Found during review of the persistence-plumbing branch: _build_metadata_section
wrote raw bounds.size into the wire's 2nd float triple, but the wire format
(and _parse_metadata_section) treats that triple as max_pos, computing
size = max - min. AABB(Vector3.ZERO, size) masks this since size == max when
position is 0 -- exactly what every existing test used. Any chunk at a real,
nonzero world position would silently corrupt on its own client-local
encode/decode round-trip. Same bug class as the backend's min+size/min+max
mismatch fixed in chunk_codec.py (eb39e43), just on the client side this
time. Added a regression case to smoke_test_chunk_codec_interop.gd using a
real nonzero chunk position (96,-32,0) -- 33/33 passing. Full sibling smoke
suite re-verified clean afterward.
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