Comments in library/ and internal/ that quoted a person, attributed a decision to one, used first person,
named fleet agents or carried private host names now state the same technical fact in neutral words:
poster-render (including the comments it writes into generated posters), packet-render, the poster and
research scripts, PosterWall, DataTable, the legends, the layouts and the gates. The network-policy note
states the policy itself. Behaviour is unchanged: a few printed gate messages and reason labels drop an
agent name, the poster-render integrity pin follows its comment-only edit, and series.json changes only in
its _meta and _why notes. The historical poster design snapshots (library/scripts/posters/snapshots/),
which nothing reads, are removed.
gospel verified the upg100 finding independently and refined the mechanism,
which changes what the rule has to look for. legendOpts re-reads t() on every
call — its own comment says the function shape is deliberate — so a reader
skimming for "a translator outside a function" would clear it. The freeze is
one level out: the result is assigned into a ref at two call sites and no
locale watcher ever re-fills them. The labels are computed freshly and then
frozen by where they are put.
So the rule now asks for a translator anywhere in the function plus a
returned structure plus a stored result, rather than requiring the call to
sit inside the returned literal. The old form happened to catch upg100's case
only because one property calls t() inline; a version building its strings
above the return would have slipped through, and that is the shape that will
recur because it looks correct at the call site.
Loosening it immediately flagged correct code in this owner's own plugin:
useDashboardShell builds its segment list with `get l() { return tStatic(…) }`
and says why in a comment — a resolved string would freeze the first locale
seen. A getter defers the read to whoever touches the property, so storing
the object is safe. Same escape hatch the provide() rule uses, for the same
reason: what matters is when the read happens.
Both new cases are in the table, and both sides of the real finding are now
proven against real code rather than fixtures: development's upg-100-list.vue
FAILS and upg100's fixed version at d533db379 PASSES, which matches the result
they got running this gate against their own slot head. Self-test 26/26.
gospel's third shape, and the one no per-string check can see. GiCombos
provides its facet config as a literal: provide('dashboardConfig', { facets:
{ access_level: { label: T('…') } } }). T() runs once at setup, the object
reaches the consumer as a plain value, and a live language switch leaves
every facet name in the boot language.
All ten call sites pass a real key and every key resolves in all eleven
locales, so "is it keyed" and "does the key exist" both answer yes. What is
wrong is WHEN the key was read. A lifetime is invisible to a check that
looks at one string at a time.
A getter or a computed inside the provide rescues it, because the read is
deferred to the consumer — which is how gospel fixed it in ecea53212.
Both sides are real rather than synthetic: the defect is still live on
development (ecea53212 is unlanded), so the gate catches it in the tree
today, and the fixed version with `get facets()` passes. Self-test 24/24.
gospel reviewed the shapes I taught this gate an hour ago and caught a real
bug in it: deciding whether a call site sits inside a reactive wrapper by
scanning the preceding 260 characters. Their GiDrawer.vue opens its
computed( at line 35 with the call sites at 95-100, and a lookback window
reported six false positives on working code — they nearly "fixed" code that
was right.
Measured on the same shape here: 2,600 characters between the watch( and the
call, ten times the window. A window cannot answer a containment question.
The check now walks backwards counting bracket depth, so it finds the wrapper
that actually encloses the offset however far above it sits, and cannot be
fooled by a closed wrapper that merely precedes it.
Two cases added, and the first is proven non-vacuous: reverting to the
lookback fails it (21/22), restoring brace depth passes (22/22). The second
is gospel's model.js:46 — a doc comment quoting a translator call, which must
not read as code.
This is the second correction to these rules in an hour. The first draft
flagged five production files by asking whether a function body merely
mentions t(); this one flagged correct code by asking what sits nearby
instead of what encloses. Both were found by someone else reading the rule
against their own plugin, which is the only reason either was caught before
landing.
The existing rule treats "inside a function" as safe, because a function
re-runs. That is true of the function and false of the label when nothing
calls the function again after the locale changes. upg100 hit both shapes
for real in their UPG-100 i18n batch.
A tree built once from t() and stored: opts() returns labels, onMounted
assigns the built tree to a ref, and no call site sits inside a watcher. The
translator call is shielded by the function, so the walk reports it clean
while the labels stay in the boot language.
A computed whose only locale source is getRuntimeLocale() or detectLocale().
Those are plain getters that notify nobody, so the computed has no reactive
dependency on the language and resolves once. It is the existing tStatic
rule generalised: the getter can be reached through any helper, not only
through a translator.
The watcher does not have to be watch(locale, …). upg100's own fix watches
() => packetLang(), which reads packetLocale.value — a real reactive source
under a local name. A signal looking for the literal `locale` would have
flagged the fix as the defect, which is the worst thing a gate can do to
someone who just did the work.
The first draft flagged five PRODUCTION files, none of them a label tree:
fetchPhotos, relabelSheet, popupHtml and two more — large functions that
call a translator once for an error string and return something unrelated.
"The body mentions t()" is not the shape. The rule now requires the
translator call to sit inside a RETURNED object or array literal, which is
what "builds a structure of labels" actually looks like.
Six cases added to the gate's own table, each bad shape paired with the good
one it must stay quiet on, plus that false positive. Self-test 20/20.
Written by the UPG-100 plugin owner. It now takes the stricter of a file's own profile stage and
its bundle's effective stage (internal/lib/effective-stage.mjs), so an experimental bundle that a
production page composes is checked as production, and the output says why.
Written by the UPG-100 plugin owner. It parses templates and scripts and flags a translator
result stored at module or setup scope, or tStatic inside a computed. A production profile or
library/ fails; an experimental profile is reported. It found the search header's eight labels,
fixed in the commit before this, so it arrives green.