fix(mcp): bold labels instead of ATX headings in tool results (#778) (#951)

MCP tool results used Markdown ATX headings (##/###/####) for section
headers — the status summary, each search hit, every file section in an
exploration — which Markdown-rendering clients (e.g. the Claude Code
VSCode extension) blow up to H1–H4 font size, filling the transcript with
oversized lines (worst on search/explore, where the noise scales with
result count). Swap them all for bold labels, which render at body size
while keeping the same structure. CLI/TTY output (ContextBuilder) is
unchanged — the issue notes it's fine.

The format is parse-coupled, so kept in sync:
- The explore truncation boundary and the offload chunker
  (reasoning/reasoner.ts) both key off the per-file header, now a unique
  `**`-prefixed marker emitted via a shared fileSectionHeader() helper.
- Updated the offload strip regexes and switched the opt-in report-style
  prompt off ATX headings (same client, same rendering issue).
- Updated test helpers (sectionFor, sourcedFiles, the callers
  section-boundary scan) that scanned the old markers.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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### Fixes
- MCP tool results no longer show up as oversized headings in Markdown-rendering clients (such as the Claude Code VSCode extension). Results used Markdown headings (`##`/`###`) for things like the status summary, each search hit, and every file section in an exploration, so a normal query filled the transcript with large-font lines — worst with `codegraph_search` and `codegraph_explore`, where the noise grew with the number of results. Section headers are now bold labels, which render at normal text size while keeping the same structure. Terminal/CLI output is unchanged. (#778)
- An MCP server pointed at a very large repository (tens of thousands of files) no longer hangs on the first tool call after a fresh start. On startup CodeGraph reconciles its index against the current files on disk, and on a huge repo that reconcile could run for minutes while blocking the very first request — long enough that the background server was sometimes force-restarted mid-scan, so the first query never came back at all. The reconcile now yields as it runs (keeping the server responsive instead of pinning it), and the first tool call waits only briefly for it before answering and letting the rest finish in the background — so you get a fast first response and the index still catches up. Set `CODEGRAPH_CATCHUP_GATE_TIMEOUT_MS` to tune how long that first call waits (default 3000ms), or `=0` to always wait for the full reconcile. (#905)
- `codegraph install` now wires up your agents and stops there — it no longer indexes the current directory. Building a project's graph is always the explicit `codegraph init` (or `codegraph index`), so you decide what gets indexed and when, and the steps are the same whether you installed globally or just for one project. This clears up the confusion where a project-local install silently indexed but a global one didn't, and where the docs and the tool disagreed about whether you still had to run `init`. (#826)
- React components declared with `forwardRef`, `memo`, or styled-components / emotion (`const Button = forwardRef(...)`, `const Card = memo(...)`, `const Box = styled.button\`…\``) are now recognized as components, so finding where they're used works. Before, they were indexed as plain constants, so `codegraph callers` and impact analysis reported "no callers found" even when the component was rendered across dozens of files — a dangerous false "safe to change" right before refactoring a shared component. Now every `<Button/>` usage links back to the component, so callers and blast radius are complete. This is the standard shadcn/ui declaration style, so for typical React design systems the whole UI layer is no longer invisible to impact analysis. Thanks @Arlandaren for the report and @maxmilian for the root-cause. (#841)