feat(pipeline): skip extraction when the source has not changed (#105)

Ingest now stamps source_hash — sha256 of the ingested body, frontmatter
excluded — onto the source page, and compares it before doing any work. An
unchanged source returns Skipped with no LLM call at all.

This is cost and signal, not correctness: #103 already made a re-ingest
byte-identical, so a repeated run was harmless but not free — a full
extraction over every chunk to produce a result that merges to nothing.
Building this first would have put idempotency in the guard rather than in
the write, which is the wrong dependency direction.

Body-only hashing on purpose. A re-crawl that stamps a new fetch date has
not changed the source, and treating that as drift would re-extract the
whole corpus every time a crawler ran. A missing or unreadable hash always
means "extract": a missed skip costs one extraction, a wrong skip loses an
update silently, and silence is the failure mode this repo keeps paying
for.

The skip is reported (Result.Skipped plus a warning naming the hash), not
silent — a run that does nothing must say so, or "the pipeline is fine" and
"the pipeline stopped working" look identical (#107).

Storing the hash required settling who owns which frontmatter field. #103
made the on-disk block win wholesale, which protects human-set metadata
from a regenerating writer but froze fields the generator legitimately
owns. wiki.Merge now refreshes an explicit generatorOwned allowlist —
last_updated and source_hash — and keeps everything else on disk. An
allowlist rather than a carve-out, so a field nobody has thought about
stays human-owned by default. That also retires the last_updated
limitation #103 shipped with.

Refs #105, #103, #107, brain#21.
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Re-ingesting unchanged content is **byte-identical** — no diff, so brain-sync
does not commit noise that hides real edits.
Known limitation: because the on-disk frontmatter wins, `last_updated` keeps its
first-ingest date on a revised page.
Two fields are **generator-owned** and do get refreshed on a revise:
`last_updated` and `source_hash`. Everything else on disk wins. The boundary is
an explicit allowlist, so a field nobody has thought about stays human-owned.
## Re-ingesting an unchanged source is skipped
Ingest stores `source_hash` — sha256 of the ingested **body**, frontmatter
excluded — on the source page. A later ingest of the same source compares it
first and skips extraction entirely when it matches, reporting the skip rather
than doing it silently.
Body-only is deliberate: a re-crawl that stamps a new fetch date has not changed
the source, and treating that as drift would re-extract the corpus every time a
crawler ran. A missing or unreadable hash always means "extract" — a missed skip
costs one extraction, a wrong skip loses an update.
## Phase 1 tools (available now)