Store chat images separately; JPEG for large PNGs; gzip/brotli responses

Images of messages (pasted images, screenshots, generated images) were base64
inside the message JSON, so opening a chat downloaded all of them at once
(66 MB for a chat with 120 screenshots). They now live in a `blobs` table,
addressed by SHA-256; messages keep a reference (blob, size). The UI loads
them from /api/blobs/<hash> lazily with an immutable cache header, the runner
fills the bytes in before model requests, JSON exports stay self-contained.

- Store::add_message moves inline images out; large opaque PNGs become JPEG
  (q85) when smaller. Older chats are converted once at start-up in the
  background, unused images are removed (also after deleting a chat) and the
  database is vacuumed when that frees 32 MB or more.
- Responses are compressed with gzip/brotli (not images, SSE streams or
  binary downloads).

Example (copy of production): chat load 66 MB -> 1.5 MB (370 KB brotli),
database 90 MB -> 27 MB.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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All notable changes to CodeCraft. Versions follow [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/);
until 1.0, minor versions may contain breaking changes.
## [Unreleased]
### Changed
- **Chats with many images load much faster:** images (screenshots, generated images, pasted
images) are stored separately instead of inside the messages and load on demand when they
scroll into view, cached by the browser. Large PNGs without transparency are stored as JPEG.
Older chats are converted once on the first start; the database usually shrinks a lot.
Example: a chat with 120 screenshots loads 1.5 MB instead of 66 MB.
- **Compressed responses:** the API and the web UI are sent with gzip/brotli (not images,
downloads or live streams).
## [v202611-00009] – 2026-11-09
### Fixed