iter ext-rename: .ailx → .ail across the live toolchain

The surface-form file extension changes from .ailx to .ail. AILang's
authoring surface now uses the same .ail stem as its canonical JSON
form (.ail.json), giving the language a single coherent extension
family: .ail is the LLM-authored Form A, .ail.json is the canonical
JSON-AST Form B.

Scope (touched):
- 61 example renames examples/**/*.ailx → .ail (git mv)
- 1 rename experiments/.../rendered/ailx.md → ail.md
- 35 content-edited live-toolchain files (crates/, docs/DESIGN.md,
  docs/roadmap.md, docs/PROSE_ROUNDTRIP.md, skills/, bench/reference/*.c,
  experiment crates under experiments/.../{render,harness,master})
- Experiment-crate cohort rename Cohort::Ailx → Cohort::Ail,
  Form::Ailx → Form::Ail, per_cohort/ailx → per_cohort/ail,
  {form-only: ailx} → {form-only: ail}, ```ailx → ```ail

Out of scope (deliberately untouched, to preserve honest history):
- docs/journal-archive.md (content-frozen per CLAUDE.md)
- docs/journals/, docs/specs/, docs/plans/, bench/orchestrator-stats/
- experiments/.../runs/ (frozen LLM-output artefacts; models actually
  saw .ailx — renaming would falsify the experimental record)

Verification: cargo build/test --workspace green; experiment crate
cargo test green; bench/check.py + compile_check.py + cross_lang.py
all 0-regressed; negative grep for ailx|Ailx|AILX outside the
out-of-scope paths returns zero matches.

Opens immediate follow-up: roadmap.md P2 todo `ail check`/build/run
accept .ail extension — after this rename, .ail is canonical
authoring surface but the CLI still produces a misleading JSON-parse
error on `ail check foo.ail`. That's the next iter.
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@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ modes to watch for.
## What the LLM produces
Iter 20f revised a load-bearing piece of this cycle: the LLM emits
**Form-A** (an `.ailx` document — the canonical authoring surface
**Form-A** (an `.ail` document — the canonical authoring surface
fixed by Decision 6), not JSON-AST. JSON-AST is the canonical
hashable artefact, but it is not a writing surface — every type
reference wraps in `{"k": "con", ...}`, every term in
`{"t": "...", ...}`, and a single missing `param_modes` entry is a
schema error rather than a parse error with a position.
Form-A is the form `examples/*.ailx` are written in, the form
Form-A is the form `examples/*.ail` are written in, the form
`ail render` produces, and the form `ail parse` consumes. The full
LLM-targeted specification is shipped inside the binary as
`ailang_core::FORM_A_SPEC` (sourced from
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ LLM-targeted specification is shipped inside the binary as
1. ail prose foo.ail.json > foo.prose.txt
2. $EDITOR foo.prose.txt # human edits freely
3. ail merge-prose foo.ail.json foo.prose.txt > prompt.txt
4. cat prompt.txt | <your-llm-cli> > foo.new.ailx
5. ail parse foo.new.ailx > foo.new.ail.json
4. cat prompt.txt | <your-llm-cli> > foo.new.ail
5. ail parse foo.new.ail > foo.new.ail.json
6. ail check foo.new.ail.json
7. mv foo.new.ail.json foo.ail.json # if check is clean
```
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ CLI helper.
You are integrating prose edits back into an AILang module.
ROLE
Your job is to produce an updated AILang module in Form-A (an .ailx
Your job is to produce an updated AILang module in Form-A (an .ail
file) that reflects the human's prose edits while preserving the
load-bearing semantic detail from the original module.