Delete the two spot-verified dead i18n namespaces: `workflow.*` (54 keys) and `publicForm.demo.*` (36 keys) across the ten packs

[yinlianghui]

Part of #4730 — the mechanically-safe carve-out of its CONFIRMED tier. The umbrella card stays open for console.objectView.* (needs a product decision: is the ListViewSchema-backed settings panel meant to exist?) and the not-yet-spot-checked smaller namespaces (configPanel, renderer, table, report, search, form, …).

Scope — exactly two namespaces, both spot-verified on the umbrella card

1. workflow.* — 54 of 58 keys CONFIRMED dead by scripts/check-i18n-dead-keys.mjs (the other 4 appear only as test-fixture mentions in ellipsis-glyph-3878.test.ts / untranslated-identity-4376.test.ts, not consumers — re-measure and handle per evidence: a fixture mention is not a reader). The plausible consumer, packages/plugin-designer/src/ProcessDesigner.tsx, hardcodes English labels and imports no translation hook at all — the vocabulary has zero i18n integration anywhere.
2. publicForm.demo.* — 36/36 CONFIRMED, zero hits anywhere in the repo outside the locale packs.

Evidence standard is #4658's (PR #4731): zero call sites per the AST pass, zero textual footprint per the safety net, plus a spot-checked plausible consumer confirming no wiring exists. Re-run node scripts/check-i18n-dead-keys.mjs at your tree first — the numbers will have drifted since the umbrella card's measurement (today's merges added keys).

Deliverables

• Delete the two namespaces from all ten packs (packages/i18n/src/locales/*.ts).
• Post-deletion, check-i18n-dead-keys.mjs no longer lists either namespace; check-i18n-call-site-keys.mjs stays green (nothing referenced them — that is the point); check-i18n-en-drift abstains (deletions are parity's business).
• The four workflow.* test-fixture mentions: update the fixtures to use live keys if the fixtures merely need a key, or delete the fixture rows if they exist to pin those specific keys — judge by what each test asserts and say which in the PR body.
• Changeset: @object-ui/i18n patch, stating the count and that no reader exists.

Explicitly out of scope

• console.objectView.* in any form (umbrella card, decision pending).
• The smaller namespaces from the umbrella table (not yet spot-verified — do not sweep them in).
• Red-ifying the dead-keys script (--strict stays unwired per Dead locale strings: console.objectView.striped/bordered/virtualScroll and appDesigner.stripedRows/bordered have no call site in any of the ten packs #4658's ruling).

PR discipline

PR body first line: Part of #4730 — no closing keyword anywhere; this card is the one the PR closes (Fixes #<this> as sole closing keyword on line 2).

[yinlianghui]

Dispatched by the repo:objectui PM seat (session session_01RnQd8iMMUwXQEV1crFmQiQ), branch claude/issue-4742-dead-namespace-deletion. Carved out of #4730 under delegated adjudication (no-consumer retirement family precedent: #4152 → #4241 → #4659; evidence standard from #4658 / PR #4731). Maintainer veto window open as always.

Adjudication. Deletion-class, two namespaces only, per the card. Re-measure first at your tree — the umbrella's numbers predate today's merges.

Mechanism assumptions (from the umbrella card, re-verify): ProcessDesigner.tsx has zero translation imports (the whole workflow.* vocabulary has no reader); publicForm.demo.* has zero textual footprint outside the packs; the dead-keys sweep's CONFIRMED tier plus the text safety net is the measuring instrument, and it must be re-run both before (scope) and after (proof of removal) the deletion.

Review note: deletion-class means the PM will independently re-test the reference faces on origin/main before ACCEPT — leave the exact commands you used in the PR body so the re-test is a re-run, not a reconstruction.

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[yinlianghui]

