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+# Changelog
+
+## 1.0.0
+
+First stable release. The changes below are the three implementation batches
+from the 2026-08-15 architecture review (`ARCHITECTURE-REVIEW.md`):
+release-readiness blockers, the breaking-change window, and the
+stabilization pass.
+
+### Breaking changes (the 1.0 window)
+
+All verified end-to-end on a scratch site built against this tree: SSG build,
+rendered HTML inspection, and live browser hydration/storage/draft-gate
+checks.
+
+- **`site.trimInitialState` now defaults ON.** Pages embed only their own
+  config in `window.__INITIAL_STATE__` (measured 218 KB / 81% of page weight
+  saved on a profiled site). Opt out with `"trimInitialState": false`.
+  Rendered HTML is unaffected; the client soft-reloads the full config after
+  first paint so in-SPA navigation keeps working.
+- **Browser-storage keys are namespaced under `cms_`** (`cms_locale`,
+  `cms_cookie_consent`, `cms_cookie_consent_timestamp`, `cms_session_id`,
+  `cms_attribution_v1`) via a single guarded helper. Reads fall back to the
+  old unprefixed keys and migrate them forward, so returning visitors keep
+  their consent choice and locale. All access now degrades safely in Safari
+  private mode.
+- **Extension manifests validate at build time, not in the browser.** An
+  invalid `extension.config.json` now fails the build with the offending
+  fields; ajv/ajv-formats (~40 KB gz) no longer ship to visitors. The runtime
+  keeps a cheap structural check whose failure logs unconditionally.
+- **The vestigial `/admin` route is gone** (was a pre-rendered duplicate of
+  the 404 page on every site, once per shard).
+- **robots.txt no longer discloses draft URLs.** Per-page and `draftPaths`
+  `Disallow` lines were the discovery vector for unlinked drafts and blocked
+  Google from ever seeing the page's `noindex`. Deindexing now rests on the
+  noindex meta + sitemap omission + the gate; site-wide draft keeps its
+  blanket `Disallow: /`. Non-draft sites emit the canonical allow-all form.
+- **Five components stop rendering placeholders without content.** `Plan`,
+  `Principles`, `Contact`, `About`, `Intro` now render nothing when their
+  `content.*` block is absent (matching `ComingSoon`); `AboutValue` stops
+  emitting an empty section shell. Fleet audit: every live page supplies its
+  content block, so nothing visible changes.
+- **Unique section ids:** `AboutValue` → `#about-value`, `Intro` → `#intro`
+  (`About` keeps `#about`). Fleet audit: no page composes two of the trio and
+  no site's `#about` anchors target the bundled components.
+- **One `Spacer`** (prop-driven, default 30px) replaces four copies;
+  `Spacer15/30/40/60` remain as aliases so existing pages keep working. Bare
+  `"Spacer"` now means 30px (previously aliased to the 15px variant; zero
+  fleet usage of the bare name).
+- **New `site.analytics.consentMode`:** `"opt-out"` (default — analytics load
+  while consent is pending, today's behavior) or `"opt-in"` (analytics stay
+  off until explicit acceptance; the GDPR/ePrivacy posture for EU-audience
+  sites).
+
+### Release pipeline: publishing is now gated
+
+The `Publish to npm` workflow previously ran zero checks — any `v*` tag
+shipped whatever the tree held, and a tag that didn't match `package.json`
+silently published the stale version. Publishing now requires a green test
+job (`npm ci --ignore-scripts` + full Vitest suite) and an exact
+tag↔`package.json` version match, on the Node version from `.nvmrc`.
+
+### Removed: obsolete consumer-install machinery
+
+- **`postinstall` lru-cache patch deleted.** Upstream fixed the top-level
+  await the patch existed to strip (verified across every installed copy in
+  this repo and the consumer fleet: 10.4.3 / 11.3.x are clean). The patch was
+  pure liability: an unguarded `JSON.parse` walk over `node_modules` on every
+  consumer install, and a breakage under `--ignore-scripts` CI policies.
+  Consumers on current lockfiles need no changes.
+- **`cms-migrate-image-variants` removed** — the one-time beta.26→27
+  migration completed fleet-wide, and run after 1.0 it would have written
+  `^1.0.0-beta.27` back into a consumer's package.json (a downgrade).
+- **`scripts/migrate-to-content-dirs.mjs` removed** (one-time `site/config/`
+  → `site/content/` migration, long completed).
+- **`scripts/check-overflow.mjs` removed** — imported `playwright`, which was
+  never a dependency; dead on arrival for any installer.
+
+### Exports map curated (the 1.0 semver surface)
+
+- Removed `./plugins/*` (pointed at a directory that doesn't exist),
+  `./router`, and `./constants/*` (zero consumers fleet-wide).
+- Added `./extensions/manifest.schema.json` so extension configs can
+  reference the schema through the package instead of raw `node_modules`
+  paths.
+- README now documents the supported specifier list; deep imports beyond it
+  are declared internal.
+
+### Scaffolds brought to release state
+
+- `@koehler8/cms` pins: `^1.0.0` across the site/theme/extension templates
+  (site was 24 betas stale).
+- `build:ssg` now runs `cms-ssg-build` (bounded heap, sharding, blank-page
+  gate) instead of raw `vite-ssg build` behind a `NODE_OPTIONS` bandaid.
+- Template `site.json` ships `"trimInitialState": true` and
+  `"trailingSlash": true` — new sites have no legacy payload or URL shape to
+  preserve — plus an empty `"theme"` key for discoverability.
+- `.env.example` loses the web3 leftovers (`VITE_REGISTRY_ADDRESS`,
+  `VITE_RPC_READ`, `VITE_REOWN_PROJECT_ID`); documents `VITE_APP_VERSION`.
+
+### `cms-generate-public-assets` fixes
+
+- A site providing its own `site/favicon.ico` but no og-image now still gets
+  a generated `public/og-image.jpg` (previously the provided-favicon early
+  return skipped og generation entirely, while every page's `og:image` meta
+  kept pointing at the missing file).
+- Fallback favicon/og colors are now a stable hash of the site title instead
+  of `Math.random()` — no more brand favicon changing color on every deploy.
+  `FAVICON_BG`/`FAVICON_FG` still override.
+
+### Packaging & docs
+
+- `engines.npm` relaxed to `>=10.8.0` for the published package (the strict
+  10.8 pin remains fleet discipline via `.nvmrc`; external consumers on npm
+  11 no longer get `EBADENGINE` warnings).
+- `CHANGELOG.md` now ships in the npm tarball.
+- README: current `site/content/{locale}/` layout in Quick Start,
+  `cms-ssg-build` as the documented SSG path, an honest note that the
+  validate CLIs currently only check the framework's own bundled manifests,
+  and a Draft Mode section stating the gate's security posture (unsalted
+  SHA-256 hash in the bundle, content in hydration JSON — pre-launch
+  convenience, not access control).
+
+### Stabilization batch — tooling that tells the truth, a11y, coverage
+
+All verified end-to-end: full unit suite (720 tests / 56 files), a real SSG
+build of a validation site against this tree, rendered-output inspection,
+and live browser checks (hydration, focus trap, draft unlock).
+
+**Failures are loud now:**
+
+- A route whose page config fails to load during pre-render FAILS the build
+  (machine-grepable marker scanned by `cms-ssg-build`); previously it
+  shipped chrome around an empty `<main>` on a green build. The shard merge
+  also exits 1 instead of warning when no shard rendered the home page, and
+  the merged `dist/` gets a final blank-page scan.
+- **Unknown `components[]` references fail the build** with page, locale,
+  index, and a did-you-mean suggestion — closing the fleet's #1 authoring
+  trap (production silently dropped the section). Fleet-audited: zero
+  violations exist today. Source-qualified strings (`site:Name`,
+  `slug:Name`) now also work at runtime, matching the documented syntax.
+- `cms-validate-extensions` / `cms-validate-themes` actually validate the
+  site now (site-local `extensions/` + named packages; bundled + site-local
+  themes) through the same implementation the plugin runs at build, and
+  exit non-zero on failure. Previously both always exited 0 without
+  checking anything of the site's.
+- The contact form: an unconfigured form (no `form.action`) renders
+  disabled and says so instead of posting to the page URL and claiming
+  success; the plugin warns at build time; network failures keep the
+  visitor's typed message; the anti-spam challenge no longer causes a
+  hydration mismatch on every load; one aria-live region instead of two.
+- The draft gate over plain HTTP says "requires a secure connection"
+  instead of calling the correct password incorrect.
+
+**Accessibility (backing the AA claim):**
+
+- New `useFocusTrap` composable: DraftGate declared `aria-modal` without
+  trapping Tab — it traps now (verified in a live browser); ComingSoonModal
+  and IntroGate drop their duplicated private implementations.
+- `prefers-reduced-motion` coverage completed (IntroGate, ComingSoonModal,
+  ComingSoon, StickyCTA, Portfolio) and bare `:focus` hover-pairs converted
+  to `:focus-visible`.
+- DraftGate and NotFound are themeable: every theme manifest now feeds
+  `--brand-text` / `--brand-surface` (+muted/elevated/border), which the
+  two components consumed but nothing ever defined.
+
+**Correctness & performance:**
+
+- Image-variant cache: fixed the manifest poisoning that re-encoded every
+  under-width source on alternating builds; failed renders are no longer
+  recorded as existing; manifest and image writes are atomic.
+- Responsive-image widths come from the pipeline's resolved matrix via the
+  virtual config — components can no longer request widths that don't
+  exist (About shipped a one-entry srcset for a 66vw slot).
+- Multi-locale sitemaps emit every locale version as its own `<url>` entry;
+  JSON-LD sinks are `</script>`-breakout-safe and the Organization block is
+  real JSON (a `"` in a site title no longer ships as `&quot;`);
+  `og:locale` (+alternates) emitted; manifest icon stops claiming
+  `maskable`.
+- Dev sessions stop churning git-tracked files: SEO files write only on
+  change and are never deleted mid-session; image edits trigger one reload
+  instead of two; the dev-server flag actually works under Vite 8.
+- The framework version reaches the bundle as a compile-time constant —
+  the full package.json (deps, exports map) no longer ships as a string in
+  every site's main chunk.
+
+**Coverage:** first real component tests (DraftGate, NotFound, Spacer +
+aliases, the externally-consumed `ui/` trio, Contact), router-guard branch
+tests, and a resolver spec. 720 tests across 56 files.
+
+### Release notes
+
+- Cut alongside `@koehler8/cms-ext-compliance` 1.0.0; the site scaffold now
+  pins both at `^1.0.0`.
