fix: harden release checks for grouped routes

CHANGELOG.md

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 - Kept precision, recall, F1 and mean IoU strictly based on candidate polygons versus persisted reference footprints; added a separately labelled reference-envelope comparison as diagnostic evidence only.
 - Persisted raw/evaluated/excluded/clipped population counts and diagnostic matching evidence in the existing `quality_checks.findings_json` structure without changing migrations or canonical metric rows.
 - Surfaced inference coverage and box-to-footprint diagnostics in Detection Lab and hardened the real-data workflow assertions, documentation and regression coverage.
+- Live Tower/PostGIS validation on the persisted Mol-center run evaluated 304 of 374 GRB references, excluded 70 outside the inference tile, persisted six canonical Metric rows and exposed 14 possible box-to-footprint artifacts without inflating the strict scores.
+- Updated the API contract audit to use the canonical OpenAPI path map after FastAPI 0.139 introduced grouped top-level routers; this keeps all 81 operations audited across clean framework installations.
+- Kept Starlette on its supported pre-1.0 compatibility line until GeoIntel deliberately migrates its test client from `httpx` to `httpx2`; this removes the new framework deprecation warning without taking an unrelated test-stack upgrade.
 
 ## Sprint 183 Mol map source clarity and live AI validation (2026-07-14)