build(deps): move to TypeScript 6.0.3, not 7.x, and complete the typescript-eslint bump

[Shironex]

Stacked on #465 — base is deps/phase-1-safe-bumps, not main. Merge #465 first.

Rebased. Both this branch and #465 were originally cut from a stale main; the stack has been rebased onto 094cf664 (which includes #449 Storybook 10 and #447's baseUrl removal).

Summary

Migrates typescript 5.x → 6.0.3, and completes the typescript-eslint 8.61.1 → 8.68.0 bump deferred by #465.

Full analysis: docs/migrations/2026-08-31-typescript.md.

Why 6.0.3 and not 7.0.2 (i.e. why Dependabot #418 should not be merged)

typescript@latest is 7.0.2, but it is not viable in this repo on three independent counts:

1. typescript-eslint hard-excludes it. Latest 8.68.0 declares peerDependencies.typescript: ">=4.8.4 <6.1.0". eslint.config.mjs runs it across nearly every file, so bun run lint breaks repo-wide. Upstream support request (typescript-eslint#12518) was closed not planned.
2. TS 7 removed the classic Compiler API from its root export. typescript@7.0.2's "." export is ./lib/version.cjs — just {version, versionMajorMinor}. Everything else moved behind unstable/*. tools/codegen/gen-settings-scope.ts:40 does import ts from 'typescript' then ts.createSourceFile / ts.isTypeAliasDeclaration / ts.isTypeLiteralNode, and would hard-crash.
3. chore(deps-dev): bump typescript from 5.9.3 to 7.0.2 #418's own CI already fails — lint · typecheck · test, proof, and vitest browser coverage.

TS 7.1 (expected to restore a stable programmatic API) is still 7.1.0-dev.*. The <6.1.0 peer cap makes 6.0.3 exactly the top of the supported window.

#418 is left open and untouched.

Changes

• typescript → ^6.0.3 in the 4 manifests declaring it (root, apps/web, packages/eslint-plugin, packages/harness)
• @typescript-eslint/{utils,parser,rule-tester} + root typescript-eslint → ^8.68.0
• Corrected the baseUrl comment in apps/web/tsconfig.json: main (chore(tooling): drop tsconfig baseUrl for TypeScript 7 readiness (Closes #426) #447) removed the option citing TS 7's TS5102, but TS 6 already rejects it with TS5101. The option itself was already gone; only the explanation needed updating.

(The @typescript-eslint/utils override this PR originally deleted is now gone in #465 — on the rebased base, typescript-eslint resolves to 8.68.0 naturally, so the scaffolding was never needed.)

Unplanned change: ignoreDeprecations: "6.0" in two tsconfigs

tsup@8.5.1 injects baseUrl unconditionally, independent of our config:

baseUrl: compilerOptions.baseUrl || ".",   // tsup/dist/rollup.js:6837

Under TS 6 that's a hard TS5101, so every tsup --dts build fails regardless of what our tsconfigs say — breaking lint:plugin and the @noctcore/harness build (a published package). 8.5.1 is current latest, so there is no version to upgrade into.

Mitigated with ignoreDeprecations: "6.0" — the escape hatch TypeScript's own error text names — scoped to only the two tsup-built packages, with an inline comment. Blast radius is exactly baseUrl; no other 6.0-deprecated option exists anywhere in the repo.

noUncheckedSideEffectImports (new TS 6 default): no impact

Zero errors, no opt-out needed. Verified non-vacuously: the flag genuinely defaults true in 6.0.3 (reproduced TS2882 in a scratch project), the repo has 5 side-effect-only imports (all CSS, 4 in tsc -b apps/web scope), and they pass because vite/client ships declare module '*.css' {}.

Test plan

• bun run typecheck · tsc -b packages/engine --force · tsc -b apps/web --force
• bun run lint (incl. lint:plugin, lint:meta)
• test:node 2057 pass / 0 fail · test:web 517 files / 2953 tests · test:plugin 15
• test:rust 1585 pass / 3 fail — the ring 3(b) sidecar_boundary suite, pre-existing on main and macOS-local; see fix(deps): land Phase 1 safe dependency bumps, clear all JS/Rust audit advisories #465's description for the full diagnosis. This push used --no-verify for that reason; every other gate was run manually and passed.
• cargo fmt --check · cargo clippy --all-targets
• bun run codegen:check — all 7 legs, incl. settings-scope map drift, which exercises gen-settings-scope.ts's ts.createSourceFile. Confirms the classic Compiler API is intact on 6.0.3.

Follow-ups

• Wire codegen:settings-scope --check into lint:meta or CI. It is currently the only gate touching the TS Compiler API and is not CI-wired — a future TS 7 attempt would pass CI and fail only on a developer machine.
• @noctcore/eslint-plugin-* still resolve a nested @typescript-eslint/utils@8.61.1 alongside root's 8.68.0. Harmless (used only for ESLintUtils.RuleCreator); collapses on their next bump or a full lockfile regen.
• TS 7 revisit conditions: TS 7.1 stable with a restored programmatic API, and a typescript-eslint release supporting it, and a tsup release that stops injecting baseUrl. Consider a dependabot.yml ignore for typescript major 7 until then, to stop generating red PRs.

[Shironex]

Superseded by #481, which landed this on current main.