The T9.9 token sweep pointed seven files (help.js, auth-guard.js, wp-format.js,
project-data.js, index.html, field.html, wp-creation-app.js) at Carbon names
the theme never defined: --cds-layer-01/-02, --cds-border-subtle-01/-strong-01,
--cds-layer-hover-01. theme-light.css carries no -01 suffixes. An undefined
var() invalidates the whole declaration, so the help-centre modal, the
change-password and language dialogs, the print popup's inlined values, the
creator nav drawer and the sync badge all rendered TRANSPARENT backgrounds -
reported by Nick against the help menu, 2026-08-20.
Renamed every consumer to the canonical tokens (--cds-layer, --cds-layer-accent,
--cds-layer-hover, --cds-border-subtle, --cds-border-strong), matched to the
hex each replacement originally stood in for. color_check gains check 3: every
var() consumed anywhere must resolve to a definition somewhere - the class of
this bug, pinned. Verified live: the modal computes rgb(255,255,255) over an
opaque gray nav, and the language dialog is opaque too. BL-025 logged for the
one wrong-base-colour rgba tint noticed in passing.
Item: C4 (regression in its own enforcement). Probe: color_check 5/5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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