A full inventory of the player's 2026-10-18 session: **330 WARN lines, 67 distinct
shapes, and not one ERROR**. Read one at a time against the code and the
reference, most of what remained was the client complaining about itself. Three
causes, measured by replaying the new rules over that same log: **330 → 129**.
**A label is not a key (33 lines).** `text=` resolves as a GlobalStrings key and a
miss shows the raw value, which is faithful; the warning on a key-shaped miss is
ours. But a miss is already a string no locale defines, so a single all-caps word
is a label the author typed — `OK`, `UP`, `DOWN`, `MT`, `TPS`, `TOP`, `BOTTOM`,
`WIM`, `TWA`, 42 lines of them in one session, every one rendering exactly as the
reference renders it. The predicate now wants an underscore, which keeps the shape
that cannot be anything else: `ATSW_ALLREAGENTLISTFRAME_CHN`, an addon's own locale
row missing from the locale it shipped, which really does paint its key name on
screen. The shipped-XML sweep keeps its own broader rule, where `text="DELETE"`
must resolve and a collision is a bug either way; its comment now says so.
**Prose is not a missing file (12 lines, and phantom load failures).** A `.toc` is
read line by line, `#` opening a metadata line and everything else a filename, so
a wrapped `## Notes:` paragraph and the `--` section headers many addons write
become entries that no file answers. The reference opens them, fails, and says
nothing. We called each one a load failure, which put it in `/errors` and counted
it in the "N addon load failures" line at every login — ColorPickerPlus shipping
"two files it does not contain" that are really one two-line sentence. A line that
cannot name a file is now a debug line; one that looks like a file and is absent
stays a warning, because then the package really is short a piece (BigWigs'
`Raids\Other\Nerubian.lua`). The addon harness shares the predicate, so its
package audit stops making the same claim.
**One cause speaks once (168 lines → 9).** The stock inspect panel's sixteen slots
each name a frame `Blizzard_InspectUI` has never been asked to build, and
QuickHeal's one undefined template is inherited ten times — per UI load, so 78
lines a session for two causes. A document's log warnings now collapse by shape:
the first two keep their detail, the rest become one "N more like …" line, and
`/errors` still gets every one, because the panel is where detail belongs.
Three shapes were checked and deliberately left, because the client is right:
`SetScript("OnInputLanguageChanged")` must keep raising (an unfired script kind
raises by this project's own rule, and nothing can fire an IME edge here); the
`SetOwner: unknown anchor 'BOTTOMRIGHT'` line is TurtleWoW's own
`Turtle_ShopUI.lua:530`, where our mode-0 fallback already matches the reference
and the line is already once per session; and a `.toc`-listed `Bindings.xml` walks
as FrameXML with `<Binding>` an unknown frame type, which the reference logs too
(the bindings themselves load by their own path and work).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
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