Run black, which cleared what ruff had to leave behind

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CLAUDE.md recorded black as deliberately deferred — 241 files reformatted is a
diff nobody can review, worth doing in its own commit when no other session is
mid-flight. Checked before starting: seven remote branches, zero open PRs,
and all seven verified as merged leftovers.

The interesting result is not that black passes now

The previous lint pass recorded 907 W291/W293 that ruff --fix refused, and
recorded that refusing was correct: they sit inside string literals, where
whitespace is content rather than layout, so --unsafe-fixes would have been
the wrong answer.

Black cleared 889 of them — because black knows which triple-quoted strings
are docstrings and normalises those, where ruff could only see a string and
had to stop.

So the rule from that pass needs its sharper form: a tool declining an unsafe
fix is still not something to override — but the answer is a tool that can tell
the difference. The twelve W293 that survive both sit in argparse epilog=
strings, which are not docstrings and whose blank lines get printed.

Numbers

	before	after
black --check	241 of 299 reformatted	299 unchanged — passes
ruff check	1840 findings	951
mypy core	404 errors	406 — untouched, formatting does not change types

mypy is the honest remaining gap, and the one of the four that would be red on
arrival and stay red. What is left in ruff is mostly not lint: 727 annotation
modernisations the 3.10 floor made available, then ~140 with real content —
B905 first, the 41 zip() calls without strict=.

Verified by output, not by the argument that formatting is safe

• Full suite: 3404 passed / 21 skipped before and after, on trees checked to
  be identical beforehand.
• Only .py changed. No figure or data byte moved.
• The README transcripts and the figure gate are what would have said otherwise
  if it were not mechanical — that is why they exist, and why "black is a
  formatter so it must be fine" was not accepted as the evidence.

Also updated

BASELINE in tests/test_lint_debt_only_shrinks.py is lowered — W291 deleted
at zero, W293 down to 12 — since that ratchet fails on a stale baseline as
well as a grown one. README and CLAUDE.md carry the new numbers and the
docstring-vs-string-literal distinction.

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