@sableui/react 0.13.0 → 0.13.2

package/llms-full.txt

@@ -4,11 +4,16 @@
 
 ## Start here — brief, composition, evidence
 
+Not installed yet? `pnpm add @sableui/react`, then `pnpm exec sable init` from the
+app root: it wires the bundler, CSS, fonts and `IconProvider`, installs the agent
+skill, and runs `sable doctor` (see Consuming below).
+
 Read `sable docs building-with-sable` for the connected workflow: build a product
 idea, inspire a reusable preset, audit existing work, polish a selected design, or
 fix one scoped defect on a short path that reads only what the change touches.
-Run `sable setup --agent` to connect Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor to the maintained
-`skills/sable/SKILL.md` in the installed package. Package upgrades update the skill.
+`sable init` connects Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor to the maintained
+`skills/sable/SKILL.md` in the installed package; in an app wired by hand, run
+`sable setup --agent`. Package upgrades update the skill.
 Canvas and the skill exchange portable presets; `sable preset --check <path>`
 validates a record and `--css <path>` generates its scoped stylesheet.
 
@@ -180,9 +185,10 @@ worklist, not a verdict.
   npx sable doctor                             # is this project wired correctly?
   ```
 
-  Add `--json` for a `{ type, data }` envelope, `--dense` to drop prose, `--detail brief|compact|full` to pick a size. Errors carry a stable `code` and concrete `suggestions` — read them instead of retrying a guess. `npx sable manifest --json` is the full command surface.
+  Add `--json` for a `{ type, data }` envelope, `--dense` to drop prose, `--detail brief|compact|full` to pick a size. Where it has them, a component's compact detail ends with **not for**: the cases it is the wrong pick for, each with what to use instead. Errors carry a stable `code` and concrete `suggestions` — read them instead of retrying a guess. `npx sable manifest --json` is the full command surface.
+- **Not installed yet, or prefer MCP?** `https://www.sableui.com/api/mcp` (Streamable HTTP) gives the same answers through three tools, `search`, `get` and `docs`, run from the published package. Pass `version` to match an installed one. Once the package is installed, the CLI above is the default.
 - **Composition before components.** Answer *which pattern* before *which component*, and read the pattern's **skeleton** before its source: `npx sable pattern <Name> --skeleton` prints the element tree with the demo data stripped, so all eight are cheap to compare. Picking components first is how a page ends up as a pile of correct parts in the wrong shape.
-- **This documentation is authoritative.** Sable is a private library: your training data contains none of it. If prior knowledge conflicts with `registry.json` or these docs, trust the docs.
+- **This documentation is authoritative.** Your training data almost certainly contains none of Sable. If prior knowledge conflicts with `registry.json` or these docs, trust the docs.
 - **Composition uses Sable's render prop:** `render={<a href="…" />}` composes behavior with another element. State reads from `data-[state=…]`/`data-[popup-open]` attributes. Do not import `@base-ui/react` directly in an app — every behavior is wrapped and re-exported by the package barrel.
 - **Choose composition from the brief:** inspect `sable pattern --list` and a matching skeleton. Reuse a shell when its information architecture fits, or compose an original page from layout primitives. Pattern resemblance is descriptive, never proof of visual quality.
 - **Every registry example carries an `imports` line** — copy code + imports together and it compiles. Components named in examples but supplied by your app (a router `<Link>`) are marked with a comment.
@@ -235,7 +241,9 @@ Motion is a first-class token layer — subtle by default, tasteful spring welco
 
 ## Consuming
 
-On npm as `@sableui/react`. The structured recipe is the `consume` block in `registry.json`. Steps:
+On npm as `@sableui/react`. The structured recipe is the `consume` block in `registry.json`.
+
+**Start with `sable init`.** After `pnpm add @sableui/react`, run `pnpm exec sable init` from the app root (never bare `npx sable` before the install — that fetches an unrelated package). It does steps 2–5 below with the project's package manager, installs the agent skill, and finishes with `sable doctor`; what it can't change safely (a Next.js layout, an unfamiliar config) it prints as a snippet with the file it belongs in. `--dry-run` previews every change. An app that is already wired uses `sable doctor --fix`. The steps are the manual route and what `init` checks against:
 
 1. **Install:** `pnpm add @sableui/react` from npm (no registry setup or token).
 2. **Dedupe React** (`resolve.dedupe: ["react","react-dom"]`) — Base UI must not resolve a second React (else "invalid hook call").
@@ -253,7 +261,7 @@ On npm as `@sableui/react`. The structured recipe is the `consume` block in `reg
 ```tsx
 import { Button, Card, IconProvider, MotionProvider, SableThemeProvider, useSableTheme } from "@sableui/react"
 // <SableThemeProvider> manages light/dark/system and data-sable-theme for user-selectable themes.
-// <IconProvider set={myIconAdapter}> (optional) > <MotionProvider> (optional) > <SableThemeProvider> (optional, recommended for theme UI) > <App/>
+// <IconProvider set={reiconIconSet}> (required for icons: without it every <Icon> renders nothing; reiconIconSet from "@sableui/react/icons/reicon", or your own set) > <MotionProvider> (optional) > <SableThemeProvider> (optional, recommended for theme UI) > <App/>
 ```
 
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@@ -10610,7 +10618,7 @@ Use Accordion to reveal a vertical set of related sections while keeping the sur
 - Do: Use concise trigger text that describes the content revealed below it.
 - Do: Keep section content focused so expanding one item does not feel like navigating to a new page.
 - Don't: Do not hide required fields, primary actions, or critical errors inside collapsed sections.
-- Don't: Do not nest an Accordion inside an Accordion. Two layers of roving focus fight each other, and the arrow keys become ambiguous — flatten the hierarchy or use a Tree.
