Add north star release readiness gate

[TraderSamwise]

Summary

• add a north-star completion tracker that measures all remaining architecture epics
• add a release-readiness gate doc for source verification plus live install/restart rehearsal
• add yarn verify:north-star and yarn release:readiness so the tracker/gate is enforced

Verification

• yarn verify:north-star
• yarn release:readiness
• push hook: yarn typecheck && yarn lint && yarn test

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Added new guidance for North Star completion tracking, release readiness checks, and runtime authority completion criteria.
  • Expanded existing planning docs with a link to the new completion tracker.

• Chores

  • Added verification and release-readiness commands to streamline consistency checks across the docs and project scripts.

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📒 Files selected for processing (6)

• .github/workflows/release.yml
• app/app/cli-auth.tsx
• docs/release-readiness-gate.md
• docs/runtime-authority-dead-paths.md
• package.json
• scripts/verify-north-star-tracker.mjs

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This PR adds documentation defining a North Star Completion Tracker (epics A–J, progress vocabulary, executive snapshot) and a Release Readiness Gate process, cross-links them with existing docs, adds a Completion Gate checklist to runtime-authority-dead-paths.md, and introduces a verification script plus two npm scripts to enforce their consistency.

Changes

North Star Tracker and Verification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
North Star Completion Tracker docs/north-star-completion-tracker.md	New tracker document defining progress labels, executive snapshot table, and completion epics A–J with goals, remaining tasks, and "Done when" criteria, plus a release-ready vs north-star-complete comparison, scorecard template, and measurement process.
Release readiness gate and cross-links docs/release-readiness-gate.md, docs/core-sidecar-north-star.md, docs/runtime-authority-dead-paths.md	New release readiness gate doc covering automated gate, runtime rehearsal, multi-project smoke, and evidence recording; adds a link to the tracker and a new "Completion Gate" checklist subsection.
Verification script and npm scripts scripts/verify-north-star-tracker.mjs, package.json	New CLI script asserting required doc markers, epic headings, and snapshot rows, plus validating package.json script strings; adds verify:north-star and release:readiness npm scripts.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Developer
  participant Yarn as "yarn release:readiness"
  participant VerifyScript as "verify-north-star-tracker.mjs"
  participant Docs as "Tracker/Gate/Ownership docs"

  Developer->>Yarn: run release:readiness
  Yarn->>Yarn: run yarn verify
  Yarn->>VerifyScript: run verify:north-star
  VerifyScript->>Docs: read and assert markers
  Docs-->>VerifyScript: content
  VerifyScript-->>Yarn: exit 0 or exit 1 with errors
  Yarn-->>Developer: pass/fail result

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Possibly related PRs

• TraderSamwise/aimux#29: Both PRs modify the "Completion Gate" requirements inside docs/runtime-authority-dead-paths.md, referenced by this PR's verifier.
• TraderSamwise/aimux#38: Both PRs touch the same runtime authority dead-paths checklist content.
• TraderSamwise/aimux#316: This PR's verifier asserts markers in docs/command-ownership-inventory.md, which #316 also modifies.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/runtime-authority-dead-paths.md`:
- Around line 11-17: The file contains two conflicting “Completion Gate”
sections, which makes the release-gate contract ambiguous. Merge this new gate
text into the existing Completion Gate section, or rename one heading so only
one authoritative target remains. Use the existing Completion Gate heading in
docs/runtime-authority-dead-paths.md as the single place for the consolidated
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• docs/core-sidecar-north-star.md
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• docs/release-readiness-gate.md
• docs/runtime-authority-dead-paths.md
• package.json
• scripts/verify-north-star-tracker.mjs

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