Artifact and media metadata were previously reconstructed from job result
refs and JSON sidecar files. This change regularizes metadata into SQLite,
keeps filesystem blobs in place, and preserves backward compatibility via
lazy fallback and backfill from existing job refs and JSON metadata.
Constraint: Blob storage remains on the local filesystem in this phase
Rejected: Migrate blobs into SQLite | larger scope and worse operational profile for current media sizes
Rejected: Hard cutover without fallback | unsafe for historical data already on the test server
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Treat SQLite as the metadata source of truth; JSON sidecars are compatibility fallback only
Tested: go test ./...; deployed to test server 101.42.99.35; verified /v1/artifacts, /v1/artifacts/:id, signed media URL 200, unsigned content 401
Not-tested: Full historical backfill sweep over all existing artifact rows under production-sized data volume
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