+- Don't: Do not nest an Accordion inside an Accordion. Two layers of roving focus fight each other, and the arrow keys become ambiguous — flatten the hierarchy or use a Tree. → use **Tree**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -11330,7 +11338,7 @@ Use Badge for any short static label: metadata, categories, tone-coded labels, a
 - Do: Use tone variants when the badge carries meaning, such as success, warning or destructive, or a decorative tone for a category or plan.
 - Do: Pair icons with text; the icon reinforces meaning but should not be the only cue.
 - Do: Choose appearance and tone separately: appearance is how loud it is (soft by default, solid for emphasis, overlay on images, plain for a status line); tone is what it means.
-- Don't: Use a Badge as a button. If it triggers an action, use Button, Toggle, or a menu item.
+- Don't: Use a Badge as a button. If it triggers an action, use Button, Toggle, or a menu item. → use **Button**, **Toggle**
 - Don't: Stack many loud tone badges in one row; too many semantic colors compete with the actual content.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -11458,8 +11466,8 @@ Use Banner for page-level or app-level messages that affect the current experien
 - Do: Set live='polite' or live='assertive' only when the banner appears or changes dynamically.
 - Do: Include one clear action when the user can resolve or inspect the state.
 - Don't: Use multiple stacked solid banners unless the page is genuinely blocked by multiple independent states.
-- Don't: Use Banner for field-level validation, row status, or small local hints; use Field, InlineStatus, or Badge instead.
-- Don't: Use Banner inside a dialog, a form, or a section to qualify the content around it — that is Note. Banner is a full-width announcement strip for page- or app-level state, so in a modal it reads as a slab heavier than the fields it warns about, and its soft appearance has no border and no tone-colored icon: the severity survives only as a faint wash.
+- Don't: Use Banner for field-level validation, row status, or small local hints; use Field, InlineStatus, or Badge instead. → use **InlineStatus**, **Badge**
+- Don't: Use Banner inside a dialog, a form, or a section to qualify the content around it — that is Note. Banner is a full-width announcement strip for page- or app-level state, so in a modal it reads as a slab heavier than the fields it warns about, and its soft appearance has no border and no tone-colored icon: the severity survives only as a faint wash. → use **Note**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -12302,7 +12310,7 @@ Use ButtonGroup when one action has close alternatives (Copy page, with Open in
 - Do: For a split button, put the main action first and a Menu whose trigger is the chevron Button second, with an aria-label on the trigger ("More page actions").
 - Do: Name the group with aria-label when the buttons alone do not say what they act on.
 - Don't: Do not round or border the children yourself to make them meet; that is the group's job, and an override breaks under a theme's button shape.
-- Don't: Do not use it for a selection that stays on. That is ToggleGroup, which carries the pressed state.
+- Don't: Do not use it for a selection that stays on. That is ToggleGroup, which carries the pressed state. → use **ToggleGroup**
 
 ## Props
 
@@ -12914,7 +12922,7 @@ Use Checkbox for independent boolean choices or for selecting multiple options i
 
 - Do: Use Checkbox when each option can be toggled independently.
 - Do: Attach a visible label that explains the consequence of checking the control.
-- Don't: Do not use Checkbox for mutually exclusive choices; use Radio or Select instead.
+- Don't: Do not use Checkbox for mutually exclusive choices; use Radio or Select instead. → use **Radio**, **Select**
 - Don't: Do not use it without a label or an aria-label. An 18px square with no accessible name is announced as just "checkbox", which tells a screen-reader user nothing about what they are agreeing to.
 - Don't: Do not phrase the label as a negative, such as "Don't send read receipts". Paired with an unchecked box it becomes a double negative the reader has to solve before they can answer. Label the state being turned on.
 
@@ -13257,7 +13265,7 @@ Use Collapsible for a single piece of optional content that can expand in place.
 
 - Do: Use it for local detail, advanced settings, or secondary context.
 - Do: Make the trigger label describe the hidden content, not the mechanism.
-- Don't: Do not use Collapsible for multi-section navigation; use Accordion or Tabs instead.
+- Don't: Do not use Collapsible for multi-section navigation; use Accordion or Tabs instead. → use **Accordion**, **Tabs**
 - Don't: Do not animate it by transitioning height from auto. Use the motion-disclosure recipe, which transitions to the measured panel height — `auto` does not animate and the panel will snap.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -13450,8 +13458,8 @@ Use Combobox when users choose from a list that benefits from typing, filtering,
 - Do: Wrap in Field when the combobox is part of a form.
 - Do: Reach for ComboboxVirtualList past roughly a thousand rows, and leave filtering to the root. It reads the filtered list through useFilteredItems(), so the rendered rows and the rows Base UI navigates cannot drift apart.
 - Do: Use `multiple` with ComboboxChips for several values from a filterable set, and keep chip labels short so the field does not turn into a paragraph.
-- Don't: Use Combobox for tiny option sets where Select or Radio would be easier to scan.
-- Don't: Use Combobox as a command launcher. Use CommandMenu for actions and navigation.
+- Don't: Use Combobox for tiny option sets where Select or Radio would be easier to scan. → use **Select**, **Radio**
+- Don't: Use Combobox as a command launcher. Use CommandMenu for actions and navigation. → use **CommandMenu**
 - Don't: Take filtering over with filteredItems in order to virtualize. Base UI ignores filteredItems while the untouched field still holds the selected item's label, so the list you render and the list it indexes diverge — and the symptom is clicking one row and getting another.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -13586,9 +13594,9 @@ Use CommandMenu for global or contextual keyboard-driven actions: navigation, cr
 - Do: List a command the user cannot currently run as disabled with the reason in hint, rather than filtering it away. A palette that hides what you cannot do teaches you nothing about why.
