fix(server): restore secrets when settings persistence fails

[juliusmarminge]

A failed settings save can leave keychain entries changed or removed while the old settings file remains in place. Prepare secret changes before applying them, preserve previous values, and restore them if response materialization or the atomic file commit fails.

This ports the V2 rollback behavior through main's existing settings API, without the V2 provider-management interface. The original save/materialization failure tests fail against unpatched main. Additional regressions cover both duplicate-variable orders and a secret write that mutates before reporting failure. All 47 settings tests and server typecheck pass; targeted lint reports only existing schema-hoisting warnings. No visual UI change.

Model: GPT-6. Harness: Codex.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	−18 B (−0.1%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.1 KiB	+6 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.4 KiB	−24 B (−0.4%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	56.2 KiB	56.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	9	9	0 (0.0%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	+16 B (+0.1%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.1 KiB	+9 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.4 KiB	6.4 KiB	+7 B (+0.1%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.0 KiB	57.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	9	9	0 (0.0%)	21	✅

Baseline: ccad9f6 · PR result: a5b1d21 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This bug fix changes the production transaction for storing, materializing, and rolling back provider and usage-limit secrets, including failure handling for partially committed writes. The added tests are focused, but the sensitive-data scope and substantial runtime persistence changes warrant human review.

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Provider secret updates now preserve the order of duplicate environment operations. Secret changes remain transactional across settings persistence and secret materialization. Regression tests cover partially committed writes and rollback failures.

Changes

Provider secret transaction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Secret change planning apps/server/src/serverSettings.ts, apps/server/src/serverSettings.test.ts	Provider environment and usage-limit updates now use one ordered SecretChange sequence. Tests verify that later duplicate entries determine the effective value.
Transactional settings update apps/server/src/serverSettings.ts, apps/server/src/serverSettings.test.ts	The centralized updateSettings path applies ordered changes and records rollback state before each mutation. Tests cover settings-file failures, response-materialization failures, and partially committed secret-store writes.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant updateSettings
  participant SecretStore
  participant SettingsFile
  updateSettings->>SecretStore: Apply ordered secret changes
  updateSettings->>SecretStore: Materialize secrets
  updateSettings->>SettingsFile: Persist settings
  SettingsFile-->>updateSettings: Return failure
  updateSettings->>SecretStore: Roll back secret changes

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No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the transactional secret-update changes.

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In `@apps/server/src/serverSettings.ts`:
- Around line 928-931: Preserve the original planning order when constructing
changes in the server settings flow: update the changes aggregation around
writes and removals so colliding entries are applied in their original order,
rather than batching all writes before removals. Keep last-entry-wins behavior
for duplicate environment names, including both non-sensitive-then-sensitive and
sensitive-then-non-sensitive sequences, and update the downstream application
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