Minor release with eight developer-facing improvements: a code-block screen-reader announcement fix, a wirekit:doctor post-build CSS sanity check, a hero-row xl size on <x-wirekit::feature>, a counter-animation animate prop on <x-wirekit::stat>, an asideWidth ratio refinement on <x-wirekit::hero>, eight new marketing-copy semantic aliases on heroicons-marketing, plus the syntax-highlighter contract documented in docs/theming.md.

No breaking changes — fully backward-compatible with v1.4.0.

Added

<x-wirekit::stat animate> — opt-in counter-animation prop. When set, the value text wraps in an Alpine wirekitStatAnimate data handler that animates 0 → target over 1.2s (ease-out cubic) once the stat scrolls 40% into view (IntersectionObserver). Respects prefers-reduced-motion: reduce — the value snaps to target with no animation if the OS-level setting is enabled. Static value remains visible inside the <span x-text="value"> fallback so search engines, no-JS browsers, and Alpine-pre-init paint all see the real number. Default false preserves v1.4.x output. Numeric prefixes / suffixes ($, %, etc.) are preserved through the animation; toLocaleString() formats the in-flight value with locale-aware thousand-separators.
<x-wirekit::hero asideWidth> — opt-in copy:aside ratio refinement under layout="balanced". Five values: 1/3 (aside ⅓), 2/5 (aside ⅖), 1/2 (50/50, matches default), 3/5 (aside ⅗), 2/3 (aside ⅔). Under any non-balanced layout (lead / centered / stacked) asideWidth throws via WireKit::validateProp in debug mode and is silently ignored in production. Default null preserves v1.4.x balanced 50/50.
<x-wirekit::feature size="xl"> — fourth chip-size value for hero-row features. Renders a 64×64 chip with a 32×32 inner icon. Existing sm / md / lg values keep their semantics; md remains the default.
Eight semantic copy aliases on the heroicons-marketing preset — live (signal), pulse (arrow-path-rounded-square), a11y (finger-print), sparkle (sparkles), security (lock-closed), speed (bolt), open-source (code-bracket), ai (cpu-chip). Names map to landing-page bullet copy rather than to the underlying icon name. Anti-collision verified by existing test suite — none of these shadow a base or heroicons-app alias.
Post-build CSS sanity check on wirekit:doctor / wirekit:verify — final check after the existing source-side @source verification. If public/build/manifest.json exists, the doctor walks every CSS file in the manifest and looks for any --color-wk-* token reference. Fails with a "run npm run build" hint if no CSS bundle in the manifest references WireKit tokens — catches the silent-failure mode where a developer adds the @source line to app.css but forgets to rebuild. Skips silently in environments without a manifest (dev / pre-build / package-test scenarios).
docs/theming.md "Syntax-highlighter contract" subsection — under Accessibility & Contrast. Tells developers wiring their own highlight.js / Prism / Shiki theme that token-level contrast must hit ≥4.5:1 against the active --color-wk-bg-elevated, in BOTH light and dark mode, across every theme preset. Documents the two foot-guns (unscoped WCAG overrides bleeding cross-mode; per-theme bg-elevated variations breaking single-pair audits) with a sketch of a Playwright contrast-audit recipe.

Fixed

<x-wirekit::code-block copy> symmetric screen-reader announcements. The polite live region (<span role="status" aria-live="polite">) was already in DOM but only spoke on success; the error path was silent (clipboard.writeText() rejection on non-secure-context or denied-permission cases threw an unhandled rejection and the user heard nothing). Click handler now wraps the clipboard write in .then()/.catch() so success AND failure each set a distinct, polite SR-only string: "Code copied to clipboard" / "Copy failed". WCAG 2.2 SC 4.1.3 (Status Messages) — both code paths now satisfy.