check:hardcoded-english runs on demand; its self-test runs in gates:pre

Not in gates:post: it reports 346 today, most of them gospel-resources prose. It joins when
that reaches zero or every hit is carded.

package.json

@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@
     "check:gospel-all": "node internal/check-gospel-all.mjs",
     "check:gospel-internet": "node plugin-designs/gospel-internet/scripts/check-gospel-internet-model.mjs && node plugin-designs/gospel-internet/scripts/check-gospel-internet-i18n.mjs && node plugin-designs/gospel-internet/scripts/check-language-tree.mjs && node plugin-designs/gospel-internet/scripts/check-gospel-internet-render.mjs",
     "check:gospel-tables-staged": "node internal/check-gospel-tables-staged.mjs",
+    "check:hardcoded-english": "node internal/check-hardcoded-english.mjs",
+    "check:hardcoded-english:self-test": "node internal/check-hardcoded-english.mjs --self-test",
     "check:embed-contract": "node internal/check-gospel-embed-contract.mjs",
     "check:engine-contract": "node internal/check-gospel-engine-contract.mjs",
     "check:link-coverage": "node internal/check-link-verification-coverage.mjs",
@@ -259,7 +261,7 @@
     "fix:sri": "node internal/fix-sri.mjs",
     "gallery": "node internal/generate-gallery.mjs",
     "gates:post": "node internal/run-parallel.mjs --label=post -- check:capability-derived check:drop check:parse verify check:sri check:public-hygiene check:label-joins check:facet-cascade check:facet-one-field check:heartbeat check:kpi-unit check:composite-reg check:descriptions check:no-abs-paths check:no-codename check:dep-names check:composite-srcs check:embed-targets check:nested-token check:i18n-parity check:tabs-localized check:packets-all check:packet-strings-parity check:zone-census check:zoning-declared check:share-policy check:library-index check:csv-shape check:capability-citations check:catalog-identity check:no-orphan-gates check:quoted-scripts check:done-evidence check:script-flags check:backlog-status check:capability-exemplars check:packet-fixture check:packet-browser check:provider-switch check:locale-reachable check:url-resolver check:manifest-covers check:one-palette check:pin-dim-slider check:legend-source check:backlog-refs check:clustering-modes check:composite-embed-knobs check:composite-locale-leaks check:linked-vocabulary check:wp-embed check:dashboard-geocoder-provider check:leaf-engine-per-provider check:map-props-unit check:composites-mount check:composite-interop check:no-free-identifiers check:map-fly-reduced-motion check:mst-clustering check:list-prop-unit check:profiles-mount check:cdn-pins check:no-eval check:popup-escaping check:i18n-treeshake check:pinned-umd check:one-palette:self-test check:no-cross-plugin-imports check:no-cross-plugin-imports:self-test check:map-attribution check:studio-rail check:approx-pin-note check:embedder-keys check:provider-for check:legend-logical-insets check:legend-logical-insets:self-test check:optional-t-equivalence check:text-highlight check:religion-label-not-value check:i18n-stopped-scope check:no-silent-engine check:regions-uses-library check:shadow-css-parses check:square-map-controls check:preset-config-merge",
-    "gates:pre": "node internal/run-parallel.mjs --label=pre -- check:template-literal check:mjs-parse check:sfc-parse check:tab-radius check:synced-css check:doc-scripts check:setup-order check:package-json-unique-keys check:no-repo-pb-hooks check:no-credentials-omit check:no-credentials-omit:self-test check:shadow-reduced-motion check:poster-action-print check:targets check:targets:self-test check:browser-gates-guarded check:pin-selection check:facet-shape",
+    "gates:pre": "node internal/run-parallel.mjs --label=pre -- check:template-literal check:mjs-parse check:sfc-parse check:tab-radius check:synced-css check:doc-scripts check:setup-order check:package-json-unique-keys check:no-repo-pb-hooks check:no-credentials-omit check:no-credentials-omit:self-test check:shadow-reduced-motion check:poster-action-print check:targets check:targets:self-test check:browser-gates-guarded check:pin-selection check:facet-shape check:hardcoded-english:self-test",
     "gen:iso3-to-alpha2": "node library/scripts/generate-iso3-to-alpha2.mjs",
     "internet:adm1": "node plugin-designs/cities-internet/scripts/build-adm1-internet.mjs",
     "library-index": "node internal/generate-library-index.mjs",
@@ -363,6 +365,7 @@
