build: lower the Node engines floor to 22.18

packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-sqlite/README.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ A SQLite durable session-persistence backend — a second `SessionPersistence` i
 
 Each `SessionEvent` maps 1:1 onto a row in an `events` table `(session_id, seq, type, time, data, source_event_seqs, surface_op)` — `data` is the event payload as JSON text, so the row shape is the event verbatim (including `assistant/chunk`, keeping `seq` contiguous). The two `TEXT` columns `source_event_seqs` and `surface_op` are nullable; they store the event's optional surface-metadata fields (see [session surface](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-18-session-surface.md)). Out-of-log metadata (`SessionHeader`) lives in a `sessions` row. A `sessions` row is written only by the first `append` — its existence is the lazy-materialization signal (`list` reports exactly the sessions that have a row), so no separate column is needed.
 
-The repo targets Node ≥ 24 (the root `engines` field), which includes the stable `node:sqlite` module. The database opens with `foreign_keys = ON` (so `ON DELETE CASCADE` drops a session's events with its row) and the configured `journal_mode` (default `wal`; pick a rollback-journal mode like `delete` on filesystems where WAL's shared-memory files do not work, e.g. network mounts). The table-layout version is stored in `PRAGMA user_version` and checked on open: a fresh database is stamped with the current `SCHEMA_VERSION`; a database written by any other, incompatible build (a non-current `user_version`, older or newer) is rejected rather than opened against an unknown layout — there is no migration (unreleased software).
+The repo targets Node ≥ 22.18 (the root `engines` field), which includes `node:sqlite` unflagged — the module has been available without the `--experimental-sqlite` flag since Node 22.13, so this backend's top-level `import { DatabaseSync } from 'node:sqlite'` loads without a flag on every supported version. The database opens with `foreign_keys = ON` (so `ON DELETE CASCADE` drops a session's events with its row) and the configured `journal_mode` (default `wal`; pick a rollback-journal mode like `delete` on filesystems where WAL's shared-memory files do not work, e.g. network mounts). The table-layout version is stored in `PRAGMA user_version` and checked on open: a fresh database is stamped with the current `SCHEMA_VERSION`; a database written by any other, incompatible build (a non-current `user_version`, older or newer) is rejected rather than opened against an unknown layout — there is no migration (unreleased software).
 
 ## Contract semantics over rows
 

packages/ui/stdio-agent/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts

@@ -76,9 +76,10 @@ async function makeConsumer(welcome: string, disabledBrokenEntry = false): Promi
     await mkdir(dirname(target), { recursive: true })
     await symlink(abs, target)
   }
-  // The example's mock model + echo tool are example-local TS plugins (Node 24+
-  // strips types natively, so plain `node` loads them); they import the workspace
-  // packages the symlinked node_modules now provides.
+  // The example's mock model + echo tool are example-local TS plugins (Node
+  // 22.18+ — the engines floor — strips types natively, so plain `node` loads
+  // them); they import the workspace packages the symlinked node_modules now
+  // provides.
   await cp(join(repoRoot, 'examples/echo-agent/src'), join(dir, 'src'), { recursive: true })
   await writeFile(join(dir, 'cordis.yml'), [
     '- id: mock-llm',

packages/web/web-fetch-local/src/provider.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /**
  * `LocalFetchProvider`: a `WebFetchProvider` that retrieves a concrete public
- * HTTP(S) URL with the platform-native `fetch` (Node 24) and returns a status
+ * HTTP(S) URL with the platform-native `fetch` (Node 22.18) and returns a status
  * code plus bounded decoded content. It owns SAFE RESOURCE RETRIEVAL — URL
  * validation, redirect policy, timeout, abort, byte caps, charset decoding,
  * content-type classification, binary rejection — but NOT presentation

packages/web/web-search-deepseek/src/provider.ts

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  * `web_search_tool_result` block (native search did not trigger), it throws
  * `WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR` rather than degrading to prose-scraping.
  *
- * Network requests use platform-native `fetch` (Node 24), mirroring
+ * Network requests use platform-native `fetch` (Node 22.18), mirroring
  * `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek`'s adapter — not a cordis HTTP-client service.
  * The Anthropic wire shape is a provider-private detail and does NOT make this
  * provider depend on `ctx.llm`.

packages/web/web-search-exa/src/provider.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * `title`, the first highlight as `snippet`, and `publishedDate` as
  * `publishedAt`.
  *
- * Network requests use platform-native `fetch` (Node 24), mirroring
+ * Network requests use platform-native `fetch` (Node 22.18), mirroring
  * `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek`'s adapter — not a cordis HTTP-client service.
  *
  * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-exa/provider

packages/web/web-search-perplexity/src/provider.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * structured `search_results[]` for `sources[]`, falling back to the URL-only
  * `citations[]` when `search_results` is absent.
  *
- * Network requests use platform-native `fetch` (Node 24), mirroring
+ * Network requests use platform-native `fetch` (Node 22.18), mirroring
  * `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek`'s adapter. The OpenAI-compatible request shape
  * is a provider-private detail and does NOT make this provider depend on
  * `ctx.llm`.