chore: sync code velocity to 16318 LOC [skip ci]

README.md

@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Actively used across this environment or in adjacent projects:
 
 ## ⚡ Efficiency Metrics
 
-- **Codebase Growth:** `15296` lines of custom code across all our repositories
-- **Commit Velocity:** `683` commits since Jan 1
+- **Codebase Growth:** `16318` lines of custom code across all our repositories
+- **Commit Velocity:** `699` commits since Jan 1
 - **Ares:** Ryzen 9 9950X sustaining ~0.06 load avg while running Gitea and a Kubernetes control plane
 - **Resilience:** Automated failover between AWS and peer nodes