execute runs any command as the operator account, which can become root
without a person. The operator withholds it on the control-node until a
call needs a person's approval (hq ADR 0268); the other machines keep it
for now. The setting execute (serve by default) is written into a
root-owned file the tools bundle reads at start, and anything but serve
withholds the verb, so the machine's runtime does not offer it.