fix(brain): close round-3 review findings on provenance

- B1: search.extractProvenance locates the frontmatter with
  frontmatter.Split (fence at column 0), so an indented "---" inside a
  block scalar no longer hides provenance from brain_query.
- B2: brain_edit refuses to edit without a snapshot, and if the stamp
  cannot be verified restores the note and reports failure; a failed
  restore is reported as exactly that, never as "rolled back".
- B3: internal/provenance gets direct tests for the whole-document
  backstop (a stamp that cannot read back is refused), standalone group
  decoding, duplicates, lone CR, tab continuations and unclosable
  fences. Removing verify or the restore now fails the suite.
- Principals YAML would read as non-strings (true, 123, null, ~) are
  quoted instead of refused. An unclosable fence ("---x") is refused
  rather than demoted into the body. writeHallNote creates the hall
  directory only after the note passes, so a refused write leaves
  nothing behind (brain#21).
- MCP brain_ingest (stub LLM) asserted to stamp the caller.

Refs #145 #144

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ingestion/internal/api/handler.go

@@ -174,9 +174,6 @@ func writeHallNote(brainDir string, opts WriteNoteOptions) (string, error) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("claim envelope: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("create hall dir: %w", err)
-	}
 	emitted := make(map[string]bool, 6)
 
 	var fm strings.Builder
@@ -228,6 +225,12 @@ func writeHallNote(brainDir string, opts WriteNoteOptions) (string, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
+	// The directory is created only once the note is known to be writable:
+	// a refused write leaves nothing behind, not even an empty hall dir
+	// (brain#21; provenance refusal joins the envelope refusal here).
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("create hall dir: %w", err)
+	}
 	if err := os.WriteFile(dest, []byte(final), 0o644); err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("write: %w", err)
 	}

ingestion/internal/api/provenance_test.go

@@ -108,3 +108,15 @@ func TestRESTIngestStampsUnknown(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.Contains(t, strings.SplitN(string(b), "---\n", 3)[1], "origin: unknown\n", p)
 	}
 }
+
+// A refused write leaves nothing behind, not even an empty hall directory
+// (brain#21's invariant, round 3 non-blocking finding).
+func TestWriteNoteRefusedForProvenanceLeavesNoDirectory(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	_, err := api.WriteNote(dir, api.WriteNoteOptions{
+		Content: "# x\n\nbody", Wing: "freshwing", Hall: "facts", Filename: "x", Origin: "jwt", WrittenBy: "bad\xff",
+	})
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	_, statErr := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "freshwing"))
+	assert.True(t, os.IsNotExist(statErr), "no wing directory may be created by a refused write")
+}