Prepare source-only public release for develop.

Add cluster audit pipeline, united EA updates, brochure generators, and publication hygiene (gitignore, MT5 path desensitization, pre-upload scan). Remove tracked reports, models, and binary artifacts from the repo.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

backtesting/MT5/set_parser.py

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+"""Parse MetaTrader 5 .set optimization files."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+
+@dataclass
+class SetParam:
+    name: str
+    value: Any
+    start: Any
+    step: Any
+    stop: Any
+    optimize: bool
+
+
+def _cast(raw: str) -> Any:
+    low = raw.strip().lower()
+    if low == "true":
+        return True
+    if low == "false":
+        return False
+    if "." in raw:
+        try:
+            return float(raw)
+        except ValueError:
+            return raw
+    try:
+        return int(raw)
+    except ValueError:
+        return raw
+
+
+def parse_set_file(path: str | Path) -> dict[str, SetParam]:
+    params: dict[str, SetParam] = {}
+    for line in Path(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore").splitlines():
+        line = line.strip()
+        if not line or line.startswith(";"):
+            continue
+        if "=" not in line:
+            continue
+        name, rest = line.split("=", 1)
+        parts = rest.split("||")
+        if len(parts) < 5:
+            continue
+        value, start, step, stop, opt = parts[0], parts[1], parts[2], parts[3], parts[4]
+        params[name] = SetParam(
+            name=name,
+            value=_cast(value),
+            start=_cast(start),
+            step=_cast(step),
+            stop=_cast(stop),
+            optimize=opt.strip().upper() == "Y",
+        )
+    return params