feat(cluster): auto-down downing strategy — either-node crash now fails over (owner decision 2026-07-21: availability over partition-safety)

Two-node keep-oldest could NEVER survive a crash of the oldest/active node:
Akka.NET 1.5.62 KeepOldest.OldestDecision only lets down-if-alone rescue a
side with >= 2 members, so the 1-vs-1 survivor takes DownReachable and downs
ITSELF — proven live on the rig ('SBR took decision ... including myself')
before this change. static-quorum(1) is worse (IsTooManyMembers -> DownAll);
keep-majority just re-keys the fatal crash to the lowest address.

SplitBrainResolverStrategy gains 'auto-down' (new default): BuildHocon emits
Akka's AutoDowning provider with auto-down-unreachable-after = StableAfter.
The leader among the REACHABLE members downs the unreachable peer, so the
survivor takes over singletons and /health/active in ~25s regardless of which
node died. Accepted trade (explicit owner decision): a real network partition
runs dual-active until an operator restarts one side. keep-oldest remains
supported; DownIfAlone validation is now scoped to it.

Live drill on the rebuilt rig: active-crash TAKEOVER in 28s (victim still
down; all 7 singletons Younger->Oldest), standby-crash removal 27s with 0
routing blips; victims rejoin as standby in 2s. New real-cluster tests pin
both directions (SbrFailoverTests.AutoDown_*); TwoNodeClusterFixture gains a
strategy knob. All 16 appsettings flipped (src, docker, docker-env2, and the
gitignored wonder-app-vd03 overlay on disk — owner must sync to the host).
Docs: decision record docs/plans/2026-07-21-auto-down-availability-decision.md,
Component-ClusterInfrastructure downing section rewritten, drill + README
reworked (active mode now asserts takeover), deferred-work SBR row resolved.

docs/plans/2026-07-08-deferred-work-register.md

@@ -48,5 +48,5 @@ Two live items previously tracked ONLY in `archreview/plans/00-MASTER-TRACKER.md
 
 | # | Item | Where noted | Rationale for deferral | Revisit trigger |
 |---|------|-------------|------------------------|-----------------|
-| SBR | **SBR oldest-crash total-outage gap** — 2-node `keep-oldest` downs the partition *without* the oldest, so a hard crash of the ACTIVE (oldest) central node makes the standby self-down (~10s) → total central outage until the crashed node restarts; only a younger-node crash fails over. | `archreview/plans/00-MASTER-TRACKER.md:194` + auto-memory `sbr-keep-oldest-2node-active-crash-gap` | Remedy is a production SBR topology/strategy decision (keep-majority + a 3rd/lighthouse seed node, static-quorum, or an accepted-risk note) — **owner: user decision**, not silently changeable. | Before the next production deployment that adds a central node, or the first real active-node crash. |
+| SBR | ~~**SBR oldest-crash total-outage gap**~~ **RESOLVED 2026-07-21 (owner decision — availability over partition-safety).** All clusters switched from `keep-oldest` to the `auto-down` downing strategy (Akka `AutoDowning`, `auto-down-unreachable-after` = 15s): a hard crash of EITHER node — active/oldest included — now fails over to the survivor in ~25s with no operator action. Accepted trade: a real network partition produces dual-active until an operator restarts one side. Decision record + evidence (live keep-oldest `DownReachable … including myself` log, Akka.NET 1.5.62 `KeepOldest.OldestDecision` source, rejected alternatives incl. the static-quorum-1 `DownAll` trap): `docs/plans/2026-07-21-auto-down-availability-decision.md`. | `archreview/plans/00-MASTER-TRACKER.md:194` + auto-memory `sbr-keep-oldest-2node-active-crash-gap` (both now historical) | — | Closed. Residual: seed-node boot-alone constraint (unchanged, documented in `Component-ClusterInfrastructure.md`); dual-active recovery is operator-driven. |
 | vd03 | **`deploy/wonder-app-vd03/` overlay edits unapplied** — `appsettings.Central.json` needs `AllowSingleNodeCluster: true` + phantom-seed removal + `NodeName: central-a`; `install.ps1` needs `sc.exe failure` recovery actions. The `deploy/wonder-app-vd03/` artifact directory is intentionally untracked (production config out of source control), so the repo cannot ship the fix. | `archreview/plans/00-MASTER-TRACKER.md:198` (PLAN-01 T16/T20/T23) | Needs on-host access; without `NodeName` that deployment's audit rows stamp NULL `SourceNode` — **partially mitigated once PLAN-R2-08 Task 7 lands: the host now FAILS AT BOOT with a key-naming error instead of silently NULLing, so applying the overlay becomes mandatory at the next upgrade.** Owner: whoever maintains the host (user). | Next wonder-app-vd03 deployment/upgrade — **the Task 7 validator makes this row unskippable then.** |