Kyle Carberry e6a9b59abe feat(site/src): surface pinned chat workspace context in the UI (#26573)
Adds the workspace-context indicator UI for agent chats, part of
breaking the "Workspace Context Sources for Coder Agents" RFC (#26466)
into small, reviewable PRs.

## What this adds

- **Pinned context popover**: the context-usage indicator now lists the
chat's pinned resources, instruction files, skills, and MCP servers with
their tools. Unusable resources (invalid skill, unreadable/oversize
file) are surfaced in an "Issues" section with their error rather than
dropped silently.
- **Drift and error states**: when the pinned context differs from the
agent's latest snapshot, the ring shows a warning marker and the popover
explains the drift. A snapshot-level error gets a distinct treatment.
- **Refresh context**: a button re-pins the chat to the agent's latest
snapshot via `PUT /api/experimental/chats/{id}/context`.
- **Live updates**: `context_dirty` watch events apply the lightweight
dirty flags across the cached chat lists and refetch the open chat so
the full pinned detail loads.

## Not included

The context **changes/diff** view (the "View changes" affordance and its
dialog) is intentionally deferred to a later split, so this PR contains
no diff rendering.

## Testing

- `pnpm lint` (types, biome, circular deps, React Compiler, knip)
- `pnpm test src/api/queries/chats.test.ts` (cache-merge unit tests,
including the new `context_dirty` cases)
- `pnpm test:storybook
src/pages/AgentsPage/components/ContextUsageIndicator.stories.tsx` (4
stories)
- `pnpm format`

<details>
<summary>Design notes</summary>

This is **Split 3** of #26466. Split sequence:

1. #26558 - prompt pin consumption (merged)
2. #26570 - `codersdk` context resource types (merged). During review
the type was renamed `ChatContextMCPTool` -> `ChatContextTool` and the
field `mcp_tools` -> `tools`; this PR consumes those merged names.
3. **This PR** - the UI.
4. CLI `coder exp chat context` source CRUD + `refresh` (next).
5. The context diff (`changes`, `ChatContextResourceChange`, the changes
dialog, and `buildContentPatch`) - last.

Key decisions:

- The backend already publishes `ChatWatchEventKindContextDirty` and
exposes the refresh endpoint (#26389). Watch/pubsub payloads stay
lightweight: they carry only the `dirty`/`dirty_since`/`error` flags and
omit `resources`. So `mergeWatchedChatSummary` merges (not replaces) the
cached context to preserve the pinned `resources` a single-chat GET
populated, and the `AgentsPage` watch handler refetches only the open
chat to pull the full pinned detail.
- The indicator prefers the chat's pinned `resources`; while they have
not loaded it falls back to the agent's `last_injected_context`,
skipping the empty context-file placeholder so it never renders a
nameless row.
- All diff/changes rendering is excluded here and lands in the final
split to keep this PR focused on the read-only pinned view and the
refresh action.

</details>

*This PR was created by Coder Agents on behalf of @kylecarbs.*
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