record(ENG-RECORD-CONFLICT-SURFACES): retire eleven dangling checker-line citations, five to symbol anchors and six to retirement prose

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record(ENG-RECORD-CONFLICT-SURFACES): retire eleven dangling checker-line citations, five to symbol anchors and six to retirement prose

The citation gate resolves every checker-line citation a tracked file carries against the tracked checker, and at fce3673 that checker is 1270 lines: eighteen citations dangle. Seven of them are not this change's to move - three are the 1973 references already in flight on the first bucket, and four (1712, 1960, 2000 and 2018) are re-pinned by the pending checker restore, whose expected-line assertions also account for the six line_no subfailures the gate reports. The other eleven are repaired here.

The #1033 family is one claim written in four places and it converts to the symbol convention. The frozen archive row, ISSUE-GH-1033's Title and its Frozen archive evidence quote all said check_table_shapes sat at line 1292, and .agents/specs/gate-issue-index-table-shape.md said the same. The claim was true when written and is false against every checker the tree has since carried: the symbol sits at line 1105 on main and at line 2028 in the reviewed restructure that a merge resolved away, so no single number is correct in both trees and a re-point would land a number the next restore moves again. The repo's own answer to exactly that is the symbol convention (citation-anchor-freshness.md, option 4), so all four now cite scripts/check-agent-record.py::check_table_shapes, which the symbol gate checks and resolves in both trees. The archive row and the record's Title and quote move in ONE commit because the frozen-evidence contract compares them byte-for-byte and a matching pair has no valid intermediate state.

The claim file converts the same way: the CLAIM-* owner requirement is check_row_contracts, which exists in both checkers, so .agents/claims/CLAIM-MODEL-DSV4-EXL3.md now cites scripts/check-agent-record.py::check_row_contracts instead of line 1785.

The remaining six sites cite instruments the tree has retired, and they are re-anchored as retirement prose rather than re-pointed, because the honest targets do not exist. The duplicate-row refusal at lines 1437-1441 and 1437-1442 was removed by W6 (7dc2ef1) together with the live issue index it protected - the message "duplicate is what two branches appending the same issue look like" is gone from the checker - so the two specs name the refusal and its retirement instead of a line. The checker's backlog reader owed_issues(), cited at lines 2002-2017 and 2012-2014 from .agents/specs/ltx25-completion-scope.md, was removed by the local-issue-authority cutover (a9f6186); its successor reads stable issue identities rather than the bare numbers those measurements counted, so naming the successor would have changed the subject of a measured claim, and the sites record the retirement instead.

One site needed a status correction rather than an anchor. This row's own ISSUE-LOCAL-01M2TR7N06G9EF8J2QVWVM49W7 cited lines 2216-2222 for the behaviour where a bare # reference is silently accepted: that canonical-reference pass exists only in the restructured checker, and the pre-restructure scripts/check-agent-record.py that main carries has no canonical-reference pass at all. The record now says both, in prose, because a symbol citation would name something the landed tree does not contain.

Measured red-first on the same tree pair, pristine fce3673 against this branch: tests/scripts/test_agent_record.py drops from 74 failures to 63 - exactly the eleven repaired instances - with the citation test itself going from 24 subfailures to 13 (18 dangling citations to 7, the remainder being the in-flight and pending-restore families). No new failure appears anywhere: tests/scripts/test_issue_records.py stays at 123 passed, tests/scripts/test_agent_issue.py and tests/scripts/test_record_merge_shape.py hold their pre-existing counts, scripts/check-agent-record.py reports rc=0 with ENGINE=179 MODEL=384 QUANT=87 KERNEL=60 BACKEND=90, and scripts/check-agent-record.py::check_table_shapes and check_row_contracts move the symbol gate's in-repo checked count from 508 to 510 (fresh 503 to 505) while the five pre-existing stale anchors in .agents/engine-matrix.md are untouched. The index refresh keeps its identical seven pre-existing record findings, all of which the checker restore reconciles.

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