Changelog

Covers releases 0.0.19 to 0.0.22.

Added

• Inline body tokens: embed localized links to other documents, asset URLs, frontmatter variables, and strings that must never be translated directly in MDX prose. Editing a token updates every locale instantly, with no retranslation
• Templated asset fields with field.asset(): constrained web paths, existence validation, and resolution to public URLs at read time
• Bodyless content types: a type can omit the MDX body entirely, and translatability is derived from the schema
• scribe delete: removes an entry together with its assets, translations, and snapshots, with a reference cascade, --dry-run, and --yes
• Studio content browser: per-type document lists, global search, inline validation tooltips, a body preview with clickable relation links and rendered assets, and arrow-key navigation

Changed

• Breaking: relation tokens now require an explicit :href or :slug mode suffix
• The built-in translation prompt was rewritten around transcreation: the model writes as a native-speaker copywriter, recreating idioms and wordplay instead of rendering them literally, with native typographic conventions

Fixed

• scribe translate --dry-run now reports real estimated tokens and cost, with the batch discount applied, instead of $0

Covers releases 0.0.13 to 0.0.18.

Added

• scribe translate now runs through the Gemini Batch API by default, cutting token costs by 50%. Runs are resumable: quit during polling and run scribe translate again to pick pending jobs back up. Use --batch or --direct to choose the mode explicitly
• Automatic locale fallback chains: a regional locale with no translation is served its base language before English (fr-CA falls back to fr). On by default; disable with localeFallbacks: false
• Failed translations are retried once automatically at the end of the run, with the validation errors fed back to the model so it can fix them
• scribe translate --type accepts comma-separated content type ids

Changed

• Translation prompts share an identical English prefix across all target locales, so Gemini context caching discounts repeated input tokens. Thinking tokens are now counted in the reported cost

Fixed

• Transient Gemini errors are retried automatically with backoff
• Hallucinated nested fields in model output are pruned instead of failing the run
• The target locale is always appended to prompts, even with a custom translate.prompt
• scribe translate --force now retranslates fresh content too

Fixed

• Translating content whose body contains a Markdown code fence no longer fails JSON parsing; fenced code in translated bodies is preserved

Changed

• scribe validate now MDX-validates EN source bodies in addition to stored translations, so invalid MDX is caught at the source

Covers releases 0.0.8 to 0.0.11.

Added

• Per-content-type _redirects.json files replace frontmatter aliases and redirect_to: same-type, cross-type, and external redirects, with automatic translated-slug expansion
• localeRouting config and createUrlBuilder() for config-driven locale URL generation
• listRoutableTypes() and isRoutableType to find content types with public routes
• MDX validation at translation time and in scribe validate, catching bodies that would fail prerender

Fixed

• Cross-type redirects with the same EN slug in from and toSlug are no longer rejected as self-redirects

Removed

• Frontmatter aliases and redirect_to (use _redirects.json) and slugPreserveTerms (use translate.context / translate.rules)

Fixed

• Localized slugs that accidentally ended with a locale code (e.g. -fr, -he, -ar) are now stripped automatically during scribe translate, so URLs stay clean
• scribe validate no longer fails the build when an existing translation slug ends with a locale code; it now reports a warning instead of an error

Improved

• Localized slugs are now genuinely translated into the target language instead of staying in English: the translator is told the target language by name and to base the slug on the translated title, transliterating non-Latin scripts into Latin

Added

• Translator prompt now instructs the model not to append locale codes to slugs, since locale routing is handled by the URL prefix

Changed

• Replace per-locale revisions table with deduplicated en_snapshots linked via translations.snapshot_id
• Snapshots store EN source at translate time; many locales share one snapshot per en_hash
• scribe history and Studio show EN snapshot metadata instead of revision timeline

Removed

• revisions table (auto-dropped on migrate to schema v4)