bond: name the edge update verb tune, and reach zero #104

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bond: name the edge update verb tune, and reach zero

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set_tie was the last debt, and the only one whose answer was not in the
code. Every other compound this round was hiding a structure — a missing
dispatch, a missing type, a redundant qualifier, the shadow of a special
case — and fixing the structure emitted the name. This one hid nothing.
The structure was already right; what was missing was a word.

The verb matrix says why it was stubborn. Rows get put/set/end, edges get
tie/?/cut, and only the middle edge cell had no atom of its own. Merging
instead — carrier as an argument, cut folding into end — was rejected on
principle rather than cost: keel separates #[field] from #[relation] at
the declaration layer and keeps them apart at every layer above it, so
erasing the split at the verb layer to save a word would undo the model.
Edges are their own kind, so edges get their own verbs.

tune is the user's pick. It updates the business cells a pair carries and
refuses everything else: Edge::part already rejects left, right, id and
the three reign stamps, so the pair and its lifecycle are untouched. That
is the sense — tie makes the pair, tune revises what the pair carries,
cut ends it.

Also corrects retie, the PATCH handler I named in #95. It implies the
bond is re-established, which is exactly what this operation cannot do:
the ends are read only to check both are still live.

Renaming was cheap because the name was never data — no grant verb, no
pulse verb, no wire token, and nothing downstream — so this is nine
identifiers and eight lines of law prose, no migration. vocabulary.md
carries the new atom as a delta, per its own rule that an agent changing
code maintains the vocabulary.

**negentropy: clean.** Debt 88 -> 0 over #93-#104; all four laws at zero.
guard clean, 46 tests green on sqlite and on real postgres.

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bond: name the edge update verb tune, and reach zero (#104)

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