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rcourtman 28fd2d1c15 fix(api): stop advertising settings surfaces the routes refuse
A settings capability is a promise the routes have to keep. Without an RBAC
licence the authorizer allows every action, so capabilities derived from it
alone reported true while the matching route stayed gated by
ensureSettingsScope and in turn ensureAdminSession.

canAccessPermissionSurface already refused to trust the authorizer for a
non-admin proxy caller. The session half of that rule was never written, so a
non-admin session on an unlicensed instance was told apiAccessRead,
apiAccessWrite, singleSignOnRead and singleSignOnWrite were all available. The
nav gates on exactly those flags, so the API Access and Single Sign-On tabs
rendered, their first request came back 403, and the user got an error toast
on a tab they were never able to use. Everything routed through
canAccessAdminSurface was already correct, which is why authenticationRead and
the audit surfaces behaved and these two did not.

The fallback uses snapshot.sessionIsAdmin, which derives from the same
sessionUserCarriesAdminPrivileges the routes enforce, so the capability now
matches the answer the route will give. That keeps the OIDC-only pattern
working, where SSO principals are the instance's only administrators.

Nothing was reachable that should not have been. This is a capability
reporting fix, not an access control one.

Refs #1672

Contract-Neutral: settingsCapabilities JSON shape is unchanged (same 14 fields, same types); this corrects a wrong value returned to non-admin sessions when no RBAC authorizer is registered, no public-contract delta
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