Extracted and generalized from diet_guard's existing tombstone-merge scheme
and GitHub Contents API client, extended with per-field HLC LWW so the same
library can also cover todo's mutable notes and wake_alarm's single-value
sync (Workstream D scoping decision, 2026-07-04). 100% branch coverage,
clean ruff/mypy/pylint/bandit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017McuA1nAi6jBT1EaS5BrVf
