Kgothatso Ngako b99cb8fcd5 docs: write down the shared-key subsystem and how Marmot membership fails
First docs in the repo -- README.md is still the stock KMP template. Three
documents plus an index, covering the parts whose behaviour is not recoverable by
reading the code: where the reasoning lives in a protocol, where a failure mode is
silent, or where a decision looked arbitrary and was not.

marmot-membership.md is the one that earns its place. Everything about adding a
member compiles, the invite reports success, and a member simply never appears --
and the reason is never in the invite code. It records that
inviteMemberToChatRoom hardcodes isOneMemberInitialGroupCreation = false and that
ChatRepository does not expose it, so every group invite takes the deferred-welcome
path including the first, when the group is still just its creator and the commit
has no audience at all. Then why that is silent rather than noisy:
MarmotInboundManager refuses future-epoch messages outright, on both wire formats,
with no queue and no replay, so a commit arriving before its recipient's welcome
is dropped and that member never advances. EPOCH_RETENTION_WINDOW retains past
epochs and does nothing for messages from ahead. Three options are set out with the
per-invite correctness table, including the honest limit that the recommended one
narrows the race without closing it.

shared-key-derivation.md argues why the paths are not BIP32 -- no chain code
exists, hardened derivation is impossible rather than unimplemented, and a FROST
tweak takes the scalar as input so the chain code leaves the problem entirely. It
records the x-only serialisation trap avoided by choosing the scalar directly, and
states the rule that must not be broken: never reconstruct a derived key in the
clear, because k = k' - t hands over the group key rather than one derived key.

shared-key-ceremony.md covers the seven kinds, the three approval gates and why
the coordinator's aggregations are deliberately not among them, faults as values
rather than exceptions, and the transcript's idempotency-by-construction. It also
writes down the invariant that produces no error when broken: pendingApproval must
mirror the gates in advance, or the screen offers an approval that does nothing --
or none while the ritual sits still.

Every factual claim was checked against the source rather than recalled, which
turned up one correction worth having: there are two future-epoch refusals, for
PrivateMessage and for Commit, so the drop covers both wire formats and not just
one.

Each document leads with the failure mode rather than the architecture, on the
grounds that a failure is what sends somebody to docs in the first place, and each
lists its known gaps -- including that none of this has run on a physical device.

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