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Roadmap Phase C-10 (the a11y design's "Phase 3"): the two declaration-driven element rules, and the pre-freeze decision on selector-scoped configuration.

Design: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-19-config-driven-element-rules.md.

The decision the roadmap flagged

Whether svelte-vitals grows a second scoping vocabulary — CSS selectors, as file-scoped markup linters use — beside the overrides globs it has. No. Where a declaration applies is already overrides' job for every rule, and the a11y design's other selector need (per-element overrides) is the inline directive. What a declaration names is a grammar question, and that one is settled now rather than left open: a string-list would accept 'input[type=file]' today as a tag name that matches nothing, and giving it meaning later would reinterpret an accepted value — the thing the frozen schema forbids. So elements is a bare tag name (^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$, case-insensitive; custom-element names welcome), selector syntax is rejected at config load, and a later attribute-qualified form is pure growth. RuleOptionSpec's string-list gained a generic optional pattern for this.

The two rules

Both inert until a project declares tags; both add across overrides (a string-list extends, never replaces).

a11y/disallowed-element — every occurrence of a declared tag in component source, anchored at the start tag so one inline directive reaches a multi-line element. A clean component passes.

a11y/required-element — every route must contain the declared elements, judged on the composed route: layout chain, page, resolved components, and app.html's <body> (static) or the prerendered <body> (build). A +page.svelte alone rarely holds the <main>, so per-file would be wrong on most SvelteKit apps. Presence is open-world safe — an unresolved component can only add elements — so a route with everything present passes in any world. Absence is a closed-world claim, made only where the route is closed for elements: every component resolved, no {@html}, no <svelte:element>. That is a new flag, elementsClosed, deliberately not fullyResolved: spreads and expression ids clear the old flag and cannot hide an element. In build mode the world is always closed; in static mode absence is reported on few routes of a real app until #533 moves, and the docs say so.

The design review dropped one thing I had written: a warning when a declared tag matches nothing. That is a disallow rule doing its job as a regression guard — AGENTS.md's worked example of a legitimate empty match — not a lever that silently does nothing.

Guards

  • Kitchen-sink svelte-vitals.config.ts declares both (h1 everywhere via the global layer, nav on the legacy page via a route override, iframe disallowed); expected counts in both files; the e2e-suppression suite asserts the lever both ways (declarations removed → 0/0), a directive above a multi-line <iframe>, and config-load rejection of input[type=file] with exit 2.
  • The three existing e2e cases that injected an overrides array now merge into the config's, since it has one.
  • io-budget unchanged: the shell body-tag scan rides detectAppHtmlFacts' existing read.

Review trail

Two design rounds (round 1 rejected the matched-nothing warning, the unreserved grammar, the closed-world PASS, reusing fullyResolved, missing shell tags, and a strawman per-file argument — all applied) and one implementation round (APPROVE; the shell scan now tolerates an omitted </body> and skips <template> children, the finding location is qualified per mode, and the review's pin gaps are closed).

Verification

pnpm build, pnpm typecheck, pnpm lint, pnpm -r test, pnpm smoke, pnpm check:publish, blume translate --check pass. Rendered mode judges all 21 prerendered pages (20 pass, the planted <nav> miss); static mode judges the 22 element-closed routes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable accessibility rules to require or disallow specific HTML elements.
    • Added route-specific overrides for element requirements.
    • Added validation for bare tag names and patterned string-list options.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid option grammar is now reported as a fatal configuration error.
  • Documentation

    • Added English and Japanese guidance for the new accessibility rules and configuration behavior.
    • Updated accessibility rule catalogs and examples.

Declaration-driven, inert until a project names tags. The elements grammar is
reserved at config load (string-list options gain a pattern) so a later
attribute-qualified form is growth, not reinterpretation. required-element
judges the composed route with an element-specific closed-world flag; presence
passes in any world, absence reports only where the world is closed. The
composition now carries body tag names, including app.html's <body>.
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Adds configurable a11y/disallowed-element and a11y/required-element rules. The change collects element tags from source and rendered routes, supports overrides and validation, updates examples and tests, and adds English and Japanese documentation.