 - Do: Resize the list with listClassName rather than reaching past className into the palette's DOM. className is the dialog surface; listClassName is the Scroller that actually scrolls.
 - Do: Use CommandMenuPanel when the palette lives in the page: a sidebar launcher, a settings search, a demo. It takes the same items, filter, query and children, and keeps the same keyboard model; it is a static card, so it does not trap focus or take it on mount, and Esc clears the query instead of closing anything.
-- Don't: Hand-style a <button> to look like a search field, or put a SearchInput in the header that opens a dialog when focused. The first drifts from the field it imitates; the second is a text box you cannot type in. A header search that opens the palette is CommandMenuTrigger.
-- Don't: Use CommandMenu as a replacement for every dropdown. Simple choices belong in Select, Menu, or Tabs.
-- Don't: Hand-build a palette mock from a search glyph, a row of buttons and a highlight. That is CommandMenuPanel, and the hand-built one has no combobox, no filtering and no keyboard model.
+- Don't: Hand-style a <button> to look like a search field, or put a SearchInput in the header that opens a dialog when focused. The first drifts from the field it imitates; the second is a text box you cannot type in. A header search that opens the palette is CommandMenuTrigger. → use **CommandMenuTrigger**
+- Don't: Use CommandMenu as a replacement for every dropdown. Simple choices belong in Select, Menu, or Tabs. → use **Select**, **Menu**, **Tabs**
+- Don't: Hand-build a palette mock from a search glyph, a row of buttons and a highlight. That is CommandMenuPanel, and the hand-built one has no combobox, no filtering and no keyboard model. → use **CommandMenuPanel**
 - Don't: Dump every app route and action into one uncurated list. Keep the palette opinionated.
 - Don't: Rebuild the combobox over Dialog to get consumer-owned ranking. query/onQueryChange and filter are that seam; the keyboard model, activedescendant wiring, and result-count live region come with them.
 
@@ -13742,7 +13750,7 @@ Use ContextCard to show richer contextual content near a trigger without taking
 - Do: Use it for previews, summaries, or supporting context tied to a specific element.
 - Do: Keep the card read-only and make the trigger the action: it is a real link to the full profile or item. Keyboard users cannot reach a button inside the card, because moving focus off the trigger closes it. If the preview needs an action (Follow, Add), use a Popover instead.
 - Don't: Do not put critical decisions, long forms, or required workflow steps inside ContextCard.
-- Don't: Do not open it on click. It is a hover/focus preview; making it click-triggered gives you a Popover with no dismiss affordance and no way to reach the content it previews.
+- Don't: Do not open it on click. It is a hover/focus preview; making it click-triggered gives you a Popover with no dismiss affordance and no way to reach the content it previews. → use **Popover**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -14299,10 +14307,10 @@ Use Dialog for focused decisions, short modal forms, confirmations, and content
 - Do: In a destructive confirmation, state the consequence in DialogDescription ("This is permanent.") and reserve the destructive button variant for actions that cannot be undone.
 - Do: Use size="fullscreen" when an image, video, or gallery needs a larger view than the layout can give it. Give the popup an accessible name (aria-label on DialogContent, or a visually hidden DialogTitle) and alt text on the media.
 - Do: Use the AlertDialog family for a confirmation that must be answered (discard changes, leave without saving). It looks identical but is role="alertdialog" and a backdrop click does not dismiss it — only Cancel, Esc, or the action. For irreversible deletes, use DestructiveActionModal, which is built on it.
-- Don't: Put large multipage workflows in a centered dialog. Use Sheet or a page route when the task needs space.
-- Don't: Use size="fullscreen" for forms, confirmations, or anything that isn't media. A dialog that happens to need room is a Sheet or a page; the fullscreen affordances (dark scrim, corner close, centred content) all assume something to look at.
+- Don't: Put large multipage workflows in a centered dialog. Use Sheet or a page route when the task needs space. → use **Sheet**
+- Don't: Use size="fullscreen" for forms, confirmations, or anything that isn't media. A dialog that happens to need room is a Sheet or a page; the fullscreen affordances (dark scrim, corner close, centred content) all assume something to look at. → use **Sheet**
 - Don't: Hide the close button at size="fullscreen" without another visible way out. A full-bleed viewer that only Esc dismisses is a dead end for anyone who doesn't know the key.
-- Don't: Open a dialog for passive status updates. Use Toast, Banner, or InlineStatus instead.
+- Don't: Open a dialog for passive status updates. Use Toast, Banner, or InlineStatus instead. → use **Toast**, **Banner**, **InlineStatus**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -14430,7 +14438,7 @@ Use DisclosurePicker for one-of-many choices in a docked panel or inspector wher
 - Do: Use it for a choice with a cost — one that opens a confirm, loads something, or resets other settings. Arrow keys only move focus; onValueChange fires once, on Enter, Space or a click, and only when the pick differs from `value`.
 - Do: Give options a leading visual with `media` (a ThemePreview tile, a swatch) instead of nesting another component's list: ThemeSelector's radio list applies each theme as the arrow keys land on it, which defeats commit-on-Enter. A list the picker cannot express (a Tree) can still close the row with `useDisclosurePicker().close()`.
 - Do: Render DisclosurePickerEmpty in place of the list when a search matches nothing, not inside it — a listbox holds only options.
-- Don't: Use it in a page-register form. A form field that pushes the form down on open reads as a layout jump; that is Select's job.
+- Don't: Use it in a page-register form. A form field that pushes the form down on open reads as a layout jump; that is Select's job. → use **Select**
 - Don't: Rebuild the row from a Collapsible with hand-copied classes. The disclosure, the well, the hover step, the xs field shell, focus return and scroll-into-view all live here; two hand copies of this row in one panel is how it came to exist.
