Shortcuts you invent, rules you write, gestures you own - all still just data

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8

tests/hypr/keybind-categories-contract

@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ grep -q 'write_categories()' "$keybinds" \
 grep -q 'if file == nil then' "$keybinds" \
     || note 'the manifest writer does not tolerate being unable to open the file'
 
+# The user's own shortcuts are a category too, and they are the one group whose
+# membership is not written in this file. They are emitted last and outside the
+# `bind` wrapper -- deliberately, so keybindOverrides (which is keyed by a
+# SHIPPED chord) can never reach one -- which means they would be invisible to
+# the manifest unless the loop records the category itself.
+grep -q 'category("Custom")' "$keybinds" \
+    || note 'custom shortcuts are emitted without a category, so they land in Other'
+grep -q 'customBinds' "$keybinds" \
+    || note 'keybinds.lua never reads customBinds, so shortcuts the user invents are not bound'
+
 # The shell prefers the authored category and still works without one.
 grep -q 'categoryManifest' "$service" \
     || note 'the shell never reads the category manifest'
@@ -100,7 +110,14 @@ if [[ -r "$manifest" ]]; then
 
     # Every category is one the shell knows how to order. A typo produces a
     # group that sorts last and looks like a bug in the cheatsheet.
-    known='Windows Workspaces Applications Shell Session Media & hardware Other'
+    #
+    # Custom is the one group the user fills: shortcuts they invented, read
+    # from customBinds at the end of keybinds.lua. It is legitimately empty on
+    # a machine nobody has customized and legitimately full on one somebody
+    # has, so unlike Other it carries no count expectation -- only the
+    # requirement that it be a name the shell orders (Keybinds.qml's groupOrder
+    # puts it first) rather than an unknown that sorts last.
+    known='Windows Workspaces Applications Shell Session Media & hardware Custom Other'
     while read -r value; do
         [[ -n "$value" ]] || continue
         grep -qF "$value" <<<"$known" \