feat(action-items): deadline-distance ceiling + terminal-status task-query filter

[jordanrburger]

Part of the de-personalized Patterns batch — upstreaming accumulated instance rules into the engine phases (Phase-1 work for the connector-based migration, #156). Follows the method established in #157.

What

Two rules added to phases/core/action-items.md (assembles into SKILL only — mode: [briefing, consolidation]):

• Deadline-Distance Ceiling (Pattern fix(templates): sync ontology parser.py with vault canonical (Pattern #68 root cause) #24) — urgency is capped by how far away the deadline is: 30+ days → 🟢 max, 7–30 → 🟡 max, <7 → eligible for 🔴, <3 → 🔴 when the next action is the user's. Evaluate the actual deadline, not the source's alarm-word tone ("action required" / "expiring soon" never promotes past the ceiling); deprecation/EOL notices stay 🟢 until ~2–3 weeks before cutover. Framed as the ceiling counterpart to the existing deadline escalation (floor) rule.
• Terminal-status filter on the ontology task query (Pattern fix(action-items): backfill skips items whose source line has no checkbox #30) — the documented invocation becomes query --type task --exclude-status "completed,cancelled" instead of a bare query --type task, so completed/cancelled task entities stop resurfacing as open work. Documents the supported --domain / --status / --deadline-before filters.

Verification

• Parser flags verified present in templates/knowledge-base/ontology/parser.py before documenting them: --exclude-status, --domain, --status, --deadline-before all exist on the query command (the parser's own help recommends --exclude-status for currently-actionable tasks since entities use mixed statuses).
• Assembly checked via _assemble(cfg, kind): both rules land in SKILL and do not leak into DREAMING/RESEARCH (matches the file's mode: [briefing, consolidation]).
• Diff grepped clean of names / employer / customers / Slack IDs / repo-PR-Linear IDs / user paths.

Both rules are generic; the originating examples (which named a customer, colleagues, and personal deadlines) were dropped.

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