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feat(disposition): separate the assessment axis from the action

`decide` returned a `Disposition` — WARN / QUARANTINE_REVIEW / FAIL_SECURE —
which names an ACTION. But BRIEF design principle 4 says the library reports
and the pipeline decides, and disposition.py admitted the gap in its own
docstring: "It imposes no blocking of its own." So we returned an action we
cannot enforce, having discarded the judgement that produced it. A consumer
wanting different behaviour had to reinterpret the action itself — which is
why a consumer ends up pinning our GRADING: the action was all they got.

`Risk` (NONE/LOW/ELEVATED/SEVERE) now carries that judgement, and
`Policy.action_map` lets a caller map it to their own action. Both overlays
move the assessment rather than the action, so a custom map cannot silently
drop the compound escalation or the quarantine floor. `guard`'s fail-closed
path pins both axes and deliberately bypasses the map: downgrading SEVERE
means "I accept this class of finding", never "I accept a crashed scanner".

`DispositionResult.assessment` is required with no default. `Risk.NONE` is the
natural-looking default and the wrong one — a site that forgot the field would
report clean, and the axis would fail open.

MEASURED ADDITIVE, not assumed:
  - 703 -> 715 tests, no existing test changed
  - coverage matrix 128/128 recall, 6/6 documented gaps still hold
  - the PRESET_USER_UPLOAD grading table locked in 0.3.1 re-measured row by
    row: ordinary link/image/autolink/refdef -> warn on BOTH doors, unchanged

Both locked consumer promises in docs/PLAN-v1.md were checked against that
measurement and neither fires: the grading is untouched (linkedin-studio), and
the relative-target asymmetry is untouched (llm-ingestion-okf).

Scope held to disposition, per PLAN-v1.md:380. Version stays 0.4.0; the 0.5.0
bump lands in its release commit with all five version surfaces at once —
that is the fix for the defect where the v0.4.0 tag carried a 0.3.4 README.

Records limitation 32: `Severity` still carries disposition intent on the
DETECTION side, which this change does not address and cannot without moving
the grading.
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@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ a green scan means safe content. The highest-impact items:
egress, semantic poisoning, trusted-prose lone-HIGH, lexicon dedup (`count=1`),
pure beaconing, and short opaque URL segments.
**Full list — 31 items, each with the mechanism, plus the out-of-scope boundary:**
**Full list — 32 items, each with the mechanism, plus the out-of-scope boundary:**
[`docs/LIMITATIONS.md`](docs/LIMITATIONS.md). Several carry field measurements from
consumer corpora, including the false positives the URL-shape rule actually produces.