Zod v4 locales annoyingly get imported by accident

[CodeSmith32]

Whenever I'm typing in VSCode, trying to declare short variables or import things, randomly it keeps importing from Zod locales. There are a ton of two-letter exports from here, and often when I misspell something, VSCode decides it should import a useless Zod locale rather than what I'm actually trying to import or declare.

In any case, it's getting really annoying. Maybe this is something that should've been considered when exporting 43 two-character names. Worse off, id and is are in there, which really doesn't help at all.

Is there any way to just turn off auto-importing from locales? I never use them, and probably never will.

[dosubot[bot]]

I'm a bot trained on Zod's codebase and issues. Zod v4 exports all locales as top-level named exports (like id, is, etc.), which makes them show up in VSCode's auto-import suggestions. There's no built-in way in Zod to disable or hide these exports—they're always present for internationalization and can't be turned off without a breaking change, which the maintainers have said isn't planned source.

VSCode doesn't currently let you exclude specific exports from auto-import, only entire modules. You can use the setting "typescript.preferences.autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes": ["^zod$"] in your .vscode/settings.json to exclude the root zod module from suggestions, but this won't block suggestions from zod/v4 or zod/v4/locales source. ESLint rules like no-restricted-imports can help catch unwanted imports after the fact, but they don't affect the suggestions themselves.

Some users have found that changing VSCode settings—like disabling "editor.suggest.preview" and setting "editor.quickSuggestions.other" to false—can reduce aggressive auto-imports, but this is a partial workaround and affects all suggestions, not just Zod source.

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[CodeSmith32]

Here's a great example of why it's so terribly annoying:

I used to be able to get quick auto-complete for true / false with just two characters. Not anymore: