docs(quoter-bot): add loan-as-collateral markets tib

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Why

Loan-as-collateral markets (loan asset in the market's collateral list — e.g. a USDC / cbBTC+USDC market) are the protocol-intended maker pattern for quoting both sides from zero inventory: instead of bootstrapping credit at negative carry, the maker posts the loan asset as collateral and lets sells create debt. TIB-2026-07-27 §3 explicitly reserved the position-health check as mandatory "before any strategy revision can increase collateralized debt" — this TIB is that revision, deciding the design before any code lands.

What

• TIB-2026-08-27-quoter-loan-as-collateral-markets.md (new): the decision. Core points, each grounded in the pinned vendored Midnight source (336b924a):
  • a maturity-safe collateral-coverage invariant — debt is static face units and isHealthy has no time term, so collateral sized per publication for the worst case (current debt + every live sell cap converted at its tick price) makes pre-maturity liquidation impossible even if the bot halts; monitoring becomes a tripwire, not a control loop;
  • opt-in per-market debt config block; absent block = byte-for-byte today's behavior;
  • single non-reduce-only sell side (protocol take-netting consumes credit before minting debt; buys repay debt first — the built-in deleveraging channel), with the debt mode carried in quote identity so a config flip forces replace;
  • fail-closed qualification: loan asset in collateralParams, constant-oracle bytecode pinning (price() == 1e36), per-cycle enterGate.canIncreaseDebt recheck, disclosed maxLif settlement-penalty bound; the market ID content-addresses all params, so allowlisting is the acceptance boundary;
  • manual-first collateral management (bot never moves collateral in phases 1–2; auto-supply in phase 3 behind policy assertions and middleware intents; withdrawal automation excluded — the protocol health-checks withdrawCollateral against current debt only, never resting sells);
  • penalty-free LLTV = 1 maturity settlement (post-maturity liquidation at LIF = 1 is the settlement mechanism; repay + withdrawCollateral is the voluntary runbook);
  • breach posture (freeze sells, keep quoting buys), bootstrap obsolescence (start must accept an empty bootstrap list), five considered alternatives, phased delivery, and open questions (Morpho API takeability for collateral-backed sells; quoter-signer intent schedule).
• TIB-2026-07-27: second partial-supersession note + header row, scoped to debt-enabled markets only (§7 no-unintended-debt invariant, Security "No negative credit", position-health not-required).
• docs/INDEX.md: new entry in the bot-scoped TIB list.

Reviewer notes

Docs-only; no code changes. Every L… reference cites docs/context/repos/midnight-contracts.txt and was verified against it, including the 336b924a delta note (deployed supplyCollateral reverts on oracle revert). pnpm format has been run.

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Review round 1 (codex)

All five inline findings were incorporated into the TIB: §3 sums sell-side units (credit + debt headroom) and converts once to seller assets at the worst-case tick; §5 pins every coverage input (debt, collateral, on-chain consumed) to one block and bans the eventually consistent API as a coverage input; §2/§6 fail readiness when the debt block is removed while on-chain debt is outstanding; §10 requires the signing middleware to mirror its buy-side aggregate-reservation model for debt capacity; §9 makes maturity settlement an actionable operator runbook, since LIF = 1 gives third parties no incentive to settle. The branch also merged main (TIB-2026-08-25's parallel partial supersession of TIB-2026-07-27, kept alongside this one in date order).

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