nx_brand_snap_gate.nx

nx_brand_snap_gate.nx -- grid snapping + alignment guides. 100% sovereign. expect_exit: 0 MIGRATED 2026-07-31 onto nx_gate_verdict (D001, ws=gate-dry-d001) in the MINIMAL form -- the shape a mechanical applier can generate. Deliberately NOT a full rewrite: t_row and every check row are left EXACTLY as they were, so the PASS/FAIL vector is unchanged by construction. The only thing replaced is the hand-rolled verdict tail, which is precisely the debt D001 names ("gates roll their own verdict"). The gate's own tot[] counters are handed straight to gv_verdict, so the ecosystem's ONE judge now sees this gate in the canonical "NX-<NAME> passed p/t verdict=..." shape instead of a bespoke line that happened to read "VERDICT=verdict=GREEN". WHY MINIMAL IS THE RIGHT FIRST RUNG: it is mechanically generatable across the ~950 gates that share this counter idiom, it cannot change the check vector, and it still collects the payoff -- canonical verdict shape today, and the gv_journal harness outcome frame for free on trees whose base class has it. Full gv_check adoption is a later, optional rung; it is not required to eat the debt.