refactor(corpus-seeded-mechanisms): apply review round 2 suggestions

- variant_search.search_tree skips a malformed store row with a
  variants_store_row_invalid degradation instead of aborting the scan;
  a hit on a demoted or flowless overlay record is never merged (test).
- seed.pair_lessons is the one shape derivation shared by the exporter
  and leave-one-out; labels pass line and sink together; pairs without a
  labeled function are reported as no_labeled_function.
- config parses [variants].max_mechanisms with the shared int helper.
- regress.candidate.hotspot_from_finding is the one zero-score hotspot
  helper for forced inventory and variant findings.
- design synced (SearchResult, hits_to_findings summaries, candidate.py).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG

src/openultrasast/config.py

@@ -343,5 +343,5 @@ def _load_variants(value: object) -> VariantsConfig:
     data = _section(value)
     return VariantsConfig(
         enabled=bool(data.get("enabled", True)),
-        max_mechanisms=int(str(data.get("max_mechanisms", 500))),
+        max_mechanisms=_int_value(data.get("max_mechanisms"), 500),
     )