feat(assistant): migrate to sidebar

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• New Features
  • The assistant chat now appears in a side panel, which you can open or close with the “Ask AI” button.
• Improvements
  • Chat messages scroll automatically as new content appears.
  • The prompt field receives focus when the panel opens, making it quicker to start a conversation.
  • Chat content uses a more compact layout for easier reading.

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The assistant chat now loads as a lazy client-only panel beside the main content. The header button toggles the panel. The chat uses a right sidebar with updated prompt focus and message presentation.

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Assistant chat

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Client-only panel wiring app/app.vue, app/components/AppHeader.vue	The app renders the enabled assistant chat as a lazy client-only panel beside the main content. The header button toggles the assistant open state.
Sidebar controls and prompt focus app/components/AssistantChat.vue	The chat uses a right-side sidebar with action and footer slots. A watcher focuses the prompt when the assistant opens.
Message and empty-state presentation app/components/AssistantChat.vue	The chat applies compact prose styling and updated message settings. The empty state uses a simplified layout.

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The new chat sidebar works, but its code now downloads on every page even for visitors who never open it. On mobile, tapping "Ask AI" while the chat is still loading may not open it until a second tap, and the prompt may not be focused in that case. These are bounded issues that are worth fixing but do not block the feature.

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Inline comments:
In `@app/app.vue`:
- Line 103: Keep the lightweight assistant sidebar shell available when
`assistant?.enabled` is true, but gate rendering of `LazyAssistantChat` on
whether the visitor has opened it at least once so the chat and its dependencies
load only after the first open.

In `@app/components/AssistantChat.vue`:
- Around line 44-46: Update the open watcher in AssistantChat.vue to handle its
initial value as well as later transitions, focusing the textarea after the
prompt renders whenever the panel is open. Preserve the existing preventScroll
focus behavior and closed-state handling.
- Line 128: Update the USidebar open-model flow for LazyAssistantChat so an Ask
AI request made before the sidebar mounts on mobile remains pending and opens
the panel after mobile initialization, rather than being lost when the bound
open model resets.

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