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Edgar Arakelyan 5375ff0f9a feat(environment): extend evidence-gated write coverage
Retain bodiless writes, proven omitted fields, identity-free projections and digit-group sequences. Preserve late projection provenance and current omission facts, and check absence statuses before replay shortcuts.

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# Wider write coverage
Issue: https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/4933
## Outcome
Four recording shapes kept write tools out of the manifest or left their writes unserved, although the recordings showed
what the writes did:
- **Bodiless replies.** A write answered `204` with no body (Jellyfin's and Shlink's deletes, Miniflux's and Keycloak's
updates) had no JSON-like content type, so its group was excluded as `non-json` and never became a tool.
- **Omitted fields.** A field every recording of a view carried was required, so an application that leaves empty or
false members out of some entities (Go's `omitempty`) made the write gate refuse its own read-backs.
- **Projected reads.** An item read asking for some fields only (Directus's `/items/provisions/2?fields=title`) does not
repeat the requested id, so it blocked the identity proof of the whole item view, and the view's writes had no state
target.
- **Digit-group sequences.** A sequence spelled in digit groups (Homebox's asset number `000-005`) was not an integer, so
a create that numbers it had no rule for it and was contradicted.
## Behaviour
- **Manifest.** A write group (`POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH`, `DELETE`) is kept as a tool when every response had no body (a
`204` or `205`, an empty text, or a recorded size of zero) and one succeeded. A missing text alone does not count.
- **Omitted fields.** The write gate notes required fields missing from the entities the state holds that successful
reads it checks return, when the read names no projection parameter: the item whose id the path names, or the listed
items. No view of the type requires them any more. A read that checks nothing, such as one begun while a modelled
write to its targets still ran or a page the collection has outgrown, notes none.
Established omissions apply when classifying subsequent reads and choosing later write observations, not just
when serializing final views. A complete `fields=*` read is not partial solely for lacking a known optional field.
- **Projected reads.** An item read naming `fields`, `fields[...]`, `select` or `$select` that does not return the item
is left out of the identity proof and the view's checks. The view lists it in `projected_record_ordinals`, and serving
replays a call to that tool naming such a parameter, for an entity the state holds, with the reason `projection`;
the replay shows the recording, not served writes. The write gate neither checks nor learns a write's effect from a
successful read that names such a parameter and leaves out a field its view requires; a 400, 404 or 410 such a read
answers is still the absence it checks.
Identity-free projection evidence after the initial-state cutoff is retained too, without seeding later values
into initial entities. Failed responses are classified before the projection-replay shortcut, so a projected
absence can confirm a delete or contradict an unexplained disappearance.
- **Sequences.** A sequence value may be `-`-separated digit groups of one width of at least two digits, not a date,
version or address. The next value keeps the exemplar's groups and zero padding; digits that outgrow them lead. A
later create must record its value spelled that way. A held value whose digits outgrew the mask (`100-00` after
`99-99`) counts only when it is the exemplar's spelling of its number, so a reloaded state numbers on from it.
## Acceptance
- Over the 50 published captures, no write group is excluded as `non-json`, served write tools rise from 35 to 39, and
no write tool is served on the base and unserved here.
- The re-recorded Homebox capture's create is served.
- Every served write tool of those captures applies.