chore(post-v0.40.4): release scripts, gitignore, arrow + punctuation sweep

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Summary

Post-v0.40.4 cleanup batch on top of the shipped release.

• Release infra: post-merge tag script + token-based npm-only fallback (a45b55c)
• .gitignore: cover application_*.pdf, outbound_*.md, site.py.live, claude-code-audit.db (cd14743)
• README: punctuation polish and spelling consistency (da59821)
• CHANGELOG: punctuation polish (031f300)
• Release scripts: punctuation polish (0878408)
• Repo-wide: strip Unicode arrows from source, tests, scripts, examples, bench, and docs, 38 files, ruff clean (ee538f3)

Test plan

• CI green on the PR
• No behavioral changes; comment + docstring + display-string polish only

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between d6ca31e and 4fbbd00.

📒 Files selected for processing (45)

• .gitignore
• CHANGELOG.md
• COMPLIANCE.md
• OVERT_CONTROLS.md
• README.md
• VERDICTS.md
• bench/build_corpus.py
• bench/latency.py
• bench/vaara-bench-v0.34.md
• bench/vaara-bench-v0.35.md
• bench/vaara-bench-v0.36.md
• bench/vaara-bench-v0.37.md
• docs/audit_event_schema.md
• docs/formal_specification.md
• examples/langchain_agent.py
• scripts/RELEASE.md
• scripts/eval_adversarial.py
• scripts/eval_distribution_shift.py
• scripts/release_publish_manual.sh
• scripts/release_publish_npm_manual.sh
• scripts/release_tag_after_merge.sh
• scripts/train_and_eval_bge_base.py
• src/vaara/attestation/transparency_log.py
• src/vaara/audit/review_queue.py
• src/vaara/audit/sqlite_backend.py
• src/vaara/audit/trail.py
• src/vaara/integrations/crewai.py
• src/vaara/integrations/guardrails_ai.py
• src/vaara/integrations/langchain.py
• src/vaara/integrations/mcp_proxy.py
• src/vaara/integrations/mcp_server.py
• src/vaara/pipeline.py
• src/vaara/policy/registry.py
• src/vaara/sandbox/trace_gen.py
• src/vaara/scorer/adaptive.py
• src/vaara/server/state.py
• src/vaara/taxonomy/actions.py
• tests/test_audit_cli.py
• tests/test_eval_adversarial_coverage.py
• tests/test_integrations.py
• tests/test_mondrian_conformal.py
• tests/test_overt_verify_cli.py
• tests/test_policy_reload_http.py
• tests/test_prov_export.py
• tests/test_scorer.py

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• Commit unit tests in branch chore/post-v0404-cleanup

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