 - Don't: Turn search on for a short list just because the other rows have it. A search field over six options is a control with nothing to do.
 
@@ -15503,7 +15511,7 @@ Use InlineStatus for short state messages placed near the thing they describe.
 
 - Do: Use it beside inputs, rows, actions, or settings that need local status.
 - Do: Keep the message brief and pair color with text.
-- Don't: Do not use InlineStatus for global announcements or page-level alerts.
+- Don't: Do not use InlineStatus for global announcements or page-level alerts. → use **Banner**
 - Don't: Do not use tone as the only signal. Colour alone fails for colour-blind users — the leading icon is what carries the meaning, so never hide it.
 
 ## Props
@@ -16483,7 +16491,7 @@ Use Menu for a compact list of actions opened from a visible trigger.
 - Do: Keep item labels action-oriented and easy to scan.
 - Do: Inside a <Workspace> a Menu adapts automatically — its popup re-applies the compact density across the portal, so items render on the chrome type tier and the control ladder resolves to workspace sizes. Do NOT override the size per call site; that was necessary before v0.41 and is now drift.
 - Don't: Do not use Menu for complex forms, persistent navigation, or arbitrary rich content.
-- Don't: Do not build a Select out of it. A menu fires actions and has no value; a Select holds one and reports changes. Swapping them loses form semantics and keyboard type-ahead.
+- Don't: Do not build a Select out of it. A menu fires actions and has no value; a Select holds one and reports changes. Swapping them loses form semantics and keyboard type-ahead. → use **Select**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -16623,7 +16631,7 @@ Use Menubar for a tool or editor whose commands are too many for a toolbar and b
 - Do: Name the bar with aria-label ("Editor") so it is announced as the application's menus, not a list of buttons.
 - Do: Keep titles to one short word each. A reader scans a menubar left to right; a phrase in the bar is a toolbar button.
 - Don't: Do not use MenubarTrigger outside a Menubar, or a plain MenuTrigger inside one. The bar's arrow keys and hover-to-switch work on the triggers it owns; a Button trigger in the bar looks like a menu title and behaves like a stray button.
-- Don't: Do not use a menubar for site navigation. Its items are commands in menus (role=menuitem), not links between pages.
+- Don't: Do not use a menubar for site navigation. Its items are commands in menus (role=menuitem), not links between pages. → use **NavigationMenu**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -16966,7 +16974,7 @@ Use Meter to show a static measurement against a known maximum — storage used,
 - Do: Label it and show the reading in units people use ("7.2 of 10 GB"), with MeterLabel and MeterValue. The bar shows proportion; the number is what gets acted on.
 - Do: Pick `tone` from thresholds you own and apply them consistently across the page — warning near the limit, destructive at or over it. The component does not guess where good becomes bad.
 - Do: Use shape="ring" when the reading is a score that belongs in a small, glanceable spot on a card. It is the same measurement drawn as a circular gauge, not a different component.
-- Don't: Do not use Meter for a task in flight — an upload, an install, a step count. That is Progress; Meter tells assistive tech nothing is happening.
+- Don't: Do not use Meter for a task in flight — an upload, an install, a step count. That is Progress; Meter tells assistive tech nothing is happening. → use **Progress**
 - Don't: Do not use it for a value without a meaningful maximum (followers, total spend). A bar implies a full scale; an unbounded count is a stat.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -17275,7 +17283,7 @@ Use Note for helpful supporting information that should sit near the relevant co
 - Do: Reach for Note rather than Banner when the message qualifies something on the page — a warning inside a dialog, a caveat above a submit button. Banner is a full-width announcement strip for page- or app-level state; inside a form it reads as a slab, and its soft fill carries no border or tone-colored icon, so the severity stops being visible.
 - Do: Keep tone calm and concise so the note does not compete with primary content.
 - Do: When the reader can resolve the state, pass `action` rather than putting a Button in children. The prop is data — label plus handler — so the callout owns the placement and weight; a Button dropped into children inherits neither, floats in the box's padding, and (in `secondary`) punches a near-background hole in the tone fill.
-- Don't: Do not use Note for state the whole page or app is in (an outage, an offline session, a blocked account) — that is Banner — or for a message tied to one field, which is the field's own error text.
+- Don't: Do not use Note for state the whole page or app is in (an outage, an offline session, a blocked account) — that is Banner — or for a message tied to one field, which is the field's own error text. → use **Banner**
 - Don't: Do not give a Note two actions. One remedy reads as the sentence's next move; two make it a decision point, which is a Dialog's job.
 - Don't: Do not stack several in a row. Three notes together are a wall of asides; if everything is called out, nothing is.
 
@@ -17776,7 +17784,7 @@ Use PageLoader for full-route or full-page pending states where the entire view
 
 - Do: Use it during route transitions, auth checks, or initial data loading.
 - Do: Prefer a clear page-level message when the wait may take noticeable time.
-- Don't: Do not use PageLoader for small inline waits; use Spinner, an indeterminate Progress, or Skeleton.
+- Don't: Do not use PageLoader for small inline waits; use Spinner, an indeterminate Progress, or Skeleton. → use **Spinner**, **Progress**, **Skeleton**
 - Don't: Do not leave it mounted if the route's data can fail. It covers the whole viewport, so a PageLoader that never resolves is indistinguishable from a hung application — always give it a failure path.
 
 ## Props
@@ -18408,7 +18416,7 @@ Use Pill for a row of filters or choices a person clicks to narrow or toggle wha
 
 - Do: Use short text that names the filter or choice.
