Jinwoo Hong a8ce574c77 Add inert layout commands and runtime transitions (#26749)
* feat(layout): add the inert workspace layout model, Loader and Serializer

One model of a workspace's tab layout (all tab kinds, groups, split trees,
pane bindings, titles/colors/pin, sleeping records) in src/shared/workspace-layout,
with a Loader from today's stored session partition and a Serializer back to it.
The structural rules check and the pure pane/group tree helpers move into the
same folder so the module can run them; their callers import the new paths.
Nothing in the app calls the new module yet.

* feat(layout): add inert layout commands and runtime transitions

applyLayoutCommand applies every layout command a client can send (create,
split, close, move, reorder, rename, recolor, pin, open editor/browser/agent
tabs, start/restart, sleep/wake) to the layout model, and
applyLayoutTransition applies the facts the runtime sees (process started or
exited, SSH lease ended, orphan adopted, owner removed or renamed, agent launch
verdict, sleeping records). Pure tab-order, group-move and pane-split helpers
move into the shared module so the renderer, today's headless host and the new
commands share one implementation. Nothing in the app calls the new commands.

* fix(layout): avoid toSorted in shared code and drop an unused helper

The mobile bundle includes src/shared and Hermes lacks Array#toSorted.

* refactor(layout): name tree comparisons for what they ignore

* fix(layout): one stored home per layout fact; Loader reports every rule it applies

The row's terminal id, preview flag, worktree id and execution host are now
derived on save instead of kept a second time. Groups never stay empty. The
Loader reports row/tab-bar disagreements, re-minted ids, worktree id and host
disagreements, keeps a row stored in two workspaces where the tab bar names it,
and gives a pane id repeated in a second tab a new unbound pane. The rules check
runs on what the Serializer writes. Fixtures become test fixtures, and a test
lists every model field with the one fact it holds.

* fix(layout): commands keep one home per fact and refuse instead of throwing

createGroup is gone (a group only exists while it holds a tab); a lone tab
split beside another group moves its group leaf and keeps the id; moveTab
refuses when the move cannot be built; renaming onto an existing workspace
is refused; worktree and execution host ids come from the workspace.

* fix(layout): derive each tab's host from its owner and keep one preview fact per editor tab

An editor tab names its file's owner (an SSH target or paired runtime), every
other tab its partition. Where the stored tab and file preview flags disagree
the tab loads permanent, so a draft can never be replaced. A row terminal that
differs from the one derived from its focused pane is now reported.

* fix(layout): one binding kind, one title, one host rule; records follow a reassigned pane

A legacy row with no pane layout now loads as a one-pane tab bound to its
terminal (reusing the leaf its records name), so the null-panes branches and
legacyPtyId are gone. A pane given a new id because two tabs shared it takes
its sleeping and incarnation records, scrollback and focus with it. A terminal's
live title is one fact (the tab-bar label wins on load). Every tab-bar entry
names its execution host by one rule. The fact-location test is now keyed by
on-disk field and checked by mutating every source.

* fix(layout): commands drop the legacy binding branches; rename carries closed-tab records

Every terminal tab has panes now, so commands lose their null-panes branches
and a close always releases the tab's terminals. The pane-record rekey is
shared with the Loader. Renaming a workspace renames its closed-tab records'
worktree id, so a later removal or partition move still selects them.

* fix(layout): one change report by construction; records without copies

The Loader now picks values by fixed precedence only and reports one
field-by-field diff of the stored session against what the next save
writes, over the disk-field tables (now in workspace-layout-disk-fields.ts,
with session fields derived from SESSION_FIELD_OWNERS). Sleeping and
closed-tab records live in their workspace without the pane key, tab and
worktree id their key and workspace already give; the Serializer fills them.
Tab-bar entries are written in the one tab order.

* fix(layout): drop transitions with no producer yet; group moves hold no selection

orphanAdopted, legacyWorkerRecovered, clientHostedPageAnnounced,
agentLaunchVerdict, sleepingRecordsCaptured and moveWorkspaceToPartition
ship with the PRs that produce them. The shared group moves take and return
LayoutGroup only; the headless host keeps its selected tab beside them.
Commands keep sleeping and closed-tab records in their workspace, so rename
and removal need no record patching.

* fix(layout): name the change report's key-list parameter's type

* refactor(layout): key pane data by leaf, check the model itself, one legacy record

- Each pane's data (terminal, incarnation, title, sleeping agent) is one leaf record keyed by
  leaf id, and scrollback beside it is keyed the same way. Pane keys are derived only when
  saving. The Loader gives a repeated leaf id a new id before attaching records, so
  rekeyPaneRecords is gone; records naming no pane are carried as stored.
- The rules check runs on the model directly (ungrouped tab, empty group, group tree that
  disagrees with the groups, pane data without a pane); the disk-format rules stay separate.
- The row-ownership marker and topology revision move into one legacy record outside
  WorkspaceLayout, updated by updateLegacyPersistence after each apply.
- Fixtures include a terminal tab whose tab-bar id and terminal id differ.

* refactor(layout): commands on leaf-keyed pane data and the one legacy update

- Commands and transitions read and write each pane's one leaf record; drag-out moves only the
  tree, so the pane's data and scrollback follow by structure. No command advances the topology
  revision itself: applyLayoutCommand and applyLayoutTransition run updateLegacyPersistence after
  each apply, which also marks a workspace as owning its rows once it holds a terminal.
- Preview replacement closes the preview through closeTabs, so an unsaved draft refuses it as
  any close does.
- Tests: create then close then save with and without a reload, commands on a tab whose
  tab-bar and terminal ids differ, drag-out scrollback, the preview refusal.

* fix(layout): join the group ids the tree-mismatch detail names

* fix(layout): leave the stored revision map as is when no repo advances
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