refactor: dedupe the jscpd clones; drop the baseline loading gate

- Extract the shared New Session action into WorkspacesService.startSession
  (sidebar button and workspace browser both delegate; recent-Workspace
  targeting and the no-workspace clear live in one place).
- Fold the chip-insertion transaction shared by insert-ref and paste-upgrade
  into one InputMachine helper.
- Share the fixture's session-not-found guard across the sessionId-addressed
  catalog routes.
- Drop the AppFrame baselines-ready loading gate (user ruling: the bare
  status line reads worse than the shell's own pending rendering); both
  column occupants mount from first paint.

packages/client/runtime/src/client/workspaces/service.ts

@@ -130,6 +130,27 @@ export class WorkspacesService {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * The shared New Session action behind the shell entry points (sidebar
+   * button, workspace browser): resolve the target Workspace — explicit wins,
+   * else the recent-Workspace projection — connect its blank session and
+   * navigate there; with no Workspace at all, clear the selection into the
+   * New Session view state. Connect failures are non-fatal (console
+   * diagnostics; the current view stays usable).
+   * @param workspaceId - explicit target Workspace for scoped actions.
+   */
+  startSession(workspaceId?: WorkspaceId): void {
+    const target = workspaceId ?? this.list.getSnapshot().recentWorkspaceId
+    if (target === undefined) {
+      this.sessions.clear()
+      return
+    }
+    void this.connectWorkspace(target).then(
+      (sessionId) => { this.sessions.open(sessionId) },
+      (reason: unknown) => { console.warn('new session failed:', reason) },
+    )
+  }
+
   /**
    * Create a Workspace by name or register an existing path.
    * @param input - exactly one Host create spelling.