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fix(research-loop-cap): floor the turn cap before the guard, not after

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A fractional TREKRESEARCH_MAX_CONV_TURNS below 1 cleared the `n <= 0`
guard on its raw value and only then floored, so '0.5' and '0.9' became
0 and the budget became 0 x MAX_TOTAL_DIMENSIONS = 0: every turn denied,
the loop silently dead rather than bounded.

README.md:229 and docs/architecture.md:15 both promise that invalid
values fall back to 3. docs/command-modes.md:42 enumerated "empty,
non-numeric, zero, or negative" and happened to sidestep the case; the
enumeration is now exhaustive about it.

Measured before: '0.5' -> 0, '0.9' -> 0, '2.7' -> 2, '' / 'abc' / '-2'
/ '0' -> 3. Measured after: '0.5' -> 3, '0.9' -> 3, '2.7' -> 2, and
'Infinity' -> 3 (it is not a cap either).

A cap of 0 is not a narrower cap, it is an off switch. The tests pin
both directions: the fraction falls back, and allowTurn cannot report a
budget of 0 under it.

Review finding fc516799e6042e246a4b62d81903ac27c2efab84 (MINOR).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LuGhWAbWyRFBFeemfhxoVv
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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ They run only at `effort: high` (resolved from the brief's `phase_signals`).
| Env-var | Default | Behavior |
|---------|---------|----------|
| `VOYAGE_STORM_ENABLED` | _(unset — default-off)_ | `=1` grants the Phase 5 loop a non-zero turn budget and is the second condition on Phase 4.5's skip-guard. Unset, `research-loop-cap.mjs` grants 0 turns and **both** phases are inert: doing nothing keeps the whole mechanism off. |
| `TREKRESEARCH_MAX_CONV_TURNS` | `3` | Max turns per under-illuminated dimension. Budget = this × `maxDimensions` (8, `settings.json:16`). Empty, non-numeric, zero, or negative values fall back to `3` — never to unbounded. |
| `TREKRESEARCH_MAX_CONV_TURNS` | `3` | Max turns per under-illuminated dimension. Budget = this × `maxDimensions` (8, `settings.json:16`). Empty, non-numeric, zero, negative, `Infinity`, or any fraction that floors below `1` (`0.5`, `0.9`) fall back to `3` — never to unbounded, and never to `0`. A fraction at or above `1` floors (`2.7` → `2`). |
| `VOYAGE_DISABLE_CAP_HOOK` | _(unset)_ | `=1` disables `hooks/scripts/pre-agent-cap.mjs`, the `PreToolUse` enforcement of the turn budget. The cap primitive still applies; only the second gate is switched off. |
Adoption of the loop as a default is gated on a pre-registered measurement —