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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/platform-objects': patch
+---
+
+fix(platform-objects): the zh-CN platform-object bundle no longer ships English labels, options and help as copies of the source (#20462)
+
+Clause-②: no
+
+A zh-CN console showed English on Setup surfaces: the Invite user dialog listed
+the membership roles as 所有者 / 管理员 / Delegated Admin / 成员, and a team record
+read MEMBER COUNT. The keys were present in `zh-CN.objects.generated.ts`, but
+their values were byte copies of the English source that `os i18n extract
+--fill=default` seeds.
+
+- 320 of the 362 zh-CN string leaves that equalled their `en` source are now
+  translated: labels, plural labels, select options, help, descriptions and
+  empty states. `delegated_admin` reads 受托管理员 on both
+  `sys_member` and `sys_invitation`, the word the console already uses for that
+  role.
+- The other 42 stay English by design, and each is recorded with its reason in
+  `objects-zh-cn-echo-decisions.test.ts`: sign-in provider brands (Google, GitHub,
+  …), the bare `ID` initialism, protocol names (JWKS, IdP SSO URL, Message-ID,
+  UI / API), the OAuth credential names in the create-application result dialog,
+  and placeholders that show a value the admin types.
+
+`zh-CN.source-hashes.generated.ts` was regenerated by `pnpm i18n:extract`: it
+records a leaf only while the leaf is a copy of its source, so it now lists
+exactly those 42. `ja-JP` and `es-ES` are unchanged.
@@ -528,7 +528,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 5 — the provenance table agrees these leaves are now au
     it(`${locale}: no decided leaf is still recorded as an extractor fill`, () => {
       // Lit — the table really loaded, so "no entry" cannot pass by the import
       // having come back empty.
-      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+      // Non-empty, not a debt size: since #20462 zh-CN's objects slice holds only
+      // its declared English-by-design leaves, so the table is small by design.
+      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const stillFilled = DECISIONS.filter((d) => table[provenanceKey(d)] !== undefined).map(idOf);
       expect(stillFilled, 'these leaves are still byte copies of their source revision').toEqual([]);
     });
 
@@ -703,7 +703,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 7 — the provenance table agrees these leaves are now au
     it(`${locale}: no decided leaf is still recorded as an extractor fill`, () => {
       // Lit — the table really loaded, so "no entry" cannot pass by the import
       // having come back empty.
-      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+      // Non-empty, not a debt size: since #20462 zh-CN's objects slice holds only
+      // its declared English-by-design leaves, so the table is small by design.
+      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const stillFilled = DECISIONS.filter((d) => table[provenanceKey(d)] !== undefined).map(idOf);
       expect(stillFilled, 'these leaves are still byte copies of their source revision').toEqual([]);
     });
@@ -754,7 +756,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 7 — the provenance table agrees these leaves are now au
       // of my twelve is still a fill", but "no metadata type's own display pair
       // is still a fill, anywhere in this table". Lit by the table being large,
       // so a zero cannot come from an empty import.
-      expect(Object.keys(table).length).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+      // Non-empty, not a debt size: since #20462 zh-CN's objects slice holds only
+      // its declared English-by-design leaves, so the table is small by design.
+      expect(Object.keys(table).length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const typeLevel = Object.keys(table).filter((k) => /^metadataForms\.[^.]+\.(label|description)$/.test(k));
       expect(typeLevel, 'a metadata type display pair is still an extractor fill').toEqual([]);
     });
 
@@ -556,7 +556,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 3 — the provenance table agrees these leaves are now au
     it(`${locale}: no decided leaf is still recorded as an extractor fill`, () => {
       // Lit — the table really loaded, so "no entry" cannot pass by the import
       // having come back empty.
-      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+      // Non-empty, not a debt size: since #20462 zh-CN's objects slice holds only
+      // its declared English-by-design leaves, so the table is small by design.
+      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const stillFilled = DECISIONS.filter((d) => table[provenanceKey(d)] !== undefined).map(idOf);
       expect(stillFilled, 'these leaves are still byte copies of their source revision').toEqual([]);
     });
 
@@ -557,7 +557,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 4 — the provenance table agrees these leaves are now au
     it(`${locale}: no decided leaf is still recorded as an extractor fill`, () => {
       // Lit — the table really loaded, so "no entry" cannot pass by the import
       // having come back empty.
-      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+      // Non-empty, not a debt size: since #20462 zh-CN's objects slice holds only
+      // its declared English-by-design leaves, so the table is small by design.
+      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const stillFilled = DECISIONS.filter((d) => table[provenanceKey(d)] !== undefined).map(idOf);
       expect(stillFilled, 'these leaves are still byte copies of their source revision').toEqual([]);
     });
 
@@ -669,7 +669,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 6 — the provenance table agrees these leaves are now au
     it(`${locale}: no decided leaf is still recorded as an extractor fill`, () => {
       // Lit — the table really loaded, so "no entry" cannot pass by the import
       // having come back empty.
-      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+      // Non-empty, not a debt size: since #20462 zh-CN's objects slice holds only
+      // its declared English-by-design leaves, so the table is small by design.
+      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const stillFilled = DECISIONS.filter((d) => table[provenanceKey(d)] !== undefined).map(idOf);
       expect(stillFilled, 'these leaves are still byte copies of their source revision').toEqual([]);
     });
 
