diff --git a/src/uix/eidos/components/words/AUDIT.md b/src/uix/eidos/components/words/AUDIT.md
index 954511683..999805283 100644
--- a/src/uix/eidos/components/words/AUDIT.md
+++ b/src/uix/eidos/components/words/AUDIT.md
@@ -70,5 +70,8 @@ verificar en navegador, y con el enfoque validado → generalizar tokens + barre
 - [ ] A — resto del vocabulario: triar los 41 huérfanos (cablear `rail-*`/`toolbar-*`/… o podar)
 - [ ] B — resto del barrido: tamaños bespoke (swatch/checkbox/anchos/sidebar 16rem×3)→tokens, padding `--space-*`
 - [ ] C — centralizar las 3 paletas de color
-- [ ] D — fixes API (`<style>` inspector, `onMount→$effect`) → 3er test
+- [x] **D — fixes API** (2026-06-06): quitado el `<style>` vacío de `words-inspector.svelte`;
+      `onMount → $effect` en `words.svelte` (corre una vez, sin import de lifecycle). →
+      `component-api-contract` **verde**. Eidos suite 196/197 (solo queda el test de huérfanos).
+- [ ] A — triar los 41 huérfanos → último test (orphans) verde, eidos suite 197/197
 - [ ] E — verificación final + README
diff --git a/src/uix/eidos/components/words/words-inspector.svelte b/src/uix/eidos/components/words/words-inspector.svelte
index 89d9e3bd1..27a727eb4 100644
--- a/src/uix/eidos/components/words/words-inspector.svelte
+++ b/src/uix/eidos/components/words/words-inspector.svelte
@@ -779,9 +779,3 @@
 		<p data-words-inspector-empty>{t(L.EMPTY)}</p>
 	{/if}
 </div>
-
-<style>
-	/* Inspector chrome lives in words.css (the shared eidos Words styles).
-	   This component-scoped block is intentionally empty — kept so the
-	   compiler associates the file with its styles via the import graph. */
-</style>
diff --git a/src/uix/eidos/components/words/words.svelte b/src/uix/eidos/components/words/words.svelte
index f127ede15..97a0a7c99 100644
--- a/src/uix/eidos/components/words/words.svelte
+++ b/src/uix/eidos/components/words/words.svelte
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 	 * (builder-style, always visible), a slide-in drawer, a popover, or
 	 * none. The same `<WordsInspector>` body is reused across all of them.
 	 */
-	import { onMount } from 'svelte';
 	import { ActiveEidos } from '$uix/eidos';
 	import * as Words from '$soma/components/words';
 	import { Button } from '$uix/eidos/components/button';
@@ -48,15 +47,14 @@
 	// client pass emit different markup and hydration bails. Defer the
 	// editor to the client; SSR + first paint render the empty frame.
 	let mounted = $state(false);
-	onMount(() => {
+	// Client-only activation + one-time langs registration. Reads nothing
+	// reactive, so this $effect runs exactly once on mount (the Svelte 5 way,
+	// no lifecycle import). Register the inspector's localized strings into the
+	// active langs schema — without this every label resolves to the inline
+	// English fallback regardless of locale. `extend` deep-merges so app-level
+	// overrides at the same path applied AFTER mount still win.
+	$effect(() => {
 		mounted = true;
-		// Register the inspector's localized strings into the active
-		// langs schema. Without this every label resolves to the inline
-		// English fallback regardless of the active locale — declaring
-		// idlangrefs alone never localizes, the bundle must be extended.
-		// `extend` deep-merges so app-level overrides at the same path
-		// applied AFTER mount still win (the engine warns on leaf
-		// overwrites in DEV).
 		eidos.langs.extend('components.words.inspector', WORDS_INSPECTOR_BUNDLE);
 		eidos.langs.extend('components.words.menu', WORDS_MENU_BUNDLE);
 	});