refactor(web): drop three pieces of furniture that carry no information

[YunyueLi]

Three things on the page looked like information and were not.

The four superscript counters on the nav links cannot be decoded. 04 counts the engineering cards, 05 the reading-room views, 08 the pipeline passes, 85 the corpus works — four different units, no labels, so 85 reads as the same kind of number as 04. Only four of the five links carry one, so it is not a system either. Every count is already stated where it means something: the hero's stats row, "five views" in the reading room, the numbered passes themselves. They also cost the nav its rhythm — each is absolutely positioned at right: -16px, outside its own link and inside the following gap, so the spacing read as uneven. Gone at every width, which also settles an inconsistency an earlier pass introduced by hiding them on phones only.

The reading room's five filter pills do nothing. No handler anywhere in the bundle, and the cards they would filter carry no category data at all — clicking one leaves all five cards visible. The counts (All 05, Text 01, Graph 01, Time 01, Catalogue 02) do map cleanly onto the five cards, so the intent is legible and they could be wired. They should not be: a filter over five items that all fit on one row and are all already visible is not a control, it is decoration shaped like one.

Every one of the seven section rules opened with the section's own name, which the coral label repeats verbatim 57px below — "The rule" over "The rule", "Engineering" over "Engineering", "The corpus" over "The corpus". The label is the one that belongs, sitting directly above the headline. The rule keeps its annotation, which is the part that says something the label does not:

	before	after
II	The rule · docs/8-pass-pipeline.md	docs/8-pass-pipeline.md
III	Engineering · src/loregraph	src/loregraph
IV	Reading room · src/loregraph/web	src/loregraph/web
V	The pipeline · eight passes	eight passes
VI	The corpus · 85 works, 11 languages	85 works, 11 languages
VII	Quick start · Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0

The hero's rule is left whole because its two halves differ ("Cover plate", "Design for a theater set, The Met").

The corpus section needed its own case: its rule is .work-rule with an inline-styled group rather than .meta-grp, so the first attempt missed it.

Still there, and why

• "Shipped" under all five reading-room cards. A status column where every value is the same. Removing it also removes the "these are built, not mockups" signal, which for an alpha is worth something — that trade is the author's call.
• Four of the five card badges restate their titles 60px below: Graph/Graph, Time/Timeline, Index/Index, Ask/Ask. Only Text/Reader differs. The badge-on-plate is a design device, so this one is a look decision rather than a defect.
• "Eight passes, one gate" appears three times — hero foot, section rule V, footer bottom.
• The roman numeral and the counter both encode the position — "II." and "002 / 007". Not fully redundant: the "/ 007" is progress, which the numeral does not give. Kept deliberately.

Verified

All four languages: no rule still repeating its label, no pills left, nothing clipped, no horizontal scroll. ruff check clean, 103 unit tests pass.

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