tooling-only typed projection for command owner metadata

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Summary

Closes #1178.

PR #1174 colocated ownerFiles on every CommandDescriptor so explain:command had typed, completeness-enforced navigation metadata. Those strings were also kept on the runtime descriptor objects and were emitted in production bundles (e.g. sdk-batch.js).

This PR moves the owner metadata into a tooling-only typed projection that is still colocated with the declarations, still complete at compile time, still used by explain:command, and now dropped from production bundles by normal treeshaking.

Changes

• CommandDescriptor no longer has ownerFiles.
• RAW_COMMAND_DESCRIPTORS entries no longer carry ownerFiles.
• A new commandDescriptorOwners map in src/core/command-descriptor/registry.ts is a separate Record<Command, readonly [string, ...string[]]> projection.
• src/commands/command-explain.ts and src/commands/__tests__/command-explain.test.ts now merge commandDescriptorOwners when listing owner files.
• DAEMON_ROUTE_HANDLERS in src/daemon/request-handler-chain.ts no longer takes ownerFile in defineDaemonRoute; a new DAEMON_ROUTE_OWNER_FILES record is the tooling-only source and getDaemonRouteOwnerFiles() returns a copy of it.
• src/daemon/__tests__/request-handler-chain.test.ts parses the new owner-records structure.

// runtime descriptor
export const commandDescriptors = RAW_COMMAND_DESCRIPTORS.map((descriptor) => ({
  ...descriptor,
  mcpExposed: resolveMcpExposure(descriptor),
})) satisfies readonly CommandDescriptor[];

// tooling-only projection
export const commandDescriptorOwners = {
  ...
} as const satisfies Record<Command, readonly [string, ...string[]]>;

Verification

• pnpm typecheck, pnpm lint, pnpm format:check, pnpm test:unit, pnpm check:layering, and pnpm test:output-economy all pass.
• pnpm explain:command still lists owner files correctly.
• Production bundle (node --experimental-strip-types node_modules/tsdown/dist/run.mjs --config-loader native) no longer contains ownerFiles strings (rg -n "ownerFiles" dist/src is empty); sdk-batch.js gzip drops from ~4.76 kB to ~4.47 kB.

Link to Devin session: https://app.devin.ai/sessions/c5f42b75391f471e96a6354577b5d9be
Requested by: @thymikee

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Size Report

Metric	Base	Current	Diff
JS raw	1.6 MB	1.6 MB	-4.0 kB
JS gzip	517.9 kB	517.5 kB	-347 B
npm tarball	624.2 kB	623.7 kB	-496 B
npm unpacked	2.2 MB	2.2 MB	-4.0 kB

Startup median (7 runs, lower is better):

Scenario	Base	Current	Diff
CLI --version	26.3 ms	26.1 ms	-0.2 ms
CLI --help	54.5 ms	54.5 ms	-0.0 ms

Top changed chunks:

Chunk	Raw diff	Gzip diff
dist/src/sdk-batch.js	-3.7 kB	-283 B
dist/src/internal/daemon.js	-384 B	-64 B

[thymikee]

Review — 🟡 Duplicate of #1192; recommend closing this one

Pure structural move (like #1192): strips ownerFiles off the runtime CommandDescriptor/RAW_COMMAND_DESCRIPTORS and daemon DAEMON_ROUTE_HANDLERS into satisfies-typed projection consts read only by the tooling path. The code is otherwise SHIP-WITH-NITS quality, but it directly duplicates #1192 (same bot, same #1178, same thesis) and #1192's mechanism is stronger.

Why #1192 is preferable:

1. Boundary strength. refactor: keep command and daemon-route owner-file claims tooling-only (#1178) #1192 isolates the projection into a separate file (owner-files.ts) that production never imports — the strings drop regardless of DCE. This PR leaves commandDescriptorOwners as a named export inside the production-imported registry.ts and relies on named-export tree-shaking. Functional, but strictly more fragile: one accidental production reference re-ships the strings.
2. No re-leak guard. refactor: keep command and daemon-route owner-file claims tooling-only (#1178) #1192 ships owner-files.test.ts asserting no runtime descriptor carries ownerFiles. This PR has only the compile-time satisfies (completeness, not leakage). Future code referencing commandDescriptorOwners/getDaemonRouteOwnerFiles re-enters the bundle with nothing to catch it.
3. Misleading self-verification. The evidence rg "ownerFiles" dist/src is empty — but the new const is named commandDescriptorOwners with no ownerFiles key, so that grep could not detect a leak of the new object even if it occurred. Only the gzip delta is real evidence.

What this PR does better than #1192: it actually strips the ~8 daemon-route ownerFile strings that #1192 leaves in the bundle. #1192's stated reason for leaving them ("binds each route's production loader") is wrong — ownerFile is inert metadata read only by tooling, never used in load/run.

Recommendation: close this PR and fold its daemon-route stripping into #1192 (separate-file isolation + no-leak test). Don't merge both.

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Agreed — the daemon-route owner-file metadata has been moved into the separate src/daemon/route-owner-files.ts in #1192, with a parity test against the production loaders and a guard that the production chain module doesn't carry ownerFile. The strings are no longer in dist/src (grep empty). Closing this one in favor of #1192.

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