fix(review): enforce surface lane gate verdicts

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Motivation

• The deterministic content/registry surface lane computed an authoritative GateCheckEvaluation but the published GitHub Gate check was being recomputed from advisory + policy, which could drop the surface-lane override and display a green Gate despite a surface failure/action_required verdict.
• applySurfaceGate treated a generic evaluation with an empty blockers array as permissive, which could convert deliberate generic neutral/hold states (e.g. first-time-contributor grace) into success when a surface lane returned merge.

Description

• Allow createOrUpdateGateCheckRun to accept an optional gateEvaluation and prefer it over recomputing the gate from advisory/policy so the finalized surface-lane verdict is published intact (src/github/app.ts).
• Thread the finalized gateEvaluation from the processor into the Gate completion call so the published check run matches the already-overridden evaluation (src/queue/processors.ts).
• Adjust applySurfaceGate so generic neutral/action_required holds are preserved when the surface lane returns success, while still preserving generic hard blockers and allowing surface failure to enforce a blocking conclusion (src/review/content-lane-wire.ts).
• Add unit tests that assert (1) a supplied gateEvaluation is published instead of being recomputed and (2) a generic neutral hold is preserved over a surface merge, and that surface rejections still override neutral holds (test/unit/github-app.test.ts, test/unit/content-lane-wire.test.ts).
• Add the required type import and small test/fixture adjustments to cover the new paths.

Testing

• Ran targeted unit tests: npx vitest run test/unit/content-lane-wire.test.ts test/unit/github-app.test.ts, all tests in those files passed.
• Type-check succeeded with tsc --noEmit.
• Attempted full CI/local coverage with npm run test:coverage / npm run test:ci, but coverage finalization in this environment failed due to an unrelated tooling/runtime issue (TypeError: jsTokens is not a function) during coverage remapping; this is an environment/tooling failure and not a regression in the changes here.
• npm audit --audit-level=moderate could not complete in this environment due to the registry audit endpoint returning 403 Forbidden (external to the code changes).

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 95.38%. Comparing base (9e1c351) to head (9a5e2ba).
⚠️ Report is 4 commits behind head on main.
✅ All tests successful. No failed tests found.

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✅ Gittensory review — safe to merge

2 files · 1 AI reviewers · no blockers · readiness 48/100 · CI green · blocked

✅ Approved — safe to merge

Signal	Result	Evidence
Code review	✅ No blockers	1 reviewers, synthesized
Linked issue	⚠️ Missing	No linked issue or no-issue rationale found.
Related work	⚠️ 3 scoped overlaps	Top overlaps are listed below; lower-confidence bulk is hidden.
Review load	❌ 8/20	Readiness component derived from cached public PR metadata and labels; size label size:S.
Validation evidence	❌ 5/25	Cached preflight status is hold.
Open PR queue	❌ 3/10	48 open PR(s), 9 likely reviewable, 39 unlinked.
Contributor context	✅ Confirmed Gittensor contributor	JSONbored; Gittensor profile; 81 PR(s), 261 issue(s).
Gate result	✅ Passing	No configured blocker found.

Nits — 2 non-blocking

• Repository config was not parsed
• No linked issue detected — If this PR is intended to solve an issue, link it explicitly in the PR body.

Review context

• Author: JSONbored
• Role context: owner (maintainer lane)
• Public audience mode: oss maintainer
• Lane context: Repository registration is not available in the local Gittensory cache.
• Public profile languages: not available
• Official Gittensor activity: 81 PR(s), 261 issue(s).
• Related work: Titles/paths share 6 meaningful terms. (PR #1391)
• Related work: Titles/paths share 6 meaningful terms. (PR #1427)
• Related work: Titles/paths share 7 meaningful terms. (PR #1441)
• Additional title-only matches omitted; title-only overlap does not block.

Contributor next steps

• Treat this as maintainer-lane context rather than normal contributor-lane activity.
• Explain no-issue PR.
• Review top overlaps.
• Add scope summary.
• Fix blocker.
• Expect slower review.
• Refresh registry data or choose a registered active repo.
• Link the issue being solved, or explicitly explain why this is a no-issue PR.
• Check active issues and PRs before submitting.

Signal definitions

• Related work = same linked issue, overlapping active PRs, or title/path similarity.
• Review load = cached public PR metadata such as size labels, changed paths, and preflight status.
• Open PR queue = repo-wide review pressure; it is not a PR quality failure.
• Contributor context = public GitHub/Gittensor identity context; non-Gittensor status is not a blocker.

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[JSONbored]

Closing. The PR body describes app.ts/processors.ts gate-threading work that already landed (#1340 / #1410), so the description doesn't match the diff. The only real change — applySurfaceGate preserving a generic neutral hold over a surface merge — directly reverses the intentional #1340 decision (3d8ad8da, content-lane-wire.ts:75: "gate off, or generic was clean → surface stands"). That's a judgment reversal of recent deliberate work on a narrow neutral-hold-vs-surface-merge collision, not a demonstrated bug. If we do want surface-merge to not override first-contribution grace, that's a separate explicit decision against #1340 — not this.