loc-guard

Testing & Quality

INTERNAL DEV WORKFLOW for WpfHexEditor — Claude self-invokes on two scopes: (1) PARITY — after editing any *.resx (base or satellite), verifies the 28-language satellite parity (missing/orphan keys, placeholder drift, untranslated). (2) SOURCE — after editing *.xaml or *.cs under App/, Editors/, Plugins/, Core/, Controls/, advisory checks for: DynamicResource on loc keys (must be StaticResource), hardcoded user-visible string literals, IdeMessageBox.Show literals, legacy MessageBox.Show usage (ADR-009), and missing LocalizedResourceDictionary wiring (ADR-005). All SOURCE findings are warn-only. Distinct from xaml-guard (which only checks Designer.cs parity for the base resx). Skip on: Themes/, ColorPicker, Designer.cs/g.cs, Tests/, Samples/, pure structural XAML edits.

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loc-guard (internal)

56 base *Resources.resx files × up to 28 satellites. xaml-guard covers base↔Designer.cs; this skill covers base↔satellites (Scope 1) and source advisory (Scope 2).

When I invoke

Scope 1 — PARITY

Situation	Run?
Edit a base `*Resources.resx`	yes (scan all satellites)
Edit a satellite `*.<lang>.resx`	yes (scan against base only)

Scope 2 — SOURCE (advisory)

Situation	Run?
Edit `.xaml` / `.cs` under `App/`, `Editors/`, `Plugins/`, `Core/`, `Controls/`	yes
Edit `Themes/`, `ColorPicker/`, `.Designer.cs`, `.g.cs`, `Tests/`, `Samples/`	no
Pure structural edit (Grid.Row, Margin), comment/whitespace only	no

Pipeline

Scope 1: scripts/loc-parity.ps1 -Files <paths> Scope 2: scripts/loc-source-guard.ps1 -Files <paths> (always exits 0) Silence a line: // loc-ignore: <reason> (CS) or same-line XML comment (XAML). Tune: data/allowlist.json.

Rules

Scope 1 — parity (blocking)

Rule	Severity
`satellite-missing-key`	error — key in base, absent from satellite
`satellite-orphan-key`	error — key in satellite, absent from base
`placeholder-mismatch`	error — format-arg drift (`{0}/{1}` base vs `{0}` sat)
`untranslated`	warn — satellite value identical to base (non-en-* only)
`satellite-malformed`	error — XML parse fails or root != `<root>`

Scope 2 — source (advisory)

Rule	Detects
`loc-static-required`	`{DynamicResource <LocKey>}` → must be `StaticResource`
`loc-hardcoded-string`	literal in Text/ToolTip/Header/Content/Title (XAML) or `.Text =`/`.Title =` (CS)
`loc-idemessagebox-literal`	`IdeMessageBox.Show("literal", …)` — first arg must be a resource key
`loc-messagebox-legacy`	`MessageBox.Show(…)` → use `IdeMessageBox` (ADR-009)
`loc-locdict-missing`	assembly has `*Resources.resx` but no `LocalizedResourceDictionary` merge (ADR-005)

Output

Loc AppResources (28 satellites):
  fr-FR  OK     keys=680
  ja-JP  3 missing-key   APP_NewFile_Title, APP_Recent_Header, PA_FilterTitle
  ar-SA  1 placeholder-mismatch  APP_Status_Loading base="{0}/{1}" sat="{0}"
  ru-RU  124 untranslated  (warn)

Language matrix auto-detected per assembly by scanning sibling <base>.<lang>(-<region>)?.resx files. Scope 2 exit 0 (advisory); does not translate, generate, or coordinate sub-agents (see feedback_localization_agent_strategy).

Maintenance

New language added → auto-picked up.
Renaming a base resx → update all satellites in same commit (orphan files not detected at filesystem level).