docs: close the remaining silent-omission paths in the notices generator

Derive the manifest set from each pnpm-workspace.yaml members list, so a
new member area is read when declared. Locate Python requirement arrays
by TOML table and scan them quote-aware, so author-named dependency
groups and extras-bearing requirements are no longer dropped. Search the
nested Landlock store for metadata, reject a non-permissive runtime
license outright, and omit the dev-tooling sentence when it has no
subject.
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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ A hand-written inventory answers none of those durably. Roughly a hundred rows o
[`THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md`](../../../../THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md) is generated by [`scripts/gen-third-party-notices.ts`](../../../../scripts/gen-third-party-notices.ts) from the workspace manifests, `vendor/README.md`, the `pyproject.toml` files, and `pnpm-workspace.yaml`. The root README pair links the file from its License section.
**Freshness is maintained, not merely enforced.** A pre-commit job regenerates the file and stages it whenever a generator input is staged — any manifest, either lock file, `vendor/README.md`, a `pyproject.toml`, the generator itself, or the script holding the build-time pin — so an unrelated dependency edit never has to come back and rerun a generator. The committed bytes are then asserted inside [`scripts/gen-third-party-notices.spec.ts`](../../../../scripts/gen-third-party-notices.spec.ts), which the test lane already runs — the check adds no gate process, no scheduler slot, and no separate CI step. `pnpm run verify-third-party-notices` remains available for a standalone check.
**Freshness is maintained, not merely enforced.** A pre-commit job regenerates the file and stages it whenever a generator input is staged — any manifest, a workspace declaration, the root lock file, `vendor/README.md`, a `pyproject.toml`, the generator itself, or the script holding the build-time pin — so an unrelated dependency edit never has to come back and rerun a generator. The committed bytes are then asserted inside [`scripts/gen-third-party-notices.spec.ts`](../../../../scripts/gen-third-party-notices.spec.ts), which the test lane already runs — the check adds no gate process, no scheduler slot, and no separate CI step. `pnpm run verify-third-party-notices` remains available for a standalone check.
One trigger gap is accepted rather than worked around: lefthook inspects only files present on disk, so **deleting** a manifest runs no job, and removing a package reaches the assertion in the test lane instead. Reconstructing the staged file list to include deletions was tried and does not work — lefthook filters the list against the working tree either way. The assertion is the backstop for exactly this case.
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ The file discloses **direct** dependencies only. The complete npm closure with p
The runtime tier deliberately covers **every mountable plugin**, not just what the CLI, Web UI, and Python runtime load by default. `scripts/install.sh` installs the repository itself, so a user's `cordis.yml` can mount any plugin package; `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` and the OpenTelemetry packages reach real users even though no default assembly imports them. Under-disclosure is the costly direction for a legal notice.
License and repository metadata come from the installed pnpm store, so the generator requires an installed tree and fails loud when a package resolves to neither, rather than emitting an empty cell. `OVERRIDES` carries the packages whose published manifest cannot answer — Rust-built npm bins that omit `license`, and the `modelcontextprotocol/servers` packages whose repository is mid MIT→Apache-2.0 relicensing, so their effective terms are per-contribution. Vendored packages are cross-checked against `vendor/README.md` and rejected if any is not MIT, and `pnpm-workspace.yaml`'s `patchedDependencies` are listed under the runtime table because pnpm applies those patches at install time — shipped artifacts carry modified copies of `@earendil-works/pi-tui` and `node-pty`, and the patch files are the record of what changed.
The manifest set is derived from the `packages:` members each `pnpm-workspace.yaml` declares — the root one and the nested Landlock workspace's — so a new member area is read the day it is declared rather than the day someone remembers to extend a list. License and repository metadata come from the installed pnpm stores, both the root one and the Landlock workspace's, so the generator requires an installed tree and fails loud when a package resolves to neither, rather than emitting an empty cell. `OVERRIDES` carries the packages whose published manifest cannot answer — Rust-built npm bins that omit `license`, and the `modelcontextprotocol/servers` packages whose repository is mid MIT→Apache-2.0 relicensing, so their effective terms are per-contribution. A runtime dependency whose license is not on the permissive list is a hard error: shipping copyleft is a distribution decision, not something a regenerated table may absorb silently. Vendored packages are cross-checked against `vendor/README.md` and rejected if any is not MIT, and `pnpm-workspace.yaml`'s `patchedDependencies` are listed under the runtime table because pnpm applies those patches at install time — shipped artifacts carry modified copies of `@earendil-works/pi-tui` and `node-pty`, and the patch files are the record of what changed.
## Testing
The same spec that asserts freshness pins the tiering rule against fixture manifests — including the two cases that motivate it, a `dependencies` entry of a test-support package and a plugin package no app mounts — and pins that the vendored-table parser reads the committed manifest and yields nothing when the table shape changes, which is what makes the generator fail loud rather than emit an empty section.
The same spec that asserts freshness pins the tiering rule against fixture manifests — including the two cases that motivate it, a `dependencies` entry of a test-support package and a plugin package no app mounts. It also pins the parsers against the shapes that would otherwise drop a package without a word: a `vendor/README.md` table that stops covering a vendored directory, a requirement array holding extras (`"httpx[http2]"`), a requirement with no version at all, an author-named `[dependency-groups]` table, and a workspace member area absent from any hardcoded list. Each of those is a silent-omission path, which is the failure mode a disclosure file cannot afford.
## Alternatives considered