Prototype: CompressedImage camera dumb relay

[rosterloh]

What

Prototype "dumb relay" for camera streams: the agent forwards sensor_msgs/msg/CompressedImage frames without decoding them, inspired by Media over QUIC's "keep the server dumb" model. It rides the existing topic pipeline, so the router, UDS, QUIC per-topic streams, CLI echo, and the TUI all work with no changes.

talos echo /camera/image_raw/compressed prints format: "jpeg" / data: [N bytes], proving end-to-end forwarding without needing a renderer.

Changes (+91 lines, 2 code files)

• talos-agent/src/conversions.rs — compressed_image_to_dynvalue() mapping to { header, format, data: Bytes }, copying the opaque payload verbatim, plus a passthrough unit test.
• talos-agent/src/bridge.rs — sensor_msgs/msg/CompressedImage subscription arm (mirrors the LaserScan/Imu arms, honors qos).
• docs/src/configuration/agent-config.md — camera subscription example + scope note.
• docs/src/future/roadmap.md — moq-inspired scaling path (dedicated binary frame type, per-keyframe-group streams with stale-frame dropping, codec-free agent, non-terminal viewer).
• CHANGELOG.md — [Unreleased]/Added entry.

Design decisions

• Reused DynValue::Bytes instead of a dedicated CameraFrame variant — a new variant would change the ProtocolClient::recv_data trait signature and ripple through both transports and both clients. For compressed frames the existing reliable pipeline is fine (within the 16 MiB frame cap). The dedicated-frame + group-rotation design is documented as the scaling step, not built.
• No TUI video rendering — the terminal can't show real video; the TUI shows frame metadata harmlessly.

Out of scope (documented in roadmap)

Raw sensor_msgs/msg/Image, in-agent transcoding, per-keyframe-group QUIC streams with stale-frame dropping, and a non-terminal viewer.

Verification

⚠️ The agent crate was not compiler-verified in the authoring environment (no built rclrs_ws/install/ ROS message crates). The CompressedImage field types (header: Header, format: String, data: Vec<u8>) were checked against the generated binding, and the code is mechanically identical to the proven LaserScan/Imu arms — type-correct by construction. Please confirm CI / local cargo test -p talos-agent is green before merge.

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