@@ -770,7 +770,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 8 — the provenance table agrees these leaves are now au
     it(`${locale}: no decided leaf is still recorded as an extractor fill`, () => {
       // Lit — the table really loaded, so "no entry" cannot pass by the import
       // having come back empty.
-      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+      // Non-empty, not a debt size: since #20462 zh-CN's objects slice holds only
+      // its declared English-by-design leaves, so the table is small by design.
+      expect(Object.keys(table).length, `${locale} provenance table is empty`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const stillFilled = DECISIONS.filter((d) => table[provenanceKey(d)] !== undefined).map(idOf);
       expect(stillFilled, 'these leaves are still byte copies of their source revision').toEqual([]);
     });
@@ -807,7 +809,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 8 — the provenance table agrees these leaves are now au
       const authored = [...enObjectPaths]
         .filter(([path, en]) => localeObjects.has(path) && localeObjects.get(path) !== en)
         .map(([path]) => path);
-      expect(echoing.length, `${locale} has no echoing objects leaf to sample`).toBeGreaterThan(50);
+      // At least one of each is what makes a positive AND a negative; since
+      // #20462 zh-CN's echoing objects leaves are its 42 declared English ones.
+      expect(echoing.length, `${locale} has no echoing objects leaf to sample`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       expect(authored.length, `${locale} has no authored objects leaf to sample`).toBeGreaterThan(50);
       expect(
         echoing.filter((path) => table[`objects.${path}`] === undefined),
@@ -848,7 +852,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 8 — the provenance table agrees these leaves are now au
       // The strongest form the verdict above can take for this class: not "none
       // of my eleven", but "nothing this population reaches, outside the
       // declared deferral". Lit by the table being large.
-      expect(Object.keys(table).length).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+      // Non-empty, not a debt size: since #20462 zh-CN's objects slice holds only
+      // its declared English-by-design leaves, so the table is small by design.
+      expect(Object.keys(table).length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const stillFilled = PANEL_LEAVES.filter(
         (l) => !inDeferral(l) && table[`metadataForms.object.fields.${l.path}.${l.prop}`] !== undefined,
       ).map((l) => `${l.path}.${l.prop}`);
 
@@ -1292,15 +1292,24 @@ describe('#19403 round 10 — ⚠️⚠️ the phantom-translation trap, asserte
   });
 
   it('⭐ the near-twin that was LOOKED UP AND REFUSED is asserted to be a fill, not a decision', () => {
-    // `Access Token TTL` is byte-identical in all three locales and reads like a
-    // standing decision to keep TTL verbatim. It is an unauthored fill in every
-    // locale — including zh-CN — and the provenance tables say so. Asserted so
-    // that no later round leans on it.
+    // `Access Token TTL` was byte-identical in all three locales and read like a
+    // standing decision to keep TTL verbatim. It was an unauthored fill in every
+    // locale, and the provenance tables said so. Asserted so that no later round
+    // leans on it. #20462 then AUTHORED the zh-CN leaf (访问令牌 TTL): the
+    // concept is rendered and the initialism survives, the same treatment the
+    // lifecycle rows give TTL. ja-JP and es-ES are still fills.
     const key = 'sys_oauth_resource.fields.access_token_ttl.label';
     const en = FLAT_OBJECTS.get('en')!.get(key);
     expect(en).toBe('Access Token TTL');
     for (const [locale, table] of PROVENANCE) {
-      expect(FLAT_OBJECTS.get(locale)!.get(key), `${locale} ${key}`).toBe(en);
+      const value = FLAT_OBJECTS.get(locale)!.get(key);
+      if (locale === 'zh-CN') {
+        expect(value, `${locale} ${key} reads its en source again`).not.toBe(en);
+        expect(carriesToken(value!, 'TTL'), `${locale} dropped the machine token`).toBe(true);
+        expect(table[`objects.${key}`], `${locale} still records the authored ${key} as a fill`).toBeUndefined();
+        continue;
+      }
+      expect(value, `${locale} ${key}`).toBe(en);
       expect(
         table[`objects.${key}`],
         `${locale} no longer records ${key} as a fill — if a translator authored it, this ledger note is stale`,
@@ -1317,7 +1326,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 10 — the SECOND WITNESS, over the `metadataForms.`-pref
       // exists exactly while the leaf IS a byte copy of the source revision, so
       // a leaf this round authored must have lost its row.
       const keys = Object.keys(table);
-      expect(keys.length, 'the provenance table is empty — the witness cannot testify').toBeGreaterThan(300);
+      // Non-empty, not a debt size: since #20462 zh-CN's objects slice holds only
+      // its declared English-by-design leaves, so the table is small by design.
+      expect(keys.length, 'the provenance table is empty — the witness cannot testify').toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const metadataFormRows = keys.filter((k) => k.startsWith('metadataForms.'));
       // The reading: NOTHING under the metadataForms. prefix is a fill any more.
       expect(metadataFormRows, `${locale} still records a metadata-form leaf as an unauthored fill`).toEqual([]);
@@ -1342,7 +1353,9 @@ describe('#19403 round 10 — the SECOND WITNESS, over the `metadataForms.`-pref
       const loc = FLAT_OBJECTS.get(locale)!;
       const echoing = [...en].filter(([k, v]) => loc.get(k) === v).map(([k]) => k);
       const authored = [...en].filter(([k, v]) => loc.get(k) !== undefined && loc.get(k) !== v).map(([k]) => k);
-      expect(echoing.length, `${locale} has no echoing objects leaf to sample`).toBeGreaterThan(50);
+      // At least one of each is what makes a positive AND a negative; since
+      // #20462 zh-CN's echoing objects leaves are its 42 declared English ones.
+      expect(echoing.length, `${locale} has no echoing objects leaf to sample`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       expect(authored.length, `${locale} has no authored objects leaf to sample`).toBeGreaterThan(50);
       expect(
         echoing.filter((k) => table[`objects.${k}`] === undefined),