Credibility pass: the accretion sanded smooth

Blind reviews over d2b40ec..HEAD (engine / web / server+deploy). Orphaned
doc comments rejoined their functions; the swap-meet tradables collapsed
from four pasted deriveds to one (killing the "the's treasure" label);
FEAR's aura and banner now share the engine's own dreadDistance; the
long-press peek got one home; rulebook.ts stopped wearing JSON quotes;
process-named tests and war-story comments now state the constraints they
pin; the protocol doc caught up to its handlers; verify-ledgers.sh can
actually count failures; the runbook learned about the determinism gate
and the nightly backups. No behavior changes — 255 tests and all 48
production ledgers replay identically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

packages/web/src/hints.ts

@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ export function tableHints(view: GameView): TableHint[] {
     try {
       const cmd = automatonCommand(view, s, "archmage");
       advice = cmd ? `I would ${describe(view, cmd)}.` : "Nothing calls for us right now — wait for your moment.";
-    } catch {
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.warn("hint council choked:", e);
       advice = "…I have no counsel here.";
     }
     out.push({ name: v.name, glyph: v.glyph, mood: v.mood, advice });