feat: build the site with Astro Starlight

generate_site.py writes the Starlight project in website/ and nothing
else: mkdocs.yml, the MkDocs hooks, theme overrides and stylesheet go,
and the wiki is written in Starlight's syntax. Both workflows set up
Node with the official actions/setup-node pinned by commit, run npm ci
from the committed lockfile, build with the strict link validator and
check the result with validate_site.py.

The search weighs a page by what it answers: Start here pages first,
a system page's cards and file names before a guide citing them, deep
guides, launchers, aliases and frozen copies after. Status badges,
hash blocks and the export change lists leave the index. The ranking
sits at the centre of a range where the 13 queries of search_gate.py
all answer, in the search box itself.

839 pages, every URL and 45,611 ids match the MkDocs build. The tests
read the Starlight content and syntax.
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@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ data/ cached data directories (not BIOS, fetched at build)
schemas/ JSON schemas for platform and emulator YAML (checked in CI)
tests/ test suite with synthetic fixtures
wiki/ hand-written documentation sources
docs/ generated MkDocs site (gitignored, rebuilt in CI)
website/ Astro Starlight project; pages, data and navigation
are generated into it (gitignored, rebuilt in CI)
_mame_clones.json MAME parent/clone set mappings
database.json file index built from bios/ (SHA1 primary key)
dist/ generated packs (gitignored)
@@ -55,7 +56,8 @@ heading above the match. Every file card is therefore a level 3 heading with
the card's anchor, under its console or a Files heading, and every platform
system a heading of its own: a file name typed in the search opens that card,
not the top of the page. On pages of cards (systems, emulators, platforms) the
table of contents stops at level 2 (`scripts/mkdocs_hooks.py`).
table of contents stops at level 2, and a page of cards under one or two
headings has none (`scripts/sitestarlight.py`).
The browser downloads and indexes the whole search index before it shows a
first result, so the index holds names and prose only. Hashes, lists of other
@@ -450,7 +452,7 @@ pattern and how to add a test.
| Workflow | File | Trigger | Role |
|----------|------|---------|------|
| Deploy Site | `deploy-site.yml` | push to main on any input of the site build, and manual | validate contracts, generate site, build with MkDocs, validate rendered HTML, deploy to Pages |
| Deploy Site | `deploy-site.yml` | push to main on any input of the site build, and manual | validate contracts, generate site, build with Astro Starlight, validate rendered HTML, deploy to Pages |
| Validation | `validate.yml` | pull request and push to main on the collection, profiles, schemas, scripts, tests, the installer and every input of the site build | schema check and full test suite on both, BIOS hash validation and auto-label on pull requests |
Each workflow's `paths:` list is the exact set of files that starts it.