Order the records the way the system is learned

Jochen asked whether the order made sense. It did not -- it followed when
things happened to be decided, which after consolidation is fictional anyway
since record 5 alone folds decisions taken across a week.

Concretely wrong before: the domain statement sat at 8, after five engineering
rules; the constitution was scattered across 5, 12 and 17; the tiers landed at
15, 16, 21 and 22 with process records in between.

Now it walks: what the mesh is (1-3), its tiers from the bottom up (4-8), what
runs on them and how it gets there (9-10), how it is built (11-16), how it is
checked (17-18), how we work (19-23).

Two things made this safe rather than free. It is a permutation, not a
compaction, so the renames go through temporary names -- otherwise two files
want one slot and one is lost. And the reference rewrite is a single
simultaneous pass, because almost every number moved into a slot another number
was vacating; replacing one at a time would have cascaded and pointed things at
the wrong record while still resolving.

Verified: 284 [ADR NNNN](path) links across the repository, all with matching
text and target.

The ordering principle is now stated in 19 rather than left implicit -- the
repository already said "the numbering is the flow" about its folders, and
there was no reason for the records to be the exception.
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| **Absorbed into the host** | It is not a module at all. It is part of what "managing a machine" means, and belongs in tier 0. | overlay membership, packet filtering, package management, service supervision, container runtime, filesystem management |
| **Substrate** | The control plane cannot exist without it. Pinned, host-applied. | relational store, bus, object store, image registry |
| **Control-plane context** | It decides something across nodes. | connectivity policy, inventory, delivery, provisioning, observability |
| **Workload module** | The mesh hosts it. Grouped per [ADR 0019](../../02-DECISIONS/0019-modules-and-the-graph.md). | media library, desktop session, collaboration tooling |
| **Leaves the repository** | A standalone application, per [ADR 0006](../../02-DECISIONS/0006-applications-live-in-their-own-repository.md). | the applications identified in research 005 |
| **Workload module** | The mesh hosts it. Grouped per [ADR 0009](../../02-DECISIONS/0009-modules-and-the-graph.md). | media library, desktop session, collaboration tooling |
| **Leaves the repository** | A standalone application, per [ADR 0015](../../02-DECISIONS/0015-applications-live-in-their-own-repository.md). | the applications identified in research 005 |
**The first fate is the finding.** Research 005 measured the reachability cluster — proxy,
resolver, firewall, overlay — as the only place in the catalogue where modules genuinely change
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ mesh-surfaces/ TIER 3
mesh-catalog/ TIER 4
<domain>/<module>/ layout as above
mesh-lab/ mesh-sdk/ hq/ (company-scoped — ADR 0011)
mesh-lab/ mesh-sdk/ hq/ (company-scoped — ADR 0019)
```
## What this does not settle