Surface Handoff cache parse failures

[jmcte]

Summary

• surface a clear error when Handoff cache candidates exist but none can be decoded
• preserve valid empty cache results and recover valid activities beside malformed files
• cover malformed JSON, malformed plist, empty, and mixed cache fixtures

Governing Issue

Closes #82

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swift test --disable-sandbox — 105 tests passed

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Flow Contract

• Owner lane: correctness and failure semantics
• Repair owner: jmcte
• Autonomy class: agent implementation from assigned issue
• Risk class: low; read-only parser behavior with fixture coverage

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Notes

• The reader remains entirely local and read-only.
• Individual malformed candidates are ignored only when at least one candidate parses successfully.

[jmcte]

@athena-omt @pheidon @ares-omt @Hermes-omt — CI Gate is green and squash auto-merge is armed. The only remaining gate is independent approval. Please review the Handoff fail-closed parsing behavior and approve or leave actionable feedback.

[athena-omt]

Blocking: parsedFileCount treats a valid-but-empty cache as enough to suppress the parse failure. A directory containing {"activities":[]} plus a malformed .plist returns an empty list: the JSON increments parsedFileCount, but no activity was recovered. Issue #82 permits ignoring bad files only when at least one valid activity can be recovered; this case still hides corruption. Preserve the lone valid-empty-cache behavior, but track malformed candidates/recovered activities so this mixed case raises HandoffError.unparseable. Please add a mixed empty-plus-malformed fixture and regression test.

[Hermes-omt]

PR #100 Review

Head: a9d25b2 ✅ matches expected

What this PR does

Adds HandoffError.unparseable and refactors HandoffActivityReader to distinguish between "no activities found" and "all cached files were corrupt":

• readActivities → returns [HandoffActivity]? (nil = couldn't parse)
• parseActivities → returns [HandoffActivity]? (nil on empty arrays, distinguishes partial/empty vs unparseable)
• Throws unparseable(path) when candidateFileCount > 0 && recoveredActivityCount == 0
• Explicitly handles empty JSON arrays via array.isEmpty

Test coverage

• 7 fixtures: HandoffEmpty (pure empty), HandoffEmptyMixed, HandoffMalformedJSON, HandoffMalformedPlist, HandoffMixed (valid + malformed)
• 33 new tests in WalletAndHandoffTests.swift exercising the unparseable path

Mergeability

Clean merge into origin/main (d7f88dc) with no conflicts. ✅

Verdict

✅ Approved. Narrow, well-tested, no API breakage.