feat(ui): Stage 1 demo mode — UI runs with no backend

[luokerenx4]

Summary

OpenAlice's web UI now runs with no backend when launched in demo mode. MSW v2 intercepts /api/* fetch + SSE so the UI bootstraps cleanly without Alice / UTA running. Auto-authed, PTY terminal stub'd, minimum-viable fixtures for the 5 non-trivial domains (auth / trading / workspaces / events SSE / chat SSE); the long tail of ~130 endpoints falls through a catchAll handler that returns 200 {} and console.warns the unmocked path so Stage 2 can walk the log and flesh out handlers as they actually break.

Continues the cost-curve-inversion line from #216 (Electron split, ~1G saved). Next axis: a cloud Claude Code session can now iterate on UI without standing up Alice + UTA. Also the structural prereq for the future marketing demo site (Stage 2, deferred).

Plan: /Users/ame/.claude/plans/merry-cooking-origami.md

What changed

Area	Change
New: ui/src/demo/	MSW worker + 17 handler files + 4 fixture files + DemoTerminalStub.tsx + README. Dynamic-imported in main.tsx only when import.meta.env.VITE_DEMO_MODE is truthy → Rollup tree-shakes the whole subtree in prod builds.
New: ui/public/mockServiceWorker.js	Generated by pnpm -F open-alice-ui msw:init. Committed (deterministic, version-pinned).
New: ui/.env.demo	VITE_DEMO_MODE=true. .gitignore exception added since .env* is broadly gitignored.
New: ui/src/vite-env.d.ts	import.meta.env types — referencing vite/client and declaring VITE_DEMO_MODE.
Edit: ui/src/main.tsx	+4 lines: conditional await import('./demo') before createRoot.
Edit: ui/src/components/workspace/Terminal.tsx	+2 lines: import DemoTerminalStub and early-return when env flag is on. Both the guard and the import are dead-code-eliminated in production.
Edit: ui/package.json	+1 devDep (msw@^2.14.6), +3 scripts (dev:demo, build:demo, msw:init).
Edit: root package.json	Adds scoped pnpm override msw>path-to-regexp: ^6.3.0. MSW v2 expects v6 path-syntax; root's security-pinned v8 override broke MSW's matcher. v6.3.0 is also patched for CVE-2024-45296.

Verification — end-to-end in browser

Ran pnpm -F open-alice-ui dev:demo with no backend running. Navigated via Playwright through:

• /inbox (initial) — auto-authed, no login screen
• /portfolio — demo UTA $10k equity, empty positions
• /news — empty list
• /workspaces/demo-ws — demo workspace + git/files panels render
• /workspaces/demo-ws/s/demo-session — Demo mode — terminal disabled stub renders, zero WebSocket attempts to /api/workspaces/pty (the key safety check)
• /settings — settings page loads

Result: 0 console errors across the entire walk. 2 catchAll warns surfaced (PUT /api/config/snapshot, PUT /api/config/compaction) — these are the Stage 2 backlog signals working as designed.

Production bundle accounting

pnpm -F open-alice-ui build (no demo flag) → ui/dist/assets/index-*.js:

grep -l "mockServiceWorker|VITE_DEMO_MODE|setupWorker" ui/dist/assets/*.js   # zero matches
grep -lE "Demo mode|DemoTerminalStub" ui/dist/assets/*.js                    # zero matches
grep -oE "[a-zA-Z]*msw[a-zA-Z]*" ui/dist/assets/*.js | sort -u
# → "lmsw", "smsw", "tlimswitch" (substring noise only — no MSW library)

Main chunk 2.84MB / 845KB gzip — identical magnitude vs master (the chunk-size warning is pre-existing).

Install size delta

Profile	Size
Full install (this branch)	1.2G
pnpm install --filter='!@traderalice/desktop' (cloud sessions)	~750M
Net change vs master	+~13M (MSW + its tree under .pnpm)

The "UI-only install" sub-target hit a pnpm limitation: with --frozen-lockfile, pnpm populates .pnpm/ from the full lockfile regardless of --filter. Getting below 750M would require lockfile sharding — deferred.

Test plan

• pnpm -F open-alice-ui tsc -b clean
• pnpm -F open-alice-ui dev:demo + Playwright walkthrough (0 errors)
• pnpm -F open-alice-ui build — no msw / VITE_DEMO_MODE / DemoTerminalStub refs in prod bundle
• Terminal stub renders; zero pty WebSocket attempts
• catchAll handler surfaces unmocked endpoints as console.warn (= Stage 2 backlog)
• Manual: try pnpm dev (full stack) to confirm production path still works unchanged — deferred to reviewer (this is the non-demo path, untouched by this PR)

Out of scope (Stage 2)

Rich scenario fixtures, scripted SSE timelines, WebSocket PTY replay (waits for MSW v2 WS GA), in-memory mutation persistence, persistent "Demo Mode" UI banner, marketing-quality copy. The current PR lays the structural foundation; Stage 2 walks the [demo] unmocked … console.warn log to fill in coverage.

Boundary touch

None — no trading / auth / broker / migrations code modified.

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