temporal-fmt 0.9.61 → 0.9.70

package/MODS.md

@@ -19,388 +19,83 @@ loads, not a package the host depends on.
 This exists so bugfixes and locale corrections don't have to wait on a PR
 merging and a release going out. If en-GB's holiday list is wrong for your
 team, a locale you need isn't covered yet, or you want to shave overhead off
-a hot path, write a mod and drop it in. It's not the right tool for
-genuinely new capability — if you're building something the override surface
-can't express, that's a sign to open an issue or PR the feature into the
-library itself, not to keep stretching a mod to cover it. Whether a given
-fix ever gets upstreamed into this repo is a separate question from whether
-it works today as a mod.
-
-## Temporal-Fmt Mod API
-
-Tracks changes to the surface a mod talks to — `ModContext`, permissions, the
-subprocess boundary. Bumps independently of the package version; check this
-before assuming a mod built against an older level still works.
-
-### Level 2 — 0.9.6
-
-- Mods run in their own subprocess under Node's permission model, not the
-  host process — no filesystem, child process, or worker access unless
-  granted.
-- `.tfmod` mods declare a `permissions` array in `mod.json`; the user is
-  prompted once per `name@version` and the answer is cached.
-- `ctx.hasPermission(capability)` for checking a grant and degrading
-  gracefully instead of crashing.
-- `register()` is killed after 10s, a runtime override call after 5s, and a
-  subprocess is killed if its RSS crosses 512MB.
-- The subprocess doesn't inherit the host's environment variables.
-
-### Level 1 — 0.9.4
-
-- `register(ctx, config)` running with direct `import()` access to the host
-  process. No sandbox, no permissions.
-
-## The sandbox
-
-A mod's code never runs in your process. Every mod — loose `.mjs` and
-`.tfmod` alike — runs in its own subprocess started with Node's permission
-model ([`--permission`](https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html) on Node
-22.13+, `--experimental-permission` on Node 20 and early 22, picked per
-running version). With no capabilities granted, Node itself refuses the
-subprocess any filesystem read, filesystem write, child process, or worker
-thread access. The only way a mod affects the host is through the
-`ModContext` API, serialized over an inter-process channel.
-
-What this means concretely:
-
-- A mod can always read its own files — the `.mjs` file itself, or the
-  `.tfmod` archive's extracted contents including its `data/` directory. The
-  loader has to be able to load the code, so its own location is readable by
-  construction.
-- Everything else needs a granted capability (see
-  [Permissions](#permissions)). Denied capabilities aren't a polite request
-  the mod can ignore — the subprocess literally cannot open the file,
-  because Node blocks the syscall.
-- The subprocess does not inherit your environment variables. `process.env`
-  inside a mod contains `PATH`, `TZ`, `LANG`, and a few Windows bootstrap
-  variables, nothing else. There is no grant that changes this: environment
-  variables are where CI tokens and database URLs live, and the permission
-  model has no flag that could gate them, so they don't arrive in the first
-  place.
-- Mod output still reaches you: `console.log` from a mod goes to stderr
-  (the protocol channel is stdout, or on Windows the reply file).
-
-The channel itself is platform-dependent, and the difference is visible
-if you look: on macOS and Linux it's the subprocess's pipes, read directly
-by file descriptor. A Windows named pipe carries no file descriptor for
-the host's end — a fact of the platform, not a Node bug — so there each
-mod's subprocess gets a private scratch directory under the system temp
-folder and the same line protocol rides two plain files. Two consequences
-worth knowing: a runtime-override call costs a few extra milliseconds on
-Windows (the subprocess polls for new requests rather than being woken by
-the kernel), and the subprocess necessarily holds filesystem write access
-to its own scratch directory — the one place its protocol replies live —
-even when `fs:write` was denied. That's the whole carve-out: mod code
-still cannot write anywhere else, so the denial isn't weakened anywhere a
-human keeps files.
-
-Four things the sandbox does **not** do, said plainly rather than buried:
-
-1. **It does not restrict network access.** Node's permission model cannot
-   gate sockets on any supported version, so there is no `net` capability
-   to grant or deny. A mod can still import `node:http` and make requests.
-   Deleting the global `fetch` removes the most convenient path but not
-   `node:http` itself. If your threat model requires no network egress, do
-   not run third-party mods.
-2. **It does not sandbox `createFormatter` token handlers at format time.**
-   Custom tokens are rebuilt from handler source and run in the host process
-   (see [Overriding functions](#overriding-functions) for the why) — treat a
-   mod that registers custom tokens as trusted code for that table.
-3. **It is a least-privilege control, not a defense against a determined
-   attacker.** Node documents its permission model that way and this sandbox
-   inherits the ceiling. One concrete gap: cross-process signaling
-   (`process._debugProcess` and friends) isn't gated by the permission model
-   on any supported version, so any process owned by the same OS user can
-   reach any other. Containing that needs an OS-level sandbox, which is
-   explicitly out of scope here.
-4. **It contains runaway mods; it can't prevent them.** A wall-clock
-   watchdog (10s for `register()`, 5s per runtime override call) and a
-   resident-memory ceiling (512MB per subprocess, polled from the parent)
-   kill a mod that hangs or balloons — killed *before* it takes the host
-   down, which is containment, not prevention. The memory number is watched
-   as actual RSS from the parent, so `ArrayBuffer` allocations count (a V8
-   heap limit wouldn't see them) and `--max-old-space-size` set anywhere in
-   the process tree can't quietly neuter it.
-
-On Node 20 (and Node 22 before 22.13) the permission model is experimental
-and the load report says so; treat sandboxing there as best-effort. On Node
-22.13+ it's stable.
-
-## Writing a mod
-
-A mod is a `.mjs` file that default-exports an object with a `name` and a
-`register(ctx, config)` function. `ctx` is the same registration API
-`index.ts` exports for everyone else — `registerLocale`,
-`registerLocaleVocab`, `registerRelativeGrammar`, `createFormatter`,
-`createHolidayCalendar` — nothing beyond that. A mod that needs more than
-those functions expose is asking for something this library doesn't support
-yet, not something to route around by reaching into internals that could
-shift under it without warning. `config` is `{}` for a loose `.mjs` mod —
-there's no manifest to declare settings in, so there's nothing to resolve;
-see [Mod settings and `config/`](#mod-settings-and-config) for mods that
-need user-adjustable settings, which means packaging as `.tfmod`.
+a hot path, someone can write a mod and drop it in. It's not the right tool
+for genuinely new capability — if a fix needs more than the override surface
+can express, that's a sign to open an issue or PR the feature into the
+library itself, not to keep stretching a mod to cover it.
 
