Help and status row: archived location, g target, skipped done marks (#174)

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Fixes findings 1–3 of #174 (finding 4, the sidebar not keeping the done drawer, stays as designed).

What changed

1. Help (?): ctrl+f reads archive / restore (archived: d drawer), so it says where archived tasks live.
2. Help: g reads fold inbox; archived when drawer open.
3. ctrl+s on a marked set that holds done tasks now says so on the status row: started N · skipped M done (ctrl+n or ctrl+o reopens them). This also covers a set of only done tasks, which used to do nothing with no message. Without marks, and for skipped started/blocked/review tasks, nothing changes.

Docs: keys.md, board.md, CHANGELOG (Unreleased › Fixed), and the web demo's help rows and bulk start message (the demo uses bare keys, n or o).

Labels are kept to ≤ 38 cells so they fit the 58-cell help card (help_card_lines_fit_the_modal_body_at_every_size). The existing help-search test typed drawer; that now also matches ctrl+f, which sorts first and pushed done drawer below the compact card. The test now types done drawer.

Proof

• queue_board_verbs::bulk_start_names_skipped_done_marks_on_the_status_row and queue_board_verbs::help_names_where_archived_tasks_live_and_what_g_folds. Both fail with the fix reverted by hand, and pass with it.
• Green bar cargo fmt --check && cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings && cargo test: green. Also green: cargo clippy --all-targets --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu -- -D warnings, site: npm test (49/49) and npm run test:parity (46/46).
• Live Herdr smoke: below.

Before / after

Binaries: /tmp/tsk-t215-before (origin/main 39e3a8e, release) and /tmp/tsk-t215-after (this branch, release). Each runs against its own seeded state (/tmp/tsk-t215-state-before, -after), with T1 ready and T2/T3 done on the desk. Scenario: 1, d, shift+M, mark T1, T3 and T2, then ctrl+s. Real Herdr pane captures:

Before (main): T1 starts, the two done marks are dropped silently. The status row only shows desk.

 IN MOTION ──────────────────────────────────────────────2
  ● T1 ready one
  ● N2 Make a task, open it, check off steps
 ...
 DONE ───────────────────────────────────────────────────2
  ✓ T3 done two
▸ ✓ T2 done one
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 desk                                                  → task pane
 enter open · ctrl+n next · ctrl+o inbox · ctrl+u undo · ? help

After (branch):

 IN MOTION ──────────────────────────────────────────────2
  ● T1 ready one
  ● N2 Make a task, open it, check off steps
 ...
 DONE ───────────────────────────────────────────────────2
  ✓ T3 done two
▸ ✓ T2 done one
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 started 1 · skipped 2 done (ctrl+n or ctrl+o reopens them)   → task pane
 enter open · ctrl+n next · ctrl+o inbox · ctrl+u undo · ? help

Help, ? then type archive. Before:

 TASK ACTIONS
 ctrl+f             archive
 VIEWS & FIND
 g                  inbox / archived

After:

 TASK ACTIONS
 ctrl+f             archive / restore (archived: d drawer)
 VIEWS & FIND
 g                  fold inbox; archived when drawer open

How to test

Already running in Herdr. Workspace of T215 (w9F), tabs before and after. Each tab has a board open on the desk with the done drawer open and T1, T3, T2 marked (multi-select · 3 selected).

• Press ctrl+s in each. Expected: before shows desk on the status row; after shows started 1 · skipped 2 done (ctrl+n or ctrl+o reopens them).
• Then press ? and type archive. Compare the ctrl+f and g rows with the captures above. esc esc closes Help.

From scratch, against throwaway state only:

bash /tmp/tsk-t215-seed.sh     # recreates /tmp/tsk-t215-state-{before,after}: T1 ready, T2+T3 done (desk)
env TSK_STATE_DIR=/tmp/tsk-t215-state-before TSK_CONFIG_DIR=/tmp/tsk-t215-state-before /tmp/tsk-t215-before
env TSK_STATE_DIR=/tmp/tsk-t215-state-after  TSK_CONFIG_DIR=/tmp/tsk-t215-state-after  /tmp/tsk-t215-after

On each board: 1 (desk), d (drawer), shift+M, move to T1 and press space, do the same on T3 and T2, then press ctrl+s. Read the status row above the footer. Check the docs in site/src/content/docs/docs/keys.md (Board table and the multi-select paragraph) and board.md.

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