Sockets: running actors get TCP, UDP, and DNS through wasi:sockets; candidates get no network

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## The shape
- **Actors are WASI commands, not components with interfaces.** stdin,
stdout, files, and HTTP are enough, and every language can do them.
stdout, files, HTTP, and sockets are enough, and every language can do
them.
- **Messages are JSON lines through a broker, fire and forget.** Like
Erlang: no acknowledgments, no request/response. A reply is a message with
`reply_to`. Sausage is not a reliable message bus.
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tests before an install, and the rollback of a version that crash-loops.
Without that rollback, a broken self-upgrade would end the agent.
- **No permissions, no limits, no hiding.** Any actor can message, upgrade,
or stop any actor, read every folder, and use HTTP. People who want rules
or stop any actor, read every folder, and use the network. People who want rules
can build them.
- **No re-delivery and no state snapshots.** A crash loses the message, and
all versions of an actor share `data/` and `public/`. A rollback restores
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then. `versions/` keeps every version that was installed, so a rollback
can always go back. A file that fails stays where it was put.
- **Tests are JSON transcripts** next to the source. They run on a copy of
the actor's state, without HTTP, so a test cannot send real requests.
the actor's state, without network, so a test cannot send real requests.
- **`broker` and `cargo` never answer a reply,** so no two actors answer
each other forever. The agent starts a turn only for text that is not a
reply, for the same reason.