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Presentation helpers across desktop renderer, @maka/core, and @maka/ui defaulted their locale parameter to 'zh', so a caller that forgot to pass it rendered Chinese to English users with no type error. This PR removes every such default (24 helpers, 23 files) so the locale is a required argument. No production caller relied on a default — every one already passed the locale it had in scope — so the runtime behavior is unchanged; only the type-level guarantee is new. Tests that leaned on the default now pass 'zh' explicitly, and each touched helper gained one 'en' assertion so the English path is proven rather than assumed.

The six @maka/ui streaming helpers with the same defect are fixed in #4524 and are not touched here; the two OAuth result helpers are fixed in #4551.

Refs #2672

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workspace typecheck:                    0 errors
packages/core tests:                    774 pass / 0 fail
packages/ui tests:                      334 pass / 0 fail
desktop main tests (dist):              1995 pass / 0 fail
renderer architecture check:            passed against origin/main
biome (changed files):                  clean
git grep "locale: UiLocale = 'zh'|locale ?? 'zh'" (non-test): only the #4524 / #4551 sites remain

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  • Tests cover the change and fail without it

A `'zh'` default let any caller that forgot the locale render Chinese to
English users without a type error.

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@github-actions github-actions Bot added the effort/M Under 500 readable lines label Sep 3, 2026
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The call-site claim holds up: ci.yml runs npm run typecheck across the workspaces whenever code changes, packages/ui/stories is covered through apps/desktop/tsconfig.storybook.json, and nothing outside the typechecked configs calls these helpers (no .mjs, .js or e2e caller), so a green CI does prove every caller was updated. Both packages are private, so removing the defaults breaks no published surface. Two things to settle first.

P2: the sweep only covered 'zh', so the title's claim does not hold. The verification grep was "locale: UiLocale = 'zh'|locale ?? 'zh'", which misses the same defect spelled with double quotes and the other locale. Still on head: packages/ui/src/materialize.ts:153 (materializeChat(messages, locale: UiLocale = "en")), packages/ui/src/materialize.ts:667 (materializeTurns), and apps/desktop/src/renderer/app-shell-context-compaction.ts:35 (contextCompactionNotice(outcome, uiLocale: UiLocale = 'en')). The two materialize helpers are the main transcript presentation path, and they are not in #4524's file list (that PR touches materialize.test.ts but not materialize.ts) or #4551's, so no follow-up currently claims them. A caller that forgets renders English to Chinese users: the direction is flipped, the defect is the same. Either fold them in or name them in the body as deliberately out of scope, otherwise this reads as complete and the #2672 item gets closed while three helpers still default.

P3: nothing stops the next one. This PR and #4524 and #4551 all rely on a one-off grep; there is no lint rule or check-renderer-architecture entry asserting that a UiLocale parameter carries no default. Adding one is what actually closes this class out. Not blocking.

P3: two claims in the description do not hold, and I would rather they were stated accurately than dropped. "Tests cover the change and fail without it" is not the case: restore the defaults and all four touched test files still pass, because passing 'zh' explicitly gives the same result and the new 'en' assertions pass either way. The guard for this change is tsc, which is a fine answer, just a different one. And "each touched helper gained one 'en' assertion" is 4 assertions against 24 helpers; even among the tested ones, describeTurnErrorClass (session-error-presentation.test.ts:31) still only has a 'zh' assertion.

No conflict or ordering dependency with #4641: git merge-tree on the two heads is clean, and the only shared file is provider-panel-shared.ts, where #4640 changes signatures and #4641 deletes a branch inside one body. Worth knowing that #4551 also edits that file plus settings-provider-copy.ts, so whichever of the three lands last rebases once.

ts: number,
now: number = Date.now(),
locale: UiLocale = 'zh',
locale: UiLocale,

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P3: making locale required leaves now: number = Date.now() on the line above unreachable, since no caller can now omit it. Same at lines 160 and 180. I checked every caller (tasks-settings-page.tsx:220, artifact-pane.tsx:509 and :541, the internal call at relative-time.ts:164, and the tests) and all of them already pass now, so the default is dead and only misleads. Either drop = Date.now() from the three signatures, or move locale ahead of now so the default stays reachable.

record: Record<string, unknown>,
depth = 0,
locale: UiLocale = 'zh',
locale: UiLocale,

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P3: same as relative-time. depth = 0 on the line above is now unreachable because locale follows it, and all four internal callers (lines 315, 605, 651, 664) already pass 0 explicitly. Drop the default or reorder the parameters.

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