Point the plan at the merged seam work and make the method a rule

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Documentation follow-up to #2084, closing out the plan for the three-PR payment arc (#2065, #2079, #2084).

The plan now matches what was built. PLAN.md's M4 status and "Where we are" record all three merged pull requests, and the as-built map gains two rows naming the real modules: the declared machine specs that feed the /admin/schema map, and the seam module with its witnesses, database faults, and live check. Nothing in the plan describes work that already exists in code without pointing at it.

The lesson becomes a rule. The checking layer — machine specs, seam declarations, crash witnesses, enumerated crash windows, the live map — was retrofitted onto the refund machines across three large pull requests, which is the slow way. A new delivery rule (rule 10) makes it binding for every future milestone: any new stateful lifecycle ships all of that with its first slice. AGENTS.md gains the matching "Checked forwards and backwards" section so the method applies to any new system, not just payments, with every mechanism pointing at its reference file.

One stale TODO entry deleted. The "placeholder replay marker gap" entry kept two crash windows open that shipped mechanisms have since closed: the terminal outcome now commits inside the same atomic store as the placeholder (#2079), and the pruner retains the exact session row a placeholder's provenance pointer names (#2065), both pinned by crash tests.

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• Documentation
  • Added lifecycle-machine guidance covering declarative specifications, legal state transitions, crash-window testing, idempotent redelivery, and database validation.
  • Documented completed milestone work, including refund processing, resumable completion, machine validation, and schema checks.
  • Updated delivery requirements for introducing stateful workflows.
  • Removed the outdated placeholder-refund replay-marker TODO.

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The changes document checked lifecycle-machine practices, update M4 Part A planning records, add delivery requirements, record module-map entries, and remove an obsolete placeholder-refund TODO.

Changes

Lifecycle documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Machine practices and delivery requirements AGENTS.md, PLAN.md	Guidance and delivery rule 10 now require checked machine specifications, declared seams, crash-window tests, witness assertions, and /admin/schema entries. The module map records payment machines and their seam.
Milestone and follow-up records PLAN.md, TODO.md	The plan marks M3 and M4 Part A status and removes outdated M4 wording. The placeholder-refund replay-risk TODO is removed.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f606b

This documentation-only change has no runtime or product impact; after the localized Markdown formatting fix in AGENTS.md, no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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