### Problem/Motivation Remove `use Drupal\Component\Utility\ToStringTrait;` from a class and insert an inline `public function __toString(): string` that returns `(string) $this->render()`. The trait was a PHP 7.x workaround for fatal errors inside __toString(); on PHP 8+ exceptions propagate normally, making the trait deprecated in Drupal 11.4.0 and removed in 13.0.0. The replacement runs on every Drupal version without backwards-compatibility wrapping. ### Proposed resolution Handled automatically by drupal-rector via the `RemoveDrupalToStringTraitRector` rule. ### How this rule was built This rule was produced with an AI-assisted workflow in which every step was verified manually by @bbrala. Its logic started from the matching drupal-digests entry, which was adapted to drupal-rector's conventions — a dedicated rule or an existing upstream rule configured into the Drupal 12 set — and covered with before/after test fixtures. Backward-compatibility was assessed and version-gated: safe rewrites are applied directly, while unsafe ones are wrapped via `DeprecationHelper` or moved to an opt-in breaking set. The rule was then live-tested against a set of contributed modules; where no contrib call site could be found, a static code sample was written in a test module to exercise it. A final automated QA pass covered type-guard, fixture coverage, BC-decision, registration and idempotency checks. ### References - Change record(s): [CR-3548961](https://www.drupal.org/node/3548961) - Related issue(s): [#3548957](https://www.drupal.org/i/3548957), [#2466837](https://www.drupal.org/i/2466837), [#2828835](https://www.drupal.org/i/2828835), [#3058010](https://www.drupal.org/i/3058010) ### Work items - Commit(s): [9ea801b0bb](https://github.com/palantirnet/drupal-rector/commit/9ea801b0bbd2) ### Credit - Implemented by: @bbrala - Reviewed / helped by: @mglaman --- *Filed retroactively as part of the Drupal 12 rector coverage effort. Closed as fixed; credit to be applied to the contributors listed above.* *AI was used extensively to build this rule and to file this issue. See [Dries Buytaert: AI-generated Rector rules for Drupal](https://dri.es/ai-generated-rector-rules-for-drupal) and [Björn Brala: Drupal Rector rules are config, not code. Mostly.](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/drupal-rector-rules-config-code-mostly-bj%C3%B6rn-brala-vfpwe/).*