fix(node): an uploaded file records who sent it

`_register_uploader` walked the index for the entry it had just written, at a
moment when no such entry can exist: the file was a `.part` until the rename on
the line above, which is not indexable, and the watchdog that will index it
debounces for two seconds and then hashes. The walk matched nothing, silently,
so every uploaded file in every group was owned by nobody — and `file_delete`
refuses a caller with no admin authority when the entry records no uploader, so
a member could not delete what they had just sent. MESHBAY_DESIGN.md §5.4
grants that to any non-revoked device of the uploading account.

The record is now written when the last chunk lands (`indexer.record_upload`)
and the entry is stamped from it in `_hash_or_cached`, the one funnel every
entry passes through — initial scan, watchdog, reconcile and replug alike. It
lives in the index cache rather than on the entry alone, because the index is
rebuilt from disk at every start and an owner the node forgets on restart is a
right quietly taken away. It is validated against a live `stat()`, so whatever
later occupies that path inherits nothing; and `_rescan_root`'s carry-over no
longer copies over it, or memory would beat the durable record.

§5.4 also claimed ownership was *provable* — a transcript the uploader signs,
stored with the entry. No such signature has ever existed; `meshbay:upload:v1`
in the code is the groupbox purpose that seals the envelope. The section now
states what the code does, and the transcript is an open item in §15.3.

`test_upload_attribution.py` drives the real handler and a real indexer across
that seam. Against the previous source its two positive cases fail on the
property, not on a missing method — an upload, then a rebuild from disk, then
a different file at the same path inheriting nothing.