+- This release moves the `latest` dist-tag off `1.0.0-beta.5`, where it had
+  been frozen since the first-ever publish (all betas shipped under the
+  `beta` tag).
+- Consuming sites do not auto-upgrade: existing lockfiles keep beta.39
+  until each site bumps. Re-pin sites to `^1.0.0` as they're touched, and
+  give the first bumps a browser once-over (they pick up the
+  `trimInitialState` default and the component-gating changes).
+- Version-history note: `1.0.0-beta.1`–`beta.4` were never published to
+  npm; `beta.5`–`beta.7` were published without changelog entries.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.39
+
+### Feature: `site.robots.allowAiCrawlers` — durable AI-crawler allow-list in robots.txt
+
+Found while bumping the fleet to beta.38: five consumer sites (site-cityofangels,
+site-coastalcollective, site-jamieaustin, site-ocandme, site-resom) had hand-edited
+`public/robots.txt` with an explicit `Allow: /` block per AI/LLM crawler (GPTBot,
+ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, CCBot, etc.). `robots.txt` is regenerated from config on
+every `build:ssg`/`generate:public-assets` run (see `writeSeoFiles` in
+`vite-plugin.js`), so those hand edits were silently reverted on the next local
+build — no error, just quiet drift between the committed file and the working tree.
+There was no config path that could express "also allow these crawlers," so the
+only way site authors had to express this intent didn't survive a rebuild.
+
+`buildRobotsTxt` (`src/utils/robotsGenerator.js`) now accepts an opt-in
+`site.robots.allowAiCrawlers` flag. When true, it appends a dedicated block per
+known AI/LLM crawler (grouped: OpenAI/ChatGPT, Anthropic/Claude, Perplexity,
+Common Crawl, Google, Bing, Meta, Diffbot) — each carrying the **same** Disallow
+list as the wildcard `User-agent: *` block, so a named crawler never sees more
+than the default policy already grants (draft paths and `/admin` stay blocked for
+them too). Skipped entirely when `site.draft === true`. Default is off — existing
+sites are unaffected unless they opt in.
+
+Consuming sites should set `"robots.allowAiCrawlers": true` in `site.json` instead
+of hand-editing `public/robots.txt`, and stop tracking that file in git (remove any
+`!public/robots.txt` `.gitignore` exception) — it's build output now, like
+`sitemap.xml` and `manifest.json`.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.38
+
+### Fix: `cms-ssg-build` now fails loudly instead of silently shipping blank pages
+
+Found while investigating a report that one component (`PpFollowCta` on
+site-poopee) wasn't rendering: the real bug was much bigger. On two separate
+clean `npm run build:ssg` runs, **every page on the site** rendered as an
+empty `<div id="app" data-server-rendered="true"><!----></div>` — no
+warnings, no errors, exit code 0. The reported "one component is broken"
+symptom was just the first thing someone happened to grep for; nothing on
+the page had rendered.
+
+Root cause is in Vue's own SSR renderer, not this codebase:
+`@vue/server-renderer`'s `renderComponentVNode` gates a component's render on
+`Promise.all(prefetches).catch(shared.NOOP)` — if the `onServerPrefetch` hook
+(used by `usePageConfig`'s `syncPage()` to resolve page content during SSG)
+ever rejects, the rejection is silently discarded and the renderer proceeds
+to render the component anyway, using whatever default/empty reactive state
+it held at that point. This is a rare, timing-sensitive condition (roughly
+2 failures in ~30 build attempts while reproducing it) that intermittent —
+sharding, concurrency, and `site.trimInitialState` were all investigated as
+possible correlating factors, but none could be confirmed as the sole
+trigger despite extensive bisection.
+
+Rather than chase a non-deterministic upstream race further, `cms-ssg-build`
+now verifies its own output: after every shard (and the single-build
+fallback path for small sites), it scans the rendered HTML for the exact
+empty-root signature and fails the build immediately, printing every
+affected route, if any page comes out blank. A successful build now means
+the pages are actually populated, not just that no exception was thrown.
+Consuming sites don't need to change anything — the check runs automatically
+as part of the existing `cms-ssg-build` command. If it ever fires, re-running
+the build is the correct next step (the failure has not reproduced twice in
+a row in any testing so far).
+
+New: `scripts/ssg-build/findEmptyRenders.mjs` (pure, unit-tested; split out
+from `index.mjs` specifically so it doesn't trip `index.mjs`'s top-level
+`main()` invocation — see `bin/cms-ssg-build.js` — when imported for testing
+or reuse).
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.37
+
+### Fix: `site.trimInitialState` now trims each page to its **own** config
+
+The opt-in SSG payload trim (embed only the current page's config in
+`window.__INITIAL_STATE__` instead of the whole site's) resolved the wrong page
+under **vite-ssg 28**, which passes the route being pre-rendered as
+`ctx.routePath` (a string) and pushes the router only *after* the app-setup
+callback runs. `extractCurrentRoute()` read `ctx.route` (never set by vite-ssg)
+and fell back to `router.currentRoute` — still vue-router's `START_LOCATION`
+(`/`) at that point, identically on every page. Net effect:
+
+- Sites **without** a custom `404.json` (so `/` resolves to `home`) trimmed
+  every page to **home's** config — small blob and `pagesPartial` set, but the
+  wrong page embedded.
+- Sites **with** a path-less custom `pages/404.json` also default it to `/`,
+  making `/` ambiguous — `resolvePageIdForRoute` returned null and **nothing
+  trimmed**, so the full-site config shipped on every page.
+
+Fixes:
+- `main.js` — `extractCurrentRoute()` resolves `ctx.routePath` through
+  `router.resolve()` (a pure match, no navigation) to recover the real path and
+  `params.locale`. Off-SSG behavior is unchanged (falls back to
+  `router.currentRoute`).
+- `loadConfig.js` — `resolvePageIdForRoute()` no longer treats a path-less
+  `404` page as living at `/` (removing the home/404 collision), and maps the
+  `/404` SSG route to a custom path-less `404` page so it trims too.
+
+Verified on a single-locale site with a custom 404 (every page — incl. home and
+404 — trims to its own config, ~94% smaller hydration blob) and a 15-locale site
+(base and locale-prefixed content pages trim to their own page; previously all
+embedded home). Inert for sites that don't opt into `trimInitialState`.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.36
+
+### `cms-ssg-build` — memory-bounded SSG render (Phase 2: the durable fix)
+
+The durable fix for the SSG-build heap OOM (see
+[`SSG-MEMORY-PLAN.md`](./SSG-MEMORY-PLAN.md)). vite-ssg renders every route in
+one Node process and leaves a fixed retained cost per route, so peak heap scales
+with total routes (pages × locales) and large sites OOM. This adds an **opt-in**
+`cms-ssg-build` command that renders the routes as **N separate `vite-ssg build`
+processes**, each handling a slice of the routes and writing to its own outDir,
+then merges the shards into `dist/`. Because each shard is its own process,
+memory is reclaimed between shards — **peak heap is bounded by slice size, not
+total route count**, no matter how large the site grows.
+
+Adopt it by pointing `build:ssg` at the new command (and dropping the interim
+`--max-old-space-size=8192` flag, which is no longer needed):
+
+```jsonc
+// package.json
+"build:ssg": "cms-ssg-build"          // was: NODE_OPTIONS=... vite-ssg build
+"build:ssg": "cms-ssg-build --shard-size 150 --heap 2048"  // tunable
+```
+
+Details:
+- **Sequential by default** — one shard live at a time gives the *lowest* peak
+  memory (the whole point) and avoids racing on the plugin's shared site-root
+  writes. `--concurrency` exists but is experimental.
+- **Small sites are unaffected** — when the route count fits in a single shard,
+  it runs one ordinary `vite-ssg build`.
+- **Framework hooks** (env-gated, inert for a normal build): the plugin's
+  `includedRoutes` honors `CMS_SSG_SHARD=k/N` (new pure, unit-tested
+  `applyRouteShard`; `/404` + `/admin` stay in every shard so each emits its own
+  `404.html`), and the client build honors `CMS_SSG_OUTDIR`.
+- **Output fidelity** verified on a real 60-route multi-locale site: the merged
+  `dist/` is identical to a normal build **except** for vite-ssg's own per-run
+  `modulepreload` chunk-selection non-determinism — two ordinary back-to-back
+  `vite-ssg build` runs already differ the same way (same chunks, equivalent
+  selection, nothing dropped). Sharding introduces no additional differences.
+- **Trade-off:** each shard rebuilds the bundle, so the build does more total
+  work than a single run — an acceptable, opt-in cost for the sites large enough
+  to need the bound. A future optimization can build the bundle once and reuse
+  it across shards.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.35
+
+### SSG build memory — Phase 1 mitigations for the per-route heap accumulation
+
+Large multi-locale sites began failing the Amplify SSG build with `FATAL ERROR:
+… JavaScript heap out of memory` (exit 134). Profiling traced it to vite-ssg's
+in-process render leaving a fixed retained cost per route (one jsdom document
+survives each page inside vite-ssg's own loop), so peak heap scales with total
+routes = pages × locales. This release ships the low-risk, output-preserving
+mitigations; the durable bound (a sharded/recycled render) is designed in
+[`SSG-MEMORY-PLAN.md`](./SSG-MEMORY-PLAN.md).
+
+**Render concurrency default.** The plugin now sets `ssgOptions.concurrency: 8`
+(vite-ssg defaults to 20). Output is unchanged; a smaller pool trims the
+transient working set layered on top of the per-route accumulation and makes
+peak memory more predictable on large sites.
+
+**Opt-in `site.trimInitialState`.** With `"trimInitialState": true` in
+`site.json`, each pre-rendered page embeds only its **own** page's config in
+`window.__INITIAL_STATE__` instead of every page's. The full-site config blob is
+byte-identical on every page and, on content-heavy sites, can be the majority of
+the page weight (measured at ~213 KB / 81% of a 44-page site's HTML). The
+rendered HTML body is unchanged — the SSR render resolves each page from its own
+`loadConfigData()` call, not from `initialState` — so this only shrinks the
+serialized hydration blob: an SEO/payload win as well as a smaller per-route
+jsdom footprint. **Default is off** (byte-identical to prior output). When on,
+the client lazy-loads the full config in the background after first paint (soft,
+no flash) so in-SPA navigation to other pages still resolves; the current page
+can never be trimmed away (the route→page match falls back to the full config on
+any ambiguity). New helpers `trimConfigToPage` / `resolvePageIdForRoute` in
+`utils/loadConfig` are pure and unit-tested.