-```js
-// mods/en-gb-bank-holidays.mjs
-export default {
-  name: 'en-gb-bank-holidays',
-  version: '1.0.0',
-  register(ctx) {
-    ctx.createHolidayCalendar([
-      { month: 1, day: 1, name: "New Year's Day" },
-      { month: 12, day: 25, name: 'Christmas Day' },
-      { month: 12, day: 26, name: 'Boxing Day' },
-    ]);
-  },
-};
-```
+**Building a mod isn't covered here.** For the actual API, the sandbox, and
+how to package one, see [API_DOCS/LEVEL_1.md](./API_DOCS/LEVEL_1.md),
+[API_DOCS/LEVEL_2.md](./API_DOCS/LEVEL_2.md), and
+[API_DOCS/LEVEL_3.md](./API_DOCS/LEVEL_3.md). This document is about running
+mods someone else already wrote.
 
-Put that in `mods/` at your project root (the folder the CLI is run from,
-not inside this package's own checkout) and run any CLI command — the loader
-reports what it found on stderr:
+## Mod API levels
 
-```
-$ temporal-fmt validate "yyyy-MM-dd"
-temporal-fmt mods:
-  loaded en-gb-bank-holidays@1.0.0 (en-gb-bank-holidays.mjs) [sandboxed: no permissions — a loose .mjs mod can't request any, package as .tfmod to ask for capabilities]
-valid
-```
+Tracks the surface a mod talks to — `ModContext`, permissions, the
+subprocess boundary. Bumps independently of the package version; check
+which level a mod was built against before assuming it still works. A
+`.tfmod` can declare the lowest level it needs via `mod.json`'s
+`minApiLevel` — see [API_DOCS/LEVEL_3.md](./API_DOCS/LEVEL_3.md#declaring-the-api-level-your-mod-needs).
 
-`version` is optional and only shows up in that report — it's for your own
-tracking, not something the loader checks. That's a different field from
-`temporalFmtVersion`, which *is* checked against the installed
-`temporal-fmt` version, but only exists on `.tfmod` manifests (see [Pinning
-a mod to a `temporal-fmt` version](#pinning-a-mod-to-a-temporal-fmt-version))
-— a loose `.mjs` mod has no manifest to declare it in.
-
-A loose `.mjs` mod has no manifest, which also means it has no way to ask
-for capabilities: it runs with **zero** permissions, and a register() that
-touches `node:fs` or spawns anything fails with the access error plus an
-explanation, rather than mysteriously not working. That's the trade for the
-format's simplicity — anything that needs filesystem or process access has
-to be a `.tfmod`.
-
-## Packaging a mod as `.tfmod`
-
-A loose `.mjs` file covers the common case, but it's one file — no bundled
-data, and the loader has to import it in a sandbox just to find out its
-`name` before deciding load order. For anything bigger than that, package
-the mod as a `.tfmod` archive instead: a gzipped tar (same format as
-`.tgz`, renamed for identity) containing a manifest the loader can read
-without running any code, plus the mod's actual implementation:
+| Level | Version | What it added |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1 | 0.9.4, 0.9.41, 0.9.5 | `register(ctx, config)`, direct process access, no sandbox |
+| 2 | 0.9.6+ | Subprocess sandbox, permissions, `hasPermission`, `overrideXxx` |
+| 3 | unreleased | `registerFormatToken`, `ctx.log`, `ctx.reportIssue`, `minApiLevel` |
 
-```
-en-gb-bank-holidays.tfmod
-├── mod.json      — name, version, main, requires, priority, permissions, temporalFmtVersion, config
-├── main.mjs      — the mod's entry point (same shape as a loose .mjs mod's default export, minus `name`/`version`/`requires`/`priority` — mod.json owns those)
-└── data/         — optional: JSON files, locale tables, anything main.mjs wants to read at register() time
-```
-
-```json
-// mod.json
-{
-  "name": "en-gb-bank-holidays",
-  "version": "1.0.0",
-  "main": "main.mjs",
-  "requires": ["some-other-mod"],
-  "priority": 0,
-  "permissions": ["fs:read"],
-  "temporalFmtVersion": "^0.9.0"
-}
-```
+Full details for each are in [API_DOCS/LEVEL_1.md](./API_DOCS/LEVEL_1.md),
+[API_DOCS/LEVEL_2.md](./API_DOCS/LEVEL_2.md), and
+[API_DOCS/LEVEL_3.md](./API_DOCS/LEVEL_3.md).
 
