feat(checkpoints): auto-prune orphan and stale shadow repos at startup (#16303)

Every working dir hermes ever touches gets its own shadow git repo under
~/.hermes/checkpoints/{sha256(abs_dir)[:16]}/.  The per-repo _prune is a
no-op (comment in CheckpointManager._prune says so), so abandoned repos
from deleted/moved projects or one-off tmp dirs pile up forever.  Field
reports put the typical offender at 1000+ repos / ~12 GB on active
contributor machines.

Adds an opt-in startup sweep that mirrors the sessions.auto_prune
pattern from #13861 / #16286:

- tools/checkpoint_manager.py: new prune_checkpoints() and
  maybe_auto_prune_checkpoints() helpers.  Deletes shadow repos that
  are orphan (HERMES_WORKDIR marker points to a path that no longer
  exists) or stale (newest in-repo mtime older than retention_days).
  Idempotent via a CHECKPOINT_BASE/.last_prune marker file so it only
  runs once per min_interval_hours regardless of how many hermes
  processes start up.
- hermes_cli/config.py: new checkpoints.auto_prune /
  retention_days / delete_orphans / min_interval_hours knobs.
  Default auto_prune: false so users who rely on /rollback against
  long-ago sessions never lose data silently.
- cli.py / gateway/run.py: startup hooks gated on checkpoints.auto_prune,
  called right next to the existing state.db maintenance block.
- Docs updated with the new config knobs.
- 11 regression tests: orphan/stale deletion, precedence, byte-freed
  tracking, non-shadow dir skip, interval gating, corrupt marker
  recovery.

Refs #3015 (session-file disk growth was fixed in #16286; this covers
the checkpoint side noted out-of-scope there).
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@@ -487,6 +487,19 @@ DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
"checkpoints": {
"enabled": True,
"max_snapshots": 50, # Max checkpoints to keep per directory
# Auto-maintenance: shadow repos accumulate forever under
# ~/.hermes/checkpoints/ (one per cd'd working directory). Field
# reports put the typical offender at 1000+ repos / ~12 GB. When
# auto_prune is on, hermes sweeps at startup (at most once per
# min_interval_hours) and deletes:
# * orphan repos: HERMES_WORKDIR no longer exists on disk
# * stale repos: newest mtime older than retention_days
# Opt-in so users who rely on /rollback against long-ago sessions
# never lose data silently.
"auto_prune": False,
"retention_days": 7,
"delete_orphans": True,
"min_interval_hours": 24,
},
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