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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Richard ZinkandClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-11-09 20:21:24 +01:00
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export interface ImageData {
media_type: string;
data: string;
/** Base64 bytes; absent when the server stores the image separately (blob). */
data?: string;
/** SHA-256 of a stored image: GET /api/blobs/<blob>. */
blob?: string;
/** Size in bytes of a stored image. */
size?: number;
}
export type Part =