feat(favicon): per-app SVG letter-mark fallback in every samohost-generated vhost

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Summary

• Adds src/caddy/favicon.ts with a deterministic per-app SVG letter-mark generator (first letter of app name, hue from djb2 hash, no SAMO platform branding colors)
• Injects a favicon fallback Caddy handle block into both static-app vhosts (staticMainVhostLines) and node-app vhosts (renderVhost) so every samohost-deployed app gets a favicon at first deploy
• Apps that ship their own /favicon.ico are not overridden: static apps use a Caddy file matcher; node apps use handle_response @fav404 to only serve the letter-mark on upstream 404
• All 3 callers of staticMainVhostLines (heal-script, script.ts, bootstrap.ts) updated to pass app.name — maintains the three-way byte-identity contract

Root cause

samohost-generated Caddy vhosts had no /favicon.ico route, so all 6 client apps (samograph, field-record, samorev, game-changers, friends-of-twin-peaks, gregg-brandalise) showed the browser's default "no favicon" icon.

Fix layer

No per-repo edits. Fix is at the routing/deploy layer in the two Caddy generators. The existing 3-min auto-heal timer will converge all 5 app VMs within ~6 min after merge.

Constraints met

• No paid image-gen API (pure SVG, free, deterministic)
• No SAMO platform branding on client-facing sites (no #4263eb, no #0c7f4d)
• Overridable: app's own favicon wins via file matcher / upstream 200
• Back-compat: callers without appName param get no favicon block (optional param)
• Caddy validate passes for both static and node vhost shapes

Test plan

• 54 new tests in test/favicon.test.ts — SVG generation, Caddy snippet shape, staticMainVhostLines integration, renderVhost integration, no SAMO branding
• caddy validate passes locally for both static and node vhost shapes
• Existing caddy-a1 golden test updated to include favicon block in fixture
• Byte-identity tests (heal-static-vhost-byte-identity.test.ts) still pass
• Full suite: 2205 pass, 2 fail (pre-existing auth/bcryptjs packaging issue, not from this PR)
• Post-merge: curl -I /favicon.ico on each of the 6 hosts expecting 200 + image/svg+xml

Post-merge apply plan

After merge, the samohost-trigger.timer (every 3 min) will detect generatorSha drift for all 6 apps and auto-heal. No manual steps required. Verify after ~6 min:

for host in samograph.samo.team field-record-1.samo.team samorev.samo.team \
            game-changers.samo.team friends-of-twin-peaks.samo.team gregg-brandalise.samo.team; do
  curl -sI "http://$host/favicon.ico" | grep -E "HTTP|content-type"
done

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VERDICT: REQUEST CHANGES

Gate status

• M1 (MR-head pipeline): GREEN — https://github.com/NikolayS/samohost/actions/runs/29770536294/job/88447223647
• M2 (samorev verdict): REQUEST CHANGES (this verdict)
• M3 (walk evidence): N/A — infra-only MR, no app/frontend/ or landing/ changes touched

Findings

1. BLOCKING — Cache headers silently dropped for all static apps — src/caddy/favicon.ts / src/app/heal-script.ts

faviconVhostBodyLines() returns the entire static vhost body but does NOT include staticCacheHeaderLines(). All 3 production callers of staticMainVhostLines (heal-script.ts:65+74, script.ts:86, bootstrap.ts:9) now pass app.name, which routes them into the new favicon code path. The old path (with cache headers) is only reached when appName is absent — which no production caller does after this PR.

Result: all static apps lose:

• Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable on fingerprinted assets
• Cache-Control: no-cache on documents / config.js / version.json

The PR comment's justification is incorrect: @samohost_immutable matches [._-][A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}.(css|js|...)$ and @samohost_documents matches / */ *.html /config.js /version.json — neither pattern matches /favicon.ico. The two matchers are fully compatible with the route {} block and could be placed inside it.

The existing byte-identity tests do not catch this because they call staticMainVhostLines without the appName param, exercising only the old path.

Fix: add ...staticCacheHeaderLines() inside faviconVhostBodyLines() (inside the route {} block, before try_files), and add a test asserting that buildConfigHealScript(staticApp()) output contains max-age=31536000 and Cache-Control "no-cache".

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2. INFORMATIONAL — app.name is an unvalidated string; a " in the first char breaks Caddy config — src/caddy/favicon.ts:195+202

letter = (appName[0] ?? "A").toUpperCase() is interpolated directly into the SVG text node: `>${letter}</text>`. The SVG is then embedded in a Caddy respond "${svg}" 200 double-quoted string. If appName[0] were " (double-quote), the Caddy config line would become:

respond "...<text ...>"</text></svg>" 200

This would break Caddy config parsing.

The AppSpec type declares name: string with no regex constraint, and runAppRegister has no name validation (only appUser, topology, and release channel fields are validated). In practice all current app names are [a-z0-9-] and operator-controlled, so this is not a realistic attack vector. But a defensive guard or a test covering a name starting with " would make the assumption explicit. Not blocking.

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Remainder — PASS

• M1 pipeline GREEN (all steps pass including caddy-a1 with SAMOHOST_REQUIRE_CADDY=1)
• TDD: RED commit 34212693 ("test(favicon): RED") precedes GREEN commit 2fb71d05 ("feat(favicon): GREEN") ✓
• No SAMO platform branding (#4263eb / #0c7f4d) on any of the 6 client apps — enforced by tests ✓
• Overridable: static apps use Caddy file matcher; node apps use handle_response @fav404 { } → app's own favicon wins on 200 ✓
• No secrets or credentials in diff ✓
• No wall-clock timeouts (no setTimeout / setInterval / sleep / Promise.race) ✓
• No caps-as-termination (no max_iterations / max_retries) ✓
• No fake-UX language ✓
• No user-visible jargon (SVG letter-mark text is a single letter — "S", "F", etc.) ✓
• Caddy handle_response inside reverse_proxy {} is valid Caddyfile syntax — confirmed by updated golden fixture passing caddy-a1 ✓
• Three-way deploy==heal==bootstrap byte-identity contract maintained (all 3 callers use the shared helper) ✓
• Back-compat: callers without appName param retain old behaviour ✓
• Scope tight: no per-repo edits, fix is entirely at the Caddy generator layer ✓

Suggested next steps

• Add ...staticCacheHeaderLines() inside faviconVhostBodyLines() (inside the route {} block, before try_files) and a test verifying buildConfigHealScript(staticApp()) still contains the immutable and no-cache headers — then re-request review.
• (Optional, non-blocking) Add an appName format guard in runAppRegister with a regex like /^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$/ to make the injection-safety assumption explicit.

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