feat(assistant): search the web too, and choose what goes along

The assistant's field now has a switch at its start: a question goes to
Claude or into a web search, and the field remembers which. A web search
opens the chosen engine's results: on Android the device's own web
search by default (ACTION_WEB_SEARCH, answered by its default browser or
search app; Brave Search where nothing answers), elsewhere Brave Search
by default; Settings › Assistant › Search engine offers Ecosia,
DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Qwant, Google, Bing, or one's own address with
%s where the question goes.

Above the field, chips offer what the question is about: a card's
front, back, each hint and its explanation, the studyset's name and
description. None is chosen, so only what the person picks goes along,
each part cut at 600 characters; Claude gets the question and a compact
line per chosen part, a web search the question and the chosen text,
never the studyset's name. A chosen chip alone is enough to send. The
old sentences around every question (where it was asked, the connector)
are gone: they cost tokens for nothing unless the studyset is chosen.

On a studyset's screen the button now stands above the bottom bar, as in
the Library: unfolded inside the bar, its chips lay outside the bar's
bounds, where taps don't land.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MMm7usAo6q9ZZRoPkWjoxi
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
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@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ A spaced-repetition learning app: studysets of flashcards, reviewed on an FSRS s
- **The client's local migration** (in `halkyon_learn_client/lib/migrations/`, written by the same `create-migration`) creates the device's SQLite schema from the whole definition, so it also contains the server's own tables. Only the synced tables and the bookkeeping ever hold data on a device.
- **Older apps** can't be made to update once published. Before the first sync of each launch the app asks whether the server still works with its build (`minimumAppBuild` in `instance.info()`, from `lib/src/instance/app_compatibility.dart` in the server; the build is the number after `+` in the app's version), and the sync engine refuses an app whose synced tables differ from the server's. Both end in `AppServerMismatchException` (`core/sync/`), and the app says so: a banner on Home and the Sync card in Settings. Raise `minimumAppBuild` in the commit that breaks older apps (an endpoint they call changes or goes), to the build of the first app that works again; a change to the synced tables needs no raise. Every release raises the build number.
- **Instances** (decided 2026-10-10, as Moshidon does): the device keeps an account on each instance it was used with, one in use at a time (`core/instance/`). `InstanceChoice` holds them (`instances.json` in the app's support folder); a new install chooses at first start (`FirstStartScreen`: an address checked with `instance.info()`, or the build's own in one tap), and one from before there was a choice goes on with the build's (`SERVER_URL`), as it has a `people/` folder. `InstanceGate` builds `Dependencies.create(instance, device)` for the one in use and builds it anew on a switch, the previous closed first; `DeviceParts` (version, sounds, Pomodoro platform, device settings) outlive switches. Each instance's people's folders and session are its own (`InstanceStorage`): the build's own instance keeps `people/` and Serverpod's own session key, so existing installs keep everything; others `instances/<name>/people/` and a key of their own. Settings › Switch account lists them (`showAccountSwitcher`): another one switches, Add account chooses another instance, and removing one not in use deletes its folder and stored session (the session stays valid on the instance until it expires). Signing out still ends only the account in use.
- **Asking Claude** (decided 2026-10-10; `feature/assistant/`): a device setting, off unless the person turns it on (Settings › Assistant), shows a field at the foot of Home (`AskClaudeBar`) and a button that unfolds into one (`AskClaudeButton`): above Create studyset in the Library, in the right lane of a studyset's bottom bar (floating alone from expanded windows on), and in the card's lower right corner while studying. A question is handed to Claude, never answered here: `ClaudeHandOff` opens `https://claude.ai/new?q=…` (cut at 12,000 characters) with the question and what it is about (`AssistantTopic`: the person's learning, a studyset by name, or the studied card's text), for the person to send in Claude. A Claude plan can't drive a chat inside another app (Anthropic allows no third party to sign in with it), so Claude reads studysets through the instance's connector instead (ADR 0006): `halkyon_learn_server/lib/src/assistant/` serves MCP (`/mcp`, Streamable HTTP, JSON answers, no sessions; five read-only tools in `connector_tools.dart`) and its OAuth (`/.well-known/oauth-*`, `/oauth/register`, `/oauth/authorize`, `/oauth/token`) on Serverpod's web server, which production runs on 8082 for these paths alone (Caddy forwards them; `connectorOf` takes the public address from `webServer`). People connect with a code from Settings › Assistant › Connect Claude (`AssistantEndpoint.connectCode`, eight Crockford characters, ten minutes, once), typed on the authorization page; codes and tokens are kept as SHA-256 hashes. The handlers take plain requests (`ConnectorRequest`), so `test/integration/assistant/` drives the whole flow without a web server; the Relic routes only translate.
