Live mode: staged AI copy edits

[abdulwahabone]

Closes #139.

Summary

Adds staged inline copy editing to Live mode.

Users can edit text directly on the page, Save stages the copy edit without touching source, and Apply copy edits sends the staged page batch to the local AI agent. Source is only considered applied after verification confirms the requested new text exists in plausible source files.

Flow

flowchart TD
  A[User edits text on page] --> B[Save]
  B --> C[Stage copy edit only]
  C --> D[Show Apply copy edits dock]
  D --> E[Apply copy edits]
  E --> F[Send staged batch to local AI agent]
  F --> G[AI updates real source files]
  G --> H[Verify requested text exists in source]
  H -->|Verified| I[Clear applied edits from buffer]
  H -->|Failed or ambiguous| J[Keep edits staged with failure details]

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What Changed

• Added inline text editing and staged copy-edit buffer.
• Added Apply/Discard dock with apply loading state.
• Replaced deterministic resolver/source mutation with batched AI apply.
• Added evidence collection for DOM refs, source hints, nearby text, and candidate files/lines.
• Added verification so false success does not clear staged edits.
• Removed obsolete direct-save/handoff paths and rebuilt generated provider copies.

Why The Noise?

Most changed files are generated harness output, not hand-authored feature code.

• Current PR diff: 228 changed files.
• 195 auto-generated harness/plugin files across 13 committed provider/install directories: .agents/, .claude/skills/, .cursor/, .gemini/, .github/, .kiro/, .opencode/, .pi/, .qoder/, .rovodev/, .trae/, .trae-cn/, and plugin/.
• That generated set is 13 directories x 15 files each: reference/live.md plus 14 live-mode/helper scripts. They are produced by bun run build from skill/.
• CLAUDE.md says these generated harness files are intentionally committed because npx skill installs read them directly at install time, so they need to ship.
• The real review surface is 15 source-of-truth files in skill/ (reference/live.md + 14 scripts), 14 test files, and 4 config/dependency files: .gitignore, .claude/settings.json, package.json, and bun.lock.
• No /site demo edits are included in this PR.

Safety

• Save stages plain text only; markup-like text is rejected.
• Apply requires explicit appliedEntryIds and touched files from the AI result.
• Post-apply checks catch invalid JS and leftover live/carbonize markers.
• Failed or ambiguous edits remain staged with candidate evidence.

Tests Run

• node --check on changed live scripts
• node --test focused live copy-edit/browser/server/session tests
• bun run build
• bun run test

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Note

Medium Risk
Adds a new staged copy-edit pipeline (new server endpoints, on-page editor UI, and AI-driven source mutation/verification), which changes core Live-mode behavior and introduces new file-write and rollback logic that could affect developer workflows if it mis-verifies or rolls back incorrectly.

Overview
Adds staged inline copy editing to Live mode: users can edit text directly in the page, Save stashes plain-text ops into .impeccable/live/pending-manual-edits.json, and a new bottom-dock Apply copy edits action invokes an AI batch to update real source files.

Introduces new server endpoints (/manual-edit-stash, /manual-edit-commit, /manual-edit-discard) plus a new browser editing state/badge UI and a pending-edits counter/dock. The apply path is now AI-driven (live-copy-edit-agent.mjs + live-commit-manual-edits.mjs) with evidence gathering (live-manual-edit-evidence.mjs), post-apply validation/rollback, and verification before clearing staged edits.

Updates variant flows to be buffer-aware: live-wrap.mjs requires --page-url when pending edits might affect the wrapped block, and live-accept.mjs now scopes manual-edit scrubbing to the accepted wrapper’s original block (plus takes --page-url). Also hardens live infra with stale PID cleanup for server.json and tweaks injection for .astro (<script is:inline ...>), with docs updated accordingly.

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[abdulwahabone]

Fixing a few bugs before this is ready for review.

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[abdulwahabone]

Taking some time to do more testing on this