 - Do: Reflect the current choice with selected, so the active filter reads at a glance.
-- Don't: Do not use Pill as a static label. A pressable-looking chip that does nothing is the most common cause of dead clicks in a filter row — that is a Badge.
+- Don't: Do not use Pill as a static label. A pressable-looking chip that does nothing is the most common cause of dead clicks in a filter row — that is a Badge. → use **Badge**
 - Don't: Do not use Pill for primary actions or important system status.
 - Don't: Do not restyle a Pill with border or background classes to get a quieter chip. That is appearance="outline" (and size="sm" for a small one); an override is a look that exists nowhere else in the system.
 
@@ -18494,8 +18502,8 @@ Use Popover for anchored secondary content that needs more room than a tooltip b
 
 - Do: Use it for small pickers, summaries, or contextual controls tied to a trigger.
 - Do: Keep focus behavior and dismissal predictable.
-- Don't: Do not use Popover for blocking confirmations, long forms, or critical information.
-- Don't: Do not put a form that can fail validation inside one. A popover dismisses on outside click, which discards what the user typed with no warning — that is a Dialog.
+- Don't: Do not use Popover for blocking confirmations, long forms, or critical information. → use **Dialog**
+- Don't: Do not put a form that can fail validation inside one. A popover dismisses on outside click, which discards what the user typed with no warning — that is a Dialog. → use **Dialog**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -18577,7 +18585,7 @@ Use Progress to communicate determinate or indeterminate completion for a task o
 - Do: Use determinate values when progress can be measured.
 - Do: Pair the visual indicator with text when users need context or exact values.
 - Don't: Do not use Progress as a decorative divider or status color bar.
-- Don't: Do not use a determinate Progress for an unknown duration. A bar that sits at 90% is worse than a Spinner, because it makes a promise about time that you cannot keep.
+- Don't: Do not use a determinate Progress for an unknown duration. A bar that sits at 90% is worse than a Spinner, because it makes a promise about time that you cannot keep. → use **Spinner**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -18891,7 +18899,7 @@ Use Radio when a user must choose exactly one option from a visible set.
 
 - Do: Use it when all options should be visible for comparison.
 - Do: Keep option labels mutually exclusive and easy to understand.
-- Don't: Do not use Radio for independent toggles or multiple selection; use Checkbox or Switch.
+- Don't: Do not use Radio for independent toggles or multiple selection; use Checkbox or Switch. → use **Checkbox**, **Switch**
 - Don't: Do not use a radio group with only one option, and do not omit the Fieldset. Without the fieldset the options share no accessible name, so a screen reader reads the choices with no question attached.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -19563,7 +19571,7 @@ Use SegmentedBar when a stat card or row needs to show how a total divides into
 
 - Do: Keep it to two to six segments and give the same category the same tone everywhere it appears.
 - Do: Show the legend's shares in text ("42%") — colour identifies a segment, but the number is what a reader compares.
-- Don't: Use it for a single value against a limit; that is Meter, which carries the meter role and its value.
+- Don't: Use it for a single value against a limit; that is Meter, which carries the meter role and its value. → use **Meter**
 - Don't: Rely on tone order alone to tell segments apart; a legend row per segment, with its label, is required.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -19671,8 +19679,8 @@ Use Select when users choose one value from a known, finite set. Use Combobox fo
 - Do: Wrap in Field when the select belongs to a form so label, helper text, and errors are wired automatically.
 - Do: Leave the trigger's type alone on mobile. Below the sm breakpoint the md trigger renders text-body-lg (17px) so it matches the Input and Textarea beside it, which carry that tier because iOS Safari zooms the page when a focused field computes under 16px. A custom field in the same row should follow: a second paired tier under a max-sm: variant, never a hand-set font-size.
 - Do: Inside a <Workspace> a Select adapts automatically — trigger and popup both pick up the compact density, including across the portal. Do NOT hand-size it per call site; that was necessary before v0.41 and is now drift.
-- Don't: Use Select for very large or fuzzy lists. Use Combobox when typing is the primary way to find an option.
-- Don't: Use Select for binary on/off settings. Use Switch or Checkbox instead.
+- Don't: Use Select for very large or fuzzy lists. Use Combobox when typing is the primary way to find an option. → use **Combobox**
+- Don't: Use Select for binary on/off settings. Use Switch or Checkbox instead. → use **Switch**, **Checkbox**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -19993,8 +20001,8 @@ Use Sheet for secondary workflows that slide in while preserving context from th
 - Do: Use it for inspect, edit, filter, or create flows that relate to the current page.
 - Do: Include clear title, close path, and footer actions for task-oriented sheets.
 - Do: Give a bottom sheet snap points when it shows a summary first and detail on demand (a map result, a now-playing panel): `snapPoints={[0.4, 1]}`. The first stop is where it opens; put what matters at that height, because the rest is a drag away.
-- Don't: Do not use Sheet for simple confirmations or deeply nested workflows.
-- Don't: Do not use it on desktop where a Dialog fits. A sheet's affordance is edge-anchored travel for thumb reach; on a wide viewport it becomes a dialog that arrives from the wrong place.
+- Don't: Do not use Sheet for simple confirmations or deeply nested workflows. → use **Dialog**
+- Don't: Do not use it on desktop where a Dialog fits. A sheet's affordance is edge-anchored travel for thumb reach; on a wide viewport it becomes a dialog that arrives from the wrong place. → use **Dialog**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -20275,7 +20283,7 @@ Use SideNav for vertical navigation inside a settings page, documentation area,
 - Do: Group related items with SideNavGroup when the rail has more than one conceptual area.
 - Do: Use size='lg' and activeVariant='sidebar' when the nav is part of persistent app chrome.
