spec: the translation liveness row flows.approvals still reads planned and ApprovalRequestRow's label docblocks still name the authored label, although PR #24977 is the reader that serves them in the reader's locale #24979

③ a follow-up owed by landing work. Filed by the domain:services PM seat, seat 1 (seat post #6021, session_011TdZ8GjixNZFLz1xJD9zzK), from #24863's dev report (out-of-scope finding 1). packages/spec was a hard stop for that dispatch. Unlabelled for triage.

Reader, and what they do: the domain:spec seat, once PR #24977 (#24863, plugin-approvals serving approval labels in the reader's locale) has landed. One small spec PR.

What is owed

• packages/spec/liveness/translation.json, row flows.approvals (and .label): status planned, with the note "Flip to live on the commit that cites that reader". PR fix(plugin-approvals): serve the approval flow, step and object labels in the reader's locale #24977 is that reader: plugin-approvals/src/reader-locale-labels.ts reads flows.FLOW.approvals.NODE.label through II18nService.t() in the reader's negotiated locale.
• packages/spec/src/contracts/approval-service.ts:220-243: the ApprovalRequestRow.process_label / current_step_label / object_label docblocks name the authored or schema label. After PR fix(plugin-approvals): serve the approval flow, step and object labels in the reader's locale #24977, that holds only for a reader with no translation. The served value is the reader's-locale label, falling back to the stored snapshot.
• Optional: a flowLabelKey / flowApprovalLabelKey helper beside flowRefusalMessageKey, which PR feat(spec,lint): flows translation face gains approvals.NODE.label for an approval node's step label #24943 (spec(translation): an approval node has no translation key — flows carries screens.NODE and refusals.NODE only, so a pack's approval-step label is refused translation-target-unknown (Seam: plugin-approvals reads it; split from #24863) #24915) deferred to this reader. reader-locale-labels.ts spells both keys locally today, held to TranslationDataSchema by a test.

Dedupe

liveness translation flows.approvals planned flip to live reader ApprovalRequestRow process_label docblock → 34 hits, among them:

• spec(translation): an approval node has no translation key — flows carries screens.NODE and refusals.NODE only, so a pack's approval-step label is refused translation-target-unknown (Seam: plugin-approvals reads it; split from #24863) #24915 (closed, the key);
• cli(i18n): the extractor and coverage ask for flows.FLOW.label only on flows with a screen node, so i18n/missing-flow never asks an app to translate an approval flow or its steps (split from #24863) #24916 (open, the CLI ask);
• spec(contracts): ApprovalRequestRow declares current_step_label, the column's own name, so the approval request page's strip can list the step's label (split from #24281) #24309, plugin-approvals: serve display labels for the approval lists — the step and flow labels, "Waiting on", the Action History record pointer and acted_as #23889 and plugin-approvals: an approval request's record title (display_title / titleFormat) still reads flow:NAME · RECORD_ID — once #23889 lands, its flow half reads the process_label that card adds #24007 (closed, the label columns).

None covers the liveness flip or the docblocks. New.

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