AMQP is a provision, not the bus

0117 went a step further than it had grounds for. It was right that the bus
is the only bus, and wrong that the amqp interface must therefore retire —
because it conflated two reasons to want a broker. Using one to reach
another module is a second bus and stays refused. Needing an AMQP broker as
a backing service, the way something needs a database, is ordinary, and
forbidding it would make the mesh unable to run normal software while
calling that architecture.

So the broker becomes a plain provider module: no seat, not foundation,
never raised at genesis, no retirement condition. lavinmq now claims nothing
and provides amqp; nats claims mesh-broker and provides nothing.

The rule that survives is about direction, not software: inter-module
communication goes over the bus. A module may hold a broker for itself; it
may not use one as a channel to another module. That is a review judgement
where 0117 could have used a parser, which is the honest cost.

0106's progressive insight was itself wrong and is corrected by a second one
there — nothing moves off the old broker, so its "one purpose" sentence does
not become true, it is just not what that server is.

The insight check needed two fixes it found itself: a date may carry
trailing words, and a bold run with a link is discussing an insight rather
than marking one. All four bad shapes still fire.
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decisions:
- 02-DECISIONS/0118-a-module-declares-its-own-seats.md
- 02-DECISIONS/0117-the-bus-is-the-only-broker.md
- 02-DECISIONS/0119-amqp-is-a-provision-not-the-bus.md
- 02-DECISIONS/0106-the-bus-is-nats.md
- 02-DECISIONS/0041-events-are-a-relationship.md
- 02-DECISIONS/0112-a-module-definition-names-no-node-mesh-or-path.md
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ it as an ordinary module once the registry exists.
So there are exactly two things the normal path cannot make, both at genesis, both ending the
moment the mesh can mint for itself: **the bus's own accounts** (§the bootstrap argument in
[ADR 0117](../../02-DECISIONS/0117-the-bus-is-the-only-broker.md) — a provisioner is a module and
[ADR 0119](../../02-DECISIONS/0119-amqp-is-a-provision-not-the-bus.md) (superseding [ADR 0117](../../02-DECISIONS/0117-the-bus-is-the-only-broker.md)) — a provisioner is a module and
needs an account before it can run) and **the vault's own credential**. Any third exception is a
design failure, and naming these two is what makes a third one visible.