InferBridge 0.11.0-beta.1

Fixes two issues reproduced during local OpenVINO hardware testing and rebuilds the beta.

Fixes

Prevents HTTP 500 after NPU stream cancellation by waiting for engine recovery before prompt construction and token accounting. Applies the same model lease to Responses requests, tool retries, and context-budget inspection, and retains it until cancelled tokenizer workers finish.
Prevents GenAI from applying a second chat template to already formatted prompts, which could exceed the NPU prompt limit even when the app's token budget passed.
Makes the Benchmark Lab browser regression select CPU explicitly so it works on machines with GPU and NPU devices as well as CPU-only CI workers.
Removes a live Hugging Face dependency from the custom embedding registration unit regression; access checks remain covered separately.
Skips the real Hugging Face progress-bar regression when optional conversion dependencies are absent in minimal-runtime CI; qualified Windows builds still execute it.
Retains the active Hugging Face download progress and preparation watchdog fix from 0.11.0-beta.

Local source validation: 1,333 unit tests passed, 20 skipped; 39 Chromium browser checks passed.
Ruff lint, formatting, dependency consistency, and all 37 injected JavaScript blocks passed.
Fixes Windows certification report generation when a device is unavailable or its server fails to start.
Existing settings, model files, downloaded caches, and data schema remain compatible.
Real CPU, GPU, and NPU API and prompt-capacity checks passed on the local validation machine. GPU compiled-cache reuse failed its fingerprint check and remains unverified.
See docs/certification/LOCAL_AUDIT_2026_09_18.md for hardware results and verification limits.
This beta is unsigned and makes no Authenticode signing claim.