review: iteration-2 fixes (fragment assertion, evidence paths, hardening)

- build-kernel.sh fragment assertion: survives a missing trailing newline
  (the read footgun, reproduced) and treats an absent symbol on a disable
  line as FATAL, symmetric with the enable arm.
- fetch-kernel-tarball.sh checks the pin before downloading; both fetchers
  add --retry-connrefused.
- mkimage rejects '.'/'..' state keys.
- ui-shot: VM liveness checked before every QMP call, console.log preserved
  as evidence on every failure path, repaint deadline widened to 90s with
  the contended-runner rationale documented.
- rs485-bridge: overflow discards back off one gap and rate-limit their log
  line, mirroring the accept-loop fix; clippy nit fixed.
- .gitignore ignores *.elf/*.map so the untracked artifacts cannot silently
  return; CI shellcheck glob now covers build/ and the rootfs boot scripts
  (directives added for the deliberate in-guest source paths).
- Docs: NPU parity row matches its sibling verification docs; line-pinned
  audit cross-references unpinned; CROSS_COMPILE documented in the build
  header; payload README lists warden-ui; ci-cd tense settled.

Verified: guards negative-tested (bad state keys, no-newline fragment);
boot smoke, portal scenario, ui-shot all PASS; 53 tests green; shellcheck
clean across the widened glob; clippy zero.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K

qemu/rootfs/etc/rc

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 # exits and the kernel panics; the applet-existence check below catches the
 # only preventable variant of that.
 
+# shellcheck source=qemu/rootfs/etc/warden-lib.sh disable=SC1091
 . /etc/warden-lib.sh
 
 warden_populate_by_name

qemu/rootfs/etc/warden-lib.sh

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ warden_populate_by_name() {
 # VALIDATE it — echoes "_a" or "_b", falling back to _a with a warning.
 warden_slot() {
     slot="_a"
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2013 # cmdline TOKENS are the unit here, not lines
     for tok in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
         case "$tok" in
             warden.slot=*) slot="${tok#warden.slot=}" ;;