Document how i18n messages are extracted - #220
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There's no automated extraction tool (no CLI scanning for t(...) calls) -- messages are added by hand to lib/i18n/messages.ts. Writes down the process that replaces a tool: never hardcode user-facing copy, key naming convention, the es partial-translation convention, the three-step fallback chain (own locale -> DEFAULT_LOCALE -> raw key) and its dev-only warnings, DEFAULT_LOCALE's env override, and a checklist for adding a new string. Cross-linked from the README.
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Summary
No i18n workflow was written down. There's no automated extraction tool -- messages are added by hand to `lib/i18n/messages.ts` -- so without docs, a contributor has to reverse-engineer the convention from `t.ts`/`messages.ts` and their tests every time.
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Adds `docs/i18n-message-extraction.md` (audience: contributors adding/changing user-facing copy):
Cross-linked from the README.
Closes #106