Add project reconciliation and conflict safeguards

[ash1shkumar]

Add Project Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution Safeguards

📝 Description

This PR strengthens project data consistency by introducing conflict detection, reconciliation safeguards, version awareness, and integrity validation mechanisms for cached project payloads.

Changes Made

• Added conflict detection window for identifying rapid concurrent mutations.
• Introduced reconciliation metadata for tracking payload synchronization.
• Added version metadata generation for payload lifecycle monitoring.
• Implemented payload version consistency validation.
• Added mutation signature generation for update traceability.
• Introduced integrity snapshot generation for payload verification.
• Enhanced project payload reconciliation before cache storage.
• Improved cache metrics with reconciliation and validation indicators.
• Added conflict awareness for project retrieval operations.
• Strengthened cache integrity and collaboration reliability.

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🎯 Type of Change

• 🐞 Bug fix
• ♻️ Refactoring
• ✨ New feature

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🔗 Related Issue

Fixes #371

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✅ Acceptance Criteria

• Reliable conflict handling
• Consistent data representation
• Improved collaboration stability
• Version-aware payload management
• Enhanced update integrity safeguards

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🧪 Testing

• Verified project retrieval with cache enabled.
• Verified cache invalidation behavior.
• Verified payload integrity validation.
• Verified reconciliation metadata generation.
• Verified version consistency checks.
• Verified mutation signature generation.
• Verified cache metrics reporting.

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Expected Labels

level3, NSoC'26

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