A pin names the module as well as the node; a node that answers twice is refused

A provider is a (node, module) pair (design 23), and the pin — the one way a
consumer names its provider — named only the node. Two modules on one node
can both answer a provision (public-acme and step-ca both offer acme-ca on
novox), and then the resolver, given a pin naming that node, took the last
provider listed: a coin flip. The same ambiguity beside the consumer was
settled by a map walk — random per plan — which is how novox's own
route-proxy got its issuer (novox/hq #258).

- `pin <node> <provision> <from-node> <module>`: both halves, always. The
  console gains `pin` and `unpin`. The provider may be on the consumer's own
  node, since two modules beside it can both answer.
- The resolver refuses ambiguity instead of picking, across machines and
  beside the consumer alike, naming every candidate as node/module and the
  form of the pin that settles it. A plain capability that grants nothing
  and serves nothing (three shells beside an editor) is not a choice to put
  to anybody and stays as it was.
- provision_pin gains a nullable module (0050); records made before are
  completed where the node they name answers once, and left for a person
  where it answers twice (0051).
- The provider of something already satisfied is looked for among what was
  assigned, not only what the walk has reached — a consumer reached before
  the provider beside it no longer loses its binding.
- The start-time check that every declared verb is runnable samples each
  verb's required arguments from its schema instead of three guessed keys.

Live consequence: a node that has two providers of one bound provision
assigned (novox: acme-ca) resolves only once pinned —
`pin novox acme-ca novox public-acme`.
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@@ -97,6 +97,16 @@ var ControllerVerbs = []Verb{
Input: schema(map[string]string{"node": "the machine's name", "module": "the module's name"}, []string{"node", "module"})},
{Name: "unassign", Description: "Take a module off a machine.",
Input: schema(map[string]string{"node": "the machine's name", "module": "the module's name"}, []string{"node", "module"})},
{Name: "pin", Description: "Tell a machine which provider answers a provision for it — the module, and the node " +
"it runs on, both. Asked for when more than one could answer; the refusal lists them.",
Input: schema(map[string]string{
"node": "the machine's name",
"provision": "the provision, as the consumer requires it",
"from": "the node the chosen provider runs on",
"module": "the module providing it there",
}, []string{"node", "provision", "from", "module"})},
{Name: "unpin", Description: "Take that choice back, putting the question to the mesh again.",
Input: schema(map[string]string{"node": "the machine's name", "provision": "the provision"}, []string{"node", "provision"})},
{Name: "push", Description: "Send a machine everything it should be — or every machine that is behind, when no machine is named.",
Input: schema(map[string]string{"node": "the machine's name; every machine behind when absent"}, nil)},
{Name: "rotate", Description: "Replace a credential. A pair credential, by provision (and a consuming machine, " +