-```js
-// main.mjs
-export default {
-  register(ctx) {
-    ctx.createHolidayCalendar([
-      { month: 1, day: 1, name: "New Year's Day" },
-      { month: 12, day: 25, name: 'Christmas Day' },
-    ]);
-  },
-};
-```
+## Installing a mod
 
-Build the archive with plain `tar` — no special tooling:
+Two formats show up in `mods/`, side by side:
 
-```sh
-tar -czf en-gb-bank-holidays.tfmod mod.json main.mjs data/
-```
+- **A loose `.mjs` file** — one file, no manifest.
+- **A `.tfmod` archive** — a packaged mod with a `mod.json` manifest, an
+  entry point, and optionally its own `data/`.
 
-Drop that in `mods/` alongside any loose `.mjs` mods you have; the loader
-treats both formats as one pool for load-order and conflict purposes. The
-report shows `mod.json`'s `name`, not anything from `main.mjs` itself:
+Drop either in `mods/` at your project root (not inside this package's own
+checkout) and run any CLI command. The loader reports what it found:
 
 ```
 $ temporal-fmt validate "yyyy-MM-dd"
 temporal-fmt mods:
-  loaded en-gb-bank-holidays@1.0.0 (en-gb-bank-holidays.tfmod) [sandboxed: fs:read granted]
+  loaded en-gb-bank-holidays@1.0.0 (en-gb-bank-holidays.tfmod)
 valid
 ```
 
-Why bother with an archive format at all instead of just supporting
-multi-file `.mjs` mods directly: `mod.json` is metadata the loader can read
-with zero code execution, which is what makes cross-mod dependency
-resolution work honestly — with a loose `.mjs` mod, the loader has no choice
-but to import the file (in its sandbox) to learn its `name`/`requires`,
-before it even knows whether that mod should run. A `.tfmod`'s manifest is
-checked, and the whole dependency graph is resolved, before `main.mjs` is
-ever imported. It's also the only shape that can declare `permissions`,
-`config`, or `temporalFmtVersion`, for the same reason: no manifest, no
-declaration.
-
-Failure modes are per-archive, same as loose mods — one bad `.tfmod` doesn't
-block anything else in `mods/`:
-
-- `mod.json` missing or malformed (no `name`, no `main`, or
-  `requires`/`priority`/`temporalFmtVersion`/`config`/`permissions` the
-  wrong type) — reported with what was expected, `main.mjs` is never
-  imported.
-- `mod.json` names a `main` file that isn't actually in the archive —
-  reported with the missing filename.
-- `mod.json` `"main"` (or the mod name) escaping the extraction directory —
-  absolute paths, `..` segments, and symlinks that resolve outside are
-  rejected before anything is imported. A `.tfmod` runs only files from
-  inside its own archive; this is a security boundary, not a nicety.
-- The archive isn't a valid gzip/tar (corrupted, wrong format, a `.tfmod`
-  extension slapped on some other file) — reported with the extraction
-  error.
-- `main.mjs`'s default export doesn't have a `register` function — reported,
-  same as a loose mod's malformed export.
-- `temporalFmtVersion` doesn't match the installed `temporal-fmt` version —
-  reported with the range and the actual version, `main.mjs` is never
-  imported. See [Pinning a mod to a `temporal-fmt`
-  version](#pinning-a-mod-to-a-temporal-fmt-version).
-- `permissions` names something that isn't a capability — reported with the
-  supported list. See below.
-
-Extraction happens to a temporary directory that's cleaned up after the
-load pass — nothing from a `.tfmod` sticks around on disk after the CLI
-command finishes. Extraction shells out to the system `tar` binary rather
-than adding a tar/gzip-parsing dependency, consistent with this package
-staying dependency-free (see the [README](./README.md#providing-temporal)
-for the same call made about the polyfill) — if `tar` isn't on the system
-`PATH`, the archive fails to load with that reason rather than crashing the
-CLI.
-
-## Permissions
-
-A `.tfmod` declares what it wants in `mod.json`'s `"permissions"` array,
-marking each entry required or optional:
-
-```json
-{
-  "name": "data-reader",
-  "version": "1.0.0",
-  "main": "main.mjs",
-  "permissions": [
-    { "capability": "fs:read", "required": true },
-    { "capability": "fs:write", "required": false }
-  ]
-}
-```
-
-The closed list maps one-to-one onto what Node's permission model can
-actually enforce:
-
-| Capability | Grants |
-|---|---|
-| `fs:read` | reading files anywhere on the filesystem |
-| `fs:write` | writing files anywhere on the filesystem |
-| `child-process` | spawning child processes |
-| `worker` | starting worker threads |
-
-That's the whole list. `fs:read` and `fs:write` are deliberately coarse —
-path scoping ("fs access to only `./data`") isn't something a yes/no
-terminal answer can express honestly, so v1 doesn't pretend to offer it;
-it's a possible follow-up if the permission model's path-scoped flags turn
-out to be worth building on. `net` and `env` are absent because no flag
-backs them: network access can't be restricted by the permission model (see
-[The sandbox](#the-sandbox)), and environment variables are handled by
-never delivering them to the subprocess at all. `addons` is absent because
-native code escapes every other restriction — a mod that needs native
-addons can't be sandboxed, full stop.
-
-A bare string array (`"permissions": ["fs:read"]`) still works — it's the
-format from before required/optional existed, and every entry in it is
-treated as required, so nothing that used to fail on denial silently
-downgrades. Leaving `"required"` out of an object entry means the same
-thing: a mod that doesn't say is asking, not wishing.
-
-On first load (and after a version bump), the loader asks about each
-requested capability in the terminal:
-
-```
-temporal-fmt: allow "data-reader" to access fs:read? (y/N)
-```
-
-Empty input is "no". A non-interactive context — CI, piped stdin — can't
-ask anyone, so it denies by default and says so in the report rather than
-quietly granting.
+Each mod loads independently — one being broken doesn't stop the rest, or
+the CLI command you actually ran. A missing `mods/` folder isn't a failure
+either; most projects won't have one, and the loader stays quiet about it.
 