 - Do: Rows are rounded-sm, which nests in the usual rounded-lg p-2 frame. In any other rounded, padded frame give each item rounded-concentric-<outer>/<inset> — a same-radius row inset into a frame reads as a second system.
-- Don't: Use SideNav for bottom mobile navigation; use BottomNav in AppShell's bottomNav slot.
+- Don't: Use SideNav for bottom mobile navigation; use BottomNav in AppShell's bottomNav slot. → use **BottomNav**
 - Don't: Mix content and sidebar active variants in the same rail unless individual items intentionally override the group.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -20382,7 +20390,7 @@ Use Skeleton to reserve space and hint at the shape of content while data is loa
 
 - Do: Match the approximate size and rhythm of the eventual content.
 - Do: Use it for content regions where layout stability matters during loading.
-- Don't: Do not leave Skeleton visible after an error or empty state; switch to EmptyState (tone='destructive' for an error).
+- Don't: Do not leave Skeleton visible after an error or empty state; switch to EmptyState (tone='destructive' for an error). → use **EmptyState**
 - Don't: Do not use a skeleton whose shape differs from the content that replaces it. A mismatched placeholder causes a visible jump, which is worse than a brief spinner.
 
 ## Props
@@ -20659,7 +20667,7 @@ Use Spinner for short indeterminate waits where the user cannot know exact progr
 
 - Do: Use it in compact panels or places where layout is already stable. In a button, use Button's loading prop rather than placing a Spinner by hand — it disables the button, sets aria-busy and sizes the spinner to the button's icon.
 - Do: Pair it with accessible loading text when the surrounding label is not enough.
-- Don't: Do not use Spinner as the only content for long waits or full page loading.
+- Don't: Do not use Spinner as the only content for long waits or full page loading. → use **Skeleton**, **PageLoader**
 - Don't: Do not use it without an accessible name or a nearby status message. A spinning icon is invisible to a screen reader, so the wait is announced as nothing at all.
 
 ## Props
@@ -20917,8 +20925,8 @@ Use Stepper above or beside a flow that is split into a known, small number of n
 - Do: Drive it from one number (`current`) and override a single step's `status` only for what a number cannot say — a completed step that now needs attention is `status="error"`.
 - Do: Name steps with a word or two ("Shipping", "Payment"). Go vertical when steps need a description or there are more than five; horizontal titles truncate first.
 - Do: Give completed steps `onSelect` only when going back to edit them actually works, and keep the user's later answers when they do.
-- Don't: Do not use Stepper for a task with unknown length or for a percentage. That is Progress; a stepper promises a fixed set of named stops.
-- Don't: Do not use it as navigation between independent sections. Sections the user can visit in any order are Tabs; a stepper implies each step depends on the one before.
+- Don't: Do not use Stepper for a task with unknown length or for a percentage. That is Progress; a stepper promises a fixed set of named stops. → use **Progress**
+- Don't: Do not use it as navigation between independent sections. Sections the user can visit in any order are Tabs; a stepper implies each step depends on the one before. → use **Tabs**
 - Don't: Do not make upcoming steps pressable to skip ahead. A step that looks reachable but is not is worse than one that is plainly locked.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -21135,7 +21143,7 @@ Use Switch for immediate on/off settings that take effect as a persistent prefer
 - Do: Use it for binary settings where the label describes the enabled state.
 - Do: Make the current state obvious through both position and accessible text.
 - Don't: Do not phrase the label as a negative, such as "Don't send read receipts". Turning off a negative is a double negative, and the user has to solve it before they can act.
-- Don't: Do not use Switch for one-time agreement, multi-select choices, or submit-only booleans.
+- Don't: Do not use Switch for one-time agreement, multi-select choices, or submit-only booleans. → use **Checkbox**, **Radio**
 - Don't: Do not use a Switch whose effect is not immediately visible somewhere. A toggle flipped with no observable consequence gives no confirmation it worked, so the user flips it again to check.
 
 ## Props
@@ -21226,7 +21234,7 @@ Use Table for structured data with consistent columns and rows. Use DataTable wh
 - Do: Keep cells concise and scannable; compose Badge, StatusDot, Avatar, or Button only when they clarify the row.
 - Do: Use the built-in horizontal frame for overflow instead of squeezing columns until content becomes unreadable.
 - Do: Put a table in a card with `<CardContent flush>`. The first and last columns then take the card's own padding (`--table-edge-px`), so they line up with the CardHeader at any density. Never hand-set `pl-6`/`pr-6` on edge cells.
-- Don't: Use Table for heterogeneous items with no stable columns. Use Card, Entity, or a list composition instead.
+- Don't: Use Table for heterogeneous items with no stable columns. Use Card, Entity, or a list composition instead. → use **Card**, **Entity**
 - Don't: Put every possible action in every row. Use one primary row action, an OverflowMenu, or row detail navigation.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -21340,8 +21348,8 @@ Use Tabs to switch between related panels within the same page context.
 - Do: Use tabs when each panel is peer content and users may compare or switch often.
 - Do: Keep tab labels short and make the active tab unmistakable.
 - Do: Use variant="pill" for a short switcher inside a card or toolbar (Preview / Code, List / Grid); keep the default underline for sections of a page.
-- Don't: Do not use Tabs for unrelated pages or primary navigation that needs distinct URLs.
-- Don't: Do not use tabs for sequential steps. Tabs are peer views the user returns to in any order; a process with an order needs a stepper, or the user will skip ahead.
