feat(metadata-admin): approval as a flow node, not a standalone designer (ADR-0019)

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Aligns the Studio flow designer and the runtime record-approval UI to the ADR-0019 model, where an approval is a Flow node (type: 'approval') rather than a standalone "approval process" metadata type. This is the objectui (frontend) follow-up to framework PRs #1407–#1410.

Designer

• Add approval to the flow node-type options + add-node palette (teal UserCheck icon/tone, canvas summary).
• Hardcode the Approval node config inspector — approvers / behavior / lockRecord / approvalStatusField / gated escalation — mirroring ApprovalNodeConfigSchema. The published @objectstack/spec predates ADR-0019 P4, so the schema can't be imported yet; the config is declared inline as a forward-compat shim.
• Retire the standalone approval-process pieces: delete ApprovalStepInspector and ApprovalPreview, drop their inspector/preview/anchor registrations and the engine.inspector.approvalStep.* i18n keys.

Validation

• clientValidation: route workflow to StateMachineSchema; make the flow validator forward-compatible so the published spec's closed FlowNode.type enum no longer false-flags approval / connector_action. Only the .type enum mismatch is suppressed for those node types — every other field still validates.

Runtime UI

• Rewrite useRecordApprovals to the node model: drop submit/recall (those endpoints are gone); read /approvals/requests and let a pending approver approve/reject. RecordDetailView surfaces approve/reject actions only when the current user is a pending approver.

Verification

• Verified live in the Studio dev server: approval node adds to the canvas, the inspector renders, the validation banner clears.
• tsc --noEmit clean; 75 tests pass. No new eslint errors (the one no-empty error is pre-existing, unrelated to these hunks).

Note on the published spec

Merging the framework branch to main does not republish @objectstack/spec to npm, so the forward-compat shim (inline approval config + validation filter) remains necessary until a spec at or beyond the ADR-0019 cut is published. Once that lands, the inline config can be replaced with the imported ApprovalNodeConfigSchema and the validation filter removed.

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