feat: compress ledger execution details with dictionary

[bmuddha]

What changed

• embed the selected execution-details dictionary and initialize reusable level-3 Zstd contexts through one codec module
• omit redundant dictionary IDs from execution-details frames
• store ledger format version 1 first in every superblock metadata header and reject unsupported versions before opening its index or data files

Closes #69

Impact

Execution-details frames become smaller while retaining the existing bitcode layout and direct append-buffer compression path. Pre-version and non-version-1 superblocks are rejected without fallback or migration. LedgerError gains the public UnsupportedVersion variant.

Reviewer notes

The superblock version is the compatibility boundary for the embedded dictionary and codec. Any future dictionary or codec change must bump the ledger version and add explicit compatibility handling.

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The ledger now stores a version in each superblock metadata record and rejects unsupported versions before opening the index. It adds an embedded dictionary-backed Zstandard codec at compression level 3, with dictionary IDs omitted from frames. Appenders and readers use the shared codec constructors. Tests verify compression, decompression, bitcode round trips, nested fields, and frame metadata. The README documents the format and versioning rules.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #69 by adding embedded dictionary-backed level-3 Zstd contexts, disabling frame dictionary IDs, preserving the existing encoding path, adding round-trip tests, and versioning…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The README updates, implementation changes, version validation, public error variant, and codec tests are all related to the requirements in issue #69. No unrelated changes are identified.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 …
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: dictionary-backed compression for ledger execution details.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the compression changes, versioning behavior, compatibility impact, and linked issue.

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The changes satisfy issue #69 by adding embedded dictionary-backed level-3 Zstd contexts, disabling frame dictionary IDs, preserving the existing encoding path, adding round-trip tests, and versioning and validating superblock metadata before storage access.

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@ledger/README.md`:
- Around line 19-20: Update the compression description near
SuperblockWriter::write_execution to state that execution headers are encoded
with wincode, while only the bitcode details are compressed with Zstd level 3
using the embedded dictionary and stored separately in executions.db.

In `@ledger/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 301-305: Update Ledger::new so it reads and validates every
retained superblock.meta header, including the VERSION check and
UnsupportedVersion error, before calling Index::new or opening superblock
resources. Only initialize the global index and related resources after all
headers pass validation.

In `@ledger/src/tests/mod.rs`:
- Around line 3-5: Update the module-level documentation near the codec and
index declarations to describe codec as covering compression and serialization
in isolation, separately from index’s storage coverage; keep the integration
description of the append–seal–read pipeline unchanged.

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Inline comments:
In `@ledger/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 311-313: Before calling MetaMap::new in the superblock metadata
loading flow, inspect the on-disk metadata size and reject the legacy header
layout, including the case where its first cursor equals 1. Retain the existing
VERSION check for current-layout headers, and add a regression fixture covering
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