main gained the Drizzle spike (#216) after this branch was cut, and both changes add a production dependency, so `backend/package-lock.json` conflicted. `backend/package.json` merged cleanly and carries both `drizzle-orm` and `sharp`. The lockfile was regenerated rather than hand-merged: main's version taken as the base, then `npm install` re-resolved it. That install was deliberately run under Node 24 rather than the machine's default 18.16.1, because sharp's platform binaries are optional dependencies that npm silently omits when the engine check fails — regenerating this file on Node 18 would have quietly dropped every `@img/sharp-*` entry and produced a lockfile that installs a sharp which cannot load. Verified afterwards that linux-x64, linux-arm64 and win32-x64 are all present and that drizzle-orm survived. Backend: 285 unit tests pass, tsc clean. Lint reports six warnings rather than three; the three new ones are in src/db-drizzle from the spike, not from this branch. Ref #226