feat(adb): complete ADB device support for Android reverse engineering (#1552)

* feat(adb): acquire installed APK sets from connected Android devices

Add a read-only ADB device-acquisition family over the caller's adb binary:
inspect_adb_client, list_adb_devices, inspect_adb_device, list_adb_packages,
and pull_adb_package, exposed through the CLI and MCP with shared admission,
Evidence provenance (binary, version, serial, transport), and fixed argv
vectors that never reach a shell.

pull_adb_package acquires the complete split set reported by pm path into a
package-named directory that must not exist, digesting every file with
SHA-256 and keeping per-file failure reasons and partial coverage. Device
kind is reported as an inference with its basis; getprop whitelisting keeps
build identity bounded. REA installs nothing and never manages devices or
emulators; the first device query may start the caller's local adb server,
recorded when observed.

Verified against adb 34.0.5 on Linux with an Android 14 (API 34) x86_64
emulator: full 224-package inventory, a real two-APK split set pulled with
byte-exact digests, and a 73.9 MB system-package pull. npm run verify:adb
records the lane; parser goldens come from the same device. READMEs carry
the new row in every supported language.

* feat(adb): complete the adb surface with observation, transfer, and lifecycle tools

Extend the ADB family from five to twenty-four operations, all through
fixed adb argument vectors with no shell exposure:

Observation: read_adb_logcat (bounded dump, count/buffer/pid), inspect_adb_package
(dumpsys package projection), list_adb_processes (ps -A), list_adb_directory
(ls -la with kinds and symlink targets), list_adb_features (hex GL versions),
list_adb_services (AIDL slash-suffixed names), inspect_adb_display (wm size and
density), inspect_adb_window (focus declarations), read_adb_setting (device-side
nulls reported as such), capture_adb_screen (exec-out screencap with PNG
dimensions), collect_adb_bugreport (digested device archive).

Transfer and search: pull_adb_file and push_adb_file (device-side sha256sum
verification, explicit overwrite authority), resolve_adb_packages (substring
package search with exact-match flag — the find step of an easy get).

Lifecycle for dynamic analysis, each declaring mutatesTarget:
install_adb_package and uninstall_adb_package preserving the device's
Success/Failure verdict, start_adb_app (resolve-activity then am start -W),
start_adb_activity (typed extras as --es/--ez/--ei/--el/--ef), and stop_adb_app
(am force-stop).

Verified end-to-end against adb 34.0.5 on Linux with an Android 14 (API 34)
x86_64 emulator: 287 services, 92 features, split-set pulls with byte-exact
digests, verified push/pull roundtrip, sized screen capture, and the full
install → resolve → start → observe-in-ps → force-stop → uninstall lifecycle.
Fixed a v-mode regex incompatibility in the settings key pattern and added
argument descriptions required by the CLI catalog audit.

* fix(adb): quote remote shell operands and protect captured output

* test(adb): cover bugreport destinations containing spaces

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Co-authored-by: REA Contributor <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: morluto <[email protected]>
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npm run test:focused -- tests/boundary/process/jadxIntegration.test.ts tests/boundary/process/androidAnalysisMcp.test.ts
```
## ADB device acquisition
`npm run verify:adb` exercises every ADB operation against a live device or
emulator through the caller's adb binary (`REA_ADB_PATH` or PATH). No SDK
installation or emulator management is involved; the device-mutating tools
run only in the explicit lifecycle section (`--install-apk` drives a
lane-owned install → resolve → start → observe → force-stop → uninstall
probe). `--pull` acquires a real package and re-digests the pulled files on
disk against the returned SHA-256 values; `--serial` selects a device when
several are attached.
Record: adb 34.0.5-debian on Linux against an Android 14 (API 34) x86_64
emulator. The lane covered the complete observation surface — 337-process
listing, 287 binder services including AIDL `/`-suffixed names, 92 features
including hex GL versions, display size/density, window focus (legitimately
null on headless devices), `settings get global adb_enabled`, bounded
logcat, directory listings — plus a real two-APK split set
(`base.apk` plus `split_probe.apk`, built and installed through
`install-multiple`) pulled with byte-exact digests, a push/pull roundtrip
verified by the device's own sha256sum, a 1.3 MB screen capture with PNG
dimensions, `dumpsys package` projection, and the full lifecycle: unique
resolution before launch, launcher-activity start through
`cmd package resolve-activity` with `am start -W`, the started app visible
in the process listing, force-stop, uninstall, and zero matches after
removal. System-package pulls whose APKs keep non-`base.apk` names report
the `unknown` role with the file-name basis, verified with
`com.android.settings` (single 73.9 MB APK). Parser goldens for
`adb devices -l`, `getprop`, `pm list packages -f`, and `pm path` come from
the same device. See [ADB device analysis](adb-device-analysis.md) for
boundaries and budgets.
## Optional NativeAOT Ghidra analysis
This lane is separate from the default native lane. `build:fixtures:nativeaot`