Brennan Benson 438603f9e7 feat(native-chat): add a message rail for jumping between your prompts (#20719)
* feat(native-chat): add a message rail for jumping between your prompts

A vertical rail down the right edge of the transcript, one bar per user
message, with the bar for the turn you are reading highlighted once
scrolling settles. Hovering the rail opens a panel that previews every
prompt and jumps to it on click.

Bars are capped at 20 and sampled evenly across the thread, always
keeping both ends and the active bar, so the rail stays readable at a
glance on a long conversation.

The active bar is resolved from virtualizer offsets rather than by
scanning rendered rows: the transcript is windowed, so an off-window row
has no element to measure. The row at the scroll fold resolves to its
owning prompt through turnKey, which is what keeps your own message lit
while you read a long reply instead of going dark.

Jumps reuse the existing reveal/pin path and scrollMessageToTop, which
releases the bottom pin. Scrolling through the virtualizer directly would
leave a reader snapped back down by the next streamed token.

Ticks cover loaded history only; older prompts gain a bar once "Load
earlier messages" pages them in.

* fix(native-chat): service a rail jump once and give its pin back

The rail borrowed the diff reveal's pin to reach a row the window had left
behind, but copied only its state shape, not its consumption. The request
was never cleared and the effect depended on `slots`, which is rebuilt on
every render, so three things went wrong at once:

- every later render re-scrolled to the jumped message, dragging a reader
  back there for the rest of the pane's life, and forcing the bottom pin
  off each time;
- the standing request outranked `revealedDiff` in the shared pin, so
  revealing a diff outside the window silently stopped mounting its row;
- the pinned row stayed mounted and measured indefinitely.

The request now carries a monotonic id, is serviced once, and is released
as soon as the scroll is issued, which hands the pin back.

The rail's scroll listener had the same churn: it listed `items` in its
deps, so a streaming turn tore the listener down and cancelled the pending
idle timer on every frame and the highlight never settled. It now
subscribes once and re-reads on a key built from the prompt ids.

Also: the hover trigger is a real button, because `asChild` discards the
primitive's focusable trigger and the panel is the only way to reach these
messages; the wheel forwarder honours line and page delta modes rather
than treating every delta as pixels; and the e2e panel assertion is exact,
since a loose bound passed at 20 rows against 20 ticks.

* fix(native-chat): make prompt rail accessible and reuse previews

* fix(native-chat): supersede prior navigation when selecting a prompt
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