One point of truth
All current passes the shunt; the board only reads it. No second path, no silent error.
A Tadorne reference design
The battery's lookout. One board that measures the energy aboard, keeps watch on a few microamps and reports from the bilge — all year, main switch off.

Battery state read at the shunt, and a watch kept all year.
All current passes the shunt; the board only reads it. No second path, no silent error.
Fed upstream of the main switch, it is the one module that outlives the winter.
Schematic, placement and routing are regenerated by versioned code, not drawn by hand.
Contributors welcome. The board is on the bench, the season afloat comes next.