Fix local docs directory reads in worker previews

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Local docs rendered individual files in the Cloudflare preview, but directory reads still used the worker filesystem. That left local documentation out of generated manifests and sitemaps.

Add authenticated directory-tree requests to the existing Vite local-docs bridge. Preserve the directory-depth limit, skip generated directories and symlinks, check realpath containment, and validate the returned tree before using it. This affects local development, not production GitHub fetching.

Validation: repository-boundary and nested-directory test passed; full site checks passed with the in-progress freshness changes present (523 tests passed, 3 skipped, types/lint clean). A local HTTP check verified that the Start guide reappeared in the sitemap. The preview used the documented DISABLE_REDACT=true mode because the development Redact walker failed independently.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Local documentation browsing now supports structured directory trees with nested files and folders.
  • Isolated environments can load documentation trees through the development server.
  • Directory listings are consistently ordered and exclude ignored or symbolic-link paths.
  • Repository-root directory listings are supported.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved validation prevents access to paths outside the documentation repository.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for nested documentation, ignored directories, symbolic links, depth limits, repository-root listings, and invalid paths.

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Walkthrough

The change adds bounded local documentation tree traversal, serves trees as JSON through the development server, and updates isolate-runtime loading to request and validate tree responses.

Changes

Local documentation tree flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded local tree reader and coverage src/utils/local-docs-tree.server.ts, tests/local-docs-tree.test.ts	Adds repository-boundary validation, ignored-entry and symlink filtering, deterministic ordering, GitHub-style metadata, depth-limited traversal, and filesystem integration tests.
Development server tree endpoint vite.config.ts	Adds kind=tree handling. Directory requests return the generated tree as JSON. File requests retain plain-text responses.
Isolate-runtime tree consumption src/utils/documents.server.ts	Adds the tree request option and makes isolate-runtime loading parse and validate the development-server tree response.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant IsolateRuntime
  participant fetchFsFromDevServer
  participant DevServer
  participant readLocalDocsTree
  IsolateRuntime->>fetchFsFromDevServer: request documentation tree
  fetchFsFromDevServer->>DevServer: send kind=tree request
  DevServer->>readLocalDocsTree: read repository directory
  readLocalDocsTree-->>DevServer: return GitHubFileNode array
  DevServer-->>fetchFsFromDevServer: return JSON tree
  fetchFsFromDevServer-->>IsolateRuntime: parse and validate tree

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In `@src/utils/local-docs-tree.server.ts`:
- Around line 25-26: Update the path validation in the local documentation tree
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