docs: consolidate the test-suite audit recommendations

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Summary

the audits in discussions #189 and #190 disagree on which tests can be removed safely. this consolidates them into one plan with 12 ordered steps, a reason for every proposed addition or removal, and the coverage required before replacing each source check.

the plan names five direct deletions, puts the restore ownership defect before cleanup, and keeps guards whose replacement coverage is still missing. this PR adds only the plan. implementation is follow-up work.

Verification

• the diff is scoped to one goal: docs/test-suite-consolidation-plan.md.
• both discussion bodies and all 28 catalog comments were reviewed; disputed recommendations were checked against the relevant code.
• the PR excludes the unpublished snapshot bundle and the existing local audit.
• the plan distinguishes the 1,888-case PR-base baseline from the 1,898-case local snapshot baseline.
• I have the right to submit this contribution and agree to the contribution license in CONTRIBUTING.md.

the license declaration is left for the human contributor. behavior, policy, changelog, and screenshot checks do not apply to this documentation-only change.

Checks run

dotnet restore Akron.sln --locked-mode --nologo
dotnet test tests/akron-tests.csproj --configuration Release --no-restore --nologo \
  --logger 'trx;LogFileName=baseline.trx' \
  --results-directory /tmp/akron-pr-baseline
jj diff --from main@origin --git

1,888 tests passed on the PR base, with zero failures or skips. also checked the plan's 12 numbered steps, relative links, and whitespace. these results establish the baseline; they do not verify the proposed implementation.

Live verification

not run. this PR changes no gameplay behavior. the plan keeps remote Celeste/Everest and native Windows verification as requirements for the relevant implementation steps.

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This documentation-only PR defines a 12-step plan to consolidate tests without changing current behavior.

• Future implementation must correct restore ownership before deleting five redundant tests.
• Future changes must preserve guards without replacement coverage and require remote Celeste/Everest and native Windows verification.

Walkthrough

Adds a planning document for a twelve-step test-suite consolidation. The plan defines baseline commands, test-selection rules, restore ownership corrections, targeted test replacements, deterministic runtime observations, cache and UI coverage changes, release-contract checks, documentation updates, rejected proposals, and completion criteria. It requires live Linux Mint and native Windows verification for runtime-dependent changes.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e3e68

This plan defines future test and release verification work, but its runtime verification scope and release-test execution path remain ambiguous. That can lead to incomplete or duplicated verification when the planned implementation is carried out.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Documentation Impact	✅ Passed	The pull request adds only docs/test-suite-consolidation-plan.md (+234 lines) and makes no code, configuration, command, UI, persistence, archive, setup-default, or release-contract changes. The doc…

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/test-suite-consolidation-plan.md`:
- Line 211: Update the verification plan around the remote Linux Mint and native
Windows checks to explicitly name the Celeste and Everest runtime paths, mapping
each to the affected restore, input, and render behavior. Preserve the
requirement to leave sharing guards intact and report missing verification when
the required host is unavailable.
- Around line 191-193: Clarify the release-test command matrix in the plan:
ordinary test runs must exclude ReleaseContract, while release CI must run that
filtered target plus release-contract-check using the same built test assembly,
without also running an unfiltered full suite. Update the release-contract-check
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