=== Fish voices: square-bracket descriptions, no fixed list ===
  [whispering very quietly]             ok
  [warm and friendly, smiling]          ok
  [bright and excited]                  ok
  [steady and authoritative]            ok
  [speaking sadly, slow]                ok
  [sighing before speaking]             ok
  [laughing while saying this]          ok
  [nervous and hesitant]                ok
  [quietly furious]                     ok
  [reading a bedtime story]             ok
  [hard sell, big and punchy]           ok
  [confiding a secret]                  ok
  [gently reassuring]                   ok

=== what the emotion dropdown sends to Fish ===
  neutral      (no cue, neutral)  ok
  whisper      [whispering very quietly]                 ok
  excited      [bright and excited, lifting the energy]  ok
  sad          [speaking sadly, heavy and slow]          ok
  serious      [steady and authoritative, no lightness]  ok
  warm_smile   [warm and friendly, smiling as they speak]ok

=== ElevenLabs voices: fixed tag list, square brackets ===
  [whispers]          ok
  [softly]            ok
  [slowly]            ok
  [excited]           ok
  [warmly]            ok
  [sighs]             ok
  [laughs]            ok
  [gasps]             ok
  [clears throat]     ok
  [curious]           ok
  [sarcastic]         ok
  [serious]           ok
  [sad]               ok
  [exhales]           ok
  [inhales]           ok

=== voices directed by writing alone must be offered no cues ===
  0 bracketed cues offered  ok

=== no dialect may be offered another dialect's syntax ===
  eleven  clean
  fish    clean

=== the highlight menu uses the shared list, not its own copy ===
  editor.js reads window.QUICK_CUES  ok

=== what the highlight menu inserts ===
  fish    whisper                [whispering very quietly]  ok
  fish    warm                   [warm and friendly, smiling]  ok
  fish    excited                [bright and excited]  ok
  fish    serious                [steady and authoritative]  ok
  fish    sad                    [speaking sadly, slow]  ok
  fish    sigh first             [sighing before speaking]  ok
  fish    laughing               [laughing while saying this]  ok
  fish    a secret               [confiding a secret]  ok
  fish    trail off…           punctuation, fine anywhere
  eleven  whisper                [whispers]  ok
  eleven  softly                 [softly]  ok
  eleven  slow down              [slowly]  ok
  eleven  warmly                 [warmly]  ok
  eleven  excited                [excited]  ok
  eleven  sigh first             [sighs]  ok
  eleven  laughing               [laughs]  ok
  eleven  curious                [curious]  ok
  eleven  trail off…           punctuation, fine anywhere
  plain   trail off…           punctuation, fine anywhere
  plain   hard stop.             punctuation, fine anywhere

PASS: every cue matches its engine.