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Anthony StirlingandJames Brunton e50c3de0a9 Run classification locally first and only escalate an unsure verdict to the AI (#7580)
Split out of #7574 — this is the classification half, which is
independent of the editor-source work and can land on its own.

## What this does

- **Runs the local heuristic first and only escalates an unsure verdict
to the AI.** A high-confidence local answer stands; anything less (or a
file the heuristic hasn't reached yet) goes to the engine. A wrong label
costs more than an engine call, so the bar is deliberately strict.
- **Makes `classify` an authorable pipeline task**, so it can be used as
a step like any other tool, and skips files that are already classified.
- **Leaves the seeded Classification policy unowned** rather than naming
a `system` placeholder that was never a real user; existing seeds are
repaired on boot.

## Review feedback applied

From @jbrunton96 on #7574:

- **The generic runner no longer names classification.** Everything
classification-specific moved into
`proprietary/data/classificationPolicy.ts`, and `usePolicyAutoRun` now
asks capability questions instead: `policyRewritesDocument`,
`policyDeliversOutputFiles`, `policyRequiresAiEngine`,
`shouldDispatchToAi`. There is no `id === "classification"` left in the
runner.
- **Ordering is no longer a name in the runner.**
`pinClassificationLast` is gone; the runner sorts annotating policies
after rewriting ones. The constraint is real: an annotating policy is
non-blocking, so a rewriting one running after it forks from the
pre-annotation version and drops the labels. To be straight about what
this is and isn't - see "Still open" below - `policyRewritesDocument` is
still keyed on the category id, not on a property each policy declares.
The check moved out of the runner; it did not stop being a check on one
id.
- **Confidence is typed.** New `ClassificationConfidence` union in
`core/types/fileContext.ts`, reused by `fileStorage`,
`HeuristicConfidence`, and the trusted-verdict constant instead of being
respelled at each site.
- **Comments trimmed** to the repo's 2-line guideline, and a stale
seeder javadoc that still claimed an internal-user owner was corrected.

## Still open, deliberately

`classificationPolicy.ts` answers its capability questions with
`categoryId === "classification"`. That is the same check relocated, not
removed, and the module doc now says so outright.

Deliberate, for two reasons:

- **The concept it would be declared against is going away.** Policies
are becoming pipelines with labels behind a separate enforcement layer,
which removes the category the flag would live on. A capability system
built on `categoryId` today gets migrated twice.
- **Classification is genuinely privileged, not accidentally special.**
It is the only policy with a browser-side implementation, so it can
answer without the server. That is a product decision, and a local-only
mode for set scenarios is planned - the flag for it should be designed
with that feature, not guessed at now.

The end state for the rest: an in-place output mode retires the ordering
rule and `policyDeliversOutputFiles`, and a run result that can carry
findings as well as files retires the remainder. Both touch the import
path, which is the most delicate code in `usePolicyAutoRun` - not
something to bolt on to a PR that has already been split once.

Nothing is broken by leaving it. A user-built classify pipeline still
gets its labels: the generic import path reads them off the returned
PDF. It versions the file instead of labelling in place, and it misses
the local-heuristic shortcut, so it always bills the engine.

## Testing

- `classificationPolicy.test.ts` — 12 cases covering each capability and
the escalation rule
- Full frontend `proprietary` project: 39 files / 442 tests
- `:proprietary:test` for `DefaultClassificationPolicySeederTest` +
`ClassifyLabelControllerTest`
- `tsc --noEmit` on core, proprietary, portal, saas, desktop, cloud

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Co-authored-by: James Brunton <jbrunton96@gmail.com>
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