docs: replace stale ROADMAP with current STATUS, ignore contributor PDFs

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Summary

Docs housekeeping from the reviewed /sync leftovers. No code or behaviour change.

Changes

• Add STATUS.md — current status snapshot (where we are, recent moves, what is next).
• Remove ROADMAP.md — stale, dated 2026-04-10, superseded by STATUS.md.
• CLAUDE.md — File Conventions now points at STATUS.md as the user-facing status doc instead of the removed ROADMAP.md.
• CHANGELOG.md — carry forward the [Unreleased] entry for the bug(core): verification.on_fail action silently dropped by compileGateValidator — recovery semantics lost in compiled output #64 verification.on_fail fix (fix(core): preserve verification.on_fail through compilation via a first-class CompiledVerification type #71). Verified accurate against main.
• .gitignore — add docs/contributors/*.pdf so contributor PDFs stay out of the repo (docs/*.pdf did not cover the subdirectory).

A 1.7 MB contributor PDF (separate published work) is deliberately excluded from this PR and from git; it is preserved on disk locally and now matches the new ignore pattern.

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Summary by cubic

Replaced the stale ROADMAP.md with a current STATUS.md and cleaned up docs references. No code or runtime behavior changes.

• Refactors
  • Add STATUS.md and remove ROADMAP.md; update CLAUDE.md to reference STATUS.md.
  • Carry forward the [Unreleased] CHANGELOG.md note for the verification.on_fail fix (bug(core): verification.on_fail action silently dropped by compileGateValidator — recovery semantics lost in compiled output #64).
  • Add docs/contributors/*.pdf to .gitignore to ignore contributor PDFs.

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📒 Files selected for processing (5)

• .gitignore
• CHANGELOG.md
• CLAUDE.md
• ROADMAP.md
• STATUS.md

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