+
+**Scaffold heap bridge.** Sites scaffolded via `cms-create-site` now get
+`NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=4096` in `build:ssg` as a preventive default,
+so a growing multi-locale site doesn't silently hit Node's ~2 GB ceiling. This
+is a bridge and is intended to be retired once the durable fix lands.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.34
+
+### Fix: language switcher keeps you on the same page
+
+The locale dropdown in the bundled `Header` now preserves the current path when
+switching languages — selecting Español on `/the-wait` goes to `/es/the-wait`
+(previously it bounced to the locale home, `/es`). Slugs are shared across
+locales, so the current path's leading locale segment is stripped and the target
+locale is re-prefixed. Honors `site.trailingSlash`. Homepage behavior is
+unchanged (still `/` ↔ `/{locale}`).
+
+### Fix: `<html lang>` reflects the page locale in prerendered HTML
+
+`usePageMeta` now sets `htmlAttrs.lang` during SSR/SSG, so the on-disk HTML for a
+`/{locale}/...` page ships `<html lang="{locale}">` instead of the empty/base
+value (previously the router guard only set it client-side, after hydration).
+Base-locale pages use the configured base locale. Improves accessibility and
+clears `hreflang` / `<html lang>` mismatch warnings in Search Console.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.33
+
+### Add: opt-in trailing-slash canonical URLs (`site.trailingSlash`)
+
+New `site.trailingSlash` boolean in `site.json` (default **off**). When enabled,
+every non-root canonical URL gets a trailing slash — `<link rel="canonical">`,
+`og:url`, `hreflang` alternates, `sitemap.xml` `<loc>`/alternates, breadcrumb
+`item` URLs, and the locale switcher all emit `/about/`, `/de/`, `/de/about/`.
+The root (`/`) is unchanged.
+
+This aligns the framework's emitted URLs with how a static host serving nested
+`dirStyle` output (`/about/index.html`) actually serves the page: `/about/` at
+`200`, with `/about` `301`-redirecting to it. Without the flag the canonical
+named the no-slash form, so once the SSG host rules are in place (the `/404.html`
+catch-all from the beta.32-era provisioning template) the canonical pointed at a
+URL that redirects. The flag closes that gap — it matters for multi-page sites
+(per-route landing pages); single-page sites whose only sub-pages are compliance
+boilerplate can stay on the default.
+
+Single source of truth: `buildCanonicalUrl` gained a `trailingSlash` option, and
+the four consumers (`usePageMeta`, `sitemapGenerator`, `breadcrumbs`, the
+`Header` locale switcher) read `site.trailingSlash` and thread it through.
+Default (`false`) output is byte-identical to before; a sitemap consistency test
+asserts every non-root URL ends in `/` under the flag.
+
+**Pair with the host rules.** `site.trailingSlash` and the SSG Amplify catch-all
+(`/<*>` → `/404.html` `404`, not the SPA `/index.html` rewrite) are a matched
+set — enable them together so the canonical names the URL the host serves at 200.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.32
+
+### Fix: robots.txt no longer blocks sitemap-listed compliance pages
+
+`robotsGenerator` hard-coded `Disallow: /privacy`, `/terms`, `/cookies` as
+framework defaults, while `sitemapGenerator` lists those same compliance pages
+in `sitemap.xml`. Every site therefore advertised the compliance pages for
+indexing (sitemap) while simultaneously forbidding their crawl (robots.txt) —
+surfacing as "Blocked by robots.txt" / "pages in a sitemap" errors in Search
+Console across the fleet on 2026-06-09.
+
+The framework default is now `['/admin']` only. `/admin` is non-public and never
+appears in the sitemap, so no contradiction remains. Compliance pages are
+public, footer-linked, emit correct canonicals, and are meant to be indexed —
+they stay crawlable. Draft gating (`site.draft`, `site.draftPaths`, page
+`draft`) is unchanged and still emits its Disallow lines (those pages are also
+omitted from the sitemap, so they stay consistent).
+
+A new robots/sitemap consistency invariant test asserts that no URL listed in
+the sitemap can ever be `Disallow`'d by the robots output generated from the
+same config — making this class of contradiction impossible to reintroduce.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.31
+
+### Fix: White-flash on page load across all sites (synchronous first client render)
+
+Every page rendered its body through `usePageConfig`, which on the client fired
+its config load **un-awaited**. Because page content is loaded via lazy
+`import.meta.glob` dynamic-import chunks, the first client render produced an
+empty `<main>` that replaced the prerendered HTML until the async load resolved
+— a visible paint → blank → paint flash on every page, worst on slower (mobile)
+CPUs.
+
+The server-resolved config is already serialized into `initialState.siteConfig`
+by vite-ssg. We now bridge it into a synchronous cache (`primeConfigSync` /
+`peekConfigSync` in `loadConfig.js`, primed from `main.js` before mount) that
+`usePageConfig` reads on its first client render (`hydrateFromSyncCache`), so
+that render reproduces the prerendered DOM instead of blanking. A returning
+visitor's saved `localStorage` locale is preserved via a soft post-render
+reconcile; a cache miss falls back to the previous async path.
+
+Verified on a real SSG build of `site-erea`: the rendered `#app` content held at
+~99% of its prerendered size throughout mount (vs. collapsing to ~0.3% on
+beta.30) — flash eliminated on desktop and mobile, console clean.
+
+### Fix: Scaffold template `.env.example` swallowed by `.env*` gitignore
+
+The site scaffolder copies `templates/scaffolds/site/.env.example`, but the
+broad `.env*` rule in `.gitignore` meant the template was never committed.
+Fresh clones / CI lacked it, so `cms-create-site` produced an incomplete
+scaffold and the scaffold test failed off a clean checkout. Added a `.gitignore`
+negation and committed the placeholder.
+
+No site-side migration needed — bump cms and rebuild.
+
+Tests: 596 passing.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.30
+
+### Chore: minor dependency sweep
+
+Targeted bumps within existing semver ranges — no API or behavior change.
+
+- `@unhead/vue` 2.0.19 → 2.1.15
+- `ajv` 8.17.1 → 8.20.0
+- `@vue/test-utils` 2.4.6 → 2.4.10 (dev)
+- `happy-dom` 20.8.9 → 20.9.0 (dev)
+- `vitest` 4.1.4 → 4.1.6 (dev)
+- `vite` 8.0.8 → 8.0.13 (lockfile, peer)
+- `@vitejs/plugin-vue` 6.0.5 → 6.0.7 (lockfile, peer)
+- `vue` 3.5.32 → 3.5.34 (lockfile, peer; added to devDependencies to pin dev-time install)
+- `vue-router` 5.0.4 → 5.0.7 (lockfile, peer; same reason)
+
+Two majors deferred for a separate release: `@unhead/vue` 3.x (touches `usePageMeta`,
+SEO emission) and `sharp` 0.34.x (touches the image-variants pipeline).
+
+Tests: 588 passing.
+
+No site-side migration needed — bump cms and rebuild.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.29
+
+### Fix: Hero background image silently lost during Vue's :style normalization
+
+`usePromoBackgroundStyles` was emitting a string with two `background-image`
+declarations — a `url()` fallback first, then an `image-set()` upgrade with
+format negotiation. The pattern is the standard CSS progressive-enhancement
+chain: browsers that can parse `image-set()` (with `type()` argument) use it;
+browsers that can't fall through to the `url()`. **But Vue 3's `:style`
+parses string bindings into a normalized object keyed by property name,
+collapsing duplicate `background-image` declarations to a single entry —
+only the last one (the `image-set()`) survives.** The fallback chain was
+silently truncated.
+
+Symptom: hero background images missing in any browser that can't fully
+parse `image-set()` with the `type()` argument. Browsers that can parse it
+saw the bg fine — but a partial-parse failure (rare but possible across
+older Safari, some embedded WebViews) left the section bg-less, falling
+through to the surface color.
+
+**Fix:** the composable now returns an OBJECT with two CSS custom
+properties (`--promo-bg-fallback` and `--promo-bg-set`) instead of a string.
+Vue keeps both as distinct entries. `Hero.vue`'s `.promo-surface` rule
+declares `background-image` twice — once with each var — so browsers walk
+the natural CSS cascade. The first declaration always parses; the second
+overrides only when the browser supports `image-set()`.
+
+Tests: 588 passing (8 in `usePromoBackgroundStyles.spec.js` rewritten for
+the new object contract).
+
+No site-side migration needed — bump cms and rebuild.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.28
+
+### Fix: pipeline no longer generates content-duplicate variants for small sources
+
+beta.27's in-plugin pipeline still asked sharp to generate every
+configured width per source, relying on `withoutEnlargement: true` to
+clamp oversize requests. The clamping worked, but produced
+**content-identical files** for every width above the source's actual
+width: a 1920×1080 source asked for at widths [1920, 2560] generated
+two byte-identical files. Vite content-hashes assets and emits ONE
+physical file under one of the names — but the asset URL map still
+registers entries for every width's import path. Result: requests for
+`/assets/promo-2560-{hash}.jpg` 404 because Vite emitted that content
+under `/assets/promo-1920-{hash}.jpg` instead.
+
+Symptoms: hero background images missing on sites whose source promo
+image is smaller than the largest configured width. We hit it on most
+of the migrated sites once they bumped to beta.27 — the placeholder
+promo.jpg files were 72×72.
+
+**Fix:** the reconcile orchestrator reads each source's dimensions
+before rendering and skips outputs whose requested width exceeds
+source.width. The pipeline naturally falls back to the bare
+`img/{name}.{ext}` URL (which exists because the original lives in the
+flat dir) for sources too small to generate any variant. Stale
+oversize variants from a previous run get evicted from the cache.
+
+Also: the cache-up-to-date check now compares against the manifest's
+recorded `variants` list rather than the planner's full output set.
+This prevents tiny-source sites from re-rendering on every build (the
+old check thought a missing variant meant we needed to retry).
+
+Tests: 586 passing (3 added: skip-oversize-widths, only-fulfillable-widths,
+no-thrash-on-tiny-source).
+
+No site-side migration needed — bump cms and rebuild.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.27
+
+### Image-variant pipeline moves into the Vite plugin (BREAKING for sites)
+
+The variant generation that was a separate `cms-generate-image-variants`
+build step is now part of the Vite plugin's lifecycle. Variants generate
+into `node_modules/.cache/@koehler8/cms/image-variants/{siteKey}/` at
+build/dev time, get picked up by a third `import.meta.glob` in the
+asset-resolver virtual module, and surface through Vite's normal asset
+pipeline (hashed, emitted to `dist/assets/`). Source trees no longer
+contain the `_source/` directory or any committed variant files.
