v1.57.4.0 refactor(ethos): rename Boil the Lake principle to Boil the Ocean (#1912)

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* refactor(ethos): rename Boil the Lake principle to Boil the Ocean

Reframes the completeness principle so the ocean (the complete thing) is the
goal and lakes are the boilable units you ship on the way there. "Don't boil
the ocean" was right when engineering time was the bottleneck; AI killed that
bottleneck, so the ocean is now the destination.

Resolves an existing split: the scope_appetite psychographic, archetypes, and
the completeness intro flow already used "boil the ocean" as the
complete-implementation pole while the named principle still said "lake".

Sources only: ETHOS.md philosophy, CLAUDE.md, README.md, the preamble
resolvers, and the plan/autoplan/document-generate templates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test: update assertions + golden fixtures for Boil the Ocean rename

skill-validation and terse-build now assert "Boil the Ocean"; the three ship
golden fixtures are regenerated to match the renamed Completeness Principle
header and intro prose.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: regenerate SKILL.md files for Boil the Ocean rename

Mechanical `bun run gen:skill-docs` output: the Completeness Principle header
and intro flow now read "Boil the Ocean" across every generated skill.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.57.4.0)

Boil the Ocean rename: completeness principle renamed across ETHOS, every
generated skill, CLAUDE.md, README, and the preamble resolvers. Text only,
no runtime behavior change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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				Skip if `WRITING_STYLE_PENDING` is `no`.

				If `LAKE_INTRO` is `no`: say "gstack follows the **Boil the Lake** principle — do the complete thing when AI makes marginal cost near-zero. Read more: https://garryslist.org/posts/boil-the-ocean" Offer to open:

				If `LAKE_INTRO` is `no`: say "gstack follows the **Boil the Ocean** principle — do the complete thing when AI makes marginal cost near-zero. Read more: https://garryslist.org/posts/boil-the-ocean" Offer to open:

				```bash

				open https://garryslist.org/posts/boil-the-ocean