TARIFF-11: the plan's account of itself, corrected and put on the page

Four defects of one shape - the add-on's report of its own tariff plan was
wrong, always in the direction that flattered it - and one check, which is
the deliverable.

1. `TariffPlan.words` counted POINTS and called them HOURS. The live add-on
   logged `dynamic_dayahead from generic_dayahead, 132 h` for 132
   quarter-hourly points = 33 hours. Belgium moved to a 15-minute MTU on
   2025-10-01, so this was wrong every time it was printed, and NOT by a
   constant factor: a 40-hour soak measured 1.79x .. 5.33x, because §8.3's
   carried points are hourly while the firm ones are quarter-hourly.
   `words` now reports both quantities, plus the firm/carried split and the
   spacing, in FCST-04's *Price history* wording so the two rows can be
   compared.

2. §8.3's firm-pair refusal and the flat-tariff refusal did the same, and
   they reach an operator through `self.arb.explain()`. This is exactly the
   point<->hour conflation TARIFF-14 removed from `at()`, left standing in
   the prose. `price_forecast.py`'s §8.3 carry-forward log line carried the
   third instance - a carried-HOUR count over a POINT count - and DOCS
   quotes it verbatim, so it is corrected here too.

3. The plan reached no HTTP surface at all. `rows["Tariff"]` was
   `static_status()`'s 30 s-tick sentence and never saw the provider plan -
   it read 'no static profile' at all 802 soak samples on a site whose feed
   was answering. It now carries the plan's shape. ⚠️ The two sources are
   kept distinguishable: the plan half is stamped with its own age, measured
   from `tariff_at`, because it can be up to TARIFF_MAX_AGE_S (5400 s) old.
   FCST-04 pins that row to DOCS as a pair; DOCS moves in this commit.

4. `main.py`'s "if and only if" was false. `cycle()` returns at the input
   hold before `self.arb = None`, so an armed site read
   `off (arbitrage_enabled)` - naming an option that is on - and, after one
   completed cycle, showed a decision up to 15 s stale as a current one. The
   row now reads the OPTION and separates three facts; `cycle_at` and
   `arb_at` make "this cycle reached no decision" an observation.

THE DELIVERABLE IS THE CHECK. All four survived 29 green suites because
nothing graded the strings a human is shown. `test_price.py` section 12
renders through the shipped `status_payload()`, parses each number out of
its OWN SLOT and compares it against a figure computed from the fixture's
construction parameters - not from the property the row was built out of
(habit 4), and not as a substring of a sentence the same file wrote (habit
14). The fixture set is four plan shapes and the check computes and prints
the field pairs no fixture separates. The *Arbitrage* row's states are
driven through real cycles with a sensor answering None and graded by
INEQUALITY.

No behaviour changed: no threshold, refusal rung, claim or setpoint moved.

MUTATIONS: 16, no survivors, one at +0 B (the risky delta) and red. Two were
found by the battery INSIDE THIS CARD'S OWN CHECK: a -190 B survivor whose
fixture varied two things at once (habit 4), and a mutation whose red was a
TRACEBACK in an f-string operand and therefore named nothing (FCST-06). Both
closed; the table is on the PR.

