[scanner] fix(contribute): persist task leases so a hub restart doesn't revoke every in-flight task

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Fix

Claims: src/pkg/dashboard/contribute_ws.go (lease registry: recordLease/renewLease/revokeLease/lookupLease, hub constructor), new src/pkg/dashboard/contribute_lease_persist.go + contribute_lease_persist_test.go, changelog.d/fixed-5681-lease-restart-persistence.md. No overlap with open hold-gated PRs (#5673 docs, #5665 labelPlanSink tests, #5642/#5635/#5559 planning docs, #4032 proxy).

The C4 server-issued task-lease registry lived only in hub memory. Any hub restart (routine under self-upgrade rolls) emptied it, so every relay mid-task that reconnected was told no active lease for this task, had its agent interrupted mid-turn, and was re-assigned the identical issue seconds later — exactly the 14:24:40 revoke → 14:24:44 re-assign sequence in the issue.

This persists the registry to task-leases.json in the PVC-backed contributors dir, following the existing cooldown/streak/verdict ledger pattern:

• saveLeases() — atomic tmp+rename write on every recordLease / effective renewLease / effective revokeLease; expired entries skipped so the ledger self-cleans.
• loadLeases() — at hub construction; drops expired/partial/corrupt records.
• Honours HIVE_CONTRIBUTORS_DIR and the persistTaskLedgers gate like the other ledgers.

Security posture unchanged: a restored lease is byte-for-byte the {identity, task, repo, number, tier, generation, expiry} tuple the hub issued — the C4 exact-match contract and the #2568 generation fence apply to it unchanged, a lease revoked before the restart is absent and stays absent, and expiry still runs on the #4260 renewal clock.

Tests: TestLeasePersist_ResumeSurvivesHubRestart, _RevokedLeaseStaysRevokedAcrossRestart, _ExpiredLeaseNotRestored, _RenewalExtendsWindowAcrossRestart, _MalformedAndPartialRecordsSkipped; full -run 'Lease|C4|Contribute' suite passes.

Fixes #5681

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[clubanderson]

Review — closing in favor of #5688, which fixes the same #5681 lease-volatility bug (opened first, by the issue's reporter) and goes further on exactly the edges this registry needs:

• Generation fence (contributor: task ownership has no hub lease or safe operator revoke/requeue path #2568): src/docs/design/agent-state-inventory.md row 32 warns that persisting leases without re-deriving taskGen silently breaks the fence — after a restart the counter starts at zero and mints generations that alias the restored ones, so a pre-restart straggler could be accepted against a brand-new task. 🐛 fix(contribute): make the task lease outlive the hub process (#5681) #5688 advances taskGen past every restored lease at load and pins it with a test; this PR persists leases without that, which is the documented trap. v4 has the same fence (contribute_ws.go taskGen/generationAccepted).
• Post-restart double assignment: the guard is built from live connections, which is empty right after boot — the restored lease's issue can be handed to a second contributor before its holder reconnects. 🐛 fix(contribute): make the task lease outlive the hub process (#5681) #5688 holds restored-lease items for a bounded 2-minute grace window.
• Write ordering: saveLeases here re-acquires leaseMu after the mutation and renames outside the lock, so two concurrent mutations can land their renames in the opposite order and leave the file older than memory. 🐛 fix(contribute): make the task lease outlive the hub process (#5681) #5688 snapshots and writes under the lock.
• Perms: 0644 vs 🐛 fix(contribute): make the task lease outlive the hub process (#5681) #5688's 0600 — this file is the C4 authorization record a resume is matched against, not a report.
• Minor: the guard if h != nil && !h.persistTaskLedgers proceeds on a nil receiver into h.leaseMu.Lock().

Unique value worth carrying forward: the round-trip unit tests here are solid, and this PR targets v4 while #5688 targets v5 — v4 still needs a faithful port of #5688 (including the taskGen re-derivation and a changelog.d fragment in this style). Noting that on the survivor. Thanks — the diagnosis and ledger-pattern instincts were right; the survivor simply covers more of the coupled invariants.