     "check:gallery-embed:live-cors": "the Research Gallery on a foreign page under the LIVE static layer's CORS rule (Access-Control-Allow-Origin on files inside the tree's folders, NOT on the root manifest.json, measured on the live test host): it must still boot every tab, by reading the CORS-readable manifest copy generate-tree writes beside its bundle.",
     "check:gospel-all": "EVERYTHING gospel-resources owns, in one command. Its ten gates were all hand-run, which is how a dead bundle shipped: a duplicate module killed all five leaves and the one gate run that day was pointed at the map. check:no-orphan-gates was right that they were reachable — reachable is not run. Deliberately NOT in gates:pre/post: three need a browser, the shared wave holds browser gates under load, and a bundle owner should not be able to slow everyone else's build by adding to a list they do not own. Static gates run first and stop the run on failure, so a scarce browser slot is never spent confirming a table is inconsistent. Exit 75 = NOT MEASURED, never folded into a pass.",
     "check:gospel-internet": "the Gospel x Internet board, headless, against the REAL table and the REAL kit bus: the join table is what its builder makes from main (2,107 / 2,107, province placement agreeing with gospel-by-province), every facet count equals the rows the bus then keeps (the five-numbers-agree invariant), D1 OR-within-key, the country->province cascade, the 369 zero-access headline by band 220/45/45/59, URL state round-trip, CSV header-first/provenance-last with injection neutralised, no engagement column; then every catalogue key the bundle names exists in all 11 locales and is translated. Each half has a --poison arm that must fail. Plugin-local because check:i18n-keys-exist cannot see a useOptionalT-based alias.",
+    "check:hardcoded-english": "English a reader sees that no locale can reach: template text, static title=, script-block sentences, template literals, and quoted literals inside BOUND attributes, across the production plugins. Quiet on translator calls (including discovered aliases and proxy-t misses), te()-guarded fallbacks, css, urls and developer error text. Deliberately NOT in gates:post yet: it reports 346 today (gospel-resources 300, my-upg-100-list 37, cities-internet 8, doxa-simple-map 1); it joins when that reaches 0 or every hit is carded. The :self-test (15 assertions, fixtures validated first so a malformed sample cannot pass as silence) runs in gates:pre.",
     "check:heartbeat": "the HEARTBEAT ZONE threshold (the choropleth's top bin) must come from config AND the shipped config must still render today's ramp. Two sides: (B) a configured threshold must MOVE the edge — catches re-hard-coding; (A2) dashboard.config.js's own map.* must still resolve to 5/20/60/150/Infinity — catches the shipped default silently changing. A2 was MISSING at first and heartbeatThreshold:999 shipped past this gate printing 'default ramp unchanged'. A grep for '150' cannot do either job: it false-positives on the legitimate default and false-negatives on a re-hard-coding at 200. run check:heartbeat:self-test for the NEGATIVE tests (3 cases).",
     "check:heartbeat:self-test": "THREE regression cases, each required to fire ITS OWN assertion: [literal] resolver replaced by the old hard-coded array -> B; [shipped-default] dashboard.config.js heartbeatThreshold changed -> A2; [shipped-mode] heartbeatMode flipped to quantile -> A2. Poisons IN MEMORY, never the file. Testing that the FEATURE works is not testing that the REGRESSION is caught — this gate shipped with only the first and missed the second.",
     "check:hover-channel": "SPEC-DASHBOARD-KIT D3: the bus's third coordinated channel points at a record without committing to one. Hover looks like a weaker selection, and the cheap implementation is to put the key in selectionSet 'just while hovering' - every consequence of which is bad and none obvious at the call site: useSelectionCamera watches selectionVersion, so a hover would fly the camera at every mousemove (the resize-strobe class, on a photosensitive Driver); the CSV exporter reads selection > filter > all, so a hover would change what an export contains; the table's selection pill and the shell's live region would both narrate the pointer. Runs the real bus: hover holds its own ref, never enters the selection, never bumps the version, never touches the filters, a repeat emits once (hover fires on every mousemove across 2,107 rows), and the three channels clear independently. Does NOT check which panels light up - D3 says panels opt in, and the first opt-in belongs with a consumer that has a reason. No browser.",