All 29 test files green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BwRLw7eKYj2byVdwB6kbjU
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@@ -1765,12 +1765,50 @@ hour the feed did not print at all.
**What you can actually see on the status page.** *Price history* (below) says
what is held. *Arbitrage* carries the strategy's own sentence, which names the
firm/provisional split whenever that split is what refused a trade. *Tariff*
does **not** report the fill: it is the static-profile or Home Assistant
price-entity sentence, regenerated on the 30 s tick. The provider plan's own
line — `dynamic_dayahead from generic_dayahead, 48 h, provisional` — goes to the
**add-on log** at every refresh, alongside `§8.3: 33 of 48 hours carried forward
from yesterday's profile and flagged provisional; 15 published`.
firm/provisional split whenever that split is what refused a trade. And
**Tariff** on the status page reads `provisional` through the morning, because
since TARIFF-11 that row carries the provider plan itself:
```
Tariff: no static profile (recomputed this tick); provider plan fetched 412 s
ago for a 48 h horizon: dynamic_dayahead from generic_dayahead,
60 points over 33 h, 36 firm / 24 carried, 900+3600 s spacing,
provisional
```
⚠️ **The two halves of that row are not computed at the same moment, and the
row says so.** Everything before the semicolon is the static-profile or Home
Assistant price-entity sentence, regenerated on the **30 s tick** from options
alone — no network. Everything after it is the **background refresh's**
resolution, which runs every 1800 s and is served for up to 5400 s before it is
retired; `fetched N s ago` is the age of the fetch that produced it and is the
only figure in the row that tells you whether the feed is still answering. On a
site with a provider configured and no usable plan the row says that too,
rather than falling silently back to the static half.
Read the plan half as five separate facts: which *product* the feed publishes
and which *plugin* read it, how many **points** it carries and how many **whole
hours** those points cover, how many of the points are **firm** (published for
their own interval) against **carried** (filled from yesterday under §8.3), the
**spacing** of the points in seconds — `900+3600` is the normal mixed steady
state, quarter-hourly firm points beside hourly carried ones — and `provisional`
whenever any point is carried.
⚠️ **Points and hours are two different numbers and this row used to print one
of them under the other's name.** `words` was `f"… {len(points)} h"`, so a
33-hour plan of quarter-hourly points logged `dynamic_dayahead from
generic_dayahead, 132 h`. It is the same conflation the *Price history* row
carried before FCST-04 and the same one `at()` carried before TARIFF-14, and it
is **not a constant factor**: measured over a 40-hour soak the overstatement
ranged **1.79× to 5.33×**, because the carried points are hourly while the firm
ones are quarter-hourly, so the ratio moves with the mix as the day goes on.
The same sentence is in the **add-on log** at every refresh, alongside `§8.3:
33 of 48 hours carried forward from yesterday's profile and flagged
provisional; the feed published 60 points over the other 15 hours`.
The §8.3 refusal an operator reads when a trade is declined counts in the same
two units — `§8.3: only 1 of 96 points carry a published price - 1 of 24 hours`
— where it used to say `only 1 of 96 hours` about a 24-hour day.
The plan is also now cut to the horizon you asked for, which means **hours that
have already elapsed are no longer in it**. That is a real change to arbitrage:
@@ -1951,6 +1989,33 @@ only thing that decides whether a request leaves the machine is
`price_provider`: with it `off`, the refresh resolves the static profile in
memory and opens no connection.
**The *Arbitrage* status row says which of three things is true** — trading is
off, trading is on and this cycle reached no decision, or a decision was
reached — and it stamps every decision with its age. Until TARIFF-11 it said
one of two, because the first two rendered identically. They have three
different remedies:
| the row opens with | what is true | what to do |
|---|---|---|
| **off** — *"arbitrage_enabled is false, so nothing trades"* | Trading is not armed. Nothing will happen, and nothing is wrong | Arm it, if you meant to |
| **ON (arbitrage_enabled), but NO DECISION has been reached yet** | Trading **is** armed, and no cycle has run as far as the arbitrage step. The row then names the control loop's own reason, usually *inputs missing* | Fix the input the loop names |
| **decided N s ago:** … | The strategy answered this cycle, and `N` is how old that answer is | Read the sentence that follows — it is the strategy's own |
| **no decision this cycle (reason); the last one was taken N s ago:** … | Trading is armed, a decision stands from an earlier cycle, and **this** cycle stopped before reaching the step | As row 2 — the standing decision is history, not a verdict on now |
A fifth rendering — *"…no decision this cycle …, and none stands from an
earlier one"* — covers the case where trading was armed after a cycle had
already run without it.
⚠️ **The second row used to render exactly like the first one**, naming
`arbitrage_enabled` on a site where `arbitrage_enabled` is `true`. A cycle with
a missing input returns after roughly `stale_input_s` (15 s by default) without
reaching the arbitrage step at all, so on an armed site the row reported *off*
at startup and, once one decision had been taken, went on showing that decision
for up to 15 s after the site stopped deciding anything. The age on the third
row is printed **always**, including when it is zero: a row that reports
staleness only once it is stale cannot be told from one that never reports
it.
### Site
| option | meaning |