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Native file primitives could report zero when their globs matched no files, making a misplaced config or stale include path indistinguishable from a clean scan. This adds an optional min_files floor to file-length, file-bytes, and pattern-count. Successful non-quiet runs report the scanned file count and config root on stderr; that runtime metadata stays out of measurement documents and snapshots.

The CLI now accepts pawl measure --format json as the explicit spelling of its existing JSON document output, while continuing to reject --format text. pawl init links to the public recipe cookbook instead of naming a file that may not exist in an installed user's project. The pending Chinese README rewrite is included as requested; it clarifies measurement sources, gate modes, exit codes, and CI integration without adding language detection, presets, tool installation, or new adapters.

Pawl's passing-tests metric improved from 689 to 709 after adding the regression coverage. pawl record --only passing-tests advances that one baseline while preserving every other snapshot metric.

Test plan

• gofmt -l .
• go vet ./...
• go test -v ./...
• node --test npm/cli/test/*.test.js
• node --test scripts/*.test.mjs
• node scripts/demo-repro-check.mjs
• node scripts/docs-version-check.mjs
• python3 demo/scripts/test_eval_scripts.py
• pawl check --format json

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Quality gate (pawl on pawl)

metric               baseline    current       Δ  status
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file-length                 0          0      ±0  ✅ same
file-length-growth          0          0      ±0  ✅ same
file-bytes                  0          0      ±0  ✅ same
panics                      1          1      ±0  ✅ same
todo-markers                0          0      ±0  ✅ same
stray-prints                0          0      ±0  ✅ same
passing-tests             709        709      ±0  ✅ same
test-failures               0          0      ±0  ✅ same

✅ npm release packages validated (build + dry-run pack)