-**Required is a promise, so don't make it lightly.** Denying a required
-capability fails the mod's load outright, with the reason in the report:
+## Reading the load report
 
-```
-failed data-reader.tfmod: denied required permission: fs:read — "data-reader" won't load without it. Grant it with "node scripts/managePermissions.mjs grant data-reader@1.0.0 fs:read", or delete .temporal-fmt-permissions.json to re-ask everything.
-```
+Four outcomes per mod:
 
-From the mod-author side: only mark a capability required when the mod is
-genuinely useless without it. Every required capability is another y/N
-between the user and your mod doing anything, and another way for the load
-to fail. Anything the mod can live without belongs in an optional entry
-and a `hasPermission` branch.
+- `loaded` — ran clean, got everything it asked for (if anything).
+- `downgraded` — ran, but an optional permission it asked for was denied.
+  Still functional, just with less access than it wanted.
+- `failed` — didn't run at all. The report line says why: bad file, a
+  required permission denied, a version mismatch, a thrown error, and so on.
+- `conflict` — informational, not a failure. Two mods registered the same
+  locale tag, grammar language, or token name; the report says which one
+  won.
 
-**Optional means the mod runs with less, and the report says so.** Denying
-an optional capability doesn't fail the load — the subprocess starts with
-only what was granted, and the report line reads `downgraded` rather than
-`loaded`, so "this ran, but with less access than it asked for" is visible
-without reading the fine print:
+## Permissions, from the user's side
 
-```
-downgraded data-reader@1.0.0 (data-reader.tfmod) [sandboxed: fs:read granted, fs:write denied (optional)]
-```
+A `.tfmod` mod may ask for filesystem or process access. On first load (and
+after the mod's version changes), you're prompted in the terminal:
 
-**`ctx.hasPermission(capability)`** tells a mod what it actually got, so
-it can degrade instead of crashing — skip loading supplementary locale
-data from disk when `fs:read` was denied, rather than assuming it's there
-and throwing:
-
-```js
-register(ctx) {
-  let extra = {};
-  if (ctx.hasPermission('fs:read')) {
-    extra = JSON.parse(readFileSync('supplementary.json', 'utf8'));
-  }
-  ctx.registerLocaleVocab('xx-extra', baseVocabMergedWith(extra));
-}
 ```
-
-Nothing forces this. A mod that doesn't check and touches the missing
-capability anyway fails with the permission model's access error, reported
-like any other `register()` crash — the design offers graceful
-degradation, it can't make an author take it. Two answers are the same
-everywhere: `net` is false (it isn't a capability, see the table above),
-and in a context you built in-process with `buildModContextFor()` — no
-sandbox attached — everything in the table reads as true, because nothing
-is gating it there.
-
-Answers are remembered in `.temporal-fmt-permissions.json`, next to
-`mods/` (like the `config/` directory — it's the host project's data about
-what it has agreed to, not part of the mod). The file is keyed by
-`name@version`: bump the version and you're asked again; keep the version
-and the cached answer applies; delete the file and everything is asked
-again. It's plain JSON, safe to edit by hand:
-
-```json
-{
-  "data-reader@1.0.0": { "fs:read": true },
-  "risky@2.3.0": { "fs:read": true, "fs:write": false }
-}
+temporal-fmt: allow "data-reader" to access fs:read? (y/N)
 ```
 
-To change an answer without re-triggering a load, use the management
-script that ships with the package:
+Your answer is cached in `.temporal-fmt-permissions.json`, next to `mods/`,
+keyed by `name@version` — so you're only asked again if the mod's version
+bumps, or you delete that file. To change an answer without triggering a
+fresh load:
 
 ```
 node scripts/managePermissions.mjs list
@@ -409,86 +104,15 @@ node scripts/managePermissions.mjs deny data-reader@1.0.0 fs:write
 node scripts/managePermissions.mjs reset data-reader@1.0.0
 ```
 
-`grant`/`deny` flip one entry, no prompt. `reset` clears a mod's cached
-answers so the next load asks again — the way to reconsider without
-bumping the mod's version. All of them write the same file the load-time
-prompts use, so there's one cache, not two that can drift apart. Changes
-apply the next time the mod loads; a process already running it is
-unaffected. A mod with no `version` in its `mod.json` is addressed by its
-bare name (`grant data-reader fs:read`), and `list` prints the exact key
-when in doubt.
-
-## Pinning a mod to a `temporal-fmt` version
+What each capability actually grants, and the difference between a required
+and an optional ask, is in
+[API_DOCS/LEVEL_2.md](./API_DOCS/LEVEL_2.md#permissions).
 
