docs(changelog): the citation is guard-enforced, not house style

Closes #262
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@ -203,7 +203,13 @@ triage bug, and the move is to say so on the issue, not to guess.
a change genuinely is one. An entry is at most 300 characters — the
fragment guard reds longer (#167) — so a genuinely long change ships
several short entries, never one long one; wrapping an entry over
continuation lines is fine and never counts against it. Never edit
continuation lines is fine and never counts against it. Every entry
**ends with its issue citation**, and the same guard reds an entry
without one: a single `(` group of `#N`, `repo#N` or `owner/repo#N`
references separated by `, `, then `)`, then the final `.` and nothing
after it — `(#262).` locally, `(#236, #250).` when one entry honestly
lands two. The citation need not name the fragment's own issue, because
the filename already carries the authorizing one (#262). Never edit
`CHANGELOG.md` for an entry — the
release PR assembles the section from the fragments (#112); the monotonic
guard still refuses anything that deletes a shipped heading.

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@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ published verbatim as that release's body (lib/changelog.sh extracts it),
so entries say what changed, cite the issue, and stop — at most 300
characters each, guard-enforced on the PR that writes the fragment (#167);
a genuinely long change ships several short entries, never one long one.
The citation is guard-enforced too, and it closes the entry: one `(#N)`
group, then the final `.` and nothing after it (#262). Sections published
before that rule keep their prose; the guard reads fragments only.
Entries arrive as fragments — one `changelog.d/<issue>.md` per PR, never
an edit to this file — and the release PR assembles them into the next
section here (`bin/changelog-assemble`, #112).

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### Added
- The fragment guard now requires each entry to end with its issue
citation: one `(#N)` group — local, `repo#N` or `owner/repo#N`
references separated by `, ` — then the final `.` and nothing after it
(#262).
- The refusal distinguishes an entry carrying no reference at all from one
whose reference is present but not terminal, and names the shape to
write in both (#262).
### Changed
- `BUILDER.md` and `CHANGELOG.md` state the citation as guard-enforced
rather than as house style, beside the 300-character bound it now sits
next to (#262).
- Four fragments in flight gained a terminal citation; published sections
are untouched, so no shipped prose is re-opened (#262).