fix: remove auto-install feature from local CLI for better performance

[fengmk2]

The vp run command was automatically running pnpm install before
executing tasks, causing serious performance degradation. Remove the
entire auto-install feature:

• Delete create_install_synthetic_request() and auto-install block
  from execute_vite_task_command() in the NAPI binding
• Remove VITE_DISABLE_AUTO_INSTALL env var from 147 snap test files
• Delete auto-install-before-task snap test and benchmark script
• Update docs and RFCs to remove auto-install references

[fengmk2]

• fix: remove auto-install feature from local CLI for better performance #631 👈 (View in Graphite)
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[fengmk2]

Here are the benchmark results using vp run lint on main (hyperfine, 20 runs): Cold cache (after vp cache clean) ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┐ │ Scenario │ Mean │ Min │ Max │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ Auto-install enabled (main default) │ 2,168ms │ 1,817ms │ 2,633ms │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ Auto-install disabled (VITE_DISABLE_AUTO_INSTALL=1) │ 610ms │ 462ms │ 1,241ms │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┘
Auto-install overhead: ~1.56s per invocation (3.6x slower)
Warm cache (task cache hot)
┌───────────────────────┬───────┬───────┬─────────┐
│ Scenario │ Mean │ Min │ Max │
├───────────────────────┼───────┼───────┼─────────┤
│ Auto-install enabled │ 524ms │ 414ms │ 1,201ms │
├───────────────────────┼───────┼───────┼─────────┤
│ Auto-install disabled │ 448ms │ 383ms │ 1,029ms │
└───────────────────────┴───────┴───────┴─────────┘
Auto-install overhead: ~77ms per invocation (1.17x slower) — the install result itself gets cached by
the task runner, so warm overhead is lower.
Raw baseline
┌───────────────────────────────────┬──────────────┐
│ Measurement │ Time │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┤
│ pnpm install (already up to date) │ 1,650ms mean │
└───────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┘
The cold cache overhead matches the raw pnpm install cost almost exactly. On warm cache, the task
runner caches the install result, but there's still ~77ms overhead for cache lookup + package manager
resolution. Note: the original benchmark script (bench/benches/auto_install.sh) was testing vp lint
which goes through execute_direct_subcommand and was never affected by auto-install — so it would
have shown no difference.

[fengmk2]

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• Feb 27, 2:33 AM UTC: @fengmk2 merged this pull request with Graphite.