feat(agent): Ed25519-signed checkpoints
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Makes the README's "cryptographically verifiable memory" true.

With HDF5Memory::set_signing_key(key), every checkpoint stores a signed
manifest of the store: a SHA-256 per memory record (text, embedding as
stored, channel, timestamp, session, tags, deleted flag, activation) in
a Merkle tree, plus hashes of the settings (and WAL mark), sessions and
knowledge graph. The signature, public key and manifest hashes go in
/meta; the per-record hashes in /integrity/record_hashes, so
HDF5Memory::verify(path, &public_key) can say which records changed, not
just that something did. A forged manifest fails the signature.

Decisions, as agreed:
- the key is set on the open store and never persisted;
- a signed store refuses to checkpoint without its key
  (MemoryError::SigningKeyRequired); remove_signature() is the
  deliberate way back to unsigned;
- checkpoints only: saves still in the WAL are not covered, and verify
  reports how many there are.

The hashes cover exactly what the file persists, in the form the loader
returns it (strings lose trailing NULs; an empty WAL mark is not
written), so untouched stores verify across any number of reopen and
checkpoint cycles. MemoryError becomes #[non_exhaustive] (it already
gains variants in this unreleased version).

CLI: keygen (owner-only key file), --signing-key / CLAWHDF5_SIGNING_KEY
on writing commands (create signs immediately), verify --public-key
(JSON; exit 2 if not valid), `signed` in create/stats output.

Tests: reopen/checkpoint cycles with awkward strings (f16 and f32),
refusal without the key, wrong and rotated keys, eight kinds of edit
each detected and located, a forged manifest, unsigned stores, NULs in
text, and an edit made in place with h5py that verify pinpoints.

Cost on tank (search_harness --signing-study --full, 3 runs): ~20% of a
checkpoint (+9 ms at 10K, +89-112 ms at 100K), verify 18.6 ms / 247 ms,
32 bytes per record in the file. New deps ed25519-dalek, sha2,
rand_core: pure Rust, the no-C check passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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@@ -243,6 +243,30 @@ index asked for ~16 000 candidates, where scanning the few hundred or thousand
allowed records is exact and cheap. Re-ranking a 3k candidate pool and
confidence rejection add about 3%.
### Signed checkpoints
Measured 2026-09-25 on tank (AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D). A default store (float16,
int8 index), 384-dim; each checkpoint rewrites the whole file, as every
checkpoint does. Medians of five checkpoints and three verifies; three runs
agreed to within the ranges shown.
```bash
cargo run --release -p clawhdf5-bench --bin search_harness -- --signing-study --full
```
| N | checkpoint, unsigned | checkpoint, signed | signing adds | `verify` | file size added |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 000 | 5.4 ms | 6.4 ms | 0.7–1.0 ms | 2.1 ms | 0.03 MiB |
| 10 000 | 46 ms | 55 ms | 8.1–9.4 ms | 18.6 ms | 0.31 MiB |
| 100 000 | 495 ms | 598 ms | 89–112 ms | 247 ms | 3.05 MiB |
Signing costs about 20% of a checkpoint: every record is rehashed (SHA-256)
and the Merkle root recomputed each time; the Ed25519 signature itself is
microseconds. Caching per-record hashes between checkpoints would cut this to
the records that changed. The per-record hashes stored for locating edits are
32 bytes each (4% of a 100K float16 store). `verify` reads and rehashes the
whole checkpoint.
### float16 embedding storage (`MemoryConfig::float16`)
Measured 2026-09-23 on tank (AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D). The same clustered