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Ben Brandt b9a6ec00a6 refactor: serve permission requests on the experimental ACP v2 surface (#1234)
First part of step 5 of opt-in ACP v2 support (after #1231, #1232): the
v2 surface now sends the agent's permission requests. Nothing changes on
ACP v1: no v1 golden file changes.

## What differs in v2

A v1 request asks about a tool call, and clients show the tool call's
title as the prompt. A v2 request gives the prompt a required `title`
and an optional `description` of its own, apart from the tool call. It
asks about a `subject`, which can be a tool call or a command.

## Change

- **Prompt text.** The agent already computes the prompt's heading and
explanation, but only AIR gets them, in
`_meta.jetbrains.air.permission`. The agent's request type,
`AcpPermissionRequest`, now carries them as `title` and `description`
for a v2 client. It's the same rule #1232 uses for diffs: build what v1
can't express only for a v2 client. So v1 requests are byte-identical,
and the v1 scenario golden files, which record what the agent hands
`requestPermission`, don't change. The v2 surface fails on a request
without a title, so a missed site fails loudly.
- **Subject.** Always `{ type: "tool_call", toolCall }`, where
`toolCall` is the same patch a `tool_call_update` carries
(`v2ToolCallPatch`). The `command` subject would suit Bash once display
terminals exist, since its `terminalId` refers to one.
- **Approval preview.** The exact patch before an Edit or Write runs is
now built in v2 form for a v2 client, and the request shows it. This
fixed a real gap: the agent pins the preview as content the client
holds, but only AIR's request shape included it. Without the fix, a v2
client saw no diff at all, because the hook's identical patch was then
dropped as unchanged.
- **Answer.** v2's outcomes map back unchanged. An outcome v1 doesn't
know, which the draft says is no approval, becomes `cancelled`, and the
agent reads that as an aborted tool use.
- **`requires_action`** while a request is open was already in place
since #1226.

## Scenario suite

All 12 scenarios that stopped at a permission request now pass: Bash,
Edit (approved and rejected), Write, NotebookEdit, WebFetch, MCP,
network, ExitPlanMode (approved and rejected), and two subagent
scenarios. Each recording shows `requires_action`, the request, then
`running`. Now only replay and the two plan scenarios remain.

## Verification

- **End to end:** a new test drives the agent's real `canUseTool`
through a v2 client. Allow, reject, and an unknown outcome become allow,
deny, and an aborted tool use.
- **Unit tests:** the prompt's title is separate from the tool call's
(ExitPlanMode: "Ready to code?" vs "Approve Plan"), the preview shows in
the request, the v2 preview fallback works, and the title guard rejects
a missing title.
- **Mutations:** each rule fails a test when removed. Sending
`title`/`description` to every client fails 37 tests, including v1
golden files.
- Build, lint and all 2380 tests pass.
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