Keep the vectors beside the atoms instead of rebuilding them per query

The dense leg used to be a pair of files next to the database: a full .npy
re-encoded from every atom, re-normalized on every query, and stale the moment
anything was ingested. It is now a vec0 table inside the same SQLite file,
written in the same transaction as the atom it describes, so a memory is
queryable the instant it is remembered.

- vector_index.py maintains the table; the writer inserts, the reader never
  rebuilds. A repair scan (ely-eye build-dense-index) catches what a crash hid,
  and it is not on the search path.
- Ranking stays in the engine; every boundary (closed, retired, not yet true,
  another holder's private memory, the mounted cartridge) is checked once against
  the atoms table afterwards. A visibility subquery inside the KNN cost 48.9s on
  153,857 vectors; the same check over 200 candidates costs 0.2ms. When the
  boundaries reject enough candidates the ask widens once, never twice.
- The Go mirror and the web panel carry the new status fields.
- bench/dense_scale.py and bench/quant_probe.py measure the leg at corpus size;
  bench/scale_check.py now works on a copy so the frozen baseline stays frozen.

Measured on the frozen 165,973-atom corpus. bench/reports/DENSE.md, QUANT.md and
SCALE.md carry the numbers and the machine they were taken on.

Gates: 285 pytest, ruff clean, pyright 0 on the touched files, go build/vet/test
and gofmt clean, frontend build and eslint clean. mypy is 25 findings against the
parent's 24: the new one is "Skipping analyzing sqlite_vec: missing library stubs",
the same class as the two existing qwen_vl_utils lines, and the repo keeps no
type: ignore anywhere.
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import sqlite3
from .storage import token_equivalent, visual_token_equivalent
from .text_index import index_text
SCHEMA_VERSION = 7
SCHEMA_VERSION = 8
ATOM_COLUMNS_V2 = """
atom_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
@@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ _BASE_TABLES = """
documents INTEGER NOT NULL
);
-- What the dense vector table was built from. vec0 cannot be altered in place, so when the
-- model or the width changes the table is dropped and re-encoded; these three values are
-- how the next start notices it has to.
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS vector_index_meta (
key TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
value TEXT NOT NULL
);
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS atom_fts USING fts5(
atom_id UNINDEXED,
source,