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 "issue": 4742,
 "branch": "claude/issue-4742-dead-namespace-deletion",
 "pr_number": 4743,
 "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/4743",
 "head_sha": "c0a3ba7b8f6f1495f79f8bb0226220396e0e4119",
 "status": "done",
 "premise_still_valid": true,
 "summary": "Deleted `workflow.*` (58 keys) and `publicForm.demo.*` (36 keys) from all ten locale packs — 94 keys x 10 packs = 940 strings, no reader anywhere. Re-measured before touching anything: the umbrella's per-namespace numbers still hold on today's tree (54/4 and 36/0), only the totals drifted (2927 -> 2933 pack keys, 13776 -> 13811 referenced). After deletion the sweep reports exactly -94 pack keys, -90 CONFIRMED, -4 NEEDS-REVIEW, and neither namespace appears. No key in either namespace had a live reader, so nothing was excluded. The four `workflow.*` fixture mentions were pinning those specific keys (a converged-key census and a key-level allowlist), not merely using a key, so their rows were deleted rather than re-pointed — stated with reasoning in the PR body.",
 "mechanism_assumptions_checked": [
 "ProcessDesigner.tsx has zero translation imports — CONFIRMED: `grep -cE 'useTranslation|useObjectTranslation|useDesignerTranslation|@object-ui/i18n|react-i18next'` returns 0 (exit 1). It hardcodes the same vocabulary in English. Strengthened: six sibling components in the same package DO use a translation hook, so this is one unwired component, not a package with no i18n.",
 "publicForm.demo.* has zero textual footprint outside the packs — CONFIRMED, and stronger than stated: `grep -rF 'publicForm.demo'` returns zero hits repo-wide including the packs, because the packs nest it as an object literal and never spell the dotted form.",
 "workflow.* textual footprint — CONFIRMED: all 58 keys greped as fixed strings across the repo return exactly the four known fixture mentions (ellipsis-glyph-3878.test.ts x2, untranslated-identity-4376.test.ts x2) and nothing else.",
 "The dead-keys sweep is the measuring instrument, run before (scope) and after (proof) — DONE, both as --json, deltas exact and fully accounted for.",
 "Independent AST cross-check beyond the script: no `t()`/`tt()` call site and no object-path access (`.workflow` / `.publicForm` / `.demo`) names either namespace anywhere in packages/apps/examples/e2e.",
 "Beyond the card: sibling repo ../objectstack has zero references (its one `workflow.` hit is the filename workflow.zod.ts); neither i18n baseline JSON (en-drift, call-site) names a key in either namespace, so no waiver ledger is left dangling.",
 "Reverse verification, fix committed first: reverting ONLY the two fixture files to origin/main while keeping the pack deletions turns both guards red by name (`en workflow.fromPlaceholder missing`, `these allowlist entries no longer match any identity: ['workflow.webhook', ...]`). Expected direction red, observed red. Restored from the branch; `git diff --stat HEAD` empty; suite re-run green from the restored state."
 ],
 "gates": {
 "check-i18n-dead-keys": "green — neither namespace listed; 2933 -> 2839 pack keys, 626 -> 532 candidates, 384 -> 294 CONFIRMED, 242 -> 238 NEEDS-REVIEW",
 "check-i18n-call-site-keys": "green (exit 0) — 2415/2415 literal keys resolve against the en pack (2839 keys)",
 "check-i18n-en-drift": "green (exit 0), abstains as designed — '0 en value(s) changed (0 added, 94 removed — those are all-locales-key-parity's)'",
 "i18n test suite (pnpm exec vitest run packages/i18n/)": "green — 45 files, 804 tests passed, including all-locales-key-parity, ellipsis-glyph-3878 and untranslated-identity-4376",
 "pack-consumer sweep outside packages/i18n": "green — 17 files, 236 tests passed (the three script gates' own tests plus every file importing builtInLocales)",
 "type-check (@object-ui/i18n)": "green (exit 0), after building the dep closure `pnpm --filter '@object-ui/i18n^...' build` in the fresh worktree",
 "lint (@object-ui/i18n)": "green — 0 errors; 35 pre-existing warnings, none in any file this PR touches",
 "check-changeset-presence": "green — 12 source files changed, 1 changeset declared",
 "check-changeset-fixed / check-changeset-no-major": "green (exit 0 both)",
 "check-control-bytes": "green — 4260 tracked text files scanned",
 "CI on the draft PR": "in_progress — reported at draft-PR time per the dispatch contract, not waited on"
 },
 "deviations": [
 "One bounded in-place fix, named in the PR body: untranslated-identity-4376.test.ts's header said '22 keys below' while the list held 23 on origin/main (nothing asserts the number). My deletion moves the same sentence again, so the count was removed from the prose rather than restated — the list is its own count and the file's own `no dead entries` assertion keeps it honest. Same file, same defect class, mechanical, no new verification surface.",
 "`skip-changeset` label NOT applied, per the dispatch's explicit instruction (this overrides the standing dev-contract clause); the PR carries a real @object-ui/i18n patch changeset instead."
 ],
 "followups_filed": [],
 "observations_for_umbrella_4730": [
 "The PARENT `publicForm.*` namespace is itself largely unread: 12 CONFIRMED and 7 NEEDS-REVIEW of its 19 remaining keys, with no t() call site anywhere in packages/ or apps/ (the live-looking `submit`, `submitting`, `poweredBy` reach the NEEDS-REVIEW tier only through i18n fixture mentions). Left untouched — it is the umbrella's namespace-by-namespace pass, not this carve-out. No separate issue filed: it is inside #4730's stated completion scope and filing would duplicate it."
 ]
}

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