Polish README with actual TUI screenshots

[TerminallyLazy]

Summary

• Tidy the README top section with a clearer agent-focused overview and quick start
• Add actual tree-ring tui screenshots captured from a populated local store, covering dashboard, search, evidence, and integrations views
• Update certification/evidence text with current install size, recall speed, harness matrix, and recall-quality numbers

Notes

• Screenshots are from the real TUI running against a synthetic local .tree-ring store populated through the public CLI with 47 varied memories across all rings.
• The fixture was regenerated to avoid repeated dummy rows in the visible memory list.

Checks

• git diff --check
• cargo fmt --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Refreshed the README with a clearer introduction and onboarding flow.
  • Added a screenshots section and a new quick-start sequence for getting started faster.
  • Updated launch links, install guidance, and protocol preview history details.
  • Revised command examples and output locations to match the latest workflow.
  • Renewed the development check results and reported metrics with updated timestamps.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

README.md is restructured with a new protocol-preview introduction, refreshed launch links, a collapsible preview history section, a Screenshots section, and a new Quick Start command flow replacing the earlier First Example section. Certification metrics and a recall-quality path reference are also updated.

Changes

README Restructuring

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Intro and launch links rewrite README.md	Replaces the Status block with a protocol-preview description, adds a "Current launch links" list, and converts version history into a collapsible "Protocol preview history" section; updates "What It Gives Agents" bullets.
Screenshots and quick start flow README.md	Adds a Screenshots section with tui screenshots, introduces a "Quick Start" section replacing "Install", adds init/remember/recall/tui command sequence and "Install Details" entry, and removes the old "First Example" section.
Certification metrics and recall-quality path update README.md	Updates the recall-quality merge step to reference target/tree-ring-certification/evidence-index.json, and refreshes the certification run metrics block with new timestamp, sizes, timing figures, harness counts, and Agent Zero plugin smoke status.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• TerminallyLazy/Tree-Ring-Memory#19: Both PRs update README.md onboarding/install flow documentation covering similar terminal tree-ring preview sections.

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• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch codex/readme-app-screenshots

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Code Review

This pull request updates the README.md to clarify that Tree Ring Memory is a local-first framework, reorganizes the launch links and protocol preview history, and adds a new 'What It Gives Agents' section. It also introduces a 'Screenshots' section showing the TUI application, restructures the 'Quick Start' and installation examples, corrects paths for certification artifacts, and updates the latest certification run metrics and timestamps. There are no review comments, so no feedback is provided.

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