diff --git a/tools/checksilent/checks.go b/tools/checksilent/checks.go
index f6b6cf72..64b32a39 100644
--- a/tools/checksilent/checks.go
+++ b/tools/checksilent/checks.go
@@ -525,9 +525,23 @@ func migrationVersion(rel string) (int64, bool) {
 	return v, true
 }
 
-// isMenuModel reports whether a literal is one of the SysMenu models rather
-// than, say, the SysMenu service struct that shares the name.
+// isMenuModel reports whether a literal describes a menu row, whichever of
+// the two shapes it is written in.
+//
+// A host module seeds a menu by building the SysMenu model directly. An
+// application installed from outside this repository cannot reach that type,
+// so it describes the same row as a seed.MenuSpec and hands it to the host's
+// Seeder. Both end up in sys_menu and both are subject to its column widths,
+// so a check that knew only the first shape would go quiet exactly when the
+// author is furthest from the schema it protects.
+//
+// That is not hypothetical: this repository's own reference application was
+// written with a Sort of 200 - past the tinyint sys_menu.sort is built as -
+// and this check passed it, because a MenuSpec is not a SysMenu.
 func (s *snapshot) isMenuModel(lit structLiteral) bool {
+	if lit.Name == "MenuSpec" && isCoreContractPkg(lit.PkgPath) {
+		return true
+	}
 	return lit.Name == "SysMenu" && s.isModelPackage(lit.PkgPath)
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/checksilent/checks_test.go b/tools/checksilent/checks_test.go
index 5707ca81..77e15596 100644
--- a/tools/checksilent/checks_test.go
+++ b/tools/checksilent/checks_test.go
@@ -578,3 +578,28 @@ func TestShimAliasCoverageCountsTheAliasesItGuards(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("ScannedShimAliases = %d, want 2", n)
 	}
 }
+
+// A menu written as a seed.MenuSpec lands in the same sys_menu.sort column as
+// one written as a SysMenu, so the same tinyint bound applies. Until this was
+// covered, an application - the one author furthest from the schema - was the
+// one the check went quiet for.
+func TestMenuSortOverflowIsDetectedInAContractMenuSpec(t *testing.T) {
+	root := fixture(t, map[string]string{
+		"example/app-order/migration/migration.go": `package migration
+
+import "github.com/go-admin-team/go-admin-core/v2/sdk/contract/seed"
+
+func menus() []seed.MenuSpec {
+	return []seed.MenuSpec{
+		{Code: "dir", Sort: 200},
+		{Code: "ok", Sort: 20},
+	}
+}
+`,
+	})
+
+	f := requireOne(t, check(t, root, options{}), checkMenuSort)
+	if !strings.Contains(f.Message, "200") {
+		t.Errorf("finding should name the offending value, got: %s", f.Message)
+	}
+}