feat(sidecar): make the sidecar installable — CLI, --print-config, anchored data paths
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Phase 0.2 of the installer plan (docs/installer/PLAN.md §5). The installer has to
drive this binary non-interactively, and today it cannot: the auth token is only
readable by scraping the startup log, the config path can only be named through an
environment variable, and a relative db path follows the process working directory —
which a service manager, not the operator, chooses.

- Add a four-flag CLI (cli.rs): --print-config, --config <PATH>, --version, --help.
  Hand-rolled; an argument-parsing dependency would be larger than the code it
  replaced. An unrecognized flag exits 2 rather than starting a sidecar that is not
  the one that was asked for.
- --print-config resolves the configuration exactly as a normal start does —
  including writing a missing config file and generating a blank auth token — and
  prints it as JSON on stdout: versions, protocol, both bind addresses, ws path,
  resolved db path, and the token. config_created / token_generated let a re-run
  tell "read an existing install" from "provisioned a new one". The log subscriber
  is deliberately not started in this mode, so the document is the whole output.
- Anchor a relative [store].path to the config file's directory instead of the CWD,
  and report resolved absolute paths. A unit pinning UOLINK_CONFIG now keeps its
  database beside its config rather than in %SystemRoot%\System32 or a VirtualStore
  redirect. Development is unaffected: under cargo run the two directories are the
  same. :memory: and file: URIs are left alone.
- Hand the db path to sqlx as a filesystem path instead of formatting it into a
  sqlite:// URL, which percent-decodes it and splits it on '?'. An installed path
  containing %20 previously opened a different file; verified it now does not.
- Create the config's and the database's parent directories when missing, so a
  service can name /var/lib/runicgateway on a host where nothing made it yet.
- 22 unit tests covering argument parsing, path anchoring, token persistence, the
  generated config template, and the --print-config document.

No protocol change: PROTOCOL_VERSION stays 3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ cp sidecar.toml.example sidecar.toml # then edit
cargo run --release
```
Deploying it rather than developing on it: `--config <PATH>` names the config file (as does
`$UOLINK_CONFIG`), and `--print-config` prints the resolved settings — **including the auth token
the website needs** — as JSON, provisioning the config file on first run. That is the supported way
to read the token back; it is not meant to be scraped from the log.
```bash
uo-link-sidecar --print-config --config /etc/runicgateway/sidecar.toml
```
`.gitea/workflows/release.yml` cross-compiles Linux + Windows binaries and cuts a Gitea release on
every merge to `main` (conventional-commit versioning). See [`sidecar/README.md`](sidecar/README.md)
for configuration and the wire protocol.