-`mod.json` can declare `temporalFmtVersion`, either an exact version
-(`"0.9.32"`) or a caret range (`"^0.9.0"`, meaning ">=0.9.0, <0.10.0" —
-same meaning npm gives `^` in `package.json`). If the installed
-`temporal-fmt` doesn't satisfy it, the mod fails to load with the range and
-the actual version, before `main.mjs` is ever imported:
+## Giving a mod settings
 
-```
-failed holidays.tfmod: "en-gb-bank-holidays" needs temporal-fmt ^2.0.0 (>=2.0.0 <3.0.0), host is 0.9.32
-```
-
-This exists because nothing else catches the alternative: a mod built
-against one version's override surface (which functions are zero-fanout and
-therefore overridable — see [Overriding functions](#overriding-functions))
-has no way to know if a future release moved a function it depends on, and
-would otherwise fail with whatever confusing error `register()` happens to
-throw, or — worse — silently do nothing if the call it expected to matter
-just no longer has any effect. A declared range turns that into one clear,
-pre-`register()` failure instead.
-
-Omitting `temporalFmtVersion` is allowed — the mod loads against whatever
-version is installed, same as before this field existed. Loose `.mjs` mods
-have no manifest to put this in at all, so they can't declare a version
-requirement; that's one real reason to prefer `.tfmod` for anything you
-plan to distribute rather than just run yourself.
-
-There's no dependency-resolution logic here, unlike `requires`/`priority` —
-this is a single boolean check (does the host version satisfy the range),
-not something that affects load order.
-
-## Mod settings and `config/`
-
-A mod can declare user-adjustable settings in `mod.json`'s `config` array,
-and `register()` receives the resolved values as its second argument:
-
-```json
-// mod.json
-{
-  "name": "en-gb-bank-holidays",
-  "main": "main.mjs",
-  "config": [
-    { "key": "includeScottish", "type": "boolean", "default": false },
-    { "key": "observedRule", "type": "enum", "default": "nearest-weekday", "choices": ["nearest-weekday", "strict-date"] },
-    { "key": "yearsAhead", "type": "number", "default": 5, "min": 1, "max": 20 }
-  ]
-}
-```
-
-```js
-// main.mjs
-export default {
-  register(ctx, config) {
-    const years = config.yearsAhead; // 5, unless overridden below
-    ctx.createHolidayCalendar(buildHolidays({ scottish: config.includeScottish, years }));
-  },
-};
-```
-
-Four setting types are supported: `string`, `number` (with optional
-`min`/`max`), `boolean`, and `enum` (a string constrained to `choices`).
-Every entry needs a `key` and a `default` — the default is what
-`register()` gets if the user hasn't overridden that setting, which also
-means a mod with no `config/<name>.json` file on disk at all still runs
-normally, just entirely on defaults.
-
-To override a setting, drop a JSON file at `config/<mod-name>.json` —
-**next to `mods/`, not inside it** (so re-downloading or updating the
-`.tfmod` never touches a user's settings, the same reason Forge keeps
-`config/` and `mods/` as siblings rather than bundling settings into the
-jar):
+If a mod declares configurable settings, override them by dropping a JSON
+file at `config/<mod-name>.json` — next to `mods/`, not inside it, so
+updating the mod's `.tfmod` never touches your settings:
 
 ```
 your-project/
@@ -498,311 +122,16 @@ your-project/
     └── en-gb-bank-holidays.json     — { "includeScottish": true, "yearsAhead": 10 }
 ```
 
