refactor: let Artifact validator handle base64 decoding across all providers

[Kamilbenkirane]

Summary

• Remove manual base64.b64decode() calls across 6 provider clients
• Pass base64 strings directly to ImageArtifact/VideoArtifact/AudioArtifact(data=...) — the Artifact field validator automatically decodes base64 strings to bytes
• Remove unused import base64 from 5 files

Files changed

• modalities/images/providers/openai/client.py (2 instances)
• modalities/images/providers/xai/client.py (1 instance)
• modalities/images/providers/ollama/client.py (2 instances)
• modalities/images/providers/byteplus/client.py (2 instances)
• modalities/videos/providers/openai/client.py (1 instance)
• modalities/audio/providers/google/client.py (1 instance)

Test plan

• All 472 unit tests pass
• All pre-commit hooks pass (ruff, mypy, bandit, tests)

Closes #138

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[claude]

Code review

Critical Issue: Missing base64 decoder validator

The entire premise of this PR is incorrect. The PR description claims:

"the Artifact field validator automatically decodes base64 strings to bytes"

This validator does not exist.

Looking at src/celeste/artifacts.py, the Artifact class has:

• data: bytes | None = None (line 28) - a plain bytes type annotation
• @field_serializer("data", when_used="json") (line 33) - this serializes bytes to base64 for JSON output
• No @field_validator that converts base64 strings to bytes on input

What will actually happen

When Pydantic v2 receives a str for a bytes field without a validator, it performs UTF-8 encoding: value.encode("utf-8"). This means a base64 string like "iVBORw0KGgo=" would be stored as the literal ASCII bytes b"iVBORw0KGgo=" (the base64 text itself), NOT as the decoded binary content.

This will cause silent data corruption - the artifact's data field will contain base64 ASCII text bytes instead of the actual image/video/audio binary data.

Impact

All 9 changes across 6 files would produce corrupted outputs:

• src/celeste/modalities/audio/providers/google/client.py (line 68)
• src/celeste/modalities/images/providers/byteplus/client.py (lines 82, 163-164)
• src/celeste/modalities/images/providers/ollama/client.py (lines 55, 116)
• src/celeste/modalities/images/providers/openai/client.py (lines 63, 144)
• src/celeste/modalities/images/providers/xai/client.py (line 85)
• src/celeste/modalities/videos/providers/openai/client.py (line 57)

Required fix

The original base64.b64decode() calls are actually necessary. To achieve the goal of centralizing base64 decoding logic, you would need to:

1. Add a @field_validator to the Artifact class that detects base64 strings and decodes them to bytes
2. Then remove the manual base64.b64decode() calls from providers

Note: Two files already have this bug pre-existing (google/imagen.py line 63 and videos/providers/google/client.py line 59), which may have created the false impression this pattern was intentional.