+- Don't: Do not use Tabs for unrelated pages or primary navigation that needs distinct URLs. → use **SideNav**, **NavigationMenu**
+- Don't: Do not use tabs for sequential steps. Tabs are peer views the user returns to in any order; a process with an order needs a stepper, or the user will skip ahead. → use **Stepper**
 
 ### Anatomy
 
@@ -21730,8 +21738,8 @@ Use ThinkingOrb while an AI agent is working and there is nothing specific to re
 - Do: Reserve it for the single active agent state — the composer, the streaming message header, a standalone thinking screen. One orb on screen reads as intent; several read as decoration.
 - Do: Switch mode to say what kind of work is happening: orbit for generic thinking, globe while searching or retrieving, mesh while relating sources or running tools. Pair it with a text status so the phase is legible without decoding the animation.
 - Do: Use size="sm" inline in a message row or composer and size="lg" only when the orb is the main thing on screen. The size steps are separately tuned, not scaled, so the small one stays legible.
-- Don't: Do not put one on every row of a list or in a repeated skeleton. Each orb runs its own animation frame loop painting hundreds of arcs; use Skeleton for content-shaped waits and Spinner inside buttons.
-- Don't: Do not use it for a determinate wait. It carries no sense of how far along anything is — reach for Progress when a percentage exists.
+- Don't: Do not put one on every row of a list or in a repeated skeleton. Each orb runs its own animation frame loop painting hundreds of arcs; use Skeleton for content-shaped waits and Spinner inside buttons. → use **Skeleton**, **Spinner**
+- Don't: Do not use it for a determinate wait. It carries no sense of how far along anything is — reach for Progress when a percentage exists. → use **Progress**
 - Don't: Do not rely on the animation alone to announce the wait. Give the label a short constant phrase (it is the role=status announcement) or place a status message next to it.
 - Don't: Do not pass a label that changes while the orb is up. It is the accessible name of a live region, so every change re-announces the whole thing — feed it a per-token phase and a screen reader interrupts on each delta: "Chromatic drift" → "Chromatic drift · rgb-shift" → "Chromatic drift · rgb-shift → grain", which is unusable. The label names the wait ("Thinking"); the phase belongs in adjacent text, as in the "Inline with a status line" example. If the phase must be announced, announce it once when the turn settles from a separate live region — not per update.
 
@@ -21824,7 +21832,7 @@ Use Toast for transient feedback caused by a user action: saved, failed, copied,
 - Do: Mount one ToastProvider near the app root before any code calls toast() or useToast().
 - Do: Use toast.promise for async actions so loading, success, and error states stay tied to one notification.
 - Do: Keep toast copy short and outcome-focused. Add an action only when it is immediately useful, such as Undo.
-- Don't: Use Toast for critical blockers or persistent outages. Use Banner or Dialog when the user must notice and act.
+- Don't: Use Toast for critical blockers or persistent outages. Use Banner or Dialog when the user must notice and act. → use **Banner**, **Dialog**
 - Don't: Fire multiple toasts for one operation. Update the same toast when a task progresses.
 - Don't: Put the only path to an action in a toast that auto-dismisses. An Undo that expires on a timer is data loss on a schedule, so error toasts and any toast carrying actionProps default to timeout 0 and wait to be read — pass an explicit timeout only when the action is also reachable somewhere else. When a timeout exists at all, 5s is the floor: anything shorter cannot be read and acted on.
 
@@ -21968,7 +21976,7 @@ Use Toggle for button-like controls that can be pressed on or off within a toolb
 - Do: Use it for transient UI modes such as bold, preview, pin, or favorite.
 - Do: Make the pressed state visually and programmatically clear.
 - Do: Use ToggleGroup appearance="segmented" for a single-select view switch (List / Grid). It is the same capsule ThemeSwitcher wears — do not hand-build a track around a row of toggles.
-- Don't: Do not use Toggle for persistent application settings; use Switch.
+- Don't: Do not use Toggle for persistent application settings; use Switch. → use **Switch**
 - Don't: Do not leave an icon-only Toggle without an accessible name. It announces as "button, pressed", which tells a screen-reader user the state but never what the state applies to.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -22069,7 +22077,7 @@ Use Toolbar when three or more related controls sit together and act on the same
 - Do: Compose triggers and toggles through ToolbarButton's render prop — render={<MenuTrigger />}, render={<PopoverTrigger />}, or render={<Toggle value="bold" />} inside a ToggleGroup — so they join the toolbar's arrow-key order.
 - Don't: Put a bare Button, Toggle or Input inside a Toolbar. It renders, but it is not a toolbar item: the arrow keys skip it and it takes its own tab stop, which is the inconsistency Toolbar exists to remove. Use ToolbarButton, ToolbarInput, or render through ToolbarButton.
 - Don't: Wrap one or two buttons, or a dialog's Cancel/Confirm pair, in a Toolbar. Those are independent actions; arrow-key movement there is a surprise, not a shortcut. A plain row of Buttons is right.
-- Don't: Use Toolbar for navigation between pages or views. Links that go somewhere are Tabs, SideNav or Breadcrumbs; ToolbarLink is for the odd link that sits among actions, like Help.
+- Don't: Use Toolbar for navigation between pages or views. Links that go somewhere are Tabs, SideNav or Breadcrumbs; ToolbarLink is for the odd link that sits among actions, like Help. → use **Tabs**, **SideNav**, **Breadcrumbs**
 - Don't: Give toolbar buttons primary or destructive fills by default. A toolbar is a quiet strip of tools; the ghost default keeps it from competing with the page's one primary action.
 
 ### Anatomy
@@ -22236,7 +22244,7 @@ Use Tooltip for brief nonessential hints tied to a specific control or piece of
 
 - Do: Use it to name icon-only controls or clarify compact UI when the label cannot be visible.
 - Do: Keep tooltip content short and noninteractive.
-- Don't: Do not put critical instructions, errors, or interactive content inside Tooltip.
