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014-establishes-wrapper-na-alias

Frontmatter sugar: `unit:`-wrapped establishes items and the `n/a` implementation alias

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Two pieces of authoring sugar for the predecessor dialect, both normalized away at parse so nothing new reaches registry.json. (1) An authority unit may be written as a single-key `{ unit: <unit> }` wrapper -- a third 1:1 representation alongside the existing bare-string and tagged-map forms -- which the Unit deserializer unwraps to its inner unit. The corpus uses this on `establishes` items (one wrapper per item, `unit` the only field). (2) `implementation: n/a` is accepted as a deserialize-only alias for the canonical `n-a`, which stays the only spelling ever emitted. Neither changes the registry schema or any consumer; both unblock adopting a corpus authored in the OAP dialect (389 wrapped establishes items across ~97 specs; 5 specs using `n/a`) without a mass frontmatter migration.

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Source headings

  1. 014: `unit:`-wrapped establishes items and the `n/a` implementation alias
  2. 1. Purpose
  3. 2. Territory
  4. 3. Behavior
  5. 3.1 The `unit:` wrapper (a third 1:1 unit representation)
  6. 3.2 The `n/a` implementation alias
  7. 3.3 Normalization and equivalence (the sugar never escapes)
  8. 3.4 Tests (minimum)
  9. 4. Out of scope

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