[Jammy2211]

The Cortex board's one freshness fact — when the science was last checked in — was a bold line in a paragraph, under two blurbs that restated what the page already is. This makes it the first thing you see, and makes it read on your own clock.

What changed

The check-in stamp is a box, not a line. <div class="checkin" id="checkin-box"> — a mark, a small uppercase label, the stamp at 1.6rem tabular-nums, and a note. The page's script paints it on load:

	box	mark	note
under 3 h	fresh-ok (green border + tint)	✓	fresh · N min ago (N h past an hour)
over 3 h, or unparseable	fresh-bad (red border + tint)	✗	stale, paste the check-in
never checked in	fresh-bad	✗	never checked in

The threshold is the new module constant CHECKIN_FRESH_MINUTES = 180, interpolated into _CHECKIN_JS (was a hard-coded 60). The age is still computed on load and nowhere else — a static page cannot know it is stale at render, and a doc-only push must not be able to fake freshness. With JS off the box is neutral and still shows the date. The markdown twin renders ### Last check-in: <stamp>.

Two blurbs gone. REFRESH_BLURB is deleted from the Cortex renderer (the Mind's _intake.py keeps its own, untouched): "only as current as they are" told the reader nothing the box does not now say in their own units. The Projects section's blurb is "" — the section is the map, and the cards say what they are. Both h2() helpers tolerate an empty blurb: the markdown one stops at the link with no dangling —, the HTML one emits no empty <p class="muted">.

The Last updated footnote stays in both twins and keeps the line prefixes dashboard_body strips (> **Last updated and <div class="fresh">), so --check drift behaviour is unchanged — pinned by the existing test_the_check_compare_ignores_the_date_but_not_the_content.

Project names are readable. Every shown card is wrapped in <section class="project">…</section>, so .project h3 can size a project's name at 1.35rem, bold, accent-ruled — without touching the shared h3 in board/_theme.py, which is calibrated for card-internal headings on every other board.

Nothing-open projects are a table, not a fold. They leave the <details> at the foot of the map and become a Nothing open table under the Summary: Project | Status | Phases, in project_order. Same data, in the place a reader is already scanning rows.

Tests

tests/test_cortex_conductor.py — 81 passed; full suite 910 passed. The stamp assertions move to ### Last check-in:; test_the_html_twin_ages_the_stamp_on_the_viewers_clock now pins /60000>180, both tone classes and their CSS, ✓/✗, both notes, and the absence of the refresh blurb from both twins; the folded-project test becomes test_a_project_with_nothing_open_is_a_row_under_the_summary and pins the table row in both twins plus the absence of "project(s) with nothing open"; a new test_the_map_is_a_map_not_a_paragraph pins the blurb's absence, the undangled link line, .project h3{, and one balanced <section class="project"> per shown project.

Merge order

This PR first. PyAutoLabs/PyAutoCortex#15 carries the regenerated dashboard.md + dashboard.html; its refresh check renders against PyAutoBrain main and stays red until this merges.

Closes #356

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