EthanHealy01 49c1e75ced Surface recorded failures in a notification bell (Review Flow PR 4) (#7478)
Review Flow PR 4. Stacked on #7477. Recorded failures appear in a
notification bell, showing each reader the failures they are allowed to
see and the actions they can actually take.

Scope is deliberately viewing and routing only. Resolving a failure —
retry, decrypt-and-retry — is #7479, which also brings the write path
for it; nothing resolution-shaped ships here, not even dark.

## What's added

**A notification bell** in the editor and the processor shell. Polls
`GET /api/v1/notifications` every 30 seconds, shows an unread badge, and
lists open failures newest first. Each row shows the failure's title,
its message with **Copy error** and **Show full message** chips, an
occurrence count, and its available actions.

**A notification API** (`stirling.software.proprietary.notification`),
derived from failures on read rather than stored in its own table:

| Route | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `GET /api/v1/notifications` | the caller's open failures, newest first
|

Read-only by design: every action the bell offers is one the client runs
on its own device, so there is nothing to post back. Every id is
prefixed (`failure:<uuid>`), so the bell never holds a raw failure id it
could hand to a failure endpoint.

**Per-reader actions.** A `FailureKind` declares each action with an
audience (`OWNER`, `TEAM_REVIEWER`, `ANYONE_WHO_SEES`). The server
resolves that against the reader and derives `Ownership` (`MINE` /
`THEIRS` / `UNOWNED`) from the row's actor, so an admin reviewing
someone else's failure is not offered a document their browser does not
hold. Adding a failure kind requires no frontend change.

**Server-run and client-run actions are distinguished.**
`FailureActionId` carries an `Execution` facet; the registry requires a
bean only for server actions, and dispatching a client action on the
failure surface returns 400. The notification projection goes further:
it carries only client-run offers, so the bell cannot be sent a button
it would refuse to draw.

**Actions in the bell:** at most two. The owner of the document gets
**View file** (opens it in the editor); a team reviewer gets **View in
processor** (dev builds only). Dismiss stays on the failure queue in
`/processor/documents` — deciding a failure's fate belongs to the review
surface, not the panel that announces it. An action id the build has not
wired is skipped rather than rendered dead, so the server can ship new
kinds ahead of the clients that understand them.

**Attended policy runs record their document.** `POST
/api/v1/policies/{id}/run` accepts an optional opaque `fileId`, recorded
when the run carries exactly one primary document. This is what lets a
repeat fold onto one incident instead of opening a new one per upload,
lets deleting the file clear its failure, and lets the owner open the
document from the row.

## Behaviour changes

- **The bell re-reads as soon as a failure you caused is recorded**,
rather than leaving you to wait out a poll interval for news of your own
upload. Applies to a failed tool run and to a policy run reaching
`FAILED`. Other people's failures still arrive on the poll, which is
what it is for.
- **An action the reader cannot use is not rendered.** Where the server
gave a reason for withholding it, that reason appears as the row's
one-line note. An action that was never offered to that reader produces
no note.
- **Deleting a document closes every incident about it that the deleter
caused**, including a failed policy run on their own upload, so a user's
own errors leave the bell with the file rather than lingering with a
dead button.
- **The failures list in `/processor/documents` stays behind
`import.meta.env.DEV`**, and View in processor is gated to match so it
cannot navigate to a section that is not mounted. Both lift when
failures get their own review screen.
- **One poll for all bells.** The bell is mounted in three places; the
list, document lookups and read marker are shared, so mounting more than
one does not multiply requests.
- `ACKNOWLEDGE` is no longer offered by any kind. The id, bean and
status remain so existing rows stay readable.

## Known limits

- The poll does not pause when the tab is hidden.
- No retention or per-team cap on `file_run_events`.

## How to test

Needs a proprietary or SaaS build with login enabled. `task dev:all`,
then sign in.

1. **Create a failure.** Add a password-protected PDF to the editor and
choose **Skip for now** when it asks to unlock. The upload starts a
policy run that fails on it.
2. **Watch the bell.** The badge should appear within a second or two,
not after 30 — this is the refresh-on-failure path. Open it: a row
titled "Password-protected document" with the error message and the two
chips.
3. **The buttons should be View file and View in processor, nothing
else.** No Dismiss and no retries: dispositions live on the review
surface, resolutions in #7479.
4. **View file** closes the panel and selects that document in the
editor.
5. **Dismiss from the queue instead.** Open `/processor/documents` (dev
build), find the row in the failures list and dismiss it there; the bell
drops it on its next read.
6. **Confirm the local-document probe.** Create a second failure, then
delete that file from the editor and reload. Its incident closes with
it; a row whose document is still present keeps **View file**.
7. **Confirm attribution end to end.** Sign in as a plain member, run a
shared policy on your own upload so it fails. The member sees their own
row in the bell. Sign in as the team leader: they see it too, but with
**View in processor** instead of **View file**, because the document is
not in their browser.
8. **Confirm folding.** Add the same locked PDF again and skip again.
The existing row's occurrence count increases rather than a second row
appearing.
9. **Confirm one poll for many bells.** Open the editor and the
processor in two tabs. Each tab issues its own poll, but within a tab
the several mounted bells share one — the Network tab should show one
`GET /api/v1/notifications` per 30s per tab, not three.

## Migration

None. No new column and no new value in any CHECK-constrained enum;
`CheckConstrainedEnumsTest` fails if that changes.
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