-39`. They are intentionally
 conservative until Topic 3 (token-cost model) research is complete. When
-Topic 3 lands, severities for patterns 1–3 will be re-tuned and pattern 4
-may gain a measurable threshold.
+Topic 3 lands, severities for patterns 1–3 will be re-tuned.
 
 The `estimateTokens` heuristic uses ~4 bytes per token for markdown content,
 which is conservative but unverified against an authoritative tokenizer.