feat(config): make the canvas-generation/version pairing a gate, not a habit (T-1242)

project.yaml's version is the Atlas disk cache's only invalidation signal, and
nothing enforced that changing canvas GENERATION also moved it. It broke five
times -- 0.4.2 lake_margin_q, 0.4.3 coast_warp_px, 0.4.4 the extent inversion,
0.4.5 the Global sentinel, 0.4.6 one-course-per-river -- each bumped only after
someone noticed a wrong map. The failure is invisible to its author: it needs a
warm cache to reproduce, so a cold checkout looks fine. T-1239 is the last one,
and it took eight days.

tooling/canvas_sources.py is the path registry; tooling/check-canvas-version
rejects a push that touches those paths without moving project.yaml's version
line. Wired into the pre-push hook, `make check-canvas-version`, and, for the
parsing units, `make test-tooling`.

Verified against real history rather than a synthetic branch: run over
4e503c356 -- the commit that actually caused T-1239 -- the gate rejects and names
the three files. Run over the commits that DID bump (bdea71953, 39f0fd8c5, and
T-1239's own fix), it passes.

The registry is globbed, not hand-listed. step_canvas.rs imports ten sibling
modules and those import more, so a traced closure would be stale within a month,
and stale here is silent. It over-includes on purpose: a false positive costs one
bump and one round of cache misses, a false negative costs another week of a
wrong map -- the ticket's own ruling.

Two deliberate calls worth naming. The registry includes ITSELF, which closes the
narrowing hole: remove a path and change that same path in one push, and the gate
still fires because the registry file is in the set. And there is no override
flag -- it would be reached for exactly when someone is certain their change is
harmless, which is the reasoning behind all five regressions.

Version bumped 0.4.6 -> 0.4.7 with NO canvas-generation change: self-inclusion
means adding the registry trips its own rule. Spent rather than special-cased,
because the first exception is how a rule like this dies.

The units cover the property no branch run can show -- that editing project.yaml's
comment block, which quotes old version NUMBERS directly above the field, is not
a bump -- plus a registry-coverage test naming the files each of the five known
regressions touched, so a future narrowing past them fails loudly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# silent regression that reproduces only on machines with a warm cache. The
# capture harness no longer hides it (tests/run-visual isolates user:// per run,
# T-1239), but a real player's cache is still governed by this number alone.
version: 0.4.6
# 0.4.7 carries NO canvas-generation change — it is the gate that enforces the
# pairing described above, arriving (T-1242). tooling/canvas_sources.py lists the
# paths, tooling/check-canvas-version rejects a push that touches them without
# moving this line, and the registry includes ITSELF so that narrowing it and
# changing a canvas file in one push still demands a bump. That self-inclusion is
# why this bump exists: adding the registry trips its own rule. The version is
# spent rather than special-cased, because "this change is obviously harmless" is
# the reasoning that produced all five regressions above.
version: 0.4.7
repository: settled-reach