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Config-driven accessibility rules

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rule contracts and implementations
docs/superpowers/specs/..., packages/core/src/a11y.ts, packages/core/src/rule-options.ts, packages/core/src/rules/a11y/*, packages/core/src/rules/index.ts, packages/core/src/types.ts, packages/core/test/a11y-config-driven-rules.test.ts
Adds patterned tag-name validation, both accessibility rules, route-level metadata, rule registration, and core tests.
Source and route element collection
packages/cli/src/collect-all.ts, packages/cli/src/providers/source/*, packages/cli/test/*
Collects body tags from source files and app.html, composes route tags, and tracks whether element analysis is closed.
Rendered element collection
packages/vite/src/providers/rendered/*, packages/vite/test/*
Collects body tags from rendered HTML and attaches file and closure metadata to rendered accessibility results.
Kitchen-sink integration and suppression validation
examples/kitchen-sink/*
Adds rule configuration, expected findings, override coverage, suppression checks, disabling checks, and invalid-selector validation.
Documentation and rule catalogs
docs/src/content/docs/*, docs/blume.translations.json, skills/*
Adds rule pages and index entries in English and Japanese, updates configuration guidance, translation hashes, and skill catalogs.
Release metadata
.changeset/calm-doors-declare.md
Adds release notes for the affected packages.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6d0ce

The PR adds route-level required-element checks, but current behavior can incorrectly accept routes when a required tag exists only in unused snippets or nested inert template content; the release metadata also needs the MCP version bump. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and release-versioning fixes.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Configuration
  participant SourceCollector
  participant RouteResolver
  participant AccessibilityRules
  Configuration->>SourceCollector: Provide validated element declarations
  SourceCollector->>RouteResolver: Provide body tags and closure state
  RouteResolver->>AccessibilityRules: Provide composed route accessibility data
  AccessibilityRules->>AccessibilityRules: Report disallowed matches or required-element results
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Inline comments:
In @.changeset/calm-doors-declare.md:
- Around line 2-4: Add the svelte-vitals/mcp package to the changeset with a
minor release bump, alongside the existing package entries, so the newly exposed
MCP rules are published as a minor API change.

In `@docs/src/content/docs/rules/a11y/disallowed-element.md`:
- Line 22: Update the element-name descriptions to state the complete grammar:
names must start with a letter, followed by letters, digits, or hyphens. Apply
this wording to docs/src/content/docs/rules/a11y/disallowed-element.md lines
22-22 and docs/src/content/docs/rules/a11y/required-element.md lines 23-23, and
add the equivalent Japanese wording to
docs/src/content/docs/ja/rules/a11y/required-element.md lines 23-23.

In `@docs/src/content/docs/rules/a11y/required-element.md`:
- Line 8: Qualify the introductory absence-finding statement to apply only to
closed routes, matching static mode behavior. Update the English text at
docs/src/content/docs/rules/a11y/required-element.md:8-8 and add the equivalent
closed-world qualification in Japanese at
docs/src/content/docs/ja/rules/a11y/required-element.md:8-8.
- Line 48: Update the wording at
docs/src/content/docs/rules/a11y/required-element.md:48 and
docs/src/content/docs/ja/rules/a11y/required-element.md:48 to describe presence
rather than uniqueness: use “every page contains an <h1>” in English and
equivalent presence-only Japanese wording. No rule implementation change is
needed.

In `@examples/kitchen-sink/test/e2e-suppression.test.ts`:
- Line 169: Rename the test case in the e2e-suppression suite to describe the
observable behavior it verifies, including the config-driven element rule and
directive handling for a multi-line tag, rather than the rationale about
declaration being the lever. Preserve the test implementation and assertions
unchanged.

In `@packages/cli/src/providers/source/parse.ts`:
- Around line 375-377: Update the node-walking logic around the element presence
tracking to set elementsUnknowable = true whenever a SnippetBlock is
encountered, including unused snippets, rather than treating its elementTags as
definitive. Add a regression test covering an unused snippet containing a
required element and verify the result remains open.

In `@packages/cli/src/providers/source/project.ts`:
- Around line 151-160: Replace the regex-based template removal in the markup
processing flow with nesting-aware HTML scanning or parsing so entire nested
template subtrees are excluded before tag collection. Preserve existing comment,
script, style, body-boundary, and deduplication behavior, and add a test
covering nested templates containing a required element such as nav.
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