diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 9b844a7..fcc2373 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -115,6 +115,11 @@ Do not introduce a new framework, database, job runner, or test library without
 - Add database indexes for foreign keys and any column used for timeline ordering.
 - Use strong parameters, and scope queries through associations rather than
   `Model.find(params[:id])` on user-owned records.
+- **A render-only action has no method.** Rails renders the matching template
+  whether or not the action is defined, so `def new; end` is inert. The route,
+  and the `only:` list of any filter that applies to it, already declare that
+  the action exists. Four such methods were deleted on 2026-09-01 (issue #79);
+  do not reintroduce them, and do not read their absence as an oversight.
 
 **Views**
 
diff --git a/sonar-project.properties b/sonar-project.properties
index 0e69d57..e669689 100644
--- a/sonar-project.properties
+++ b/sonar-project.properties
@@ -27,3 +27,17 @@ sonar.ruby.file.suffixes=.rb,.rake
 # to the SonarQube job as an artifact. This is the only coverage format the
 # Ruby analyser accepts — it does not read LCOV.
 sonar.ruby.coverage.reportPaths=web/coverage/coverage.json
+
+# Coverage describes the Ruby, because the Ruby is what SimpleCov can
+# instrument. Without these two lines the dashboard read 76.8% while the suite
+# covered ~99% of the Ruby: Sonar counts a source file with no coverage data as
+# uncovered, and sonar.sources also holds Stimulus controllers and ERB
+# templates, which SimpleCov cannot instrument at all.
+#
+# Both numbers were honest; they measured different things, and the headline was
+# the one that understated the suite — which is how a metric stops being read.
+#
+# This narrows one metric, not the scan: every file below is still analysed for
+# bugs, smells and vulnerabilities. It is also the prerequisite for making the
+# quality gate blocking, since a gate on a number nobody believes is theatre.
+sonar.coverage.exclusions=web/app/javascript/**,web/app/views/**
diff --git a/web/app/controllers/passwords_controller.rb b/web/app/controllers/passwords_controller.rb
index f95ec78..911fd16 100644
--- a/web/app/controllers/passwords_controller.rb
+++ b/web/app/controllers/passwords_controller.rb
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ class PasswordsController < ApplicationController
   before_action :set_user_by_token, only: %i[ edit update ]
   rate_limit to: 10, within: 3.minutes, only: :create, with: -> { redirect_to new_password_path, alert: "Try again later." }
 
-  def new
-  end
-
   def create
     if user = User.find_by(email_address: params[:email_address])
       PasswordsMailer.reset(user).deliver_later
@@ -14,9 +11,6 @@ def create
     redirect_to new_session_path, notice: "Password reset instructions sent (if user with that email address exists)."
   end
 
-  def edit
-  end
-
   def update
     if @user.update(params.permit(:password, :password_confirmation))
       @user.sessions.destroy_all
diff --git a/web/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb b/web/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
index 22ab19a..a1c8196 100644
--- a/web/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
+++ b/web/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
@@ -41,9 +41,6 @@ def create
     end
   end
 
-  def edit
-  end
-
   def update
     if @post.update(post_params)
       redirect_to posts_path
diff --git a/web/app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb b/web/app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb
index 8b27e00..5ac99c6 100644
--- a/web/app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb
+++ b/web/app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ class SessionsController < ApplicationController
   before_action :redirect_if_authenticated, only: %i[ new create ]
   rate_limit to: 10, within: 3.minutes, only: :create, with: -> { redirect_to new_session_path, alert: "Try again later." }
 
-  def new
-  end
-
   def create
     if user = User.authenticate_by(params.permit(:email_address, :password))
       start_new_session_for user
diff --git a/web/config/initializers/opentelemetry.rb b/web/config/initializers/opentelemetry.rb
index 3470978..3cfa9dc 100644
--- a/web/config/initializers/opentelemetry.rb
+++ b/web/config/initializers/opentelemetry.rb
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@
 tracing_requested = ENV["OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER"] != "none"
 
 if tracing_requested || Rails.env.test?
+  # These requires stay here rather than at the top of the file, and Sonar's
+  # rubydre:S7816 is right that this is unusual — it is also the whole point of
+  # ADR 0009. Loading the SDK is what starts it; requiring it unconditionally
+  # would mean every rails command paid for instrumentation nobody asked for,
+  # which is a behaviour change rather than a tidy-up. The rule is refused here
+  # deliberately, with the reason in the file rather than only on a dashboard.
   require "opentelemetry/sdk"
   require "opentelemetry/instrumentation/rails"
 
diff --git a/web/spec/rails_helper.rb b/web/spec/rails_helper.rb
index fed1aa5..1f823f9 100644
--- a/web/spec/rails_helper.rb
+++ b/web/spec/rails_helper.rb
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
 rescue ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError => e
   abort e.to_s.strip
 end
+# Support files are required after the Rails environment, not at the top of
+# the file, because they reference application constants and RSpec config.
+# Also refusing rubydre:S7816, for a different reason than the initializer:
+# this is a glob, so there is no static require to hoist.
 Rails.root.glob('spec/support/**/*.rb').sort.each { |file| require file }
 
 RSpec.configure do |config|