feat: add typed debug tracers and alternate trace methods

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What

Adds typed debug_traceTransaction and debug_traceCall results, including nested call trees and prestate/diff accounts, plus thin trace_call / trace_transaction methods and a raw custom-tracer escape hatch. This completes the tracing portion of #121 after simulation PR #126 merges; review this PR against its simulation base first, then retarget to main.

Why

Integrators need internal calls and state changes to explain transaction effects. Providers expose different trace namespaces, so callers also need explicit capability errors and a way to use custom tracers.

How

• Typed callTracer and prestateTracer options/results retain optional fields, revert bytes, logs, and raw frames in a single owned arena.
• Custom tracer source and config are JSON-escaped; alternate trace methods return caller-owned JSON. The base PR's MethodNotFound mapping preserves the transport-only failover rule.
• Offline fixtures cover a three-frame tree, reverted creation, prestate and diff modes, malformed responses, allocation failures, and a 128-frame typed recursion limit.
• The existing CI workflow now runs for all PR base branches so stacked changes receive the same checks, with unchanged jobs and permissions.

Validation: Zig 0.16.0 make ci and documentation production build passed locally. The Anvil integration suite passed 27 tests, with seven skips: six mainnet-dependent checks and unsupported trace_call; successful debug tracers, raw results, and trace_transaction were exercised. trace_call request serialization and capability errors are covered, but its live success path still needs an Erigon/Nethermind endpoint; a custom JavaScript engine was unavailable locally.

Checklist

• zig build test passes
• zig fmt --check src/ tests/ passes
• New functionality includes tests
• No external dependencies added
• CHANGELOG.md updated (if user-facing change)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added transaction and call tracing through Geth, Erigon, and Nethermind-compatible RPC methods.
  • Added typed results for call traces, prestate traces, state differences, logs, and custom tracer JSON.
  • Added configurable tracer options, including timeouts and reexecution settings.

• Documentation

  • Added a transaction tracing guide covering supported APIs, results, errors, and usage examples.
  • Added tracing to the documentation navigation.

• CI

  • Pull-request workflows now run for all target branches.

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The change adds typed Geth tracing support, raw Erigon/Nethermind tracing methods, tracer result parsing, provider integration, documentation, tests, and broader pull-request CI triggers.

Changes

Transaction tracing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tracing contracts and request encoding src/tracing.zig	Adds tracer options, public result models, trace types, and JSON parameter encoders.
Typed response parsing src/tracing.zig	Parses call frames, logs, prestate data, account and storage state, raw JSON, malformed responses, and recursion limits.
Provider tracing methods src/json_rpc.zig, src/provider.zig, src/root.zig	Adds tracing RPC method constants, provider methods, public module export, owned results, and RPC error propagation.
Tracing validation and documentation tests/integration_tests.zig, CHANGELOG.md, docs/content/docs/tracing.mdx, docs/content/docs/meta.json	Adds unit and integration coverage and documents tracer APIs, ownership, errors, and supported node methods.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pull-request workflow trigger .github/workflows/ci.yml	Runs pull-request workflows for all target branches. Push workflows remain limited to main.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f5d6e

The tracing test updates add capability-aware handling for unsupported RPC methods without an identified merge-blocking risk.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Provider
  participant Tracing as tracing.transactionParams
  participant RPC as JSON-RPC endpoint
  participant Parser as tracing.parseResult
  Provider->>Tracing: Encode tracing parameters
  Provider->>RPC: Send tracing request
  RPC-->>Provider: Return tracing JSON
  Provider->>Parser: Parse response
  Parser-->>Provider: Return owned result

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