fix(desktop): Bots home no longer flashes over the chat during bot switches (salvage #95917)

[teknium1]

Summary

Switching bots no longer flashes the Bots home workspace in front of the current chat while the destination bot's canonical chat is still opening. Root cause: passive workspace reconciliation could open Bots home in the pre-open handoff window a bot switch left unguarded (the remaining gap after #92901).

Salvage of #95917 by @helix4u, authorship preserved via cherry-pick.

Changes

• apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/plugin.js: a bot switch owns the handoff from source preparation until the destination chat succeeds, fails, or is canceled; the guard is generation-scoped so a stale async completion cannot clear a newer switch, and choosing a group or leaving Bot Mode cancels it immediately.
• apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/tests/bots-home.test.mjs: 3 new tests (guard blocks reconciliation, generation scoping, cancel on group/mode exit).

Validation

	Result
node --test bots-home.test.mjs	50/50 pass
Base	current origin/main, clean cherry-pick

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⚠️ Warnings

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6 known vulnerabilities found in pinned dependencies.

• CVE-2026-67213 in website/package-lock.json
• CVE-2026-71554 in uv.lock
• CVE-2026-70608 in package-lock.json
• CVE-2026-56876 in package-lock.json
• CVE-2026-70606 in package-lock.json
• CVE-2026-71554 in uv.lock

How to fix:

Review the findings in the Security tab. Update the affected dependencies if a patched version is available.

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CI timings

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Wall time 2m52s vs 4m4s (-29.5%). 3 job(s) slower, 1 faster, 2 unchanged.

• JS & TS checks / JS & TS checks: +21.0s
• OSV scan / Emit review status: +4.0s
• Check no committed infographics / check-no-committed-infographics: -2.0s
• All required checks pass: +1.0s