+- Don't: Do not put critical instructions, errors, or interactive content inside Tooltip. → use **Popover**, **InlineStatus**
 - Don't: Do not let a tooltip serve as an icon button's accessible name. A tooltip is not a name — without its own aria-label the button announces as "button", and the tooltip never opens for a screen reader at all.
 
 ### Anatomy

package/llms.txt

@@ -4,11 +4,16 @@
 
 ## Start here — brief, composition, evidence
 
+Not installed yet? `pnpm add @sableui/react`, then `pnpm exec sable init` from the
+app root: it wires the bundler, CSS, fonts and `IconProvider`, installs the agent
+skill, and runs `sable doctor` (see Consuming below).
+
 Read `sable docs building-with-sable` for the connected workflow: build a product
 idea, inspire a reusable preset, audit existing work, polish a selected design, or
 fix one scoped defect on a short path that reads only what the change touches.
-Run `sable setup --agent` to connect Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor to the maintained
-`skills/sable/SKILL.md` in the installed package. Package upgrades update the skill.
+`sable init` connects Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor to the maintained
+`skills/sable/SKILL.md` in the installed package; in an app wired by hand, run
+`sable setup --agent`. Package upgrades update the skill.
 Canvas and the skill exchange portable presets; `sable preset --check <path>`
 validates a record and `--css <path>` generates its scoped stylesheet.
 
@@ -180,9 +185,10 @@ worklist, not a verdict.
   npx sable doctor                             # is this project wired correctly?
   ```
 
-  Add `--json` for a `{ type, data }` envelope, `--dense` to drop prose, `--detail brief|compact|full` to pick a size. Errors carry a stable `code` and concrete `suggestions` — read them instead of retrying a guess. `npx sable manifest --json` is the full command surface.
+  Add `--json` for a `{ type, data }` envelope, `--dense` to drop prose, `--detail brief|compact|full` to pick a size. Where it has them, a component's compact detail ends with **not for**: the cases it is the wrong pick for, each with what to use instead. Errors carry a stable `code` and concrete `suggestions` — read them instead of retrying a guess. `npx sable manifest --json` is the full command surface.
+- **Not installed yet, or prefer MCP?** `https://www.sableui.com/api/mcp` (Streamable HTTP) gives the same answers through three tools, `search`, `get` and `docs`, run from the published package. Pass `version` to match an installed one. Once the package is installed, the CLI above is the default.
 - **Composition before components.** Answer *which pattern* before *which component*, and read the pattern's **skeleton** before its source: `npx sable pattern <Name> --skeleton` prints the element tree with the demo data stripped, so all eight are cheap to compare. Picking components first is how a page ends up as a pile of correct parts in the wrong shape.
-- **This documentation is authoritative.** Sable is a private library: your training data contains none of it. If prior knowledge conflicts with `registry.json` or these docs, trust the docs.
+- **This documentation is authoritative.** Your training data almost certainly contains none of Sable. If prior knowledge conflicts with `registry.json` or these docs, trust the docs.
 - **Composition uses Sable's render prop:** `render={<a href="…" />}` composes behavior with another element. State reads from `data-[state=…]`/`data-[popup-open]` attributes. Do not import `@base-ui/react` directly in an app — every behavior is wrapped and re-exported by the package barrel.
 - **Choose composition from the brief:** inspect `sable pattern --list` and a matching skeleton. Reuse a shell when its information architecture fits, or compose an original page from layout primitives. Pattern resemblance is descriptive, never proof of visual quality.
 - **Every registry example carries an `imports` line** — copy code + imports together and it compiles. Components named in examples but supplied by your app (a router `<Link>`) are marked with a comment.
@@ -235,7 +241,9 @@ Motion is a first-class token layer — subtle by default, tasteful spring welco
 
 ## Consuming
 
-On npm as `@sableui/react`. The structured recipe is the `consume` block in `registry.json`. Steps:
+On npm as `@sableui/react`. The structured recipe is the `consume` block in `registry.json`.
+
+**Start with `sable init`.** After `pnpm add @sableui/react`, run `pnpm exec sable init` from the app root (never bare `npx sable` before the install — that fetches an unrelated package). It does steps 2–5 below with the project's package manager, installs the agent skill, and finishes with `sable doctor`; what it can't change safely (a Next.js layout, an unfamiliar config) it prints as a snippet with the file it belongs in. `--dry-run` previews every change. An app that is already wired uses `sable doctor --fix`. The steps are the manual route and what `init` checks against:
 
 1. **Install:** `pnpm add @sableui/react` from npm (no registry setup or token).
 2. **Dedupe React** (`resolve.dedupe: ["react","react-dom"]`) — Base UI must not resolve a second React (else "invalid hook call").
@@ -253,7 +261,7 @@ On npm as `@sableui/react`. The structured recipe is the `consume` block in `reg
 ```tsx
 import { Button, Card, IconProvider, MotionProvider, SableThemeProvider, useSableTheme } from "@sableui/react"
 // <SableThemeProvider> manages light/dark/system and data-sable-theme for user-selectable themes.
-// <IconProvider set={myIconAdapter}> (optional) > <MotionProvider> (optional) > <SableThemeProvider> (optional, recommended for theme UI) > <App/>
+// <IconProvider set={reiconIconSet}> (required for icons: without it every <Icon> renders nothing; reiconIconSet from "@sableui/react/icons/reicon", or your own set) > <MotionProvider> (optional) > <SableThemeProvider> (optional, recommended for theme UI) > <App/>
 ```
 
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package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@sableui/react",
-  "version": "0.13.0",
+  "version": "0.13.2",
   "description": "Sable: themeable React components, layout patterns, and tools for coding agents.",
   "type": "module",
   "sideEffects": [