docs(re): refute the contract:7 effect source; record the competing development reading

Two corrections found while trying to close the effect boundary statically.

1. `contract: 7` IS OUR OWN PLACEHOLDER. fut_store.py:232's generic _item()
   factory -- which builds every item the oracle serves -- hardcodes
   playStyle 250 / contract 7 / fitness 99 on players and consumables alike. The
   staging GK reads back exactly those three constants. So the production
   catalog's contract:7 for resource 5001004 is an oracle placeholder
   round-tripped through an observed profile, not an EA value. Its status is not
   INFERRED, it is KNOWN-BOGUS as a source. Had the effect been implemented on
   it, it would have been a fabricated game rule wearing observed-data clothing.

2. fcc_contractcards is NOT amount-less. An earlier note here claimed it "has no
   amount column, so this value comes from observed data". It has 13 rows with
   gold/silver/bronze/rating, 6 player + 6 manager paired by rating plus a
   99/99/99 special. The sibling fcc_healingcards shares every column except
   that it carries a single `amount`, which argues the differing columns ARE the
   effect payload (per target tier). Against that: the values are non-monotonic
   across tiers, which suits weights better than amounts; and no column of
   5001004 is 7, so neither reading explains the placeholder.

   The reader that would settle amount-vs-weight is in FIFA17.exe, not CardsDLL
   (the table and column literals are absent from the DLL), so this stays
   EFFECT_UNKNOWN rather than being guessed.

Also records, in content_taxonomy.rs, the competing reading of `development`:
fut_consumables.py's TYPE_CATEGORIES groups it as card-categories {6,7,8,9,10}
(modifiers only), explicitly flagged there as inferred from UI-bucket names and
never observed on the wire. Different enum space from the CONSUMABLE_TYPE switch
that actually emits the segment, and the switch gives formation/position/
playStyle/managerLeagueModifier their own segments rather than folding them into
development -- so the unfiltered reading is better supported, but it is still a
reading and the doc now says so instead of sounding settled.

248 adapter tests, fmt clean. No behaviour change.
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@@ -249,3 +249,54 @@ own switch says otherwise. Literal table at `0x1801f5a38` (under
bucket — index 0 of an `enum + 1` table — i.e. the unfiltered view; the eight
typed segments already reach all thirteen families exactly once, so it owns no
family privately and maps to their union.
## Contract effect — the `contract: 7` inference is REFUTED at the source
Do not implement a contract effect from the catalog's `contract: 7`.
`fifa17-recon/tools/fut_store.py:232` — the generic `_item()` factory that builds
EVERY item the oracle serves — hardcodes:
```python
"playStyle": 250,
"contract": 7,
"fitness": 99,
```
These are blanket placeholders on every item, players and consumables alike. The
staging squad's GK reads back `contract 7 / fitness 99 / playStyle 250`: the same
three constants. So the `contract: 7` carried in the production catalog for
resource 5001004 is **our own oracle placeholder round-tripped through an
observed profile**, not an EA value. Its evidence level is not INFERRED; it is
KNOWN-BOGUS as a source of the effect.
### What the client's own table does say
`fcc_contractcards` (13 rows) is NOT amount-less, contrary to an earlier note
here. Columns: `carddbid, cardsubtype, weightrare, cardassetid, gold, rating,
bronze, silver`.
| rating | player (201) | manager (202) | gold | silver | bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 5001001 | 5001007 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 65 | 5001002 | 5001008 | 8 | 10 | 10 / 8 |
| 80 | 5001003 | 5001009 | 13 | 11 | 15 / 11 |
| 60 | 5001004 | 5001010 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 70 | 5001005 | 5001011 | 18 | 24 | 20 / 18 |
| 90 | 5001006 | 5001012 | 28 | 24 | 28 / 24 |
| 90 | 5001013 | — | 99 | 99 | 99 |
Compare the sibling `fcc_healingcards`, which shares `carddbid, cardsubtype,
weightrare, cardassetid, rating` and differs only by carrying a single `amount`.
So `weightrare` is the drop weight and the differing column(s) are the effect
payload — which would make gold/silver/bronze a per-target-tier amount.
AGAINST that reading: the values are not monotonic across tiers (5001005 is gold
18, silver 24, bronze 20; 5001003 is gold 13, silver 11, bronze 15), which is
odd for an amount and unremarkable for a weight. Note also that **no column of
5001004 equals 7**, so nothing here explains the placeholder either way.
Unresolved, and NOT to be guessed: the fcc tables are loaded by `FIFA17.exe`, not
CardsDLL (the table-name and column literals are absent from the DLL), so the
reader that would settle amount-vs-weight lives in the EXE. Status stays
**EFFECT_UNKNOWN**.
@@ -247,6 +247,23 @@ pub fn consumable_needs(family: &str) -> ConsumableNeeds {
/// and maps to every family — which is consistent, since the eight TYPED
/// segments already reach all thirteen families exactly once.
///
/// COMPETING INFERENCE, recorded rather than buried. `fut_consumables.py`'s
/// `TYPE_CATEGORIES` maps `development` to card-categories `{6,7,8,9,10}`
/// (formation/position/playstyle/manager-league) — i.e. the modifier families
/// only, not everything. That grouping is explicitly flagged there as INFERRED
/// from `FUN_180048780`'s UI-bucket names, with "the tab-to-arm binding has
/// NEVER been observed on the wire".
///
/// They are not the same enum: the oracle's is the 0..10 CARD-category space of
/// `FUN_18013f4d0`, this is the 0..24 CONSUMABLE_TYPE space that actually
/// produces the URL segment. The tiebreaker is the switch itself — it gives
/// formation (16), position (17), playStyle (23) and managerLeagueModifier (24)
/// their OWN segment strings, so those types are not folded into `development`,
/// which is what the oracle's grouping would require. The unfiltered reading is
/// therefore the better-supported one, but it is still a reading: what the
/// SCREEN expects to list has not been observed, and one live capture of the
/// development tab would settle it.
///
/// `training` and `contracts` are CONFIRMED on the wire, `development` was
/// observed live, and the singular `contract` is accepted because the client has
/// used both spellings. Segments are matched lower-cased.