+
+Why: beta.22 introduced `_source/` as a separation between authored
+originals and generated variants. beta.26 patched the resulting
+`resolveAsset('img/logo.png')` breakage by also auto-copying originals
+to the flat dir — leaving byte-identical duplicates and ~hundreds of
+committed variant files per site. beta.27 eliminates both: originals
+live in `site/assets/img/` directly (one canonical location), variants
+are pure build artifacts that never touch the source tree.
+
+**Breaking changes:**
+
+- **`cms-generate-image-variants` CLI is removed.** Sites with
+  `npm run generate:image-variants` in their `amplify.yml` or
+  `package.json` will fail at the bare-command lookup until they
+  remove those references.
+- **The `_source/` convention is deprecated.** The pipeline reads only
+  from flat `site/assets/img/`. Sites that still have files only in
+  `_source/` will see broken image URLs (the plugin emits a loud warning
+  with migration instructions on every build).
+
+**Migration: run `npx @koehler8/cms migrate-image-variants` from each
+site directory.** It promotes `_source/` files to flat dir, deletes the
+beta.26 auto-copy duplicates, untracks committed variants, drops the
+script entries from `package.json` and `amplify.yml`, bumps the cms
+range to `^1.0.0-beta.27`, and runs `npm install`. Idempotent — safe
+to re-run.
+
+**End state per site:**
+- Source tree: `site/assets/img/logo.png`, `site/assets/img/hero.jpg`. That's it.
+- No `_source/` directory.
+- No committed variant files.
+- No `generate:image-variants` script.
+- No preBuild step in `amplify.yml`.
+
+**Architectural notes:**
+
+- `buildStart` hook generates variants into the cache dir. Mtime-skip
+  cache; orphan eviction; manifest-tracked. Cache survives between the
+  vite-ssg double build (SSR + client passes) so the second build is
+  stat-only.
+- The cache mirrors the site's `assets/` layout (`{cacheDir}/assets/img/...`),
+  so the existing `normalizeAssetKey` strips the same `assets/` prefix
+  and surfaces variants under canonical `img/...` keys. No resolver
+  code change needed.
+- Custom widths/formats/quality remain configurable via `site.imageVariants`
+  in `site.json`. Defaults unchanged: 6 widths × 3 formats per source.
+- Sharp is lazy-imported inside the reconcile orchestrator — only loads
+  when there's actual rendering work, so cold dev-mode start with a
+  warm cache pays no sharp cost.
+- Dev mode: a debounced watcher on `site/assets/img/**` re-runs the
+  pipeline and triggers a full-reload when source images change. Drop
+  a new image, refresh — variants materialize automatically.
+- The classifier distinguishes originals from variant-shaped files by
+  checking whether the trailing width number is in the configured
+  widths set. So `team-2024.jpg` (2024 not in defaults) is an original;
+  `logo-320.webp` is a variant. Edge case escape: rename source files
+  that conflict with the variant pattern.
+
+Tests: 584 passing (45 new for the lifted pipeline modules + classifier;
+19 obsolete tests for the old `_source/`-based pipeline removed).
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.26
+
+### Fix: image-variant pipeline now also copies the source to the flat dir
+
+beta.22 introduced `cms-generate-image-variants`: drop originals at
+`site/assets/img/_source/{name}.{ext}` and the script generates
+`{name}-{width}.{format}` variants back into `site/assets/img/`. Sites
+that adopted the convention discovered a knock-on breakage: every call
+site that consumed an asset by its bare path — `resolveAsset('img/logo.png')`
+in the bundled `Header`, the `${basePath}.${format}` fallback inside
+`useResponsiveImage`, custom site components calling `resolveAsset` on
+`'img/hero.jpg'` directly — started 404'ing because the bare file no
+longer existed in the flat dir. The variant URLs all worked, but every
+bare-path lookup was broken until each site manually maintained a
+duplicate copy of the original at the flat path.
+
+**Fix:** the pipeline now writes a byte-identical copy of each source
+file to the flat dir alongside its variants, preserving the source's
+filename and extension. So `_source/logo.png` → `logo.png` (in flat dir)
+plus `logo-{w}.{avif,webp,jpg}` variants. mtime-skipping applies to the
+copy too — re-runs only re-copy when the source has changed.
+
+This restores backward compatibility for `resolveAsset('img/{name}.{ext}')`
+call sites and gives `useResponsiveImage`'s no-suffix fallback a real
+file to land on for sources that are smaller than every configured
+width (which would otherwise produce content-identical clamped variants
+that Vite asset-deduplicates by hash, breaking variant URLs).
+
+**No site-side migration needed beyond bumping `@koehler8/cms` and
+re-running `npm run generate:image-variants`.** The first re-run after
+the bump produces the flat-dir copies; the next deploy serves them.
+
+Tests: 558 passing (1 added for the copy-byte-identicality guarantee).
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.25
+
+### Fix: switching back to base locale didn't actually switch
+
+beta.24 made the Header dropdown link the base locale to `/` instead of
+`/{baseLocale}`. The URL changed correctly, but the page rendered in the
+*previously selected* locale. Two interlocking causes:
+
+1. **`Header.handleLocaleLinkClick` didn't write `localStorage.locale`.**
+   `loadConfigData` falls back to `localStorage.getItem('locale')` when
+   no explicit locale param is present. Navigating to `/` (the base-
+   locale URL) provides no locale, so `loadConfigData` read the stale
+   `'de'` (or whatever the previous locale was) from localStorage and
+   loaded the wrong config tree. The router's `applyRouterGuards` only
+   wrote localStorage when a `:locale` route param matched — base-locale
+   navigation never matched, so the storage went unwritten.
+2. **Router auto-redirect bounced back to the prior locale.** The
+   guard's "if user lands on `/` and browser language is `de`, redirect
+   to `/de`" detection ran on every navigation, not just first-time
+   visits. Clicking "EN" on `/de` navigated to `/`, the guard saw the
+   browser was set to German, redirected back to `/de`, and the user
+   never saw English.
+
+**Fixes:**
+
+- `Header.handleLocaleLinkClick` now writes `localStorage.setItem('locale',
+  locale)` for every dropdown click, including the base locale. The
+  user's explicit choice persists across navigation.
+- `applyRouterGuards`'s browser-language auto-detect early-returns when
+  any `localStorage.locale` value is already set. The auto-redirect runs
+  only on truly-fresh visits with no stored preference.
+
+Tests: 557 still passing.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.24
+
+### Fix: Header locale dropdown sent base-locale clicks to a 404
+
+After beta.19's URL-space cleanup, `/en` (when `en` is the base locale)
+no longer pre-renders or routes — the canonical URL is `/`. But the
+bundled Header's locale dropdown still hardcoded its links to
+`/${locale}` for every option, so clicking "EN" on a multi-locale site
+landed on a 404. Reported on coastalcollective.life after its beta.23
+bump restored the dropdown.
+
+**Two fixes:**
+
+1. `Header.vue` now builds the locale link via `localeHref(locale)`:
+   the base locale points at `/`, others at `/{locale}`. Reads
+   `baseLocale` from the `loadConfig` singleton (already populated by
+   the vite-plugin's virtual config module since beta.19).
+2. `applyRouterGuards` adds a beforeEach guard that catches in-SPA
+   navigation to `/{baseLocale}/...` and rewrites to the canonical
+   unprefixed path. So even if a component or external link inside the
+   site tries to go to `/en/about`, it lands on `/about` instead of the
+   404 page.
+
+**Direct external hits to `/{baseLocale}/...` URLs still 404** — the
+SSG doesn't pre-render those paths and the SPA can only redirect
+client-side after the page boots. For sites with inbound external
+links to old `/{baseLocale}/*` URLs, add an Amplify customRule:
+
+```
+Source: /<baseLocale>/<*>    Target: /<*>    Status: 301
+```
+
+(e.g. for an English-base site: `/en/<*>` → `/<*>`.) Add it in the
+Amplify console under "Rewrites and redirects". Documented in
+`CLAUDE.md` "URL hygiene".
+
+Tests: 557 still passing.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.23
+
+### Fix: locale discovery missed translation-only locale dirs
+
+beta.19 introduced on-disk locale discovery to replace the
+hardcoded-15-locales fanout. The check required `site.json` to be
+present in each locale dir. That was overly strict: many sites author
+per-locale page overrides (`pages/home.json` etc.) and a per-locale
+`shared.json` without overriding the site metadata, since the brand
+name typically stays the same across languages. Those locales were
+silently dropped from `availableLocales` after beta.19, which made:
+
+- The bundled `Header` locale dropdown disappear (it hides when
+  `availableLocales.length <= 1`).
+- Per-locale URLs stop pre-rendering.
+- `hreflang` alternates collapse to a single locale.
+
+`coastalcollective.life` exhibited all three after its beta.22 bump.
+
+**Fix:** discovery now treats a locale directory as present if any of
+`site.json`, `shared.json`, or a `pages/` subdir exists — matching the
+pre-beta.19 glob-based behavior. Sites with the translation-only
+scaffolding pattern (no per-locale `site.json`) start being recognized
+again with no per-site changes.
+
+Tests: 557 still passing. Verified end-to-end on a coastal-pattern
+fixture (locale dirs with `shared.json` + `pages/home.json`, no
+`site.json`): all locales discovered, pre-rendered, and hreflang
+alternates emit correctly.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.22
+
+### Image-variant pipeline + auto-generated breadcrumb JSON-LD
+
+**Image-variant pipeline (Tier-3 #1)**
+
+`useResponsiveImage` has been wired into the bundled components for ages,
+but the build never produced the variant files it expects. Sites were
+shipping a single full-size JPEG and `srcset` rendered empty. New script
+fixes that by generating the matrix at build time.
+
+- New `scripts/generate-image-variants.js` + `bin/cms-generate-image-variants.js`.
+- New convention: drop originals at `site/assets/img/_source/{name}.{ext}`.
+  The script reads them and writes `{name}-{width}.{format}` variants
+  back to `site/assets/img/`. Subdirectory layout is preserved.
+- Default matrix: widths `[320, 640, 960, 1280, 1920, 2560]` × formats
+  `[avif, webp, jpg]` = 18 variants per source. Configurable via
+  `site.imageVariants.{widths, formats, quality}`.
+- Sources smaller than a requested width are clamped (no enlargement).
+- mtime-based skipping: re-running the script only regenerates variants
+  whose source has changed since the last run.
+- Powered by [`sharp`](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/) (new dependency).
+  Native binaries prebuilt for darwin/linux x64+arm64 — no system
+  libraries to install on AWS Amplify.
+
+**Wire-up in consumer sites** (one-time):
+
+1. Move existing flat `site/assets/img/*.{jpg,png}` originals into
+   `site/assets/img/_source/`.
+2. Add to `package.json` scripts:
+   `"generate:image-variants": "cms-generate-image-variants --site-dir ./site"`.
+3. Add to `amplify.yml` preBuild commands:
+   `npm run generate:image-variants` (before `generate:public-assets`
+   and `build:ssg`).
+4. First build generates the matrix; subsequent builds reuse it.
+
+**Auto-generated breadcrumb JSON-LD (Tier-3 #6)**
+
+`usePageMeta` now emits a `BreadcrumbList` schema for any non-home,
+non-draft, non-404 page with `site.url` set. Drives Google's breadcrumb
+display in search results without authors having to write the schema.
+
+- New `src/utils/breadcrumbs.js` (pure helper).
+- Path → segment list → `ListItem` entries. First entry is always
+  `Home` linked at the canonical home URL; subsequent entries are each
+  prefix path of the current URL.
+- **Label resolution priority** per intermediate path:
+  1. If a page exists at that path, use its `meta.title`.
+  2. Otherwise, format the slug (`our-team` → `Our Team`).
+- The leaf entry (current page) DOES include its `item` URL — Google
+  accepts both forms; including is more interoperable.
+- **Skipped on**: home, drafts, 404s, missing `site.url`, single-locale
+  home page with `/` path.
+- **Per-page opt-out**: `pages/{id}.json` `meta.breadcrumbs: false`.
+- Locale-prefixed URLs: non-base locales render breadcrumb item URLs
+  with the `/{locale}/...` prefix; the path-segment hierarchy itself
+  doesn't include the locale prefix as a step.
+
+**New files:**
+
+- `scripts/generate-image-variants.js` — orchestrator + sharp pipeline
+- `bin/cms-generate-image-variants.js` — CLI wrapper
+- `src/utils/breadcrumbs.js` — `buildBreadcrumbList(...)`
+- `tests/scripts/generate-image-variants.spec.js` (18 tests, fixture-driven)
+- `tests/utils/breadcrumbs.spec.js` (17 tests)
+
+**Edits:**
+
+- `package.json` — add `sharp ^0.33.5` dep + new bin entry
+- `src/composables/usePageMeta.js` — appends BreadcrumbList JSON-LD after
+  any author-supplied `jsonld` blocks. Authors can override by emitting
+  their own hand-authored `BreadcrumbList` in `pages/{id}.json` `jsonld`.
+
+**Caveats:**
+
+- **Migration is mandatory** for the image pipeline to actually do
+  anything. Sites that don't move originals into `_source/` keep
+  shipping single-size JPEGs (no regression — `useResponsiveImage`
+  already falls back gracefully — but no improvement either).
+- **AVIF encoding is slow.** A 2560-wide AVIF can take 1–3 seconds per
+  source. Run on developer machines or CI before pushing; don't
+  regenerate on every Amplify build (mtime-skip handles repeat runs).
+- **`sharp`'s install size** is ~50MB. Acceptable trade for the format
+  support (`canvas`-based generation can't produce AVIF).
+- **Breadcrumb schema is opt-out, not opt-in.** Sites that don't want
+  breadcrumb display in Google should set `meta.breadcrumbs: false` on
+  pages where it's misleading (rare).
+
+Tests: 557 passing (18 new for image-variants, 17 for breadcrumbs, 8
+added to usePageMeta).
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.21
+
+### Per-page JSON-LD, Web App Manifest, and Search Console verification hooks
+
+Three Tier-2 SEO/PWA additions, all opt-in and additive:
+
+**Per-page JSON-LD structured data**
+
+- New `src/utils/jsonLd.js` builds `<script type="application/ld+json">`
+  blocks from per-page and per-site `jsonld` keys.
+- Authors add either an object or an array of objects in `pages/{id}.json`:
+
+  ```json
+  "jsonld": {
+    "@type": "RealEstateAgent",
+    "name": "Jamie Austin",
+    "telephone": "+1-310-806-3199",
+    "image": "https://ocandme.com/img/jamie.jpg"
+  }
+  ```
+
+  or several:
+
+  ```json
+  "jsonld": [
+    { "@type": "Article", "headline": "..." },
+    { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ ... ] }
+  ]
+  ```
+
+- Site-wide additions (e.g. a `WebSite` with sitelinks-search-box) live
+  under `site.jsonld` in `site.json`. Page blocks append after site blocks.
+- `@context` is auto-injected with `https://schema.org` if the author
+  omits it.
+- Drafts and 404 pages skip JSON-LD entirely (gated/missing content
+  shouldn't make schema.org claims).
+
+**Web App Manifest (`/manifest.json`)**
+
+- The plugin's `writeSeoFiles` now generates `siteRoot/public/manifest.json`
+  from `site.title`, `site.description`, and an optional `site.manifest`
+  block. Defaults work out of the box: `start_url=/`, `display=standalone`,
+  fallback theme/background `#ffffff`, icons referencing
+  `/favicon-256.png` and `/favicon.ico` (both written by
+  `cms-generate-public-assets`).
+- Per-site overrides via `site.manifest.{name, shortName, themeColor,
+  backgroundColor, startUrl, display, lang, description, icons[]}`.
+- `templates/index.html` now emits `<link rel="manifest"
+  href="/manifest.json">` and `<meta name="theme-color" content="...">` so
+  iOS/Android Add-to-Home-Screen works and the mobile chrome bar takes
+  the brand color.
+
+**Search Console / webmaster verification meta**
+
+- New `site.siteVerification` object in `site.json` keyed by platform:
+
+  ```json
+  "siteVerification.google": "abc123token",
+  "siteVerification.bing": "...",
+  "siteVerification.pinterest": "...",
+  "siteVerification.facebook": "...",
+  "siteVerification.yandex": "..."
+  ```
+
+- `usePageMeta` emits one `<meta name="...">` per token using the
+  platform's standard meta name (`google-site-verification`,
+  `msvalidate.01`, `p:domain_verify`, `facebook-domain-verification`,
+  `yandex-verification`).
+- Empty/whitespace tokens and unknown platforms are silently skipped.
+- Emitted on every page (verification platforms typically only check
+  homepage; emitting site-wide is harmless and matches industry default).
+
+**New files:**
+
+- `src/utils/jsonLd.js` — `buildJsonLdScripts(...)` (12 tests)
+- `src/utils/webAppManifest.js` — `buildWebAppManifest(...)` (15 tests)
+- `tests/utils/jsonLd.spec.js`, `tests/utils/webAppManifest.spec.js`
+
+**Edits:**
+
+- `src/composables/usePageMeta.js` — now also emits `script: [...]` for
+  JSON-LD and additional verification `<meta>` tags via `useHead`.
+- `vite-plugin.js` — `writeSeoFiles` writes `manifest.json` alongside
+  `robots.txt` and `sitemap.xml`. `extractSiteMetadata` exposes
+  `manifestThemeColor` for the template.
+- `templates/index.html` — adds `<link rel="manifest">` and
+  `<meta name="theme-color">`.
+
+**Caveats:**
+
+- **Theme color in `<meta name="theme-color">` is static per build** (read
+  from `site.manifest.themeColor`). It doesn't auto-derive from theme
+  tokens — sites should set it explicitly to match their brand.
+- **No JSON-LD validation.** Whatever the author writes is emitted as-is.
+  Use Google's Rich Results Test to validate before relying on rich
+  results.
+- **PWA-installable scope.** Just shipping `manifest.json` doesn't make
+  the site fully PWA-installable; that requires a service worker, which
+  is out of scope. The manifest covers what most marketing sites need
+  (Add to Home Screen, splash colors, app-like icon).
+
+Tests: 515 passing (12 new for `jsonLd`, 15 for `webAppManifest`, 9
+added to `usePageMeta` for JSON-LD + verification).
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.20
+
+### Per-page Open Graph + Twitter Card meta and a real 404 page
+
+Two SEO/UX gaps closed in one release:
+
+1. **Per-page link previews**: every page now emits its own `og:title`,
+   `og:description`, `og:url`, `og:image`, `og:type`, `og:site_name`,
+   plus the matching `twitter:*` tags. Sharing `/about` to iMessage,
+   Slack, X, etc. now shows the page-specific card instead of the
+   site-wide one. Sites/pages can override the image and og:type per
+   page via `meta.image` / `meta.ogType` / `meta.twitterCard`.
+2. **Real 404 page**: unknown URLs render a bundled `NotFound`
+   component with HTTP 404 (via Amplify's auto-served `dist/404.html`)
+   instead of silently rendering the home page with HTTP 200.
+
+**Schema additions** (all optional):
+
+- `pages/{id}.json`
+  - `meta.image` — per-page OG/Twitter image (relative path or absolute
+    URL). Falls back to `site.image` then to the static `/og-image.jpg`.
+  - `meta.ogType` — overrides default `"website"` (e.g. `"article"`).
+  - `meta.twitterCard` — overrides default `"summary_large_image"`.
+- `site.json`
+  - `image` (or `ogImage`) — site-wide OG image fallback when a page
+    doesn't set its own.
+- `pages/404.json` (optional) — a custom 404 page. If present,
+  `selectPage` resolves to it on no-match. Its `components[]` can list
+  Header/Footer/etc. for full chrome. If absent, a synthesized sentinel
+  renders just the bundled `NotFound` component (no chrome).
+- `shared.json` / `pages/404.json` `content.notFound`
+  - `heading` — defaults to "Page not found"
+  - `body` — defaults to "We couldn't find the page you're looking for."
+  - `homeLabel` — defaults to "Return home"
+  - `homeHref` — defaults to "/"
+
+**Behavior:**
+
+- `usePageMeta` now produces `<title>`, `<meta name="description">`,
+  `<meta property="og:*">`, `<meta name="twitter:*">`, `<link
+  rel="canonical">`, and `<link rel="alternate" hreflang>` per page.
+  The static `templates/index.html` no longer hardcodes any of those
+  (was previously: `<title>` + meta description + 9 OG/Twitter tags
+  rendered with site-wide constants on every page). The site-wide JSON-LD
+  Organization snippet stays in the template — that's per-page invariant.
