Add a deterministic profile-actor wait primitive for tests (ticket 108)

Ticket 108 anticipated a large test-harness migration (primary-only/
profile-only helpers, migrating ~150 tests in engine/tests.rs), but
that turned out unnecessary: the profile actor reuses EngineSnapshot
as its own snapshot type (see ticket 104), so every existing
EngineSnapshot unit test already exercises primary-shaped and
profile-shaped behavior unchanged -- zero migration needed, confirmed
by the full suite passing untouched through tickets 100-107.

What was still a real gap: tests asserting on profile-actor-owned data
(declared metrics, alerts) after ingesting had no deterministic way to
wait for the profile actor to catch up -- EngineHandle::barrier() only
confirms the primary's queue drained, not that the profile actor has
processed what it published. They were passing on scheduler luck on
the single-threaded test runtime, not a real guarantee.

Added ProfileHandle::processed_sequence, a permanent (not test-only)
watch channel tracking the profile actor's watermark, mirrored onto
EngineHandle as profile_processed_sequence, with a
wait_for_profile_sequence(sequence) test helper built on it. This
replaces the ad hoc on_advance/spawn_observed mechanism ticket 103
added just to prove the wake loop worked -- that test now uses the
same real primitive. Retrofitted it into
promql_query_returns_series_for_seeded_fixture to eliminate its
latent race.

Not done: a dedicated test for the accepted eviction/lag tradeoff
(primary evicts on schedule regardless of profile-actor progress, per
idea 0001's resolved decision) -- deterministically forcing that race
without new test-injection hooks proved more involved than the
remaining scope justified; left as a known gap rather than shipping a
flaky or synthetic test for it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TeyhRfMYjMditek6geDRoQ
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# 108 — Rework the engine test harness for the primary/profile actor split
## Summary
`src/engine/tests.rs` (2300+ lines) and the `test_handle` pattern are
built entirely around one actor with one channel and one snapshot.
After tickets 103-107 land, tests need to exercise three shapes that
don't exist today: the primary actor alone, the profile actor alone,
and primary+profile interaction (including lag/backfill scenarios).
This is explicitly called out as a gap in [[0001-actor-split]]'s "Not
yet considered" section — real rework, not just extension.
## Where
- `src/engine/tests.rs` — the whole file; most existing tests
construct an `EngineSnapshot` directly or drive it through a single
`test_handle`-obtained channel and assert against one snapshot's
query results. Every test that declares a metric, ingests a
matching line, and asserts on bucket/query output now spans two
actors.
- `src/engine/handle.rs` `test_handle` (see ticket 099's history for
the existing single-actor test-visibility pattern) — needs an
equivalent for the profile actor, and likely a combined test harness
helper that spins up both and wires them together the way `spawn`
does in production.
- `src/api/mod.rs`'s test module (`ingest_lines`/similar helpers, e.g.
around `:1817` per prior research) and `src/config/profile.rs`'s
test module — both currently assume one engine handle; they need
updating wherever they exercise metric/alert behavior that's now
profile-actor-owned.
## Scope
- Add primary-only test helpers (construct a primary actor, ingest
lines, assert on raw storage/param extraction only — no metrics).
- Add profile-only test helpers (construct a profile actor against a
fake/minimal primary read-side, declare metrics, assert on bucket
computation and alert evaluation in isolation).
- Add combined-harness helpers for tests that need real end-to-end
behavior (ingest via primary, wait for the profile actor to catch up
via the watch signal — needs a deterministic "wait until profile
actor has processed up to sequence N" helper rather than a sleep, to
avoid flaky tests) — a `barrier`-equivalent for the profile actor,
mirroring `EngineHandle::barrier` (`src/engine/handle.rs:89-101` per
prior research).
- Add explicit tests for the accepted lag/eviction tradeoff from
[[0001-actor-split]]'s resolved decisions: primary evicts on
schedule regardless of profile-actor progress, and a lagging profile
actor silently misses data for the evicted range — this behavior
should be asserted, not just assumed.
- Migrate existing tests in `src/engine/tests.rs` to the new harness
incrementally; tests that only exercise primary-side behavior (param
declaration, log storage, eviction) need minimal changes, while
tests exercising metrics/alerts need the combined harness.
- Out of scope: adding new test *coverage* beyond what's needed to
preserve today's behavior guarantees across the split — this is a
harness migration, not a coverage expansion project.