can't figure out how to add recipes to modern industrialization

[acoustic surge]

I've looked at the docs for both the mod and kubeJS and I cannot for the life of me figure out how I'm supposed to add recipes.
I'm trying to add/edit the recipes for bronze stuff as for some reason they don't have bronze ingots as input, so they are effectively impossible to craft.
The mod's github states a different way of adding recipes to kubeJS, and it throws errors. Using the kubeJS method has no methods but doesn't work.
MI adding recipes: https://github.com/AztechMC/Modern-Industrialization/blob/1.20.x/docs/ADDING_RECIPES.md

[full ivy]

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[acoustic surge]

I also cannot find any reference to adding recipes in the source code that I could edit as I need to, despite there being more recipes seemingly not included in the recipes folder for it, like this one: https://github.com/AztechMC/Modern-Industrialization/blob/1.20.x/src/main/resources/data/modern_industrialization/recipes/materials/forge_hammer/brick_dust.json

I tried using kubeJS method of adding recipes with this format and it did nothing

errors when using MI method and using /reload in game

kubeJS logs

[cunning ermine]

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