Auto-imports don’t work in content-mappers without existing import

@andrewbranch is already working on this.

Since Sep 1, 2026.

### 🔎 Search Terms

`content-mapper`

### 🕗 Version & Regression Information

- I was unable to test this on prior versions because content mappers aren’t even released yet :)

### ⏯ Playground Link

n/a

### 💻 Code

https://github.com/remcohaszing/mdx-content-mapper/tree/auto-import-issue

Specifically, https://github.com/remcohaszing/mdx-content-mapper/commit/04037c2bd2d959adefd2d3f0b11a070139e5028d

### 🙁 Actual behavior

Automatic imports work, if the statement to insert it to is already present. However, if the import statement isn’t present yet, then TypeScript won’t generate the statement.

This works:

This does not:

### 🙂 Expected behavior

Automatic imports always work.

### Additional information about the issue

I tried to make this work by pushing an empty verbatim mapping to the start of the virtual content, like below. The virtual content may start with `'// @ts-check\n'`. In this case, the mapping is placed after that comment.

```js
let esm = checkMdx ? '// @ts-check\n' : ''
esmMappings.push([
0,
0,
esm.length,
0,
/** @satisfies {SpanMapKind.Verbatim} */ (0),
/** @satisfies {SpanMapFeature.AutoInsert} */ (131_072)
])
```