feat(server): add authenticated HTTP parity for project merge

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🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #1111

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🏷️ PR Type

• type:bug — Bug fix
• type:feature — New feature
• type:docs — Documentation only
• type:refactor — Code refactoring (no behavior change)
• type:chore — Maintenance, dependencies, tooling
• type:breaking-change — Breaking change

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📝 Summary

• Add authenticated HTTP parity for Engram's existing administrative project merge operation.
• Reuse Store.MergeProjects without duplicating merge or validation logic.
• Preserve the existing transactional, idempotent, sync, and autosync behavior.

📂 Changes

File	Change
internal/server/server.go	Register the authenticated POST /projects/merge route and add thin request parsing, validation, error mapping, response serialization, and autosync notification.
internal/store/store.go	Add a typed invalid-request sentinel so the HTTP layer can distinguish validation errors from internal failures.
internal/server/project_merge_test.go	Cover authentication, explicit confirmation, payload limits, validation, fail-closed behavior, idempotence, error mapping, merge results, and write notification.
internal/server/project_merge_e2e_test.go	Verify the authenticated merge flow through the running HTTP server.
DOCS.md	Document the endpoint contract, authentication, validation, idempotence, sync effects, autosync notification, and CLI fallback.

🧪 Test Plan

• Unit tests pass locally: go test ./...
• E2E tests pass locally: go test -tags e2e ./internal/server/...
• Lint passes locally: make lint
• Manually tested the affected functionality

Built and started engram serve with an isolated data directory and configured HTTP token, then verified:

1. An unauthenticated POST /projects/merge returned 401.
2. An authenticated, confirmed merge returned 200 and moved the expected observation, session, and prompt.
3. GET /sessions/{id} exposed the canonical engram project after the merge.
4. Repeating the same merge returned 200 with zero updated records.

Directed store, server, MCP, and project-merge tests pass. The full server E2E suite, go vet ./..., make deadcode-check, make lint, the 125 plugin/pi tests, and git diff --check also pass.

go test ./... was run, but two unrelated failures reproduce on unmodified upstream/main: TestDetectProjectFull_ChildScanFindsLaterSecondRepository depends on directory enumeration order, and TestInstallPiInstallsPackagesAndWritesConfig observes an additional mise current node call when mise is available on PATH.

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💬 Notes for Reviewers

The endpoint shape is POST /projects/merge with:

{
  "from": ["Legacy Name"],
  "to": "canonical name",
  "confirmed": true
}

This is intentionally treated as an administrative operation:

• requireConfiguredAuth fails closed when ENGRAM_HTTP_TOKEN is not configured.
• Explicit confirmed: true is required.
• Request bodies are limited to 8 KiB.
• The handler delegates directly to Store.MergeProjects.
• Invalid merge requests map to HTTP 400 through a typed store sentinel; unexpected store failures map to HTTP 500.
• Every successful merge calls notifyWrite, including zero-count results, because sync enrollment or pending mutation metadata may still have changed.
• Repeated valid requests remain idempotent.

This branch was created independently from PR #1109 and does not include its HTTP pin/unpin or topic-key suggestion changes.

The type:feature label should be added when the PR is opened. The unchecked unit-test boxes reflect unrelated failures reproduced on the same upstream/main commit.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added an authenticated administrative endpoint for consolidating projects into a canonical project.
  • Supports validated, atomic, and repeat-safe merges of project data, including sessions, observations, prompts, enrollment, and pending sync updates.
  • Sends autosync notifications after successful merges.
  • Returns clear responses for invalid requests while protecting internal error details.

• Documentation

  • Documented the project merge endpoint, authentication requirements, and available CLI alternatives.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The server now provides an authenticated POST /projects/merge endpoint. It validates confirmed requests, delegates merging to Store.MergeProjects, reports errors safely, notifies autosync, and documents the API. Tests cover validation, merging, idempotency, synchronization, and failures.

Changes

Project merge HTTP API

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Merge validation contract internal/store/store.go	Adds ErrProjectMergeInvalidRequest and wraps invalid canonical, source, and normalization inputs with this sentinel.
Authenticated merge route internal/server/server.go, DOCS.md	Registers POST /projects/merge, requires configured bearer authentication, validates the request, delegates to Store.MergeProjects, maps errors, notifies autosync, and documents the endpoint.
Merge behavior validation internal/server/project_merge_test.go, internal/server/project_merge_e2e_test.go	Tests authentication, validation, atomic updates, sync metadata, idempotency, mixed-source rejection, hidden infrastructure errors, and the end-to-end merge flow.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b36d5

The authenticated project-merge endpoint validates requests, performs merges through the store layer, and now covers the failure path to ensure failed merges do not trigger autosync. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Server
  participant Store
  participant Autosync
  Client->>Server: POST /projects/merge
  Server->>Store: Validate and merge projects
  Store-->>Server: MergeResult
  Server->>Autosync: notifyWrite()
  Server-->>Client: HTTP 200 and MergeResult

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the authenticated HTTP transport parity added for project merge, which is the main change.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement the requested authenticated POST /projects/merge endpoint, including configured-token authentication, confirmation and payload validation, delegation to Store.MergeProjects, erro…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The documentation, server implementation, store error classification, and unit and end-to-end tests directly support the linked issue objectives. No unrelated code changes are identified.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/server/project_merge_test.go`:
- Around line 216-222: Update the closed-store request test around
serveProjectMerge to install a SetOnWrite counter, explicitly close the test
store, and assert the counter remains zero after the 500 response. Preserve the
existing status and infrastructure-error leakage assertions, and avoid relying
on newServerTestStore cleanup error handling.

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