Add an instance owner/operator role (env-declared via OWNER_EMAIL)

Provenance had no system-level owner: ownership was only per-tree
(TreeMembership), so a self-hosted instance had no operator account and no
instance-admin surface. This adds one, declared by environment per the project's
twelve-factor rule.

- OWNER_EMAIL (comma-separated): the account(s) named here are instance owners.
  Derived at request time — no DB column, no migration, can't drift from the env,
  survives DB resets. is_instance_owner()/InstanceOwner dependency in api/deps.py.
- Ownership requires a VERIFIED email (independent of REQUIRE_EMAIL_VERIFICATION).
  Registration is open, so without this an attacker could seize the role by
  registering the owner address first; verification ties it to inbox control.
- GET /api/v1/admin/instance (owner-only): operational status — version, env,
  user/tree counts, configured AI providers. Deliberately exposes no tree data
  or PII: instance ownership is an operator role, NOT a privacy-engine bypass.
- /users/me reports is_instance_owner; frontend gains an owner-only /admin page
  and a conditional sidebar link (server-enforced, not just client-hidden).

Found-and-fixed by an adversarial security review before merge: the
verified-email land-grab (above) and a frontend null-deref where the admin page
crashed on 401/5xx instead of failing closed.

Docs: .env.example + ARCHITECTURE (notes the not-a-privacy-bypass boundary and
the verified-email requirement). Tests: owner matching, the land-grab guard,
/users/me, and owner-only /admin. Suite 96 passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Justin Paul <justin@jpaul.me>
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from fastapi import APIRouter, File, Form, Response, UploadFile
from app.api.deps import CurrentUser, ObjectStoreDep, SessionDep
from app.api.deps import CurrentUser, ObjectStoreDep, SessionDep, is_instance_owner
from app.schemas.user import UserRead, UserSelfPersonUpdate
from app.services import account_service, user_service
router = APIRouter(prefix="/users", tags=["users"])
def _me(user) -> UserRead:
out = UserRead.model_validate(user)
out.is_instance_owner = is_instance_owner(user)
return out
@router.get("/me", response_model=UserRead)
async def read_me(current: CurrentUser) -> UserRead:
return UserRead.model_validate(current)
return _me(current)
@router.patch("/me/self-person", response_model=UserRead)
@@ -20,7 +26,7 @@ async def set_self_person(
user = await user_service.set_self_person(
session, user=current, person_id=data.self_person_id
)
return UserRead.model_validate(user)
return _me(user)
@router.get("/me/export")