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

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+"""
+Who owns an uploaded file, and who may therefore delete it.
+
+MESHBAY_DESIGN.md §5.4 grants `file_delete` to "the operator, **or any
+non-revoked device of the uploading account**". That second half needs the
+index entry to record an uploader, and nothing recorded one: the transport
+tagged the entry at the end of the upload, walking `ctx["index"]` for the name
+it had just written — at a moment when, by construction, no such entry exists.
+The file was a `.part` until the rename on the line above (excluded from the
+index), and the watchdog that will index it debounces for two seconds and then
+hashes. The walk matched nothing, returned silently, and every uploaded file in
+every group was owned by nobody: `_do_file_delete` refuses a caller with no
+admin authority when the entry records no uploader, so an ordinary member could
+not delete what they had just sent.
+
+The suite did not see it because every test of ownership sets `uploader_id` on
+an entry by hand — which tests `_verify_uploader_sig`, and nothing about how a
+real upload ever comes to have an uploader. These tests cross that seam: a real
+`file_upload` through the real handler, a real `DirectoryIndexer` over the same
+directory, and the entry it produces.
+
+The second property is the one a restart decides. The index is rebuilt from
+disk at every start, so an attribution held in memory is an owner the node
+forgets overnight — the file would be deletable by its uploader today and not
+tomorrow, which is worse than never having offered it.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PrivateKey
+from meshbay_common.crypto import generate_gek
+from meshbay_node.indexer.cache import IndexCache
+from meshbay_node.indexer.indexer import DirectoryIndexer
+from meshbay_node.transport.webrtc_server import WebRTCPeerSession
+
+from conftest import one_root, sealed_upload
+
+GROUP = "g" * 32
+UPLOADER = "user-1"
+UPLOADER_PK = "cGluc2V0LWtleQ=="          # the key this node pinned, base64
+
+
+async def _indexer(shared: Path, cache: IndexCache) -> DirectoryIndexer:
+    """A real indexer over `shared`, watching, with a short debounce.
+
+    Short but not zero: the debounce is the thing that puts the entry's creation
+    after the upload's last chunk, which is the whole subject here.
+    """
+    indexer = DirectoryIndexer(
+        roots=one_root(shared), group_id=GROUP,
+        sk_node=Ed25519PrivateKey.generate(), gek=generate_gek(),
+        cache=cache, debounce_secs=0.2,
+    )
+    await indexer.initial_scan()
+    await indexer.start()
+    return indexer
+
+
+def _session(shared: Path, indexer: DirectoryIndexer, gek: bytes,
+             *, user_id: str = UPLOADER) -> WebRTCPeerSession:
+    session = WebRTCPeerSession.__new__(WebRTCPeerSession)
+    session._ctx = {
+        "roots": one_root(shared),
+        "index": indexer.index,
+        "sk_node": indexer.sk_node,
+        "gek": gek,
+        # The seam under test: the transport hands the record to the indexer,
+        # which stamps the entry when it finally creates it.
+        #
+        # `getattr` rather than the attribute, deliberately: against the source
+        # this test was written for there is no such seam at all, and a test
+        # that dies of AttributeError there proves only that a method is
+        # missing. Tolerating its absence makes the pre-fix run reach the
+        # assertions and fail on the property — no uploader on the entry —
+        # which is the thing being guarded.
+        "record_upload": getattr(indexer, "record_upload", None),
+    }
+    session._group_id = GROUP
+    session._user_id = user_id
+    session._pinned_pk = UPLOADER_PK
+    session._pk_user = ""
+    session._uploads = {}
+    session._tasks = set()
+    session.sent = []
+    session._send = session.sent.append
+    session._audit = lambda *a, **k: None
+    return session
+
+
+async def _upload(session, shared: Path, name: str, data: bytes) -> None:
+    root_name = shared.name
+    session._do_file_upload(
+        sealed_upload(session, filename=name, data=data, dir=root_name))
+    errors = [m for m in session.sent if m.get("type") == "error"]
+    assert not errors, errors
+    # The record is written by a task the handler spawned.
+    await asyncio.gather(*list(session._tasks))
+
+
+async def _entry_for(indexer: DirectoryIndexer, name: str, timeout: float = 5.0):
+    """The index entry for a file, once the indexer has got to it."""
+    deadline = asyncio.get_event_loop().time() + timeout
+    while asyncio.get_event_loop().time() < deadline:
+        for entry in indexer.index.entries:
+            if entry.name == name:
+                return entry
+        await asyncio.sleep(0.05)
+    return None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_an_uploaded_file_records_who_sent_it(tmp_path):
+    shared = tmp_path / "shared"
+    shared.mkdir()
+    gek = generate_gek()
+    async with IndexCache(tmp_path / "cache.db") as cache:
+        indexer = await _indexer(shared, cache)
+        try:
+            session = _session(shared, indexer, gek)
+            await _upload(session, shared, "holiday.jpg", b"JPEGDATA" * 64)
+
+            entry = await _entry_for(indexer, "holiday.jpg")
+            assert entry is not None, "the file was never indexed at all"
+            assert entry.uploader_id == UPLOADER, (
+                "an uploaded file with no uploader is a file its own sender "
+                "cannot delete — §5.4 grants that to the uploading account")
+            assert entry.uploader_pk == UPLOADER_PK
+        finally:
+            await indexer.stop()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_the_uploader_survives_a_restart(tmp_path):
+    """A second indexer over the same directory and the same cache.
+
+    This is what a node restart is: the index is rebuilt from disk, and every
+    field not on the disk has to come from somewhere durable.
+    """
+    shared = tmp_path / "shared"
+    shared.mkdir()
+    gek = generate_gek()
+    async with IndexCache(tmp_path / "cache.db") as cache:
+        first = await _indexer(shared, cache)
+        try:
+            session = _session(shared, first, gek)
+            await _upload(session, shared, "report.txt", b"TEXT" * 64)
+            assert await _entry_for(first, "report.txt") is not None
+        finally:
+            await first.stop()
+
+        second = await _indexer(shared, cache)
+        try:
+            entry = await _entry_for(second, "report.txt")
+            assert entry is not None
+            assert entry.uploader_id == UPLOADER, (
+                "the attribution did not survive the rebuild, so the uploader "
+                "could delete their file today and not tomorrow")
+        finally:
+            await second.stop()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_a_different_file_at_the_same_path_inherits_nothing(tmp_path):
+    """The record is keyed by path, and a path is not an identity.
+
+    A member uploads, the operator deletes it and puts a file of their own
+    there under the same name. Nothing about that second file was sent by the
+    member, and crediting them would hand them the right to delete it.
+    """
+    shared = tmp_path / "shared"
+    shared.mkdir()
+    gek = generate_gek()
+    async with IndexCache(tmp_path / "cache.db") as cache:
+        indexer = await _indexer(shared, cache)
+        try:
+            session = _session(shared, indexer, gek)
+            await _upload(session, shared, "notes.txt", b"SENT" * 64)
+            assert await _entry_for(indexer, "notes.txt") is not None
+
+            (shared / "notes.txt").unlink()
+            (shared / "notes.txt").write_bytes(b"THE OPERATOR'S OWN FILE")
+
+            await asyncio.sleep(0.6)
+            entry = await _entry_for(indexer, "notes.txt")
+            assert entry is not None
+            assert not entry.uploader_id, (
+                "a file the operator put there is not the member's to delete")
+        finally:
+            await indexer.stop()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_a_file_nobody_uploaded_has_no_uploader(tmp_path):
+    """The operator's own library is not attributed to anyone."""
+    shared = tmp_path / "shared"
+    shared.mkdir()
+    (shared / "already-here.txt").write_bytes(b"ON DISK BEFORE ANY MEMBER")
+    async with IndexCache(tmp_path / "cache.db") as cache:
+        indexer = await _indexer(shared, cache)
+        try:
+            entry = await _entry_for(indexer, "already-here.txt")
+            assert entry is not None
+            assert not entry.uploader_id and not entry.uploader_pk
+        finally:
+            await indexer.stop()