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fix(board): one spec for next-cost, and it is the rubric's

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The board line's cost field had two specifications and one of them was this
script. `--help` prescribed a versionless `sonnet/xhigh`; the global model
rubric it points at spells the model `Sonnet 5 / xhigh`. A session following
either was correct by its own source, so the field drifted with nobody making
a mistake. Measured across a real 44-repo tree: 14 board lines carrying eight
distinct strings, and not one of them the form documented here - the only
spelling nobody used was ours.

The help now prescribes the rubric's, which is also what most lines already
carry. The parser is untouched and stays lenient: it reads to `;` or `-->` so
the rubric's spacing survives, and the fixtures still vary the spelling on
purpose to pin that. Read-side leniency was never the defect; it is what makes
a documentation-only fix sufficient.

No normalization at read, deliberately. Board lines are rewritten every session
by convention, so an unambiguous spec self-heals the existing lines in about one
session per active repo - mapping variants would be permanent code migrating
data that migrates itself. Nothing compares the field mechanically today either:
KOST is a display column and the board sorts on a numeric bucket key, so the
defect was real but latent. Two checks (28 -> 30) pin the documented form,
red first, because cleaning the data cannot fix a spec that regenerates the
divergence every session. Validation at write has no write path to attach to:
nothing in this repo emits a board line outside the fixtures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U6EixQo6hpoRCVtiAXdnFs
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@ -18,11 +18,15 @@
#
# Board line (optional, one per STATE.md, directly under the NESTE heading):
#
# <!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=sonnet/xhigh -->
# <!-- board: status=in-progress; blocked-on=-; next-cost=Sonnet 5/xhigh -->
#
# status planned | in-progress | blocked | deferred | done
# blocked-on <repo-name> or - (only meaningful with status=blocked)
# next-cost <model>/<effort> from the global model rubric, e.g. opus/xhigh
# next-cost <model>/<effort>, the model spelled EXACTLY as the global rubric
# spells it: Sonnet 5/xhigh, Opus 5/high. The parser below accepts
# any spelling, but this field is compared across repos by eye, so
# one form is the whole point - and a second spelling documented
# here is how a field with no write path drifts.
#
# ATTENTION AXIS, NOT A TOPIC AXIS. This status vocabulary is deliberately NOT
# the vocabulary a cross-repo TOPIC register uses. A topic register answers