The starter every new plugin copies had 7 English strings outside the catalogue: profile A's "map engine not loaded" and all of profile B. Now profile A keeps its error's KEY in state (errorKey) and translates it in the template, with the engine's own message passed in as a value; profile B's heading, its note line and its sentence are keys, and "Served from {file} in the {bundle} bundle." is ONE key rendered with useSentence, the file and bundle names passed in as their own <code dir="ltr"> islands so each language orders the sentence itself. t() is called in the template throughout, never frozen into a constant at setup. The README's pieces table and "Your own text" section say the same three habits.
Headless, SSR with the real catalogue (_qa-cycle/exp-shepherd/check-template-i18n.mjs): profile B renders in en, ar and zh from template.json, with the sentence in each language's own order (zh puts the bundle first), both islands intact, and no raw key or placeholder. The experimental English scan: template-bundle 7 → 0.
A new writer's first copy used to draw a coloured box. template-map-a.vue now
draws the points in data/places.geojson on a basemap with one translated title,
through the library's own pieces (useMapInstance, resolveMapProvider, labelFont,
emissivePaint). It follows the page's engine, locale (right-to-left included) and
token, and with no token it runs on keyless MapLibre, so it works with no account.
template-map-b.vue stays as the second-screen example, so the README, the tutorial
and the plugin-designer skill (rename a, delete b) stay true. The README gains the
map's pieces table and the dx-maps paths.
Library change: library/i18n/locales/<11>/template.json (key template.title) is
eagerly globbed into every bundle, so consumers need rebuilding (rule 5B).
A previous sweep found six dark matches, correctly ruled five of them unreachable, and
fixed the one real violation in doxa-simple-map. Re-running it with a luminance test
rather than a hex prefix found more, because the earlier pattern also matched the green
accent #10b981 and so buried the genuine surfaces in noise.
Three further unconditional violations, all the same shape as the one already fixed: the
loading overlays in all-people-groups, country-posters and doxa-research-map each render
on every load via v-if="!appReady", so a near-black flash was the first thing a visitor
saw. All four now use the palette surface with muted text.
The template-bundle starter was also dark in both profiles. That one matters more than a
leaf: the documented recipe is to copy template-bundle and rename it, so every future
plugin would have inherited a surface the house style forbids. The two profiles stay
visibly distinct — a tinted surface with an accent border, b white with a neutral one.
Verified by reading the shipped rule out of each built bundle: 4 of 4 found, all
#f3f3f1 at luminance 243. The found-count is reported so a run that matches nothing
cannot read as a pass — an earlier version of that check found zero rules and printed
ALL LIGHT.
