The salvaged helper was appended to the gateway/run.py facade; new behaviour
belongs in a topical sibling. agent/session_activity.py already owns the
activity-snapshot contract the three render sites read from, so the formatter
moves there as format_iteration_progress and the three call sites import it at
module level instead of late-importing the facade.
Tests trimmed to the salvage bar (<= 2 invariant tests per fix): one
parameterized contract on the helper (unbounded/None hide the ceiling, a real
budget keeps N/M) plus the contributor's end-to-end busy-ack test through the
real render path. The per-site heartbeat/timeout tests exercised the same
helper through mocks and are dropped; evals/gateway_status_render/
iteration_ceiling_ab.py drives all three real render sites with a real AIAgent
for before/after evidence (3 sentinel leaks on main -> 0).
Related: #103109 (same fix, same target module; credited in the PR),
#102845 (third render site, closed by its author in favour of #102817).
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