fix(ci): finish gap 19 — pin fast-gates and give USE_VPS_RUNNER one meaning

This was left deliberately partial because `fast-gates` had never been measured,
and guessing is what produced gap 19 in the first place. Measured now, and the
evidence is cleaner than expected:

    fast-gates, 160 quality.yml runs .... ZERO self-hosted samples
                                          every non-skipped one is "GitHub Actions NNNN"
    median duration, 72 successful runs .. 5.6 min hosted

The classifier is not at fault — in the same window ci.yml's Build demonstrably
ran on omniroute-113-7 and omniroute-113-6, so self-hosted runs are visible when
they happen. The USE_VPS_RUNNER expression on this job was dead configuration.

And had it ever fired it would have inherited the measured penalty, because this
job's first two steps are exactly the bottleneck:

    actions/setup-node on .113 with 4 concurrent runners .... 20m06s
    actions/setup-node hosted ..............................     16s

So it is pinned rather than switched, and the second variable the gap proposed
(USE_VPS_RUNNER_BUILD / _TESTS) turns out to be unnecessary. After this the
variable governs exactly five jobs, all of them build-like:

    ci.yml:build · quality.yml:build · npm-publish:publish
    nightly-release-green: release-green, main-green

One variable, one meaning: "this job needs the .113's memory". A guard test pins
that — it fails if the variable is ever attached to a test-like job again, and it
also asserts the build KEEPS it, so nobody closes this gap by removing the
variable outright.

    node --import tsx/esm --test tests/unit/vps-runner-variable-scope.test.ts   # 3 pass
    check:workflows --ratchet → 178, baseline 190
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@@ -112,7 +112,20 @@ jobs:
# release captain has USE_VPS_RUNNER=true AND this is not a fork PR (own-origin
# branches only — a fork PR must never execute on the LAN runner). Var unset/false
# or a fork PR falls back to ubuntu-latest, so this is inert until the flag flips.
runs-on: ${{ (vars.USE_VPS_RUNNER == 'true' && (github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository)) && fromJSON('["self-hosted","omni-release"]') || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
# PINNED to hosted (gap 19). This job carried the USE_VPS_RUNNER expression, and that
# expression was DEAD CONFIGURATION: across 160 quality.yml runs the job never once landed on
# a self-hosted runner — every non-skipped sample is `GitHub Actions NNNN`. The classifier is
# not at fault: in the same window ci.yml's Build demonstrably ran on omniroute-113-7 and
# omniroute-113-6, so self-hosted runs are visible when they happen.
#
# And if it ever HAD fired it would have inherited the measured penalty, because this job's
# first two steps are exactly the bottleneck: actions/setup-node + npm ci took 20m06s on .113
# with 4 concurrent runners versus 16s hosted (npm cache restore saturating the link). Median
# here is 5.6 min hosted across 72 successful runs.
#
# With this pinned, USE_VPS_RUNNER governs ONLY build-like jobs — one variable, one coherent
# purpose. That is what gap 19 asked for; a second variable turned out to be unnecessary.
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
# tsx gates (known-symbols, route-guard-membership) import modules that open
# SQLite on load; provide DB env so a fresh CI DB initializes cleanly.
env: