build: the gate is scripts/check.sh, and CI goes

The Gitea Actions gate repeated, after the merge, what a release already runs
before it, and its runner shared the git host's container: one run there
starved Gitea of memory until it stopped answering. The lanes now live in
scripts/check.sh, run the same by the release dispatcher and by hand, and the
gate-contract test holds its lines (the ruff and pip-audit checks read it
instead of the workflow). The two audits only CI ran join the gate: pip-audit
over the lock (pinned in the test image, blocking at any severity) and npm
audit of the production dependencies. The engine contracts drop the CI
containers; the register records that pushes have no server-side gate.

backend/tests/conftest.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ _MISSING = object()
 
 # A would-be silent skip (no DB, or no ffmpeg) is a hard error unless the run says otherwise — the
 # suite must not print green while the DB-backed / ffmpeg tests were quietly not run. ON by default
-# since E32: as an opt-in only the compose lane and CI set, a hand-run `pytest` skipped ~60 DB tests
+# since E32: as an opt-in only the compose lane set, a hand-run `pytest` skipped ~60 DB tests
 # and still passed. `SIFTLODE_TEST_REQUIRE_DB=0` is the explicit "pure-logic only" run.
 _REQUIRE_FULL = os.getenv("SIFTLODE_TEST_REQUIRE_DB", "1") != "0"
 

backend/tests/test_python_engine_contract.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ independent literal, there was no `.python-version`, no `requires-python`, and r
 
 **The contract is a chain, and it is split across two test files because no single runner can see
 every link.** This suite runs inside the test image, which mounts `backend/` and nothing else, so it
-cannot read the repo-root Dockerfile or the workflow. It therefore holds the link it CAN see, and the
+cannot read the repo-root Dockerfile. It therefore holds the link it CAN see, and the
 one that matters most here:
 
     the interpreter actually running  ==  backend/pyrightconfig.json  ==  backend/ruff.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ one that matters most here:
 and `frontend/src/lib/pythonEngine.contract.test.ts` — which runs on the host, with the whole tree —
 holds the rest of the chain:
 
-    /.python-version  ==  pyrightconfig.json  ==  ruff.toml  ==  Dockerfile  ==  Dockerfile.test  ==  check.yml
+    /.python-version  ==  pyrightconfig.json  ==  ruff.toml  ==  Dockerfile  ==  Dockerfile.test
 
 Together they close the loop. To move the version: edit `/.python-version`, then follow the failures
 in both files. Every place they name is a place that would otherwise have been forgotten.