feat(capabilities): add read-only discovery

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Adds stoat capabilities [VM] [--json] and an MCP capabilities tool with an optional VM. Agents receive one shared report of current operations, host prerequisite observations, stored VM access limits, and unavailable runtime features. The CLI prints a short table by default.

Discovery bypasses CLI initialization and reads VM configuration without status probes, so it does not create a data root, generate keys, install recipes, or remove stale PID files. Missing observations remain unknown. Support describes implemented behavior and does not establish readiness. Runtime forks and continuation remain unavailable.

Closes #77.

Validation: independent test-author and implementation commits; expected failures reproduced before implementation; just check, just lint, and full tests passed. Sol reviewed the complete branch with one focused correction round. Tests cover host evidence, MCP access levels, metadata loading, read-only CLI behavior, adapter parity, and target errors.

Combined with #75 and #76: the branches merge without conflicts. The built CLI and stdio MCP server returned identical reports, preserved discovery fixtures, and exposed the expected machine-readable errors. The final full integration suite passed with TMPDIR=/var/tmp GOTMPDIR=/var/tmp GOFLAGS=-p=1; disk-backed temporary storage avoided the host's full /tmp filesystem. An earlier parallel run hit the unchanged TestWaitHealthyNamesFirstFailureAndDetail deadline; it then passed five isolated runs on both baseline and integration. No timeout or fixture was changed. No guest or boot behavior changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added the stoat capabilities [VM] command for viewing host, project, and optional VM capability information.
  • Added JSON output with a versioned capability report.
  • Added a read-only MCP capabilities tool with optional VM selection.
  • Reports access limits, supported surfaces, host checks, and unavailable runtime options without starting a VM.

• Documentation

  • Documented the CLI command, JSON schema, and MCP tool, including scope and access-policy behavior.

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Walkthrough

The change adds read-only capability discovery through the CLI and MCP. A shared report evaluates host checks, project state, stored VM metadata, access limits, and unavailable runtime proposals. Both interfaces use the same schema and avoid VM startup or data-root initialization.

Changes

Capability discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capability model and evaluation internal/capabilities/*	Defines the versioned report model, loads stored VM metadata, evaluates host and target capabilities, applies access-policy limits, and reports unavailable runtime proposals.
CLI command and output internal/cli/*, docs/reference/cli.md, docs/reference/json.md	Adds stoat capabilities [VM], project and global target resolution, human-readable output, JSON output, early metadata-only dispatch, and CLI validation coverage.
MCP read-only tool internal/mcpsrv/*, docs/reference/mcp.md	Adds the optional-VM capabilities tool, registers it as read-only with no required access level, returns the shared report, and validates missing-target behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8292f

The new JSON reference example uses a fence style rejected by the repository's documentation checks, so validation will fail until the fence is changed to the required backtick form.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant MCP
  participant LoadTarget
  participant Build
  participant HostDoctor
  CLI->>LoadTarget: load optional stored VM metadata
  MCP->>LoadTarget: load optional stored VM metadata
  CLI->>HostDoctor: collect host checks
  MCP->>HostDoctor: collect host checks
  CLI->>Build: provide version, project state, checks, target
  MCP->>Build: provide version, project state, checks, target
  Build-->>CLI: return shared capability report
  Build-->>MCP: return shared capability report

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 14.81% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 27 functions across 13 files. (3 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding read-only capability discovery.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement the linked issue objectives [#77], including the CLI command, MCP tool, shared report, read-only metadata loading, access-policy reporting, unknown-state preservation, typed targ…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within the linked issue scope. They add capability discovery, documentation, shared reporting, target loading, and related tests without changing core, guest, or boot-path behavior.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 14.81% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 27 functions across 13 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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📒 Files selected for processing (16)

• docs/reference/cli.md
• docs/reference/json.md
• docs/reference/mcp.md
• internal/capabilities/build.go
• internal/capabilities/build_test.go
• internal/capabilities/load.go
• internal/capabilities/model.go
• internal/cli/capabilities_test.go
• internal/cli/cli.go
• internal/cli/grammar.go
• internal/cli/project.go
• internal/cli/run_capabilities.go
• internal/cli/wire/capabilities.go
• internal/mcpsrv/capabilities_test.go
• internal/mcpsrv/table_test.go
• internal/mcpsrv/tools_read.go

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