Waleed f238184fa0 feat(file): add Compress and Decompress operations to the File block (#5100)
* feat(file): add Compress operation to bundle files into a .zip archive

* feat(file): add Decompress operation to extract .zip archives

Adds the inbound half of the archive pair: extracts a .zip back into the
workspace with zip-slip path sanitization, symlink skipping, and entry/
size caps to bound zip-bomb expansion. Extracted files are returned in the
files output, ready to chain downstream.

* fix(file): align archive ops with v5 output surface and zip mime

- Drop the single 'file' output reintroduced for compress/decompress; v5
  intentionally exposes only 'files' (plus id/name/size/url scalars), so
  compress/decompress reuse the existing surface with no new block output
- Add zip/gz to EXTENSION_TO_MIME (previously only in the reverse map), so
  archive extensions resolve to a real mime instead of octet-stream
- Update File v5 block test for the two new operations

* fix(file): harden compress naming per review

- Flatten zip entry names to a safe basename so untrusted fileInput names
  with .. or / cannot produce zip-slip entry paths (cursor)
- Treat archiveName as a flat name landing at the workspace root instead of
  passing it through splitWorkspaceFilePath, which silently created folders
  for names with separators (greptile)
- Add the upfront empty-input guard before any DB calls, matching the read
  and content operations (greptile)

* fix(file): make decompress extraction atomic and bound per-entry size

- Read and validate every entry before writing any file, so hitting a size
  cap no longer leaves partially-extracted files in the workspace (cursor)
- Enforce the per-entry cap on the materialized buffer in addition to the
  declared size, covering entries that omit an uncompressed size (cursor)
- Pre-check declared sizes up front to reject standard zip bombs before
  materializing, and return 422 when no files could be extracted (cursor)

* fix(file): exclude skipped entries from caps and reject multi-archive decompress

- Resolve safe (sanitized) zip entries up front so unsafe/skipped entries
  no longer count toward the per-entry and total uncompressed-size caps (cursor)
- Reject decompress input that resolves to more than one archive with a clear
  error instead of silently extracting only the first (cursor)

* fix(file): enforce single-archive decompress at the API boundary

The block already rejects multiple archives, but the manage route is the
real boundary (callable directly and by the LLM tool) and still took the
first of multiple resolved inputs. Add the empty-input and >1-archive guards
in the route so extra archives are rejected with a clear error rather than
silently ignored (cursor).

* docs(file): correct compress description and stale file-output references

- Drop the misleading 'under provider upload limits' claim from the compress
  tool description (models cannot read zip archives)
- Fix bestPractices to reference the 'files' output, not a non-existent 'file'
- Remove the stale 'file' property from the compress test fixture so it
  matches the real API response (greptile)
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