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feature/https: URL→digest cache index for true zero-network repeat fetches #9

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HTTPS feature cache today is content-addressed by sha256 of the body. To compute the digest we re-download the tarball on every Fetch call; only the extract step is cached (skipped if <cache>/https/sha256-<hex>/extracted/devcontainer-feature.json exists).

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Add an <cache>/https/index.json mapping URL → {digest, fetchedAt, ttl}. On Fetch, look up by URL first, validate the cached digest's extracted dir, and skip the download entirely on hit. Honor a default TTL (e.g. 24h) so we still re-pull occasionally for security; configurable via DiskStoreOptions.HTTPSCacheTTL.

Why

For DAP-style hot paths and CI, network round-trips on cached features are wasted seconds. Documented limitation in design/features.md §8 / current code in feature/https.go.

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