[Tech Debt][Umbrella] Review and refine Flink Agents APIs for 0.4
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### Description
The [Flink Agents 0.4 roadmap](https://github.com/apache/flink-agents/discussions/862) calls for a comprehensive review of the existing APIs and an API compatibility mechanism.
As Flink Agents matures toward 1.0, the 0.4 release may be the last planned opportunity for broad breaking changes. We should use this window to make the public APIs more mature, consistent, and easy to use, and then establish a stable compatibility baseline for future releases.
This umbrella issue tracks the overall API review. Detailed proposals and implementation work should be tracked in child issues and linked here.
#### Scope
- Audit the public Java, Python, and YAML API surfaces.
- Review naming, abstractions, types, configuration, lifecycle, extension points, defaults, validation, and error handling from a user's perspective.
- Verify semantic consistency across Java, Python, YAML, and cross-language boundaries.
- Identify APIs that should be simplified, consolidated, deprecated, removed, or redesigned before 1.0.
- For each proposed breaking change, document the rationale, user impact, and migration path in a child issue.
- Define the compatibility approach after 0.4, including API stability classification, deprecation policy, and compatibility validation where applicable.
- Update documentation, examples, migration guidance, and tests for accepted changes.
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