Add, rename and remove machines from the phone -- without letting it name commands

The gap PLAN.md recorded: setups were readable but only hand-editable, so
adding a machine meant a shell on the backend.

**The design decision, made with Bryan, is that the phone never composes a
command.** A setup carries providers, and a provider carries something to
run -- so a route that accepted a command from the request body would make
the enrolled token arbitrary code execution on every machine a setup names,
and the transport already reaches those over ssh. Instead the phone sends
connection details, and the server asks the machine itself what it has:
one `command -v` round trip per setup, matched against a table of the
drivers this server knows. The phone's authority is "add this machine",
never "run this".

Worth recording that this was a narrower change than it first appeared: the
token could already run anything on the backend, because the spawn screen
offers `bypassPermissions` with a free-text working directory. Discovery
does not close that door. What it does is keep the *list of what can run*
out of the phone's reach, and make adding a machine a thing you cannot get
wrong by typing.

It is also simply better to use. Nobody wants to type an absolute path on a
phone keyboard, and a machine whose binaries have moved answers correctly
on the next probe. The cost is that a program somewhere unusual is
invisible -- `command -v` follows PATH under a non-interactive ssh session,
which is not the PATH a person sees when they log in. That is the trade,
and the escape hatch is editing config.ron on the backend, which is exactly
the authority the phone is not being given.

Setups now have an **id separate from their label**, so renaming a machine
does not orphan the sessions that name it; a session stores the id, and
every row resolves the current label when it is built. `POST /setups/probe`
tries a machine without saving anything, so a wrong address or an
unauthorised key is caught while the form that caused it is still on
screen. Deleting is refused while sessions still run there, and says which
ones rather than cascading.

Every mutation goes through one `update`: clone, apply, save, then commit,
so a failed write leaves the previous state intact and reports why.

Verified against a running server, including a real ssh machine (this VM,
via a throwaway loopback key since removed): probing here found echo and
claude-cli; probing over ssh found claude-cli and correctly no echo, which
runs in-process and exists only where this server does; an unreachable
machine came back with ssh's own words ("connect to host ... Connection
timed out"); adding derived the id `loopback-vm` from "loopback vm";
renaming kept the id; deleting was refused while a session used it, naming
it, and succeeded once nothing did.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ mod models;
mod private;
mod routes;
mod session;
mod setups;
mod ssh;
mod usage;