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wrapper-guard: remove quotes instead of splitting on them; last name consumer
Round-five remediation of both blockers gate-ultron-01 raised on df83a9ee.
Measured against that head first; all eight returned rc=0 and each executes
the program the check exists to recognize:

    cu"rl" --config /tmp/w.cfg               -> allowed
    cu'rl' --config /tmp/w.cfg               -> allowed
    /usr/bin/cu\rl --config /tmp/w.cfg       -> allowed
    g"h" api -X POST repos/a/b/issues …      -> allowed
    /usr/bin/g\h api -X POST repos/a/b/… …   -> allowed
    curl --con"fig" /tmp/w.cfg               -> allowed
    /usr/bin/gh api -X POST repos/a/b/$EP …  -> allowed
    g"h" api -X POST repos/a/b/$EP …         -> allowed

BLOCKER 1. The previous commit said names are recognized "after quote
removal" and did not do that. It replaced quote characters with whitespace,
which is token SEPARATION: a shell removes a quote WITHOUT splitting the
word around it, so `cu"rl"` is one word naming curl, while whitespace made
it two words naming neither. `"/usr/bin/curl"` blocked under that version
only because the inserted space happened to land after a slash — a passing
case that established nothing about quote removal, and I read it as
confirmation. The characters are now DELETED, which is what quote removal
is. Backslashes go with them, because escaping is ordinary word formation
too. Deletion still handles substitution: `$(which curl)` becomes
`which curl`, where the name is a word on its own.

The flag is read from the same normalized copy for the same reason —
`--con"fig"` is one word spelling --config. No review raised that; the name
was simply the easier half to reach, and reading both halves the same way
is the entire point of having one normalization.

BLOCKER 2. A THIRD name consumer never went through the shared site: the
unreadable-endpoint arm kept a private bare-name copy of the scope gate's
regex against raw $CMD. A caller could be admitted by the repaired gate and
then go unrecognized by the fail-closed refinement — a gate and its own
refinement disagreeing about who the caller is, which is the defect one
layer downstream.

Fixing that surfaced the same mistake a third time inside this very edit:
my first version left the NAME in the refinement's tail regex, so the name
gate recognized `g"h" api` while the tail still demanded the undressed
spelling, and the two halves disagreed exactly as before. Caught by the
fixture, not by reading. Each half now asks one question: the name gate
asks WHO, from the normalized copy; the tail asks whether the ENDPOINT is
readable, from the raw text — deliberately raw, because the expansion
markers that make an endpoint unreadable are the characters the normalized
copy removes, and reading the tail from it would erase the evidence.

Controls: the 8 positive fixtures FAIL at df83a9ee and pass here; the
negatives — mycurl, curl-wrapper, mygh, mygh with an assembled endpoint, an
absolute-path read, and -K on a non-curl — pass at BOTH heads. Suite
166/166.

Unchanged and still stated in the comment rather than this message: a name
ABSENT from the text, assembled from variables or reached through a wrapper
script that execs the program, is invisible to any of this.
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