Six pushes in a row turned CI red while the local pre-push hook was green. The alarm
mail's own text says what that means and that it outranks the push it interrupted.
Cause, found by contrast rather than by reading a log: check-copy-i18n.py imports
PyYAML and is the ONLY gate in this repo importing anything outside the standard
library. The workflow's own header says the runner is "a host-mode container with
python3 and git and nothing else". The gate raised ImportError before checking
anything, so catalog_gates.py exited non-zero on every push, clean ones included.
The fix is a DEGRADED MODE, not a skip: without PyYAML the gate runs the check that
needs no parser and matters most — every frozen Hungarian string must still occur
verbatim in its app's bytes — and then prints in full what it did NOT check. Same
division catalog_gates.py already uses for engine-major on a shallow clone.
Measured before claimed: 1 030 of 1 032 frozen strings appear byte-for-byte in the raw
files; the two that do not are romm help_texts whose YAML escapes an inner double
quote, so the escaped spelling is accepted too. 1 032 of 1 032 found, so the degraded
check convicts nothing honest.
Five new decoy cases run with PyYAML shadowed by a module that refuses to import —
what CI actually executes. 38 cases in total.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
actualbudget, claper, docmost, emby, gitea, immich, kimai, komga, onlyoffice,
opengist, plant-it, rallly, recipe-importer, seerr, vaultwarden, zipline — 306
strings. EN_MISSING_CEILING 307 -> 1.
1 031 of 1 032 strings now carry an English twin. The one that does not is papra's
AUTH_SECRET description, a Hungarian defect (R-593) left to fall back rather than
translated wrongly.
The gate convicted two of my own sentences and was half right: vaultwarden's invite
step and sign-up setting ended "can open an account", and the retrieval-promise
pattern reads "can ... open" as the claim that sealed backups can be opened. Opening
an ACCOUNT is not that claim, so the conviction was a false positive — but the
wording was also the weaker wording, so both now read "can sign up". The gate has no
way to REGISTER a legitimate occurrence, which the shared vocabulary's own design
calls for; filed as R-594.
No Hungarian byte moved in any of the three batches; the freeze gate proves it on all
53 apps on every push.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
audiobookshelf, code-server, crafty-controller, glance, gokapi, gramps-web,
jellyfin, mealie, navidrome, plex, sonarr, tandoor, termix, uptime-kuma, vikunja,
wger, wishlist. EN_MISSING_CEILING 624 -> 307.
Two lines needed judgement rather than translation, and both are written up in the
CHANGELOG so a later reader does not take them for slips. Jellyfin's setup step tells
the reader to pick Hungarian in the wizard — wrong advice for an English household,
so the English says "choose your language". Mealie's "Hungarian is available too"
becomes "English and Hungarian among them". Neither adds a promise the Hungarian does
not make; the Hungarian is untouched in both.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
adventurelog, bentopdf, bookstack, calcom, calibre-web, ghost, grafana,
home-assistant, homebox, homepage, n8n, nextcloud, outline, papra, radarr,
sparkyfitness, wanderer. EN_MISSING_CEILING 943 -> 624.
No Hungarian byte moved; no image, pin, catalog_since or compose line changed.
The blocks are GENERATED from a flat {path: english} map rather than hand-written:
fifty nested blocks whose keys must match the Hungarian exactly is fifty chances to
mistype an env_var, and a mistyped key is INERT on the box rather than an error, so
nobody would learn. The generator builds from the same flat paths the freeze uses,
derived from the Hungarian file itself, so an invented key cannot be written.
One string is deliberately untranslated: papra's AUTH_SECRET description is a
Hungarian DEFECT (it describes a session-signing key as "the app's subdomain").
Translating it faithfully would ship the error in a second language; changing the
Hungarian is forbidden in a localisation release. It falls back, papra stands at
13/14, and the ceiling's floor is 1 until R-593 is fixed — stated in the ceiling's
own comment so a later batch does not "fix" it by editing Hungarian.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
89 of 1 032 strings. No Hungarian byte moved; no image, pin, catalog_since or
compose line changed. EN_MISSING_CEILING 1032 -> 943 in this commit.
Chosen for SHAPE: privatebin exercises the plain case (description, tagline, lists);
paperless-ngx adds select options, a placeholder and a customer-facing folder label;
romm carries the catalog's only optional_config block, whose group has no id of its
own and is matched by `match_group` — the Hungarian group name it translates. All
three run on the demo box, so the English pages can be fetched rather than reasoned
about.
Two gate defects fixed while translating, each found by its own decoy rather than by
reading: coverage was counted only for the apps NAMED on the command line, so
`check-copy-i18n.py privatebin` reported 47 more missing strings than the same tree
unscoped and either number could have been made to "pass"; and the ASCII-Hungarian
stems matched as bare substrings, so „ird be" convicted "the third best" and „angol"
convicted "Angola". Both now have their own case in the decoy suite.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
`scripts/check-copy-i18n.py`, fifth row of `catalog_gates.py`, static and in the
pre-push hook. Five checks:
1. FREEZE — every Hungarian copy string equals `copy_freeze/hu.json`. Runs on all
53 apps whatever scope is named: a scoped push that quietly edits a neighbour is
what a freeze is for. A NEW app must be admitted with `--add-app NAME --reason`.
2. STRUCTURE — the `i18n.en` block may carry copy fields and nothing else; every
key-matched entry (`env_var`, option `value`, `match_group`, `target`, `path`)
must have a Hungarian twin, or it would be INERT on the box and the translator
would never know. Lists must have the Hungarian's length — they are replaced
whole, never merged by index.
3. LANGUAGE — no accented Hungarian letter, no ASCII-ONLY Hungarian, no
"please"/"kindly", no English retrieval promise the Hungarian does not make, the
app name and „Felhom" preserved.
4. CREDENTIALS — the login tokens inside `default_creds` and the initial-credentials
note survive translation verbatim.
5. RATCHET — `EN_MISSING_CEILING` (1032 today) convicts above AND below.
MEASURED, against the numbers the task carried: 1 032 copy strings, 832 of them with
a Hungarian letter (that half matches). The ASCII-only Hungarian is NOT three strings
(„Igen"/„Nem"/„Nincs" do not occur in this catalog at all) but roughly 120 — „Aldomain"
and „A szerver domain neve" alone are 53 each. An accent-only gate would have passed
every one of them inside an English block, which is why check 3 folds and stems.
18 decoy cases in `test_gate_decoys.py`, each seen to convict or to pass as intended
(R-421). One of them found a real hole while being written: the credential check
searched for the token as a substring, so „admin" matched "administrator" and a
rewritten login passed. It now requires word boundaries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
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