feat(protocols): add the "the list" before-close queue and colloquialisms convention

Home proposed two linked cross-project norms and Craig approved rolling them out. Both now ship in the template so every project inherits them.

A new "Colloquialisms and Expansions" section in protocols.org maps Craig's shorthand to a defined action the agent applies without asking. Two seed entries: "put X on the list" appends to a session-scoped Before-Close Queue, and "tell <project> <message>" drops the message in that project's inbox via inbox-send. The set is extensible.

The queue lives under a "* Before-Close Queue" heading in the session anchor, so it resets when the anchor is archived at wrap. Anything that must outlive the session stays a todo.org task. wrap-it-up Step 1 gets a sub-step that works the queue oldest-first before the Summary, so any resulting edits ride the wrap commit, with unfinished items surfaced in the valediction rather than dropped.

I settled three design calls. The reference lives in protocols.org rather than a per-project notes.org (home's local reference), since a synced section is what makes it a shared norm. The queue lives in the session anchor, as home did. The wrap step sits at the front of Step 1 rather than a new half-step, which keeps the "Steps 1 through 5" framing intact. A documentation-integrity bats guards the wiring and the before-the-Summary ordering against a future edit or sync dropping it.

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@@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ The stop-sentry operation (defined in =sentry.org=) owns the shutdown: it cancel
 
 ** Step 1: Finalize the Summary
 
+*** Work the Before-Close Queue (before the Summary)
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+If the session anchor (=.ai/session-context.org=) carries a =* Before-Close Queue= heading with items, work them now, oldest-first, before writing the Summary, so any resulting edits ride this wrap's commit and get described in it. The queue is the "put X on the list" shorthand (see =protocols.org=, Colloquialisms and Expansions): session-scoped work Craig deferred to wrap time.
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+Per item: do it if it's clear and bounded, or promote it to a =todo.org= task if it turns out to need its own session. Never drop an item silently. Remove each line as it's handled; if one can't be finished, surface it in the valediction (Step 5) and either leave a follow-up task or state why it's dropped.
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+If there's no =* Before-Close Queue= heading, or it's empty, this step is a silent no-op.
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 *** Early KB reflection (capture while fresh, before the Summary)
 
 Before distilling the Summary, while the session is still fresh, ask: what did this session learn worth remembering, for yourself or a future agent? Reflect and stage any candidate durable facts — a decision and its why, an environment gotcha, a reference pointer, a transferable lesson. Self-answer silently; this adds no interactive turn (Craig already authorized the wrap). The candidates flow straight into the KB promotion check below, which does the actual writing and the receipt — this is the capture half, that is the commit half, one pipeline, one receipt. Reflecting here rather than reconstructing learnings after the Summary is the point: the early ask is what keeps the receipt from defaulting to "promoted 0" out of fatigue.