Closes #166. MSMS_SMOKE_WORLDS had been failing against every packaged build since at least v0.2.5 — the released v0.2.5 binary fails it too — and nobody knew, for two compounding reasons. **Nothing could be read.** A packaged app is built for the Windows GUI subsystem, so it has no console attached and every console.log goes nowhere. A packaged gate could only ever say "1": no assertion name, no context. The transcript now goes to `msms-data/logs/smoke.log` as well, truncated per run. That alone turned an opaque exit code into the actual defect in one run, and it is why the rest of this commit exists. **Four gates read the repository at runtime.** They assert things about the CODE rather than about a running process — every declared IPC channel has a handler, the bundled bridge jar matches the plugin.yml it was built from, every route in the router appears in the documented surface, the checked-in openapi.json is current. None of that exists in a packaged app: it is an asar of built JavaScript, extracted to a temp folder with no `src` in it. So they threw ENOENT and took their whole gate down, after having already passed everything they could genuinely test. They now skip when there is no source tree, and SAY SO in the transcript. The guard is itself guarded, because "skip when the file is missing" is one careless edit away from "skip always", and a check that silently stops running is what this project keeps finding: - `skipNoSource` refuses to skip when a source tree IS present, and fails the gate instead. That catches an inverted or unconditional guard. - `sourceRoot` fails the gate when it is standing in the repository and the file it probes for has moved, rather than reporting "packaged" and disabling every source-derived check at once. Both proved failable: renaming the probe target fails a dev run with "this is the repository but src/shared/ipc.ts is missing, so the source-tree probe would disable every source-derived check". `npm run gates` and `npm run gates:packaged` run all eleven, so this is a release step rather than something done by hand once. dev build 11/11 pass packaged binary 11/11 pass (was 2 failing: WORLDS and WEB)

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Run the gates against the thing people download