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Extract a shared combobox hook for SearchBox and TagPicker #165

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@themightychris

Follow-up from PR #155 (ARIA correctness).

SearchBox and TagPicker now both implement the ARIA APG combobox-with-listbox pattern by hand: open / activeIndex state, clamped activeIdx, useId()-derived listbox/option ids, aria-activedescendant, wrapping ArrowUp/ArrowDown, Enter/Escape, guarded onMouseMove highlight, and close-on-focus-out. The two copies have already drifted in small ways (SearchBox swallows mousedown on the popup and closes on input blur; TagPicker uses a container onBlur + relatedTarget check with tabIndex={-1} options).

Extract a useCombobox hook (or adopt shadcn's Command) so the keyboard/ARIA contract lives in one place and the two widgets only differ in how they render options and what activation does. Keep the existing SearchBox.test.tsx / TagPicker.test.tsx as the behavioural contract.

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