-Only keys the schema actually declares can be set — anything else is a
-mistake worth surfacing, not a silent no-op:
-
-```
-temporal-fmt mods:
-  loaded en-gb-bank-holidays@1.0.0 (en-gb-bank-holidays.tfmod)
-  failed config/en-gb-bank-holidays.json: en-gb-bank-holidays: config key "yearsAhead" must be <= 20, got 50 (using default)
-  failed config/en-gb-bank-holidays.json: en-gb-bank-holidays: unknown config key "includeWelsh" (not declared in this mod's schema)
-```
-
-An invalid value for a declared key falls back to that key's default rather
-than failing the whole mod — one typo'd number in a config file shouldn't
-take down a working mod, but it's reported so the mistake doesn't go
-unnoticed either. This is deliberately not JSON Schema: no nesting, no
-`$ref`, no conditional rules — just the handful of primitive shapes an
-actual setting realistically is, kept dependency-free the same way
-`temporalFmtVersion` checking and `.tfmod` extraction are.
-
-Loose `.mjs` mods have no manifest to declare a schema in, so
-`register()`'s second argument is always `{}` for them — same as a `.tfmod`
-mod that didn't declare a `config` field at all.
-
-## Load order, dependencies, and conflicts
-
-By default mods load in filename order — alphabetical, deterministic, but
-not something you'd want to rely on once two mods actually need to run in a
-specific order relative to each other. Two fields on the mod object
-control that directly:
-
-- `requires: string[]` — other mods' `name` fields that must load (and
-  finish `register()`) before this one. The loader resolves this as a
-  dependency graph, not just "sort requires first" — if A requires B and B
-  requires nothing, B always loads first regardless of filename.
-- `priority: number` — tiebreak for mods with no dependency relationship
-  to each other. Higher loads later. Defaults to `0`.
-
-```js
-export default {
-  name: 'extended-en-gb-holidays',
-  requires: ['en-gb-bank-holidays'],
-  priority: 10,
-  register(ctx) {
-    // runs after en-gb-bank-holidays, and after anything else at a lower priority
-  },
-};
-```
-
-Two failure modes come out of this, both reported per-mod without blocking
-the rest:
-
-- **Missing dependency** — `requires` names a mod that isn't in `mods/`.
-  That mod fails to load; whatever it would've registered doesn't happen,
-  and other mods that don't depend on it load normally.
-- **Circular dependency** — A requires B requires A (or a longer cycle).
-  Every mod in the cycle fails, each reported with what it's still waiting
-  on.
-
-Registration itself is still last-write-wins, same as calling
-`registerLocale` twice for the same tag outside of mods — that's existing,
-intentional behavior (see [Locales](./README.md#locales)), not something
-mods change. What mods add is *visibility* into it: if two mods register
-the same locale tag, the same relative-time-grammar language, or the same
-custom token name, the load report calls it out as a conflict and says
-which one won:
-
-```
-temporal-fmt mods:
-  loaded holiday-pack-a (conflict-1.mjs)
-  loaded holiday-pack-b (conflict-2.mjs)
-  conflict on locale "cv-CV": holiday-pack-a, holiday-pack-b — "holiday-pack-b" wins (loaded last)
-```
-
-This is informational, not a failure — both mods still loaded, the last one
-to register just took the key, and now you know it happened instead of
-silently getting whichever mod's filename sorted last. If that's not what
-you want, `priority` is the knob: raise the one that should win, or add a
-`requires` so the loser explicitly runs first and the winner's intent is
-unambiguous in the mod itself, not just in a startup log line.
-
-Mod names have to be unique across `mods/` — two files claiming the same
-`name` is ambiguous the moment either one shows up in another mod's
-`requires`, so the second one to load fails with which file already claimed
-that name.
-
-## Overriding functions
-
-The five registration functions above are additive — they add a locale, a
-holiday set, a token, alongside whatever's already there.
-`ctx.overrideFormat` and `ctx.overrideParse` work differently: they let a
-mod replace the actual `format()`/`parse()` implementation everywhere in
-the library, which is what makes a real bugfix or performance mod possible
-rather than just new data being registered alongside an unfixed bug.
-
-```js
-export default {
-  name: 'fast-format',
-  register(ctx) {
-    ctx.overrideFormat((original, value, formatStr, options) => {
-      // Handle the one hot-path format string yourself; fall back to the
-      // real implementation for everything else.
-      if (formatStr === 'yyyy-MM-dd') {
-        return `${value.year}-${String(value.month).padStart(2, '0')}-${String(value.day).padStart(2, '0')}`;
-      }
-      return original(value, formatStr, options);
-    });
-  },
-};
-```
-
-`impl` always receives the real built-in as its first argument
-(`original`), regardless of what else is loaded — call it to keep existing
-behavior for cases you're not trying to change, or ignore it to replace the
-behavior outright. The override applies consistently everywhere in the
-library, not just to whoever imports the function from the package root —
-`formatRange()`'s internal use of `format()`, for instance, sees it too.
-Remove the mod and restart, and it's back to the unmodified built-in;
-nothing about this touches the source file on disk.
-
-**Only one mod may hold each override point.** A second override call for
-the same function — from any mod, even one that `requires` the first —
-fails immediately with which mod already owns it:
-
-```
-temporal-fmt mods:
-  loaded override-1 (a-override1.mjs)
-  failed b-override2.mjs: temporal-fmt: "format" is already overridden by mod "override-1" — mod "override-2" can't also override it. [...]
-```
-
-This is a hard failure, not last-write-wins like the registration
-functions — two mods silently fighting over the same function's behavior
-is a correctness bug in whatever depends on this library, not a cosmetic
-surprise. There's no mechanism for two separate mod files to layer through
-the same override point in sequence; if two mods both need to change a
-function's behavior, one has to incorporate the other's fix directly rather
-than composing through the override twice.
-
-**How an override runs under the sandbox.** A closure can't cross a process
-boundary, so a mod that installs one keeps its subprocess alive, and every
-`format()`/`parse()` call in the host forwards to it and waits for the
-answer — synchronously, because those are synchronous APIs and their
-result has to come back inside the caller's stack frame. What that costs
-and what's done about it:
-
-- Each overridden call is one round trip to the subprocess — a couple
-  of milliseconds, not the nanoseconds of an in-process function call, plus
-  a few more on Windows where the channel rides files (see
-  [The sandbox](#the-sandbox)). An override in a hot loop is *slower than
-  no override at all*, never mind faster. If your mod's whole point is
-  performance, it has to save more than the bridge costs.
-- The loader learns, per format string, whether your impl just forwards to
-  the built-in. Format strings your mod passes through stop paying the
-  round trip entirely after the first call; only the strings you actually
-  change keep crossing the process boundary. `formatRange()`'s two
-  endpoints batch into a single trip.
-- If the subprocess stops answering — the mod's impl hangs, crashes, or
-  hits a permission violation mid-call — the host stops waiting after 5
