docs(gaps): separate current authority from historical snapshots - #992

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In `@docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md`:
- Line 53: Remove the standalone blockquote marker on the blank line at the
referenced documentation section, leaving it as a regular empty line while
preserving the surrounding historical overlay formatting.

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Valid repair finding after fresh single-writer/current-authority review. This one-file branch was opened directly on protected main while #984 already owns the same docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md delivery lane, so it is now serialized by retargeting to #984 and returned to Draft rather than closed. Its proposed Current authority paragraph is also already stale: #983 has advanced to a40768420da41a80a7e7a0aeed4ad13bc727a1c3; its current PostgreSQL suite is still executing, Security is terminal fail-closed at Dependency Review support, and CodeQL is terminal fail-closed at current-head receipt enforcement. A static snapshot must not call itself the sole current authority when live refs/checks are the authority. Reconstruct this delta losslessly on the current #984 baseline after the parent lane stabilizes, preserve historical entries, and phrase dated queue/check data explicitly as an observation rather than mutable authority. Do not resolve the conflict by dropping #984 evidence or regenerating the historical ledger wholesale.

Current-head reconstruction is now ancestry-clean against #984 (behind 0), but one semantic defect remains and it is test-enforced. The new first block still calls a dated queue/check snapshot the sole current authority, hard-codes 140/16/124 PR counts, 22 issues, focus PR states, Strix states, and even says to treat #984 as not authority. tests/test_documentation_hygiene.py then requires sole current and accepts mutable queue counts whenever they are merely marked at refresh/Live queue. That contradicts this PR's own stated intent and the repository rule: live AGENTS/PR/Issue/protected-ref/check state is current authority; this file is a dated traceability/evidence ledger.

Repair test-first: change the hygiene contract so the opening block must identify itself as a dated observation/snapshot, must explicitly defer current lifecycle/check authority to live repository state, and must reject sole current authority plus mutable current queue/check/focus assertions presented as authority. Then minimally rewrite only the new opening block on the exact #984 ledger; preserve the historical-overlay wording repairs and all unrelated evidence. Do not regenerate or truncate the ledger.

Current-head ancestry is now clean against #9847403ddd; the concurrent ordinary convergence is valid and should be preserved. The semantic finding remains on the two owned files: the opening block still labels a dated queue/check receipt as Current authority / sole current authority, while test_gap_baseline_first_authority_is_dated_current_authority explicitly requires that phrase and permits mutable PR/check counts when merely time-scoped. That inverts the repository authority boundary. RED should require (a) the file to identify the opening material as a dated observation/evidence snapshot, (b) explicit deferral of current lifecycle/check/protected-ref authority to live repository state, and (c) rejection of sole current authority for this ledger. Then minimally rewrite only the opening block while retaining the valid historical was/time-scoping repairs. Keep Draft; no wholesale baseline replacement.

Exact-head review on 3be7bee2e3c429a0238e0fce02f6935bde9ba342: ancestry is repaired, but the semantic RED remains. The opening baseline block is a dated 2026-09-09 observation containing mutable queue/check counts; calling it the sole current authority conflicts with the repository rule that live AGENTS/PR/Issue/protected-ref/check state is authoritative. tests/test_documentation_hygiene.py currently requires that conflicting phrase, so it protects the defect rather than the boundary. The same opening block also calls central control-plane failures unfixable from any branch, which is a timeless claim contradicted by active canonical owner repair lanes. Minimum repair: make the opening block a dated observation/evidence receipt, explicitly defer live lifecycle/check authority to repository state, make the hygiene test reject sole current authority, and replace the absolute unfixable claim with a time-scoped owner-boundary statement. Preserve every unrelated historical record and the existing was/historical overlay repairs; no wholesale baseline rewrite.

Exact-head review on c78142da1b948fb658fd0fbe90f2c2d1facb9827: the authority finding is now executable in tests/test_documentation_hygiene.py. This head is intentionally RED against the existing baseline because the file still opens with Current authority, requires/contains sole current authority, and contains unfixable from any branch; the new contract instead requires a dated observation receipt that explicitly delegates current lifecycle/check authority to live AGENTS/PR/Issue/protected-ref/check state. Hosted Tests run 34361456881 materialized but both repository-local jobs were skipped under Draft deferral, so skipped is not GREEN. Minimum causal follow-up remains an opening-block-only documentation repair; preserve all unrelated historical evidence.

Current-parent review after ordinary convergence onto #984 d0cee3c443c163d3f068b3e662b6231c1e652763: the documentation-hygiene RED remains valid on exact head 4c190222ae4d575d3efec4641143fae43e941fd2. tests/test_documentation_hygiene.py correctly requires the opening block to be a dated observation, explicitly delegate current lifecycle/check authority to live AGENTS/PR/Issue/protected-ref/check state, reject sole current authority, and reject the timeless unfixable from any branch statement. The baseline opening still contains both prohibited phrases.

Minimum causal GREEN remains limited to that opening observation block: retain the existing 2026-09-09 queue/check values as a dated receipt, replace the authority claim with live AGENTS/PR/Issue/protected-ref/check state remains current authority, and describe the central failures as time-scoped canonical-owner repair findings. Preserve every unrelated historical ledger entry and the existing historical-overlay checks. Do not refresh old counts to look current, weaken the hygiene assertions, or rewrite the ledger wholesale.

This is a repair finding, not a Close condition or merge acceptance.

Fresh exact-head verification on 4ccafeaf4f65064b847c8195458c1fdbd67e484d: the former authority finding is satisfied in current content. The opening is now a dated observation, explicitly delegates current authority to live AGENTS/PR/Issue/protected-ref/check state, and no longer uses sole current authority or timeless unfixable from any branch language. tests/test_documentation_hygiene.py carries the executable guard for that boundary. This is a finding-resolution comment only, not approval or protected acceptance; keep Draft until exact hosted validation is independently admissible.