re: the port was still being told SE audio is undecodable -- it is not

A resolve-check on HANDOFF's own rows. Q8 read "SE audio is undecodable
from the disc -- no XACT container exists anywhere". menu-audio-cues.md
retracted exactly that ("### Retracting 'cannot be extracted'") and
locates three cues in Static.slb that decode to PCM: d-pad move 0x1ec0
(4 packets), (B) back 0x0ec0 (2), (A) confirm 0x5d6c0 (6), all mono
48 kHz. The retraction landed in docs/re/ and the page the port reads
kept the superseded text -- the fourth time in this corpus.

Writing the rule down has not worked, so there is a tool now.
handoff_lint.py flags every HANDOFF line making a strong negative claim
that links a doc containing retraction language. First run: found the Q8
row, plus one benign false positive (Q3 links a doc whose retraction is
about a sprite count, not about the tie-break -- checked, and HANDOFF
repeats none of the retracted figures). The lint also caught its own bug
first: it reported existing docs as missing because it joined a guessed
repo root, so it now resolves links relative to the file as markdown does.

Separately, EXTRAS's paint-order risk narrows twice more. Of its 15 tied
pairs only 2 overlap, and of those, ptloop01 x ptloop02 are loop*
animations compose skips by default -- so exactly ONE tie can be drawn:
ptframe3 x ptframe4, overlapping 102x132 px. Against live-extras.png that
contested region correlates +0.9622, better than the whole frame (+0.9440)
and inside the range of regions where order cannot matter (+0.8502 /
+0.9903). Consistent with our order, not proof: correlation cannot see a
swap between locally similar art.

15 -> 2 -> 1 -> consistent is now the whole paint-order risk on the five
screens, and HANDOFF says so.

docs/re/METHOD.md

@@ -571,3 +571,17 @@ agent's loop prompt, i.e. nowhere durable. See [`README.md`](README.md) for the
   returned **64** hits, proving the scan finds ordering fields when they exist.
   Only then is the zero a finding. The control costs four extra lines and turns a
   silence into a negative with reach.
+* **A stale row on the handoff page is worse than a missing one.** The port was
+  told SE audio was "undecodable from the disc" while the linked doc had already
+  retracted that and located three cues decoding to PCM. The finding landed in
+  `docs/re/` and the page the port reads kept the superseded text — the fourth
+  time in this corpus. Writing the rule down has not worked, so there is now a
+  tool: `tools/re-capture/handoff_lint.py` flags every HANDOFF line that makes a
+  strong negative claim and links a doc containing retraction language. It found
+  this row, and one benign false positive, on its first run.
+* **Narrow a risk before reporting it, then narrow it again.** "15 tied pairs on
+  `EXTRAS`" became 2 (only overlapping ties can paint differently), then 1 (one
+  of those two is a `loop*` animation the compositor skips), then "consistent
+  with the capture". Each step is a filter that costs one query and changes the
+  number by more than an order of magnitude in total. A raw count is almost never
+  the number a consumer needs.