Decouple TS ICS validator from Python tests, gate torch demos, and reduce Foundry/CI noise

[MontrealAI]

Motivation

• Python unit tests were failing because they invoked the TypeScript ICS validator unconditionally, which requires Node/ts-node and can break pure-Python CI runs.
• Torch-heavy demo tests are heavyweight and should not run in default CI runs because they require optional torch dependency.
• Foundry runs produced very verbose logs and large fuzz budgets, and some workflows referenced a pinned actions/download-artifact SHA that interfered artifact downloads.

Description

• Make the ICS validator optional in test/orchestrator/test_ics_golden.py so the fixture equality test always runs and the TS validator is skipped unless node+ts-node are available, invoking the validator via ts-node/esm with explicit TS_NODE_COMPILER_OPTIONS when present.
• Gate Tiny Recursive Model tests with pytest.importorskip('torch') and mark tests with @pytest.mark.requires_torch, add the requires_torch marker to pytest.ini, and update the demo workflow to exclude those tests by default with pytest -m "not requires_torch".
• Reduce Foundry verbosity and fuzz budgets in .github/workflows/ci.yml (remove -vvv style flags and lower --fuzz-runs), update actions/download-artifact usages to @v4 in CI/release/culture workflows, and run prettier to fix HGM demo formatting.
• Make branch-protection verification non-blocking by default when GitHub API returns integration-permission 403s and document enforcement via BRANCH_PROTECTION_ENFORCE=1 with an elevated token that has administration:read.

Testing

• Ran npm ci and npm run lint:ci successfully to validate Node toolchain and lint rules.
• Installed Python deps with python -m pip install -r requirements-python.txt and ran the CI-equivalent pytest suites excluding heavy torch tests (-m "not requires_torch"), resulting in all Python unit and integration suites passing.
• Verified branch protection script behavior with npm run ci:verify-branch-protection -- --branch main --owner MontrealAI --repo AGIJobsv0 which emits the configured NOTICE when no elevated token is present and succeeds; set BRANCH_PROTECTION_ENFORCE=1 plus a token with administration:read to enforce failure-on-misconfiguration.
• Ran ci/hgm-suite.sh and HGM demos formatting checks successfully, and reduced Foundry fuzz/verbosity to make CI runs more stable (note: a full Foundry run was started locally and is large; CI budgets were lowered to avoid excessive compile/fuzz time).

How to run optional torch tests: install torch (e.g., follow the demo workflow or pip install with the appropriate wheel) and run pytest -m requires_torch or use the scheduled torch-tests workflow which installs CPU wheels and runs the marker suite.

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