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Add patterns 36-40 from real-world AI-writing review - #246

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Adds five patterns not covered by the existing 35: forced tables/lists on non-tabular content, leftover AI-tool artifacts (citation tokens, tracking params — a defect, not a style call), a document opening by restating its own title, register mismatch between sections, and "and"-chains standing in for real punctuation. Also fills a gap in §7's AI-vocabulary list: utilize, leverage, facilitate, optimize, ascertain, endeavor, commence, initiate, demonstrate were all missing despite being common tells.

Full rationale for each pattern is in the commit message. Updates the README table and heading, the AGENTS.md pattern count, the plugin version, and the validator bounds, per the process in AGENTS.md. SKILL.md is 496 lines, within the 500-line budget. scripts/validate-package.py passes.

Patterns 1-35 cover claim inflation, sales language, vocabulary,
punctuation, and formulaic filler, largely at the sentence level.
Comparing against a separate community ruleset for detecting AI
writing surfaced five gaps not covered by any existing pattern:

- blader#36 Forced tables, lists, and numbering on content that has no
  real categories, comparison, or order.
- blader#37 Leftover AI-tool artifacts: citation tokens, tags, and
  tracking parameters left behind by the generating tool. This is
  a defect to fix, not a style judgment, so it carries no false
  positives the way a style pattern can.
- blader#38 A document opening by restating its own title as the
  sentence's subject, then defining it. Distinct from blader#29 (a
  heading restated in the body below it): this is the title
  itself, used as the opening move.
- blader#39 Register mismatch between sections, the tell of a document
  where one part was generated and another written or edited by
  hand, with no transition between the two.
- blader#40 Chains of "and" in place of a semicolon, colon, or
  parentheses. A companion to blader#14: dashes are one overused
  connector, "and" chains are another.

Also adds nine corporate-verb words (utilize, leverage, facilitate,
optimize, ascertain, endeavor, commence, initiate, demonstrate) to
the blader#7 word list. None of them were previously covered, despite
being some of the most common AI-vocabulary tells in business and
technical writing.

Updates the README table and heading, the AGENTS.md pattern count,
the plugin version, and the validator bounds, per the process in
AGENTS.md. SKILL.md is 496 lines, within the 500-line budget.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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