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Mish Ushakov c1415f3ec7 Stream volume file uploads and downloads instead of buffering in memory (#1453)
Follow-up to #1433. Builds on the shared streaming infrastructure
introduced there (`FILE_TIMEOUT_MS`, request-controller/stream-cleanup
helpers in `connectionConfig`, `io_utils` chunk iterators, the `runtime`
guard) and applies the same streaming model to volumes.

> [!NOTE]
> Based on `mishushakov/stream-write-file-upload` (#1433). Merge that PR
first; this PR's diff will then retarget to `main` automatically.

## What changed

- **`Volume.writeFile()` / `Volume.write_file()`** — stream the request
body instead of buffering it in memory.
- JS: `ReadableStream` data is streamed outside the browser
(half-duplex); browsers still buffer since they can't stream request
bodies.
- Python: file-like objects are streamed in chunks (async wraps them in
an async iterator; sync passes them to httpx directly, text-mode IO is
encoded chunk-by-chunk).
- **`Volume.readFile(format="stream")` / `read_file(format="stream")`**
— the request timeout now bounds only the initial handshake, not the
body read, matching the sandbox `files.read` stream path. A dropped
connection during the handshake surfaces the same typed, health-checked
error; JS supports `signal` to cancel an in-flight stream and cancels
unconsumed bodies on error so the pooled connection is released.

## Usage

JS — stream a file straight to a volume without buffering:
```ts
import { createReadStream } from 'node:fs'
import { Readable } from 'node:stream'

const stream = Readable.toWeb(createReadStream('large-input.bin'))
await volume.writeFile('/data/large-input.bin', stream)

// read back as a stream; the body lives until consumed/cancelled
const out = await volume.readFile('/data/large-input.bin', { format: 'stream' })
for await (const chunk of out) {
  // process chunk
}
```

Python — stream a file-like object:
```python
with open("large-input.bin", "rb") as f:
    volume.write_file("/data/large-input.bin", f)  # streamed, not read() into memory

for chunk in volume.read_file("/data/large-input.bin", format="stream"):
    ...  # process chunk
```

## Testing

- `pnpm run format`, `pnpm run lint`, `pnpm run typecheck` pass.
- Added volume streaming tests (JS `tests/volume/file.test.ts`; Python
sync/async `test_file.py` text-stream cases).

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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