CI: PRs build and test only the packages they touch (#1561)

Clippy, the test archive and the test shards cover the packages a PR changes plus their dependents. Main, nightly and manual runs stay full.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -163,6 +163,13 @@ in the PR. `cargo xtask test` builds the tests with it and then runs every test
`cargo xtask test -- shell`. Tests run beside each other on a busy machine, so a test must not
depend on wall-clock timing.
**PRs test what they touch; main and nightly test everything.** On a pull request, CI maps the
changed files to workspace packages and runs Clippy, the test build and the tests for those and
the packages that depend on them (`scripts/ci/affected.py`, self-tested in the `checks` job). A
change to `Cargo.lock`, the root `Cargo.toml`, `.cargo/`, `.config/`, `.github/`, `vendor/`,
`tests/`, `scripts/` or any file outside a package runs the whole workspace, as does every push
to `main`, the nightly run and Run workflow.
**CI shards the tests.** One job builds them into a cargo-nextest archive and four jobs run a
quarter each, so every test runs in its own process: don't rely on state left by another test.
Pull requests skip a few heavy tests (one to four minutes each), which run on every push to