docs(plex,jellyfin): the scan doors are not waiters; supersedes b82655d

`status` compares a recorded timestamp with `--after`. Measured 2026-11-04: Plex
answered `settled` in the same second its own trigger was accepted (stamp
19:46:59Z for a request accepted 19:46:58Z) and still answered `settled` from that
one stamp 30 minutes later while the walk ran. So no epoch survives it — a journal
mtime fails and the trigger's epoch fails, because the trigger satisfies the door it
was asked to wait for. That is the correction of b82655d, which prescribed the
trigger's epoch for this door.

Jellyfin's `EndTimeUtc` only advances when a scan finishes, so there the trigger's
epoch is sound and a file mtime is not; its `wait` already refuses an epoch an
earlier task passes. The proof a scan did its work stays `media-verify.py`
replaying the journal: a scan can clear rows but cannot invent one.
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@@ -111,29 +111,36 @@ driver from the host shell; the section keys are `1` Movies, `3` TV Shows,
`5` Audiobooks, `6` Music, `11` VODs & Live Events:
```bash
after="$(date +%s)" # the TRIGGER's epoch — never a file mtime
scripts/media-refresh-plex.sh trigger --library 1
scripts/media-refresh-plex.sh status --library 1 --after "$after"
python3 scripts/media-verify.py --db-kind plex \
--journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/<journal>.jsonl # the real proof
```
Exactly ONE section: a refresh costs a full walk of that tree, and refreshing all
five for a rename that touched one buys nothing. `trigger` answers
`refresh accepted (204)` — `200` when a body is requested — and `000` means PMS is
still warming, which the driver retries out loud; a service restart is never the
fix. Progress needs no token and no container: `section_locations.scanned_at` in
the library database carries the same epoch `GET /library/sections` prints as
`scannedAt` (verified 2026-11-04), and that is what `status` compares `--after`
against.
fix.
**The epoch `--after` receives must be the trigger's, not a file's.** `status` answers
one question — has this section scanned since that epoch — so any journal or plan whose
mtime predates the most recent scan makes it report settled the instant you ask.
Measured 2026-11-04: a chain that passed `stat -c %Y <journal>` fell straight through
its wait loop and the verify after it read a database that had not yet processed that
day's renames. The failure mode is a false *success*, never a false alarm, which is
what makes it worth two lines of warning. A purge gate survives it —
`scripts/media-verify.py` asks whether any row still points at a path with no file, and
a scan can clear rows but cannot invent one — but a "the scan is done" claim does not.
**`status` is a census, not a waiter: no epoch makes it watch a scan.** It reads
`section_locations.scanned_at` — the epoch of the last scan PMS has *recorded* for the
section, the same value `GET /library/sections` prints as `scannedAt` (verified
2026-11-04) — and compares it against `--after`. Measured twice on 2026-11-04: a chain
fell through its wait loop in the same second its own trigger was accepted, and a direct
read 30 minutes later still answered `settled` off that one stamp
(`2026-11-04T19:46:59Z`, for a request accepted at `19:46:58Z`) while the walk ran. A
journal's mtime fails, and so does the trigger's own epoch — the request satisfies the
very door it was asked to wait for. The failure direction is a false *success*, never a
false alarm, which is what makes it worth the warning: ask `status` whether a scan got
recorded, and never let a chain depend on it.
**The proof that a scan did its work is the journal replayed against the database:**
`scripts/media-verify.py --db-kind plex --journal <journal>` names every row that still
points at a source path (`still at src`) and every entry whose file is physically still
there (`REAL`). Both at zero is what gates a purge, and it needs no settle signal at all
— a scan can clear rows but cannot invent one. Jellyfin's door has no such trap:
`scripts/media-refresh-jellyfin.py wait` watches the scan task itself and refuses by
name when no task reaches `Running`.
The driver ships its runner into the container with `podman cp` rather than
quoting a command through `podman exec sh -c`, because PMS's HTTPD closes without