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Joseph Doherty b667a21c99 chore: document regenerate lifecycle-rollback limitation with warning log (T83.4)
When a regenerate replaces an assistant_turn that already produced
lifecycle transitions (``event_started`` / ``event_completed`` /
``event_cancelled``), those transitions are NOT rolled back before
``detect_event_transitions`` re-runs against the new text. A
regenerate-after-completion can therefore double-emit promotion
artifacts.

Phase 3.5 first cut (per the task plan): documentation + WARNING log
naming the affected event_log ids. The actual undo pass is invasive
(re-projection / inverse-handler dispatch) and is deferred to Phase 4.

Implementation:
- TODO docstring block at the top of ``regenerate_assistant_turn``.
- Module-level ``_log = logging.getLogger(__name__)``.
- Scan immediately after the original assistant_turn row is located:
  joins event_log lifecycle rows to the events table on event_id so we
  can scope by chat (lifecycle payloads carry only ``event_id``, not
  ``chat_id``). Filter ``id > original_assistant_event_id`` as the
  positional linkage to "transitions emitted as part of (or after)
  this turn's processing."

Decision (asked in the brief): the scan uses the ``id > original``
heuristic rather than scanning for explicit references. Lifecycle
event payloads do not carry a back-pointer to the assistant_turn that
triggered them — the linkage is positional in the event log. A tighter
linkage would require either adding a payload field on lifecycle
events (cross-cutting schema change) or threading the just-appended
assistant_turn id into ``detect_event_transitions``'s emit calls
(narrow but still cross-cutting). The positional heuristic is loose
but conservative: a turn that emits no lifecycle events produces no
warning, and the warning's purpose is operator-visible breadcrumbs
not an exact rollback set.

Test: test_regenerate_with_prior_lifecycle_logs_warning seeds a turn
that produced ``event_started`` + ``event_completed`` rows and asserts
the WARNING fires with the expected ids.
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