+- 404 pages get `<title>Page not found — {Site}</title>`, empty
+  description, `<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">`, no
+  canonical, no hreflang, no OG/Twitter (the URL the visitor typed
+  shouldn't generate a misleading link card if shared).
+- The vite-plugin pre-renders `/404` (via `staticRoutes`) and copies
+  `dist/404/index.html` → `dist/404.html` after rendering, in
+  `ssgOptions.onFinished`. AWS Amplify auto-serves the top-level
+  `404.html` for unmatched URLs with HTTP 404 status — no per-site
+  config needed.
+- `usePageConfig.selectPage` returns a not-found sentinel
+  (`{ id: '__not_found__', isNotFound: true, components: [{ name:
+  'NotFound' }] }`) when the requested path doesn't match any page and
+  isn't `/`. Sites can override by authoring `pages/404.json`. The
+  previous behavior — "fall through to home content with HTTP 200" — is
+  gone. **This is a breaking change in observable behavior**:
+  previously, hitting `/this-doesnt-exist` rendered the home page; now
+  it renders a 404. Any site that depended on the old behavior should
+  audit (rare; the old behavior was almost always wrong for SEO).
+
+**New files:**
+
+- `src/utils/socialMeta.js` — `buildSocialMeta(...)` returns the
+  per-page OG/Twitter meta entries. Pure; tested in isolation.
+- `src/components/NotFound.vue` — bundled fallback rendered for the
+  `__not_found__` sentinel. Theme-token styled, WCAG 2.2 AA (real
+  heading hierarchy, focus-visible, prefers-reduced-motion, ≥24×24 hit
+  area on the home link).
+- `tests/utils/socialMeta.spec.js` — 19 cases covering the meta-tag
+  emission paths.
+
+**Edits:**
+
+- `src/composables/usePageMeta.js` — extended with OG/Twitter emission
+  via `buildSocialMeta` and `isNotFound` handling. Drafts already
+  skipped canonical/hreflang; now they (and 404s) also skip OG/Twitter.
+- `src/composables/usePageConfig.js` — `selectPage` returns a
+  `__not_found__` sentinel for any non-root path that doesn't match a
+  page. Sites can author `pages/404.json` to customize.
+- `vite-plugin.js` — adds `/404` to `includedRoutes`; new
+  `ssgOptions.onFinished` callback copies `dist/404/index.html` →
+  `dist/404.html` after pages are rendered.
+- `templates/index.html` — removes the EJS-rendered `<title>`,
+  `<meta description>`, og:*, and twitter:* lines. Adds an inline
+  comment noting that those are now per-page emissions.
+- `tests/composables/usePageMeta.spec.js` — adds 8 OG/Twitter cases
+  + 7 NotFound cases.
+
+Tests: 471+ passing (19 new for socialMeta, 8 added to usePageMeta for
+OG/Twitter, 7 for 404 handling).
+
+**Caveats:**
+
+- **HTTP 404 status depends on the host.** The framework writes
+  `dist/404.html`; making it serve with a 404 status code is the host's
+  job. AWS Amplify does this automatically when `404.html` exists at
+  the root of the deployed site. Other hosts (Netlify, Cloudflare
+  Pages, S3) need their own configuration — document per host as needed.
+- **Sites that customize `templates/index.html`** (rare — there's no
+  documented way) lose the site-wide OG/Twitter site-wide fallback.
+  In practice no consumer site does this; the template is internal.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.19
+
+### Canonical URLs — collapse the URL space to one per page
+
+Pages used to render at multiple URLs (`/about`, `/en/about`, `/de/about`,
+…), all serving identical content. This release picks one canonical URL
+per page, stops emitting the duplicates, and adds the SEO link tags that
+let crawlers handle the remaining edge cases. Wins: cleaner SEO,
+smaller `dist/` for sites that scaffolded extra locales, no more
+duplicate-content risk in Search Console.
+
+**URL space rule (matches Google / Stripe / GitHub conventions):**
+
+- Base locale → `/path` (no prefix).
+- Non-base locales actually populated on disk → `/{locale}/path`.
+- Trailing slash → no slash; recommended Amplify 301 (see "URL hygiene"
+  in `CLAUDE.md`).
+
+**Breaking changes:**
+
+- **URL space**: `/{baseLocale}/path` (e.g. `/en/about` on a US site)
+  no longer pre-renders, no longer routes via the locale layout, and is
+  no longer listed in `sitemap.xml`. Direct hits fall into the SPA
+  catch-all → home fallback (HTTP 200) until the separate 404-page
+  feature lands. Sites with inbound external links to old URLs should
+  add an Amplify 301 rule from `/<baseLocale>/<*>` → `/<*>`.
+- **SSG output**: non-base locale URLs (`/de/about`, etc.) are emitted
+  only when `site/content/{locale}/site.json` exists. Empty locale dirs
+  no longer produce phantom localized routes. Expect `dist/` to shrink
+  for any site that scaffolded all 15 supported locales without filling
+  them in.
+- **Plugin API**: the `locales` plugin option is removed (auto-discovered
+  from disk now). Verified by grep — no consumer site passes it.
+
+**Added:**
+
+- `<link rel="canonical" href="...">` per page in the rendered `<head>`.
+  Drafts skip it (gated content shouldn't advertise an authoritative URL).
+  Sites without a configured `site.url` skip it (can't build absolute).
+- `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="...">` per available locale plus
+  `x-default` for multi-locale sites. Single-locale sites emit none.
+- `<xhtml:link rel="alternate">` annotations in `sitemap.xml` for
+  multi-locale sites. Single-locale output is byte-identical to before.
+- New `src/utils/canonicalUrl.js` — single source of truth for the URL
+  formula, used by `usePageMeta`, `sitemapGenerator`, and any future
+  consumer that needs an absolute canonical URL.
+- New exports from `virtual:cms-config-loader` and the `loadConfig.js`
+  singleton: `baseLocale` (the active site's base locale, build-time
+  string literal). `availableLocales` is now also a build-time literal
+  derived from on-disk content discovery (was previously discovered from
+  Vite glob keys).
+- New helper `buildRoutes(localePrefixes)` exported from
+  `src/router/index.js` — used by tests to validate the locale regex
+  generation; default `routes` constant computes the prefixes from the
+  loadConfig singletons at module load time.
+
+**Caveats:**
+
+- **No true 404 yet.** Stale `/en/about`-style URLs render the home
+  page (HTTP 200) instead of returning a 404. The 404-page feature is
+  separate work; pair the two for a fully clean URL space.
+- **Sitemap-index for very large sites** is still future work. Today's
+  sitemap is single-file; sites with 1000+ pages or many locales may
+  want a sitemap-index later.
+- **Multi-locale sites with empty/sparse locale dirs.** This PR's
+  on-disk discovery only counts dirs that contain `site.json`. Some
+  sites (notably the 9 with all 15 locale dirs scaffolded) may have
+  `de/site.json` etc. with placeholder-only content. Those are still
+  emitted today; cleanup is per-site work — drop the dirs you don't
+  use.
+
+Tests: 445 passing (12 new for `canonicalUrl`, 7 added to
+`sitemapGenerator`, 9 added to `usePageMeta`, 13 in router after
+refactor).
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.18
+
+### Draft mode — `noindex` + password gate for in-progress content
+
+A site, a URL prefix, or an individual page can be marked as "draft" so
+search engines stay out and casual visitors hit a password gate instead of
+the page contents. Designed for the iteration window before a site or
+section goes public — not for protecting confidential data. **Static-host
+caveat**: the gate is client-side; image and asset URLs in `dist/` remain
+publicly fetchable regardless of whether the page that references them is
+gated. If you need real privacy for assets, host them elsewhere.
+
+**Schema additions** (all flat-key, optional, default off):
+
+- `site.json`
+  - `"draft": true` — marks the whole site as draft.
+  - `"draftPaths[0]": "/hidden/"` — URL prefixes (path-segment-aware: `/blog`
+    matches `/blog/2026/post` but not `/blog-archive`; case-sensitive).
+  - `"draftPassword": "..."` — one shared password for all drafts on the
+    site. The plugin replaces this field with a SHA-256 `draftPasswordHash`
+    at bundle time; the plaintext never reaches `dist/` or
+    `__INITIAL_STATE__`. Empty/missing is a deliberate fail-safe: the gate
+    still appears but accepts any input including empty.
+- `pages/{id}.json`
+  - `"draft": true` — marks a single page as draft.
+  - `"draft": false` — explicitly publishes a page even when the site or a
+    matching `draftPaths` prefix says draft (page-level wins both ways).
+
+**Behavior:**
+
+- **Robots & SEO**: every draft page emits `<meta name="robots"
+  content="noindex, nofollow">` and a generic `<title>Draft — {Site}</title>`
+  (the page's real title and description are suppressed for drafts so the
+  slug doesn't leak via `<title>` / `<meta description>`). The plugin
+  generates `robots.txt` and `sitemap.xml` dynamically from the inflated
+  config on every build — draft prefixes/pages get `Disallow:` lines and
+  are skipped from the sitemap entirely. (Replaces the previous static
+  `cms/public/robots.txt`.)
+- **Runtime gate**: when a draft page is rendered, `<DraftGate>` replaces
+  the page body (no Header, no Footer, no skip-link) so the SSG-rendered
+  HTML on disk contains only the gate, not the content. Unlock persists
+  in `sessionStorage` site-wide for the tab — closing the tab re-engages
+  the gate.
+- **Password is hashed at build time**: site.json's plaintext
+  `draftPassword` is replaced with `draftPasswordHash` (SHA-256 hex) by a
+  Vite `transform` hook before any JSON is imported. At runtime,
+  `useDraftGate.attemptUnlock(input)` SHA-256-hashes the input and
+  compares hashes. Plaintext password is in the source repo only — never
+  in `dist/` or `__INITIAL_STATE__`.
+- **SSR**: the SSR pre-render pass keeps `isUnlocked: false`, so
+  `dist/<path>/index.html` is the gate HTML even after build. This is
+  what crawlers and `curl` see.
+
+**New files:**
+
+- `src/utils/draftMode.js` — `isPathDraft`, `pathMatchesPrefix`,
+  `normalizeDraftPath`, `getDraftPasswordHash`. The predicate is shared
+  between the runtime gate, the meta-tag injection, and the plugin's
+  robots.txt/sitemap.xml emitters.
+- `src/utils/sha256.js` — `sha256Hex(input)` over Web Crypto. Used by both
+  the build-time transform (Node 20.19's globalThis.crypto.subtle) and
+  the runtime gate (browser SubtleCrypto).
