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Tracking PR for the GraphiQL v6 redesign effort. This is the long-running integration branch that hosts work-in-progress against main.

Individual PRs target graphiql-6 and produce alpha releases via changesets pre-mode. When v6 is ready to ship, this branch will be merged into main.

See discussion #4219 for background and progress updates.

## Summary

- Swap the vestigial `graphiql-5` reference in
`.github/workflows/release.yml` for `graphiql-6` so the
changesets-action runs on pushes to the integration branch.
- Enter changesets pre-mode with the `alpha` tag so merges aggregate
into `6.0.0-alpha.N` prereleases.
- Add a changeset that seeds the alpha release line by bumping
`graphiql` to v6. No functional change — subsequent alphas accumulate
the redesign work.

## Test plan

- [ ] On merge: changesets-action opens a "Version Packages (alpha)" PR
bumping `graphiql` to `6.0.0-alpha.0`.
- [ ] Merging the version PR publishes `graphiql@6.0.0-alpha.0` to npm
with the `alpha` dist-tag.

Refs: #4219
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🦋 Changeset detected

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## Summary

- Introduce a new `packages/graphiql-react/src/style/tokens.css` with
the v6 OKLCH-based design token system. Both dark and light palettes
ship together.
- Light theme activates explicitly via `data-theme="light"` or
automatically via `prefers-color-scheme: light` when no theme is pinned.
Dark remains the default.
- Existing v5 HSL variables are unchanged; nothing in `@graphiql/react`
references the new tokens yet.
- Future PRs will restyle components to consume the new tokens and shim
the v5 variables.

Refs: #4219
## Summary

Storybook gives us a fast feedback loop for iterating on the look of the
app and individual components — flipping themes/density/font-size
without spinning up the full GraphiQL shell.

- Bootstrap Storybook 10 in `@graphiql/react`. Stories colocated as
`<component>.stories.tsx`; ships one starter (`Spinner`) to validate the
pipeline.
- A global decorator wraps every story in `.graphiql-container` with
`data-theme` / `data-density` / `data-font-size` attributes, toggleable
from the Storybook toolbar.
- Move `Uri`, `KeyMod`, `KeyCode`, and `Range` out of the `utility`
barrel into direct imports from `utility/monaco-ssr`. The barrel was
bundling two unrelated concerns — lightweight UI helpers (`cn`, `pick`,
etc.) and heavy Monaco re-exports — so any story reaching for `cn`
transitively pulled Monaco's ESM bundle, which doesn't initialize
cleanly inside Storybook's preview iframe. Splitting them keeps UI
primitives lightweight.

## Run locally

From the repo root:

```
yarn storybook         # dev server on http://localhost:6006
yarn build-storybook   # static build under packages/graphiql-react/storybook-static
```

Refs: #4219
## Summary

Component a11y is covered by Storybook + axe; this is the full-app
counterpart. `cypress-axe` runs axe at four checkpoints during a normal
session (initial render, after running a query, with the docs panel
open, with the history panel open) and gates PRs against a committed
baseline.

`cypress/.a11y-baseline.json` pins today's accepted violations —
color-contrast in several spots, a couple of nested-interactive cases,
link-in-text-block in the docs panel. CI fails on net-new only.

The spec lives alongside the existing Cypress suite, so it runs as part
of the normal `yarn e2e` flow. `cypress.config.ts` gets a small
`writeBaseline` Node task so the spec can persist baseline updates from
inside the browser.

## Refresh baseline

```
yarn workspace graphiql test:a11y:update
```

Refs: #4219
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## Summary

Component-level a11y for v6. `@storybook/addon-a11y` surfaces axe
results next to each story while you're working on it;
`@storybook/addon-vitest` folds those same checks into the existing
Vitest suite so they run as part of `yarn test` in CI.

The model is per-story `parameters.a11y.test`:

- `'error'` (default) — axe violations fail the test
- `'todo'` — warn only, for stories with known issues we plan to fix
- `'off'` — skip a11y for the story

`vitest.config.mts` is split into two projects:

- `unit` — existing jsdom suite, unchanged behavior
- `storybook` — Vitest browser mode (Playwright Chromium), picks up
`.stories.*` files

The PR CI workflow gets one new step: `yarn playwright install
--with-deps chromium` ahead of `yarn test`.

## Run locally

```
yarn workspace @graphiql/react test                       # both projects
yarn workspace @graphiql/react vitest run --project=unit  # unit only
yarn workspace @graphiql/react vitest run --project=storybook
```

The Storybook a11y panel surfaces the same axe results live during `yarn
workspace @graphiql/react storybook`.

Refs: #4219
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