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Zod v4 best practices, patterns, and API guidance for schema validation, parsing, error handling, and type inference in TypeScript applications. Covers safeParse, object composition, refinements, transforms, codecs, branded types, v3→v4 migration, and testing schemas with Jest or Vitest. Baseline: zod ^4.3.0. Triggers on: zod imports, z.object, z.string, z.infer, safeParse, mentions of "zod", "schema validation",…