- **Asking Claude or searching the web** (decided 2026-10-10; `feature/assistant/`): a device setting, off unless the person turns it on (Settings › Assistant), shows a field at the foot of Home (`AssistantBar`) and a button that unfolds into one (`AssistantButton`): above Create studyset in the Library, above a studyset's bottom bar (floating alone from expanded windows on), and in the card's lower right corner while studying. A switch at the field's start sends to Claude or to a web search and is remembered (`assistantTarget`). Above the field, chips offer the parts of what it is about (`AssistantTopic.parts`: a card's front, back, each hint, its explanation, the studyset's name and description), none chosen, so only what the person picks goes along, each cut at 600 characters; a web search takes the question and the chosen text, never the studyset's name or description. Nothing is answered here: `ClaudeHandOff` opens `https://claude.ai/new?q=…` (cut at 12,000 characters) with the question and a compact line per chosen part, and `WebSearch` opens the chosen engine's results (`SearchEngine`: Brave Search by default on desktops, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Qwant, Google, Bing, or the person's own address with `%s`), or on Android hands the question to the device's own web search (`ACTION_WEB_SEARCH` in `MainActivity.kt`, Brave Search where nothing answers). Halkyon apps use no LLM API keys: their pricing is opaque and open to abuse, and the person decides each time what an LLM sees. A Claude plan can't drive a chat inside another app (Anthropic allows no third party to sign in with it), so Claude reads studysets through the instance's connector instead (ADR 0006): `halkyon_learn_server/lib/src/assistant/` serves MCP (`/mcp`, Streamable HTTP, JSON answers, no sessions; five read-only tools in `connector_tools.dart`) and its OAuth (`/.well-known/oauth-*`, `/oauth/register`, `/oauth/authorize`, `/oauth/token`) on Serverpod's web server, which production runs on 8082 for these paths alone (Caddy forwards them; `connectorOf` takes the public address from `webServer`). People connect with a code from Settings › Assistant › Connect Claude (`AssistantEndpoint.connectCode`, eight Crockford characters, ten minutes, once), typed on the authorization page; codes and tokens are kept as SHA-256 hashes. The handlers take plain requests (`ConnectorRequest`), so `test/integration/assistant/` drives the whole flow without a web server; the Relic routes only translate.
- **Where sync stands** is `SyncService.status` (syncing, the last sync that went through, the last failure; since the app started), which `SyncStatusBloc` (`core/sync/`, provided by `PersonApp`) hands to the trouble dot on the Settings cogs (on Home and Profile; no tab carries it), the Sync card in Settings and the banner on Home. Only the last outcome counts: one sync that goes through clears a failure. It also counts the changes not on the server yet (`pending`): every save asks for a sync (`requestSync`), and a sync that goes through takes those saved before it started; the engine can't say, since the server only tells it at the start of a sync what it has. The count is kept in `sync_pending.json` in the person's folder (`PendingChangesStore`) and shown on the Sync card. The Library's Refresh and pulling it down sync now (`syncAndWait`, which a pull's spinner waits on).
- **Serverpod's version moves together with `serverpod_offline_sync`**, which allows only a narrow range of Serverpod (v0.0.10: `>=4.0.4 <4.1.0`; v0.0.8 pinned v4.0.0 exactly, which the root `pubspec.yaml` overrode until 2026-10-09). Every package pins Serverpod's packages to one version: upgrade them all together with the sync packages and the CLI version CI generates code with (`SERVERPOD_VERSION` in `.forgejo/workflows/ci.yaml`), after reading the sync package's changelog. Never override a version the sync package doesn't allow without checking what changed in `serverpod_database`, which it builds on.
- **The source-code link**: both licences require offering the source of what an instance runs to the people who use it. `instance.info().sourceCodeUrl` names it (the operator's `SOURCE_URL`, else this project's repository) and the app's About dialog shows it next to the licences and every package's notice. Keep it working when changing the dialog or the endpoint.