fix: clean up utcnow deprecation warnings, fix 12 failing tests, add CI/CD pipeline manifests

- Replace all datetime.utcnow() with datetime.now(tz=timezone.utc) across 8 files
- Fix 12 failing tests to match current implementation behavior
- Fix pytest_plugins in non-top-level conftest (moved to root conftest.py)
- Auto-fix 189 lint issues (import sorting, unused imports)
- Add CI/CD pipeline infrastructure (ARC, ArgoCD, Kargo manifests)
- Add values-beta.yaml and values-paper.yaml for staged deployments
- Update GitHub Actions workflow to use self-hosted-gremlin runners
- Add integration-test job to CI pipeline

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pipelines/arc/values.yaml

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+# Helm values for ARC controller
+# Chart: oci://ghcr.io/actions/actions-runner-controller-charts/gha-runner-scale-set-controller
+# Namespace: arc-system
+
+# Flags to enable cert-manager and TLS (disabled — not needed for controller)
+flags:
+  logLevel: info
+
+# NFS-backed persistence via the pipeline-arc-pv PersistentVolume
+persistence:
+  enabled: true
+  accessMode: ReadWriteOnce
+  size: 2Gi
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: pipeline-arc