docs: codify the Override rule in CONTRIBUTING and CONTEXT

Resolves decision 10's reservation on maintainer word: the 3+2/5 cap
numbers stay as written — across the full prune they held everywhere
except a handful of explicit overrides — and the override practice
itself becomes a written rule: the maintainer may exceed any limit
for a specific entry or use case by explicit decision, case-by-case,
carrying no weight for submissions. CONTEXT.md gains the matching
Override vocabulary entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Vinta Chen
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@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Each use case lists at most:
Hard maximum: 5 entries per use case. This is a qualitative bar first and a numeric backstop second — most use cases should carry fewer.
**Overrides**: the maintainer may exceed any limit on this page — the caps, the activity requirement, the stability requirement — for a specific entry or use case by explicit decision. An override is case-by-case; it does not loosen these rules for submissions, and citing one in a PR carries no weight.
**Displacement**: once a use case is at its cap, the only way in is to name the entry your project replaces and argue that yours does that entry's job better. One in, one out.
**Standard library**: a standard-library module is listed only where the stdlib is itself the obvious choice for the use case (tomllib yes, unittest no).