Chalie Dev Log: Rich Media, Compaction, and UI Polish

Compaction testing and robustness were heavily fortified, removing obsolete test files for deleted modules and adding new feature tests for surviving services like salience and metrics.

• ccb9886: cleaned up test suite by removing orphans for deleted modules and added tests for salience and metrics services.

• 3b4b070: tightened telemetry block by calculating local_time on the backend and hiding legacy noise from rendered output.