Resolved-market representation differs by vendor: Polymarket keeps active=true after closed=true; Kalshi's filter word for a resolved market isn't the word the response uses

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# Resolved markets: each vendor has its own single-boolean-isn't-enough trap

## Claim
Neither service's "is this market done" signal is as simple as one field:

- **Polymarket**: a resolved market has `closed: true` but ALSO `active: true` — `active`
  does not become `false` on resolution. `outcomePrices` collapses to a clean `["0","1"]` pair
  only once settlement is final; `endDate` (strict ISO-8601, e.g. `2029-01-19T23:59:00Z`) is
  the market's nominal deadline and can sit years after the real resolution time, which lives
  in `closedTime` and is formatted differently (`"2026-08-08 20:27:18+00"` — space-separated,
  no `T`, a bare `+00` offset instead of `Z` or `+00:00`). An agent must check `closed` (not
  `active`) and parse `closedTime` with a tolerant parser, not a strict ISO-8601 one.
- **Kalshi**: `GET /markets?status=settled` is accepted (HTTP 200) and `status=finalized` is
  rejected (HTTP 400, "invalid status filter") as a *request* value — yet every market that
  `status=settled` returns has a *response*-side `status` field whose value is literally
  `"finalized"`. The request vocabulary and the response vocabulary for the same state use
  different words, and the word valid in one direction is invalid in the other.

## One-line guards
- Polymarket: branch on `closed`, never on `active`, to detect resolution; parse `closedTime`
  loosely (space or `T` separator, 2- or 4-digit UTC offset).
- Kalshi: when filtering, send `status=settled`; when reading, compare against
  `status == "finalized"`. Do not reuse one string for both directions.

## Method
Observed (not inferred from documentation): live resolved markets and filter round-trips,
2026-10-08 04:58:45Z-05:02:51Z, cross-referenced below.

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