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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## Scope
**The as-is only.** The design being built has a different answer:
[ADR 0016](../../02-DECISIONS/0016-the-node-host.md) puts recovery
[ADR 0005](../../02-DECISIONS/0005-the-node-host.md) puts recovery
in a launcher that supervises the host, and that recovery is tested — 32 assertions, each
confirmed to fail when the behaviour is removed.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ is, which is a scheduling question rather than a technical one.
## What it would take to be sure
Read back rather than assumed
([ADR 0014](../../02-DECISIONS/0014-a-picture-is-read-from-what-runs.md)): list every unit on a
([ADR 0018](../../02-DECISIONS/0018-a-picture-is-read-from-what-runs.md)): list every unit on a
node and grep for `OnFailure=`; list every timer and check what each one calls. The finding above
came from reading the repository, and confirming it against a running node is the difference
between *no unit declares this* and *no unit in the source declares this*.