fix: round 7 of the release review of 6.3.0, for 6.3.1

Round 7 (516dffa..45aa9e1, WARN: 12 MAJOR, 0 BLOCKER) and the fence defect
found while writing its review.md. Each fix began with a test that failed on
0f400d3 (v6.3.0); suite 2208 (2206/0/2), 14 tests more.

- Tests-only (operator 2026-10-11): the plan's Files: alone decides, and the
  text says so (red-proof, trekexecute Sub-step B, step-implementer,
  HANDOVER-CONTRACTS). red-proof no longer reads the step's diff, so a change
  already in the tree when the step began no longer counts against it, and a
  plan placed outside .claude/ reads the same. The round-6 test that had the
  diff overrule the plan is rewritten to the new rule.
- The Files: reader keeps a plain file beside a backticked path
  (", Dockerfile", "the CLI entry src/cli.mjs", "and Makefile"). Measured on
  the 520 Files: fields in 182 plans: no field reads differently.
- Red proof reports a command its timeout killed as killed after the timeout,
  not "could not start"; the release check tells a timeout from output past
  its buffer and from another signal. One reading of a stop
  (criteria-runner stoppedBy) for red proof, the criteria runner and the
  release check.
- A trailing `# comment` is dropped in a backticked check too, and in a
  command passed as written, so the words screened are the words run.
- The release check reads a relative --review in --repo.
- The 15-minute timeout is defined once (criteria-runner.mjs).
- The findings check reads each cited file once per validation.
- One isMain helper (lib/util/is-main.mjs) for every CLI: the 31 copies of
  the realpath guard and the 20 modules still on the file:// guard, which
  exited 0 having done nothing under a symlink or a path with a space.
- The Bash guard writes its no-one-to-ask refusal once, on a direct condition.
- The findings check ends a ```json block only at a fence on its own line, so
  three backticks inside a JSON string no longer end it (also in 6.2.0).
- Brief-conformance notes: a test for test-lock green on exit 127 (it
  passed at once; it fails when 127 is read as could-not-run); the prose now
  names the git revision `@~1` as the one leading-@ exception.

Not changed: the example plan's steps 1-2 keep their tests-only warning
(operator decision 2026-10-09; the r5 test records it). Brief note 4 (a
Regression: whose runner is not installed goes to the fix rounds) is a
routing question for the operator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

lib/verification/step-check.mjs

@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@
 // Credit: the tiers and "not measured" are agent-skills' constraint-driven
 // development (MIT, `9d0c60d`); the stop at step end is Cherny's and Kiro's.
 
-import { existsSync, realpathSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { join, extname } from 'node:path';
 import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
-import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import { resolveRepo, detectTools, runTool } from './repo-tools.mjs';
 import { latestPostEditRecords } from '../../hooks/lib/post-edit.mjs';
 import { runContract } from '../../hooks/lib/contract-cli.mjs';
+import { isMain } from '../util/is-main.mjs';
 
 // NUL-separated and unquoted, so a name with spaces or non-ASCII letters
 // comes back as it is on disk (git quotes such names by default).
@@ -105,15 +105,7 @@ export function stepCheck({ cwd, full = false }) {
   return { status, root: repo.root, full, files, not_covered: notCovered, checks };
 }
 
-function isMain() {
-  try {
-    return realpathSync(process.argv[1]) === realpathSync(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
-  } catch {
-    return false;
-  }
-}
-
-if (isMain()) {
+if (isMain(import.meta.url)) {
   const argv = process.argv.slice(2);
   const i = argv.indexOf('--cwd');
   const cwd = i !== -1 ? argv[i + 1] : null;