Merge lane base check: develop 16ac9479ec21

Merge lane base check: run the full gate on `develop` at `16ac9479ec21d8ed589a0ec3e77540ecb1adf624` alone and report it certified or red: nothing had certified it since the last attempt. A red verdict files a fix task; it never holds the lane. Filed by the control plane (`app/merge_lane.py::_certify_idle`). How: run `python3 tools/merge_lane.py run` once. It takes this check's batch, gates that commit with the full gate in its sandbox and reports `certified` or `develop_red` itself. Never run the gate by hand: a hand-run green reports nothing, so no certificate is recorded (Task 6722).

Base check: develop 16ac9479ec21 certified green by merge_lane.py run (full gate, 56060 passed, 0 failed, 897s). Nothing merged or ejected; queue empty. Memory: none applied.