-  seconds (shown in the load report), kills the subprocess, warns on
-  stderr, and falls back to the built-in behavior for the rest of the
-  process. One hung mod doesn't take your formatting down with it.
-- The value your impl receives is rebuilt from its fields on the other
-  side. For real Temporal inputs it's rehydrated as a Temporal instance of
-  the same type; if your impl mutates the value (don't), the caller won't
-  see it — nothing is shared across the boundary. Values and results that
-  can't survive JSON serialization degrade the way JSON does: functions
-  vanish, and a `bigint` throws.
-
-**Which functions are overridable.** `format`, `formatToParts`, and `parse`
-always were. Beyond those, any function in this library that nothing *else*
-in the library calls internally is also overridable — if a function has
-zero internal call sites, there's no risk of some other module holding a
-stale direct reference that a mod's fix would silently fail to reach, so it
-gets the same `overrideXxx()` treatment. As of this version, that's:
-
-`compileFormat`, `compileParser`, `parseRelative`, `explainFormat`,
-`tokenizeFormat`, `listTokens`, `tokenInfo`, `isValidFormat`,
-`validateFormat`, `fieldForToken`, `monthsInYear`, `isLeapYear`,
-`isLeapMonth`, `weekOfYear`, `weekYear`, `getMonth`, `getWeekday`,
-`isEqual`, `isBefore`, `isAfter`, `clamp`, `isBetween`, `isToday`,
-`isTomorrow`, `isYesterday`, `isSameDay`, `isSameWeek`, `isSameMonth`,
-`isSameQuarter`, `isSameYear`, `isWeekday`, `floor`, `ceil`, `truncate`,
-`parseRFC3339`, `formatRFC3339`, `parseRFC2822`, `parseHTTPDate`,
-`fromUnixMicroseconds`, `fromUnixNanoseconds`, `toUnixSeconds`,
-`toUnixMilliseconds`, `toUnixMicroseconds`, `toUnixNanoseconds`,
-`parseSQL`, `formatSQL`, `formatDurationToParts`, `parseDuration`,
-`parseISODuration`, `formatISODuration`, `balanceDuration`,
-`compareDuration`, `subtractDuration`, `getLocale`, `hasLocale`,
-`createConfig`, `mergeWithConfig`, `listRegisteredGrammars`, `interval`,
-`overlaps`, `intersection`, `union`, `mergeIntervals`, `formatRangeToParts`,
-`between`, `parseRRule`, `formatRRule`, `createBusinessCalendar`,
-`subtractBusinessDays`, `nextHoliday`, `previousHoliday`, `resolveZoned`,
-`getNextTransition`, `getPreviousTransition`, `possibleInstantsFor`,
-`getAutocompleteData`, `getHoverDocs`, `getInlineDiagnostics`,
-`previewFormat`, `getDocUrl`, `translateDateFnsFormatString`.
-
-Each follows the `ctx.overrideXxx((original, ...args) => ...)` shape shown
-above for `overrideFormat`. Functions *not* in this list — `round`,
-`subtract`, `difference`, `formatDistance`, and others that other parts of
-this library call directly — aren't overridable this way: something else
-in the codebase holds its own direct reference to them, so a mod's
-override would silently miss those internal callers, which is worse than
-not offering the override at all. A function moves onto this list only
-when an audit confirms nothing internal still calls it directly. If you
-need to change one of those, that's a real feature request for making it
-internally indirect first, not something `overrideFormat`-style code can
-paper over.
-
-**Custom token handlers are the one thing that runs host-side.** A
-`createFormatter()` call inside register() is setup-time: the token table
-(name, field, and each handler's source text) is shipped back to the host
-and the `Formatter` is rebuilt in-process, because a formatter is a hot
-path and every token lookup can't pay a subprocess round trip. The loader
-verifies each handler is self-contained — it revives the handler from
-source and compares its output against the original's before accepting it,
-and refuses the mod with a clear reason if the revival doesn't behave the
-same. So: a token handler must not close over anything outside its own
-body, and its code runs in the host process at format() time. That last
-part is the real trade — treat formatter-token mods as trusted code, same
-as you'd treat anything you run in-process.
-
-## If you're writing the mod in TypeScript
-
-Compile it and rename the output before it goes in `mods/` — the loader
-only accepts `.mjs`. It won't run a TS file for you, and it won't skip one
-quietly either: a `.ts` file sitting in `mods/` shows up in the load report
-as a failure with the exact compile command to run, because a mod that
-silently never loads is worse than one that fails loudly.
-
-```sh
-tsc en-gb-bank-holidays.ts --module esnext --target esnext --outDir mods
-mv mods/en-gb-bank-holidays.js mods/en-gb-bank-holidays.mjs
-```
-
-If you're importing `ModContext` or `Mod` for the types while you write it,
-both are exported from `temporal-fmt` itself:
-
-```ts
-import type { Mod, ModContext } from 'temporal-fmt';
-
-const mod: Mod = {
-  name: 'en-gb-bank-holidays',
-  register(ctx: ModContext) {
-    ctx.createHolidayCalendar([{ month: 1, day: 1, name: "New Year's Day" }]);
-  },
-};
-
-export default mod;
-```
-
-## What happens when a mod is broken
-
-Each mod loads independently — one throwing doesn't stop the rest from
-loading, and it doesn't stop the CLI command you actually ran. Every
-failure mode ends up as one line in the report:
-
-- Wrong file extension (`.ts`, `.js`, anything but `.mjs`) — reported with
-  the compile-and-rename instructions above.
-- Default export isn't shaped right (missing `name`, missing `register`,
-  `register` isn't a function, or `requires`/`priority` are the wrong
-  type) — reported with what was expected.
-- The file fails to import (a syntax error, a bad import path inside the
-  mod) — reported with the underlying error message.
-- Two mods claim the same `name` — reported against whichever file loaded
-  second.
-- A `requires` entry names a mod that isn't present, or is part of a
-  dependency cycle — see [Load order, dependencies, and
-  conflicts](#load-order-dependencies-and-conflicts).
-- `register()` throws — reported with the thrown message, same as any other
-  registration call in this library (see [Typed
-  errors](./README.md#typed-errors) for what `registerLocale`/
-  `createHolidayCalendar` themselves throw on bad input).
-- A required permission was denied — `denied required permission: <caps>`
-  plus how to change the answer, before any of the mod's code runs (see
-  [Permissions](#permissions)). An *optional* permission being denied
-  isn't a failure: the mod runs with what it got and the report says
-  `downgraded`.
-- `register()` touches a capability that wasn't granted — the permission
-  model's access error, plus (for a loose `.mjs` mod) the reminder that it
-  can't request any. A mod that checks `ctx.hasPermission()` first can
-  skip this fate; one that doesn't, hits the wall.
-- `register()` doesn't finish within 10 seconds, a runtime override
-  stops answering within 5, or the subprocess grows past the 512MB
-  resident-memory ceiling — the subprocess is killed, that mod fails
-  (or, at runtime, falls back to the built-in with a stderr warning), and
-  the rest of the load pass is unaffected. The memory watch is RSS
-  polled from the parent, so `ArrayBuffer` bytes count and
-  `--max-old-space-size` set in the process tree doesn't neuter it.
-
-None of these bring down the CLI. A `mods/` folder that doesn't exist is
-the common case, not a failure — most runs won't have one, and the loader
-stays silent about it rather than printing "no mods found" noise on every
-command.
+Only keys the mod actually declares can be set; anything else is reported as
+a mistake, not silently ignored. See the mod's own docs for what it accepts.
 
 ## Using mods outside the CLI
 
-`loadMods()` lives in `scripts/loadMods.mjs` and ships with the published
-package, alongside the sandbox it runs mods in
-(`scripts/modSandbox.mjs`, `scripts/modWorker.mjs`, `scripts/modWire.mjs`),
-the config resolver (`scripts/modConfig.mjs`), and the permission-cache
-editor (`scripts/managePermissions.mjs`). If you're embedding
-`temporal-fmt` in your own app rather than using the CLI, load it at your
-own startup and the same sandboxing, prompting, and reporting apply:
+`loadMods()` lives in `scripts/loadMods.mjs`, shipped with the published
+package but off the `exports` map (it's Node-only ESM, and a loader that
+spawns subprocesses has no honest CommonJS twin):
 
 ```js
-// A path into node_modules, not a bare specifier — the loader is
-// Node-only ESM and deliberately isn't in package.json "exports".
 import { loadMods, formatModLoadReport } from './node_modules/temporal-fmt/scripts/loadMods.mjs';
 
 const report = await loadMods(); // defaults to ./mods
@@ -811,22 +140,9 @@ if (report.loaded.length > 0 || report.downgraded.length > 0 || report.failed.le
 }
 ```
 
-Why a path and not `temporal-fmt/scripts/loadMods.mjs`: the `exports` map
-promises every listed subpath has a CommonJS form for `require()`
-consumers, and a mod loader that spawns subprocesses has no honest CJS
-twin. So the scripts ship in the package but stay off the exports map —
-importing by path is the trade. If your bundler chokes on that, the old
-option still works: copy the loader out and vendor it.
-
-A mod that installs a runtime override keeps its subprocess alive for as
-long as your process might call `format()`/`parse()` — but it won't keep
-your process alive: the loader drops its event-loop references after
-loading, and the subprocess shuts itself down when your process exits. If
-you want deterministic teardown before then (a server that hot-reloads
-mods, say), `stopModSubprocesses()` from `scripts/modSandbox.mjs` SIGTERMs
-every live one.
-
-Mod support (loose `.mjs` mods, `.tfmod` archives, and everything in this
-document) requires `temporal-fmt` 0.9.4 or later — that's the version it
-landed in. Subprocess sandboxing arrived after that; the load report tells
-you when you're on a Node version where it's still experimental.
+If your bundler won't follow that path import, copy the loader out and
+vendor it. For deterministic teardown of any mod subprocesses (a server that
+hot-reloads mods, say), `stopModSubprocesses()` from `scripts/modSandbox.mjs`
+SIGTERMs every live one.
+
+Mod support requires `temporal-fmt` 0.9.4 or later.