Bo efc2609682 docs(architecture): formalize the L0-L4 autonomy ladder (ag-wrom #autonomy-ladder) (#787) ...

## What

Closes the partial in Google-SRE convergence **point #8** (`ag-wrom`):
AgentOps already ran work at several autonomy levels (human-in-loop
in-session → substrate dispatch → bounded `autodev`) but the progression
was *implicit* — nothing named the rungs, stated what each may mutate,
or defined the evidence that earns a promotion. Implicit autonomy is how
a probabilistic agent quietly acquires more authority than its track
record justifies.

Adds `docs/architecture/autonomy-ladder.md`:

- **The invariant every rung obeys** — non-deterministic reasoning core
wrapped by a deterministic enforcement boundary (CI gates +
ports-and-adapters + ratchet) the agent can't bypass. The ladder moves
the *leash*, never relaxes the *boundary*. L4 code passes the same CI as
L0 code.
- **L0–L4 rungs** mapped to AgentOps' real dispatch vocabulary, with
human posture / acts-before-review / may-merge per rung.
- **Promotion gates** — per-lane, revocable, gated on
statistically-significant success vs Golden data at the
Bronze/Silver/Gold tier.
- **Demotion** — auto-downgrade on risk (the L3→L2 analog of Google's
de-escalation) + the unconditional Red Button.
- **Hard ceilings** — no rung confers authority over
external/secrets/schema/deletion/strategic-fork/merge-beyond-contract;
those stay draft-and-queue at every level.
- Honest divergence stated: AgentOps autonomy is **build-time** (code +
`.agents/` corpus), not run-time production ops — which is why L4 is
delegated to a substrate, not shipped (ADR-0009).

Wires it into the architecture index card grid + `mkdocs.yml` nav, and
flips convergence point #8 from ⚠️ partial to ✅ encoded (tally 9/1/1).

## Evidence
Closes-scenario: ag-wrom#autonomy-ladder
Bounded-context: BC1-Corpus
Evidence: markdownlint-cli2 PASS on all 3 changed docs; all cross-links
verified to resolve (operating-loop, canonical-loop-model,
fungibility-charter, google-sre, ADR-0009 in-docs relative; CLAUDE.md +
skills/autodev as GitHub URLs per repo convention for out-of-docs
targets); new page registered in mkdocs nav for `mkdocs build --strict`.

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index.md

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ledger.md

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the-reading.md

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