Contract: Table + Server-Side Filters + Pagination

Required Behavior

Filters apply to the full query scope before pagination (not page-local filtering).
Pagination state is controlled by URL query parameters.
Changing a filter resets the page parameter to page 1.
UI shows a summary (Showing X–Y of N) and an explicit active page state in pagination controls.
Canonical demo visual style uses a centered dot pager while preserving page semantics via URL parameters and accessible labels.
Demo/base contract includes a rows per page control.
Status badge columns should be centered when the column semantics are status-only values.
Small modules (no internal scroll, no more than 2 actions) should place actions in the module header row.
Shared table/filter controls should inherit the repository baseline component theme (currently Vapor Soft / Vapor Night in the canonical demo/scaffold) rather than redefining per-pattern primitives.

page for single-list pages
per_page when the page-size control is user-visible
section-specific params (for example active_page, chronology_page) for multi-list pages

Same-page filter/pagination interactions should preserve user reading position (for example via module anchors such as #table-filters / #table-list).
Table status badges should remain readable under the shared theme baseline (including tinted badge variants when a host project opts into a legacy or alternate visual preset).
Dot pager interactions should remain keyboard accessible and expose page meaning via labels/aria-current, even if numbers are visually hidden.