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LIVE-1429 leftovers — the verifier still could not see the write

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR

PR #1441 stopped _reconcile_daemon_jobs from overwriting a corroborated done with permission_denied. LIVE-1429 closed. The goalpost was: job status should match GitHub ground truth for gh-write jobs.

Strategic Shifts in This PR

#1441 was necessary and not sufficient. The review and merge dispatches for #1441 itself proved it:

job-1c68bfd4 posted an APPROVED review as synlynk-synlynk-qa[bot] and still stored gh_write_verified=false / permission_denied.
job-be622768 squash-merged #1441 and stored gh_write_expect=pr_open / gh_write_verified=unknown.
job-be18ebe7 (the original LIVE-1429 job) stored gh_write_target=pr:1414 for an issue, while the PR was #1415.

Those are verifier contract bugs, not classifier overwrites. Filed as #1442 plus two fingerprints found while checking whether #1441 actually closed the class.

What This PR Shipped

#1442. When expect=pr_open and gh pr view N cannot resolve a pull request, search PRs linked:issue-N created after since (optional author match).
Author login. GraphQL login is synlynk-synlynk-qa; stored expect_author is synlynk-synlynk-qa[bot]. Compare after stripping a [bot] suffix.
Naive since is local wall time. daemon_jobs.started_at has no offset. Treating it as UTC made a 03:54Z review look older than a 09:19 IST start.
Expect order. Check merge before "opens a PR". Prompts that say Do not open a new PR after a merge instruction no longer classify as pr_open.

Brainstorm Visuals Used

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What This Achieved on the Path to Autonomy

#1441 made a success stay done when corroboration exists. This PR makes corroboration actually fire for the three gh-write shapes we just ran (open a new PR for an issue, post a review, merge a PR). Without it, synlynk jobs still trains operators to ignore the board.

Strategic Note: The Goal at the End of This PR

Job-status truth for gh-write is one cluster: classifier guard (#1441) + target/expect/author/time (#1442 and this PR). Next P0 is still the 24-PR triage (#1435), after this lands.