[grade=pending] QA sprint: commit 103 at-risk files from multi-agent sprint work

Committed by Hermes autonomous QA sprint 2026-08-13.
These files were modified during the Aug 12 sprint but never committed.

dashcaddy-api/src/utils/http.js

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function fetchT(url, opts = {}, timeoutMs = TIMEOUTS.HTTP_DEFAULT) {
   // passes `timeout: N` here, it's almost certainly a bug — we used to silently
   // strip it, which masked the issue. Now we surface it in logs and strip it.
   if ('timeout' in opts) {
-    console.warn(`[fetchT] opts.timeout=${opts.timeout} is ignored — pass timeoutMs as the 3rd arg of fetchT() instead. Called from: ${new Error().stack.split('\n').slice(2, 4).join(' <- ')}`);
+    process.stderr.write(`[fetchT] opts.timeout=${opts.timeout} is ignored — pass timeoutMs as the 3rd arg of fetchT() instead. Called from: ${new Error().stack.split('\n').slice(2, 4).join(' <- ')}\n`);
     const { timeout: _timeout, ...rest } = opts;
     opts = rest;
   }

dashcaddy-api/src/utils/responses.js

@@ -59,9 +59,17 @@ function noContent(res) {
  * @param {number} statusCode HTTP status code
  * @param {string} message Human-readable error message
  * @param {object} [extras={}] additional fields to merge into the response
+ *
+ * DC-086: If extras.code is set, it's treated as a machine-readable error code
+ * (e.g. 'DC-CONT-002'). If message looks like a DC code, it's auto-extracted.
  */
 function errorResponse(res, statusCode, message, extras = {}) {
-  return res.status(statusCode).json({ success: false, error: message, ...extras });
+  const body = { success: false, error: message, ...extras };
+  // DC-086: surface machine-readable code at top level for client handling
+  if (extras.code) {
+    body.code = extras.code;
+  }
+  return res.status(statusCode).json(body);
 }
 
 /**