fix(review): publish state, not scratch, and a boolean that is one

[Svilen-Stefanov]

Two reports from the webview, both correct, both mine.

merge_base_resolved was the string "false"

jq --arg produces JSON strings, so every metadata value shipped as one. A string "false" is truthy, so the caveat banner keyed on it never fired from the day it was written — the webview built a feature against a field that could not trigger it.

It is now a real boolean via --argjson. Everything else stays a string, which is what readers already parse, and the types are now stated in COMMIT_STRATEGY.md so the next field added does not repeat this.

The webview has since made its check accept both spellings, so this is belt and braces on their side — but the contract should be honest regardless.

Bundles shipped the engine's scratch

A real published base bundle:

32452  analysis.json          needed
30477  static_analysis.pkl    needed
11805  logs/20260819_214303.log    ← nobody inflates this
 2813  file_coverage.json
 2668  health/health_report.json
 1875  health/health_config.json   ← a seeded run reads this, kept
 1303  fingerprint.json
   68  static_analysis.sha
    0  static_analysis.lock        ← nobody inflates this
    0  analysis.json.lock          ← nobody inflates this

Stripping the log and the lock files makes the bundle 22% smaller on this repository, and the log grows with the analysis, so the share is at least that elsewhere. Every fetch pays for those bytes.

Health configuration is deliberately kept: a run seeded from a bundle reads it, so dropping it would silently ignore a repository's health settings.

On splitting the bundle

The remaining overhead for a reader is the pickle, which the action genuinely needs to seed a head. Splitting the base into a graph artifact and a state artifact would remove it, and I do not think it is worth it: it adds a fourth artifact kind, a fourth name and lifetime to keep in step, and stores the graph twice, in exchange for bytes a reader pays once per merge base and caches. Stripping the scratch is the cheap 80% of that win with none of the complexity.

Verification

94 tests. test_scratch_files_are_not_published seeds a fixture containing a log and a lock file and asserts neither reaches the staged bundle, mutation-checked by removing the strip. The metadata test now asserts assertIs(..., True) rather than equality with a string.

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See the full change in CodeBoarding.

graph LR
    n_Visual_Rendering_Engine["Visual Rendering Engine"]
    n_Structural_Diff_Engine["Structural Diff Engine"]
    n_Interaction_Orchestrator["Interaction Orchestrator"]
    n_Visual_Rendering_Engine -- "Returns rendering metadata and diagram artifacts" --> n_Interaction_Orchestrator
    n_Structural_Diff_Engine -- "Provides annotated diff model for visualization" --> n_Visual_Rendering_Engine
    n_Interaction_Orchestrator -- "Triggers structural comparison via CLI" --> n_Structural_Diff_Engine
    classDef added fill:#1f883d,stroke:#0b5d23,color:#ffffff;
    classDef modified fill:#bf8700,stroke:#7d4e00,color:#ffffff;
    classDef deleted fill:#cf222e,stroke:#82071e,color:#ffffff,stroke-dasharray:5 3;

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