docs(repo): vendor Effective Dart's documentation guide and add an early-return rule

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Description of the pull request

Ports the documentation-guide part of #2986 from v11 to master, so both branches give contributors and coding agents the same doc rules.

• Adds EFFECTIVE_DART_DOC.md, a vendored copy of Effective Dart: Documentation (CC BY 4.0). It is identical to the v11 copy except that three reference links relative to dart.dev (/tools/dart-doc, /tools/doc-comments/references, design#…) now use absolute URLs, so they work on GitHub.
• STYLE_GUIDE.md points at the vendored copy and lists the rules people miss most often. The style guide still wins where the two disagree.
• CLAUDE.md points at TESTING.md and EFFECTIVE_DART_DOC.md next to the style guide.
• STYLE_GUIDE.md gains a rule under "Use braces for long function bodies": a multi-line ||, && or ?? chain over separate checks becomes one early return per check, so evaluation stops at the first decisive check. "Prefer early returns" and its Quick rules bullet link to it.

The v11 port is a git checkout of the three files from origin/v11 plus the link fix, checked with curl: all three URLs return 200 and the anchor resolves.

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  • Added offline access to Dart documentation guidance for comments, doc comments, Markdown, and technical writing, while retaining the canonical online reference.
  • Updated contributor guidance to consult the testing and documentation references. The style guide takes precedence where guidance differs, and the canonical Dart guidance remains authoritative when versions differ.
  • Clarified style guidance for handling chained checks with early returns, preserving short-circuit evaluation and returning the final check directly.

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Walkthrough

The repository adds an offline Effective Dart documentation guide. Contributor and style guidance link to it and specify which guidance takes precedence. The style guide also clarifies early returns for chains of logical checks.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add and reference dartdoc guidance EFFECTIVE_DART_DOC.md, STYLE_GUIDE.md, CLAUDE.md	Adds offline guidance for comments, doc comments, Markdown, and technical writing. The style guide links to the guide and identifies its precedence. Contributor guidance links to it and to TESTING.md.
Clarify early-return guidance STYLE_GUIDE.md	Recommends ordered early returns for separate `

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In `@EFFECTIVE_DART_DOC.md`:
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