+- `src/utils/sitemapGenerator.js` — `buildSitemap(siteConfig)` returns the
+  XML or '' when `site.url` is missing.
+- `src/utils/robotsGenerator.js` — `buildRobotsTxt(siteConfig, sitemapUrl)`.
+- `src/composables/useDraftGate.js` — reactive gate state.
+  `attemptUnlock` is async (it hashes user input).
+- `src/components/DraftGate.vue` — inline (not body-teleported) modal,
+  theme-token-driven CSS, WCAG 2.2 AA: real `<label>`, `:focus-visible`,
+  `aria-live` error region, `prefers-reduced-motion` honored.
+
+**Edits:**
+
+- `src/composables/usePageMeta.js` — emits the noindex meta when
+  `isPathDraft` is true and replaces the `<title>` / `<meta description>`
+  with generic stand-ins so the page slug and explicit `meta.title` /
+  `meta.description` don't leak in the SSG-rendered HTML.
+- `src/composables/usePageConfig.js` — `selectPage()` now propagates the
+  page's `draft` flag onto `currentPage` so the gate, the meta, and any
+  other consumer can read it.
+- `src/components/Home.vue` — wraps the page render in
+  `v-if="!isDraft || isUnlocked"` and renders `<DraftGate>` in its place
+  when locked.
+- `vite-plugin.js` — generates `siteRoot/public/robots.txt` and
+  `siteRoot/public/sitemap.xml` after `syncPublicDir`. Sitemap is dropped
+  when `site.url` is missing or every page is draft. Adds a `transform`
+  hook that hashes `site.json`'s plaintext `draftPassword` (replacing it
+  with `draftPasswordHash`) before the JSON is bundled.
+- `cms/public/robots.txt` — **removed** (the plugin owns it now).
+
+**What this protects against:**
+
+- ✓ Search engines indexing draft content (noindex meta, sitemap exclusion,
+  robots.txt Disallow, generic `<title>`).
+- ✓ Casual visitors who type a draft URL — they see only the gate.
+- ✓ `view-source` revealing the plaintext password — the plugin replaces
+  it with a SHA-256 hash before bundling.
+- ✓ `view-source` revealing the page slug or explicit `meta.title` /
+  `meta.description` via the rendered `<title>` / meta tags.
+
+**What it does NOT protect against — known v1 bounds:**
+
+- **`view-source` of any page reveals draft pages' `meta` and `content`
+  via `__INITIAL_STATE__`.** Pinia + ViteSSG serialize the full inflated
+  `siteConfig` (every page's content, meta, components) into every rendered
+  HTML file for hydration. So `view-source /about` shows you the full meta
+  and content of every draft page on the site. Stripping draft pages'
+  content from the bundle would require lazy-loading them after unlock —
+  a major architecture change. For "iterate before launch / not ultra
+  secure," current bound is appropriate; for confidential content, it isn't.
+- **`robots.txt` lists every draft path.** This is intentional (search
+  engines need to know what NOT to crawl) but does mean the URL list is
+  publicly readable. Don't put secret paths in `draftPaths`.
+- **Asset URLs aren't gated.** `dist/img/foo.jpg` is reachable to anyone
+  who knows the URL even if the page that references it is draft.
+- **Hash brute-force.** Weak passwords (e.g. `letmein`) fall to a rainbow
+  table in seconds. The hash blocks "view source → password" but not a
+  determined attacker. Use a long random password if it matters.
+- **noindex doesn't un-index.** If a page was previously indexed, adding
+  noindex tells Google to drop it on the next crawl, which can be days or
+  weeks. Use Search Console URL removal if you need it gone now.
+- **Public-page links to draft URLs leak the URL.** v1 doesn't rewrite
+  links; if a public page `<a>`s into a draft path, the URL appears in
+  the published HTML.
+- **Locale interaction.** `site.draft: true` in the base locale propagates
+  to all locales. To publish only one locale, set `"draft": false` in the
+  per-locale `site.json`.
+
+Tests: 414 passing (24 new for `draftMode`, 13 for `sitemapGenerator`,
+13 for `robotsGenerator`, 9 added to `usePageMeta`, 17 for `useDraftGate`).
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.17
+
+### WCAG 2.2 AA pass on the bundled components and base theme
+
+Audited the framework against WCAG 2.2 Level AA and applied the fixes that block conformance. Sites using `theme: "base"` and the bundled components inherit the improvements; sites with their own theme keep their palette but pick up the structural fixes (skip link, form labels, focus management, target sizes, semantic landmarks).
+
+**Base theme palette** (`themes/base/theme.config.js`)
+
+Re-balanced every text-on-bg combination the bundled components actually render. The previous values for `palette.primary` (`#4f6cf0`), `palette.accent` (`#f18f3b`), `field.inputPlaceholder` (composited 64% alpha), and the status colors all failed AA at 4.5:1 by varying margins.
+
+- `palette.primary` `#4f6cf0` → `#4361dd` (4.43 → 4.91 on white).
+- `palette.accent` `#f18f3b` → `#b45a00` (2.40 → 4.51 on white). The original orange is preserved as `palette.accentDecorative` for fills/icons only.
+- `field.inputPlaceholder` `rgba(84, 98, 123, 0.64)` → solid `#54627b` (2.82 → 5.66 on white). Same change in `utility.inputPlaceholder` and the `.ui-form-control::placeholder` fallback in `base.css`.
+- Status `palette.{success,warning,critical}` retained as fill colors; new sibling tokens `successText` / `warningText` / `criticalText` (5.99 / 5.13 / 5.43 on white) for status messaging where the value is rendered as text.
+- Primary CTA gradient lighter stop darkened so white-on-gradient passes across the full button surface.
+- New top-level token blocks for surfaces that pair text with a non-default background — `tokens.hero`, `tokens.footer`, `tokens.plan` — exposed as `--brand-hero-*`, `--brand-footer-*`, `--brand-plan-*` CSS variables (see `buildCssVarMap.js`). These eliminate the "fallback chain reaches a token designed for a different surface" trap that left FooterMinimal text invisible on its own dark background, the Hero headline invisible on the dark hero surface, and the Plan card title at 1.05:1 on its dark card.
+
+**Built-in components**
+
+- `Home.vue` — adds a focus-visible "Skip to main content" link as the first focusable element on the page, gives `<main>` `id="main-content"` + `tabindex="-1"`, and sets `html { scroll-padding-top }` so the sticky header doesn't obscure focused targets after in-page navigation. The duplicate `<main>` previously emitted by `templates/index.html` is gone.
+- `templates/index.html` — drops the outer `<main>` wrapper and adds a `<noscript>` style override that forces scroll-reveal targets visible when JS doesn't run.
+- `Header.vue` — `<nav aria-label="Primary">`, descriptive `aria-label` on the home link, locale dropdown gains ESC-to-close and focus-out dismissal with focus restoration to the trigger button. Removed the mismatched `aria-haspopup="true"` on the disclosure (the dropdown isn't a `role="menu"`).
+- `Hero.vue` — promotes the headline from `<h3>` to `<h1>` (every page needs exactly one h1) and demotes the eyebrow `<h2>` to a `<p>` so the document outline isn't filled with non-heading copy. Reads from `--brand-hero-text` / `--brand-hero-text-on-dark` so the dark hero surface gets light text by default.
+- `Contact.vue` — every input now has a real `<label>`, plus visible required `*` indicators, `aria-required="true"`, `autocomplete` hints (`name`, `email`, `tel`), and a `role="status"` `aria-live="polite"` `#msg` region so submission feedback is announced. The challenge input is wired to its question + hint via `aria-describedby` and gets `aria-invalid="true"` on a wrong answer.
+- `ComingSoonModal.vue` — captures `previousFocusedElement` on open and restores focus on close (matching `IntroGate`), close button bumped to a 32×32 hit area with AA-safe color (`#595959`) and a visible `:focus-visible` outline. Adds a global `keydown` ESC handler so dismissal works regardless of where focus is inside the dialog.
+- `Footer.vue` — adds a visually-hidden "(opens in a new tab)" suffix to external links, removes the redundant `aria-label="Return home"` on the logo (the alt now reads `${siteName} – home`).
+- `FooterMinimal.vue`, `Plan.vue`, `Team.vue`, `Portfolio.vue`, `StickyCTA.vue` — re-pointed text colors at the new chrome tokens so default rendering passes contrast; `Portfolio` cards' overlay link now reads `View ${project.title}` instead of the generic "Visit portfolio link"; `Portfolio` filters got a visible `:focus-visible` outline; `BackToTop` got the same.
+
+**Migration**
+
+Sites on `theme: "base"` will see the palette shift slightly more saturated/darker — primary blue and accent orange both deepen by a perceptual notch. Sites with custom themes are unaffected by the palette change but inherit every structural/component fix automatically. If a site relied on the old `palette.accent` orange as decorative fill, it can read `palette.accentDecorative` instead (the original `#f18f3b` is preserved under that key).
+
+`Hero.vue`'s `<h2>` eyebrow → `<p>` and `<h3>` headline → `<h1>` is a semantic change: any CSS scoped at `:deep(.hero-eyebrow h2)` or `:deep(.hero-headline h3)` from a wrapping component would break. The class names (`.hero-eyebrow__text`, `.hero-headline`) are unchanged and remain the right hooks.
+
+`templates/index.html` no longer wraps `#app` in a `<main>` — sites that override the template should remove their own outer `<main>` so the framework's `<main id="main-content">` (now in `Home.vue`) is the only landmark.
+
+Tests: 336 passing (no test changes needed — the contracts are unchanged).
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.16
+
+### `cms-create-site` CLI
+
+Third bin in the scaffolding family (alongside `cms-create-theme` and `cms-create-extension`). Bootstraps a complete new site repo from one command:
+
+```bash
+npx cms-create-site cityofangels
+# → site-cityofangels/{package.json, vite.config.js, amplify.yml, .nvmrc,
+#   .gitignore, .env.example, README.md, CLAUDE.md, site/content/...}
+```
+
+The scaffolded repo includes a substantial **`CLAUDE.md` template** with a "where things go" navigation table covering content / components / themes / extensions / locales / pages — so future Claude sessions opening the repo immediately have the right mental model. The same template includes the lockfile/npm-version rules (matching what sister sites already document) and pointers at the other two scaffolding CLIs.
+
+The site template ships with a working home page (`Header` + `Hero` + `Footer`) using bundled CMS components and placeholder copy — `npm run dev` produces a live page from the moment scaffolding finishes, so the site owner can see the foundation before customizing.
