refactor(j5): rename A2A epics to squadrons

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Problem

J5 now defines its long-running agent grouping as a Squadron. The A2 implementation merged in #7 still used the earlier epic terminology in its J5-owned persistence and public A2A surface.

Solution

Rename the J5-owned A2A entity, live SQLite schema, contract fields, services, MCP tools, envelopes, tests, and documentation to Squadron. Preserve historical migrations 001/002; additive migration 003 converts existing live tables, columns, indexes, and persisted payload keys without changing opaque ids.

Behavior changes

No lifecycle or A2A semantic behavior changes. This is a terminology and serialized A2A-field rename: the nine ledger event kinds, human:global, exchange statuses, and urgency values are unchanged. Migrations 001/002 are byte-identical; migration 003 renames the live schema forward without changing kind, seq, or any id. Agent-visible envelope wording changes from "epic" to "squadron", so envelopes.v1.json is bumped v5→v6.

Changes

• Add a forward-only SQLite rename migration for existing J5 A2A state.
• Rename J5 A2A types, ids, fields, tools, envelope text, tests, and documentation.
• Document why historical migration identifiers must remain unchanged.

Testing

• Focused A2A suite: 38 passing tests.
• Targeted type-aware lint/typecheck and formatter checks.
• Independent exact-head review verified rename completeness by applying the mechanical substitution to the base and diffing the result; only formatter reflow, the required envelope version bump, and migration 003 remained.
• Migration mutation controls: removing the message.received JSON conversion, index rename, or receiver_epic_id rename causes 1, 2, and 11 test failures respectively.

Related work

Follows merged #7. Registrar, membership provisioning, live-proof runbook, and native creation hooks remain intentionally out of scope.

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Walkthrough

The A2A communication ledger migrated from epic-scoped to squadron-scoped contracts, storage, delivery routing, envelopes, and tests. Migration 3 renames legacy schema objects and rewrites persisted message payload fields.

Changes

Squadron-scoped A2A migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Contracts and envelopes apps/server/src/j5/a2a/contracts.ts, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/envelopes.v1.json, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/EnvelopeFormatter.ts, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/decider.ts	Public types, payload fields, append commands, envelope formatting, and event sequencing now use squadron identifiers.
Ledger storage and migration apps/server/src/j5/a2a/LedgerService.ts, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/Migrations.ts, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/migrations/003_SquadronRename.ts, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/*test.ts	Ledger operations, projections, membership handling, schema objects, indexes, and persisted message payloads now use squadron scope.
Send and delivery routing apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.ts, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryTransport.ts, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryWorker.ts, related tests	Participant resolution, exchanges, delivery records, inbox deduplication, milestones, alarms, and cross-squadron replies use squadron identifiers.
Documentation FORK.md, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/README.md	Migration and A2A provisioning documentation now uses squadron terminology.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 48e66

The migration may leave existing A2A events unreadable when legacy payload fields are absent, causing runtime failures for persisted data. Merge should wait until invalid rows are rejected or repaired; the documentation wording change is otherwise low risk.

Possibly related PRs

• Jacksondr5/j5code#4: Evolves the A2A ledger, contracts, migrations, and services renamed by this PR.
• Jacksondr5/j5code#7: Renames related A2A delivery, ledger, transport, envelope, and persistence identifiers.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: renaming J5 A2A epics to squadrons.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, solution, behavior impact, scope, testing, and related work, with UI changes not applicable.

✨ Finishing Touches

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• Commit unit tests in branch j5/a2-squadron-rename

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/j5/a2a/envelopes.v1.json`:
- Around line 8-9: Update sendToolDescription and listToolDescription in
apps/server/src/j5/a2a/envelopes.v1.json: replace the agent-only participation
wording with participant-neutral requirements describing
wrapper-spawned/home-squadron prerequisites as tool-access restrictions. Update
the assertions in apps/server/src/j5/a2a/EnvelopeFormatter.test.ts to verify the
revised wording instead of “wrapper-spawned agent.”

In `@apps/server/src/j5/a2a/migrations/003_SquadronRename.ts`:
- Around line 31-59: Update the migration around the message.sent and
message.received payload updates to validate required legacy JSON keys before
renaming them. Ensure message.sent rows contain both originEpicId and
receiverEpicId, and message.received rows contain originEpicId; fail the
migration or explicitly repair invalid rows before the UPDATE statements so
absent keys are not written as JSON null or left unchanged.

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📒 Files selected for processing (18)

• FORK.md
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryTransport.integration.test.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryTransport.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryWorker.test.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryWorker.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/EnvelopeFormatter.test.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/EnvelopeFormatter.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/LedgerService.test.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/LedgerService.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/Migrations.test.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/Migrations.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/README.md
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.test.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/contracts.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/decider.ts
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/envelopes.v1.json
• apps/server/src/j5/a2a/migrations/003_SquadronRename.ts

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