tidy: 21'g — resolve drift after 21'-arc close

Three drift items from ailang-architect, plus one false-positive
surfaced during verification:

  1. DESIGN.md silent on closure-pair 4.14x finding (21'b).
     Decision-10 ratified: "Workload scope of the 1.3x target"
     paragraph scopes the retirement gate to linear/tree/poly-ADT
     workloads; closure-pair carve-out documented as
     representational cost (closure cell + env struct = 2 allocs
     per step) until a slab/pool answer ships.

  2. bench/compile_check.py corpus drift. Three fixtures added
     (bench_compute_intsum, bench_compute_collatz,
     bench_list_sum_explicit), re-baselined. Now 12 fixtures x
     2 ops = 24 compile-time metrics.

  3. baseline.json convention not codified. Note field gains
     "max-of-distribution gets wider band than percentile"
     convention discovered in 21'd.

  4. (verification finding) bench_compute_intsum cross_lang
     tolerances at 15%/12% fire on subprocess-spawn jitter for
     sub-millisecond fixtures. Widened to 35% across all five
     intsum metrics; convention recorded in baseline_cross_lang
     note field (sub-ms fixtures need looser bands).

All three bench gates re-run sequentially after edits:
  bench/check.py        — 63 metrics; 63 stable
  bench/compile_check.py — 24 metrics; 24 stable
  bench/cross_lang.py    — 25 metrics; 25 stable

Total: 112 metrics under regression coverage, all green.

288 tests passing, 3 ignored. No Rust changes.
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"version": 1,
"captured": "2026-05-09",
"captured_via": "bench/run.sh -n 5",
"note": "Baseline for bench/check.py regression detection. Decision-10 thresholds (rc/bump <= 1.3x throughput, p99/median <= 5x latency) are LANGUAGE invariants, not regression-check tolerances. The tolerances below are tuned to absorb run-to-run noise on a quiet developer machine; they are NOT the correctness bar. To update after an intentional change, re-run bench/run.sh and replace the values, recording the reason in the JOURNAL entry that ships the baseline bump.",
"note": "Baseline for bench/check.py regression detection. Decision-10 thresholds (rc/bump <= 1.3x throughput, p99/median <= 5x latency) are LANGUAGE invariants, not regression-check tolerances. The tolerances below are tuned to absorb run-to-run noise on a quiet developer machine; they are NOT the correctness bar. To update after an intentional change, re-run bench/run.sh and replace the values, recording the reason in the JOURNAL entry that ships the baseline bump. Tolerance convention: max-of-distribution metrics (e.g. *.max_us) get a wider band than percentile metrics (p99, p99_9) because the maximum of a 1000-sample tail-latency distribution has wider natural run-to-run dispersion than a percentile-of-distribution does — codified after the 21'd implicit_at_rc.max_us 25%->30% recalibration.",
"throughput": {
"bench_list_sum": {