+
+### Scaffold internals
+
+- `runScaffold` now accepts `kind: 'site'` alongside `theme` and `extension`. Default target dir is `<cwd>/site-<slug>/` (matches the conventional `koehler8/site-<slug>` repo naming) instead of `themes/<slug>` or `extensions/<slug>`.
+- `collectTemplateFiles` no longer skips dotfiles wholesale. Site templates legitimately include `.nvmrc`, `.gitignore`, `.env.example`. Only OS junk (`.DS_Store`, `Thumbs.db`, `.git`) is now skipped.
+
+5 new specs in `tests/scripts/scaffold.spec.js` cover the site scaffold (336/336 passing).
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.15
+
+### Remove built-in `Loading…` placeholder; expose loading state via inject
+
+The `Home.vue` page wrapper no longer renders an inline `<div class="page-loading-placeholder">Loading…</div>` (or its sibling `page-error-message`) at all. The element was a generic default that consumer sites either had to live with, restyle, or hide via critical CSS. The hydration-tick guard added in beta.9 had already prevented the flash on SSG-rendered pages, but the markup is now removed at the source — sites no longer need to know it ever existed.
+
+In its place, `Home` now provides two refs via `provide()` so sites can build their own loading / error UI as a normal component:
+
+- `inject('pageIsLoading')` — `Ref<boolean>` reflecting whether `usePageConfig`'s `syncPage()` is in flight.
+- `inject('pageLoadError')` — `Ref<Error|null>` set when a page-load promise rejects.
+
+**To add a preloader / error UI to a site:**
+
+- Drop a `site/components/Preloader.vue` (or `ErrorBanner.vue`, etc.) that injects the refs and renders conditionally on their value, then list the component in any page's `components[]` array. Auto-globbed since beta.10.
+- Or use the bundled `Preloader` component (currently a four-dot placeholder shell — sites typically override it via `site/components/Preloader.vue`).
+
+**Migration**: sites that were carrying a `.page-loading-placeholder { display: none !important }` rule in their critical CSS to suppress the flash can drop it. The element no longer exists in the DOM.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.14
+
+### Scaffolding CLIs: `cms-create-theme` and `cms-create-extension`
+
+Two new bin scripts that scaffold a starter theme or extension into the current site, replacing the multi-file copy/paste dance with a single command.
+
+```bash
+npx cms-create-theme coastal
+# → themes/coastal/{package.json, index.js, theme.config.js, theme.css, README.md}
+# → prints next-step instructions for wiring into package.json + vite.config.js
+
+npx cms-create-extension realestate
+# → extensions/realestate/{package.json, extension.config.json, index.js, README.md}
+# → ships with components: [] (no stub needed, since 1.0.0-beta.11)
+```
+
+Flags:
+- `--out <dir>` — override the default target (`themes/<slug>/` or `extensions/<slug>/`).
+- `--force` — overwrite an existing target directory.
+- `--help` / `-h` — show usage.
+
+The generated theme manifest validates against `themeValidator` immediately (a slate-and-sand placeholder palette — meant to be replaced). The generated extension manifest declares `components: []` and the README explains how to add components plus when to prefer `site/components/` instead.
+
+The CLI **does not** modify your site's `package.json` or `vite.config.js` — wiring is left to a copy/paste from the printed next-steps message, since automatic edits risk corrupting custom formatting and are harder to reverse than three lines of JSON.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.13
+
+### `Header` slots + content-driven logo / nav
+
+The bundled `Header` component now exposes three named slots and three optional content keys, so sites can customise it without forking the component or carrying CSS hacks.
+
+**Slots** (for sites that wrap `Header` in a parent component):
+
+- `<template #logo>` — completely overrides the logo `<a>` contents. Receives `{ src, text, siteName }` as scoped slot props.
+- `<template #nav>` — overrides the nav `<ul>` rendering. Receives `{ items }` as a scoped slot prop.
+- `<template #actions>` — extra content rendered inside the actions cluster, before the locale dropdown.
+
+**Content keys** (for sites that use the bundled `Header` via JSON `components: ["Header"]`):
+
+- `content.header.logoText` — text shown in place of the site title in the logo position.
+- `content.header.logoSrc` — full URL to use as the logo image (overrides the `site/assets/img/logo.png` asset resolution).
+- `content.header.navItems[]` — array of `{ text, href, target? }` rendered as a top-level nav menu (responsive: hidden < 720px).
+
+**Behaviour change**: when neither `logoSrc` nor a `site/assets/img/logo.png` resolves, the Header now renders a text fallback (`logoText` or `siteName`) instead of an empty `<img src="">`. Sites that were carrying a critical-CSS workaround to hide the empty `<img>` (e.g. `.site-header__logo img { display: none } / ::after { content: '...' }`) can drop it.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.12
+
+### Drop the implicit `base` theme auto-apply (BREAKING for sites that relied on it)
+
+Previously, when a site didn't configure a theme (`theme:` key absent from `site.json`), `applySiteTheme` silently fell back to `"base"`, applying the bundled blue/orange palette. That hid configuration mistakes — a site could register a theme in its `vite.config.js` `themes:` array, forget to add `"theme": "X"` to `site.json`, and silently render with `base` instead of the theme it intended.
+
+`applySiteTheme` now returns early when no theme is configured. The `data-site-theme` attribute is not set on `<html>`, none of the `:root[data-site-theme="X"]` rules in `virtual:cms-theme-vars.css` apply, and components fall back to their hardcoded CSS defaults (which look mixed and a bit broken — that's intentional, it makes the misconfiguration visible).
+
+**Migration**: sites that *want* the bundled `base` palette as their design must add `"theme": "base"` to `site.json`. Sites that intend a different theme must register it in `vite.config.js` `themes:` AND set `"theme": "<slug>"` in `site.json`.
+
+`setActiveThemeKey` (used by JS color utilities like `resolveThemeColor`) is unchanged and still falls back to `base` for color resolution, so utility palette lookups continue to work even with no `data-site-theme` on `<html>`.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.11
+
+### Allow setup-only / styles-only extensions
+
+Extension manifests can now declare `components: []`. Previously the schema enforced `components.minItems: 1`, which forced extensions whose only contribution is a `setup()` function or a side-effect CSS import to ship a no-op stub Vue file just to satisfy the validator (e.g. the coastalcollective site's `ext-shell` and `cms-ext-realestate` both carried `Placeholder.vue` / `SiteShell.vue` for this reason).
+
+The runtime loader already iterated `manifest.components` with `.some()` and `for...of`, so empty arrays work without further code changes. `registerExtension` accepts `{ manifest: { components: [] } }` and skips component registration entirely; `setup()` and `contentDefaults` continue to work as before.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.10
+
+### First-class site-local components
+
+Sites can now drop Vue files into `site/components/**/*.vue` and reference them from `pages/{pageId}.json` `components[]` by basename — no extension wrapper, no `package.json`, no `vite.config.js` change. The framework auto-globs them at build time via a new `virtual:cms-site-components` virtual module that the generated entry hands to `setSiteComponents()`.
+
+- **Resolution priority**: site → extension → bundled. Most-specific wins.
+- **Source-qualified `site:Name`** always resolves to a site-local component, mirroring the existing `slug:Name` extension qualifier. Use it to disambiguate when a site component intentionally shadows a bundled or extension one.
+- **Override warnings**: when a site component shadows a bundled CMS component, a one-line dev-time console warning fires at startup naming the shadow. Duplicate basenames across subdirectories also warn (first registration wins).
+- **Component contract**: site components follow the same conventions as bundled CMS components — read content via `inject('pageContent')`, use `<style scoped>`, consume theme tokens via `var(--brand-*)`. They receive no props from the resolver (extensions still receive `content` and `configKey`, since they have a manifest-declared `configKey`).
+
+This is the recommended home for any one-off custom UI that doesn't need to be shared across sites. Reach for an extension only when components are actually destined for a published `@koehler8/cms-ext-*` package.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.9
+
+### `Home.vue`: suppress the loading placeholder during initial hydration
+
+For SSG-rendered pages, `componentKeys` briefly resets to `[]` on the client during the first `syncPage` call before the cached config resolves. That made `showLoadingIndicator` flicker true for one tick, causing a jarring "Loading…" flash on top of already-rendered content. The placeholder now waits for the first `onMounted` + `nextTick` before it can render — initial hydration is silent, but genuine in-session navigation that's actually slow can still surface the placeholder.
+
+### Pin Node 20.19 / npm 10.8 via `engines` + `.nvmrc`
+
+Adds `engines.node: ">=20.19.0"` and `engines.npm: "^10.8.0"` to `package.json`, plus a top-level `.nvmrc`. Matches AWS Amplify's default Node 20 environment, eliminating the lockfile drift that bit the coastalcollective site deploy when a regen on npm 11 stripped the `@rolldown/binding-linux-x64-gnu` optional-dep entries Amplify needed. Sites consuming the framework should add a matching `.nvmrc` and switch back to `npm ci` for reproducible installs.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.8
+
+### Theme system: SSR-rendered theme attribute + sync-bundled theme CSS
+
+Eliminates the flash-of-unstyled-content that affected every dark-themed site.
+
+- **`applySiteTheme` now pushes `htmlAttrs.data-site-theme` via @unhead** in addition to setting it on `document.documentElement`. The attribute lands in the SSR-rendered HTML, so theme CSS selectors (`:root[data-site-theme="X"]`) apply during the first paint instead of after Vue hydrates.
+- **External themes can now ship CSS via side-effect import** (`import './theme.css';` in `index.js`) instead of `?inline` + JS injection. Vite bundles the CSS as a regular asset and emits a `<link rel="stylesheet">`, so it's parsed before Vue runs. The legacy `?inline` pattern still works — existing `@koehler8/cms-theme-*` packages don't need to be updated.
+
+Sites previously using critical-path CSS overrides (`html { background: ... !important }`) to mask the FOUC can now rely on the active theme to drive body background, header chrome, etc. from the very first paint.
+
+## 1.0.0-beta.1
+
+Initial public beta release.
+
+### Features
+
+- Vertex CMS — lightweight, config-driven Vue 3 framework with Vite plugin
+- Theming system with design token manifests and CSS custom properties
+- Extension system with AJV-validated manifests and component loader
+- Built-in components: Header, Hero, Footer, Contact, and more
+- Dynamic routing from page config with locale support
+- SSG support via ViteSSG
+- Analytics and cookie consent utilities
+- CLI tools for theme/extension validation and asset generation
+- Vitest test suite with coverage
+- GitHub Actions publish workflow