fix(hub): the migration chain runs, and a test says so

`add_email_verification` wrote PostgreSQL's `(now() at time zone 'utc')` as a
literal server default, where every other migration in the chain uses
`sa.func.now()` and lets the dialect render it. On SQLite that is
`sqlite3.OperationalError: near "at": syntax error` — so `meshbay-hub migrate`
could not reach head on the database the suite and the documented local-hub
workflow both use.

Which is how it survived: the only test that ran alembic at all stopped at
`c3d4e5f6a7b8`, the revision immediately before it. The two newest migrations —
email verification, and the mail quota committed two days ago — had been run by
exactly one thing, a production deploy, and the newest by nothing at all.

`test_migrations_reach_head.py` upgrades to head and compares what that built
against `Base.metadata`, both directions: a column in the models and in no
migration never reaches production, and one in the migrations and in no model is
a rename abandoned halfway. Both tests fail on the unfixed migration with the
error above; the drift half was checked by adding a model column on purpose and
watching it be named. The schemas agree today.

It still does not check PostgreSQL-only behaviour — a default, an index type or
a constraint one dialect accepts and the other refuses. Running the chain
somewhere beats running it nowhere, and is not the same as running it where it
ships.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UMxEQadpzPkYLFf5CYKhpW

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diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 10792aa..528ee0e 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -639,7 +639,19 @@ do. Read them before writing anything that touches the same mechanism.
   reaches the deployed hub. Symptom: one endpoint answering 500 with an HTML body
   while everything else works, and a `psycopg` `UndefinedColumn` in the journal.
   `deploy-hub.sh` runs `alembic upgrade head` before restarting the service; a schema
-  change that skips a migration file will still pass every test you have
+  change that skips a migration file used to pass every test there was.
+  **`test_migrations_reach_head.py` is the one that does not**: it upgrades to head
+  on SQLite and compares what that built against `Base.metadata`, in both
+  directions. It could not have existed before 2026-09-13, because
+  `add_email_verification` wrote PostgreSQL's `(now() at time zone 'utc')` as a
+  literal server default — a syntax error on SQLite — so the chain could not reach
+  head on the only database the suite has, and the single test that ran alembic
+  stopped at the revision before it. The two newest migrations had therefore been
+  run by exactly one thing: a production deploy. **A server default goes in
+  `sa.func.now()`**, which the dialect running it renders; a dialect's own SQL
+  written out by hand is a migration that only one database can apply. What this
+  still does not check is PostgreSQL-only behaviour — running the chain somewhere
+  beats running it nowhere and is not the same as running it where it ships
 
 - **Some paths only exist in a browser, and only one browser has them.** The
   download-to-disk story is three different mechanisms — File System Access