**Chat log** from Bead: 41aebe50 · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/41aebe50-d08d-4cad-b309-64aea07a813d/2026-06-12/chats/2026-06-12-translations-and-workflow.md) · session 2026-06-12 · discussion: Talk: 41aebe50 *Verbatim chat log: immutable provenance. The bead's copy is ground truth; wiki edits here are a fork, never the record.*
Verbatim user prompts; assistant turns summarized with pointers.
**Stephen:** "go ahead and do translations in the background. this could be a editing workflow process for this bead when updating the doc. update notes and bead-sync" *Assistant:* Launched a background agent to author `scripts/translations-v4.py` (full es/fr/pt/zh/el retranslation of the v4.0 English body, captions, tables, video titles, ui additions; merge into `lang/*.json`; rerun `inline-data.py`; no deploy, no git). Meanwhile: wrote the canonical editing workflow at [scripts/WORKFLOW.md](https://www.simtable.com/manual/scripts/WORKFLOW.md) (committed in the manual repo and published), added this bead note + chat log, and ran `/bead-sync`. Deploy + commit of the translated lang files happens after the agent completes and the output validates. Prior turns this session (2026-06-11, recorded in the 06-11 chat log's continuation): fig-31 arrow-screenshot replaced with a clean rail crop floated beside §2.b; lightbox + hover zoom for all thumbnails/figures; icons restored to pristine doc originals with pixelated crisp scaling.
**(Background agent completed; no user turn.)** Validated independently: all 107 translatable block ids present in each of es/fr/pt/zh/el; table shapes match English exactly; zero em dashes in live blocks (the agent's six per language were in stale v3.1 keys, now pruned from all lang files). Bumped to **v4.1** (content addition per `.ai/composition-instructions.md`), re-inlined, deployed all lang files + content.json + index.html, verified the live Spanish render, committed and tagged `v4.1` (`dd01af3`). First full pass of the documented editing workflow, end to end.