[grade=B] feat: add root-level /metrics Prometheus endpoint

Documentation tells users to scrape /metrics (the Prometheus convention)
but the route only existed at /api/v1/metrics/prometheus. The root-level
/metrics returned the SPA HTML fallback via Caddy.

- Add GET /metrics to app.js (same output as /api/v1/metrics/prometheus)
- Add /metrics to PUBLIC_ROUTES in middleware.js (no auth required)
- Add /metrics to rate-limiter skip list
- Add 5 tests in metrics-root-endpoint.test.js
- Add Caddy route for /metrics on test server
- All 1775 tests pass

Codex grade: B (no blocking issues)

dashcaddy-api/__tests__/metrics-root-endpoint.test.js

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+/**
+ * Root-level /metrics endpoint tests — DC-097b
+ *
+ * Verifies that:
+ *   - GET /metrics returns Prometheus text format (not JSON, not HTML)
+ *   - The Content-Type is text/plain with Prometheus version
+ *   - The response includes HELP/TYPE annotations and metric names
+ *   - The endpoint is listed in PUBLIC_ROUTES (no auth required)
+ *   - The endpoint is in the rate-limiter skip list
+ *
+ * Documentation tells users to scrape /metrics (the Prometheus convention),
+ * but the route previously only existed at /api/v1/metrics/prometheus. The
+ * root-level alias makes doc examples work without modification.
+ */
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const MIDDLEWARE_PATH = path.join(__dirname, '../src/utilities/middleware.js');
+const APP_PATH = path.join(__dirname, '../src/app.js');
+
+describe('Root-level /metrics endpoint — DC-097b', () => {
+  describe('PUBLIC_ROUTES includes /metrics', () => {
+    let mwSource;
+    beforeAll(() => {
+      mwSource = fs.readFileSync(MIDDLEWARE_PATH, 'utf8');
+    });
+
+    test('/metrics is in PUBLIC_ROUTES', () => {
+      // Match the route entry: { path: '/metrics', ... method: 'GET' }
+      expect(mwSource).toMatch(/['"]\/metrics['"]/);
+    });
+
+    test('/metrics is in the rate-limiter skip list', () => {
+      expect(mwSource).toMatch(/req\.path\s*===\s*['"]\/metrics['"]/);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('app.js registers GET /metrics', () => {
+    let appSource;
+    beforeAll(() => {
+      appSource = fs.readFileSync(APP_PATH, 'utf8');
+    });
+
+    test('app.get("/metrics", ...) is registered', () => {
+      expect(appSource).toMatch(/app\.get\(\s*['"]\/metrics['"]/);
+    });
+
+    test('/metrics handler sets Prometheus Content-Type', () => {
+      // The handler should set Content-Type to text/plain with prometheus version
+      expect(appSource).toMatch(/text\/plain.*version=0\.0\.4/);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('Parity with /api/v1/metrics/prometheus', () => {
+    let appSource;
+    beforeAll(() => {
+      appSource = fs.readFileSync(APP_PATH, 'utf8');
+    });
+
+    test('both endpoints call metrics.toPrometheus()', () => {
+      const matches = appSource.match(/metrics\.toPrometheus\(\)/g);
+      expect(matches).toBeTruthy();
+      // At least two call sites: /api/v1/metrics/prometheus and /metrics
+      expect(matches.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
+    });
+  });
+});