ail: embed Form-A spec in merge-prose prompt (iter 20f)

Closes a design hole shipped in 20d: the merge-prose prompt instructed
the LLM to emit JSON-AST and gave a 12-line schema-essentials reminder.
JSON-AST is the canonical hashable artefact, not a writing surface; the
reminder was not a language spec. Foreign LLMs had no realistic shot.

20f makes two coupled changes:

1) The LLM now emits Form-A (the canonical authoring surface fixed by
   Decision 6). merge-prose loads the original via ailang_core::load_module
   and re-renders via ailang_surface::print before embedding (round-trip
   is a gating contract on the surface crate, so this is lossless). The
   user runs `ail parse foo.new.ailx` to recover JSON, then `ail check`.

2) crates/ailang-core/specs/form_a.md is the complete LLM-targeted
   Form-A specification — grammar, every term/pattern/type/def keyword,
   schema invariants, pitfall catalogue, four few-shot modules from
   examples/*.ailx. Exported as ailang_core::FORM_A_SPEC via include_str!
   and embedded verbatim in every merge-prose prompt.

Drift detection in crates/ailang-core/tests/spec_drift.rs: every variant
of Term, Pattern, Type, Def, Literal is reached via exhaustive `match`.
The arms are not the assertion — adding a new variant without updating
the match is a compile error before the test runs. Once matched, an
anchor string is asserted to appear in FORM_A_SPEC. 8 tests, all green.

The hand-written + mechanical-drift-test combo addresses the user's
"distance to code is too big" concern about a docs-only spec. Generator
overkill rejected: structural drift is mechanically caught, but prose
explanation, schema-invariant catalogue, pitfall list, and few-shot
corpus cannot be emitted from AST shape alone.

Tests:
  - ailang-core: +8 spec_drift tests; existing 12 unchanged
  - ail unit (3): rewritten in lockstep — assert (own T)/(effects IO)
    landmarks, FORM-A SPECIFICATION header, FORM_A_SPEC body verbatim
  - ail e2e merge_prose_prints_framed_prompt: rewritten — assert
    `(module foo` + `FORM-A SPECIFICATION` instead of `ailang/v0`
  - Workspace: all green

Richer integration paths (LLM tool-use, MCP server, LSP) were named
in the design discussion and deferred per "kiss". All three layer
additively on the static-prompt path; static prompt remains the
lowest-common-denominator fallback.
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@@ -96,6 +96,18 @@ pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, Error>;
/// loading fails with [`Error::SchemaMismatch`].
pub const SCHEMA: &str = "ailang/v0";
/// Iter 20f: complete LLM-targeted specification of Form-A — the
/// canonical authoring surface (Decision 6). Embedded verbatim into
/// any prompt that asks an LLM to produce or edit AILang code; in
/// particular, `ail merge-prose` includes it in the round-trip
/// prompt template. The string is the raw bytes of
/// `specs/form_a.md`, co-located with this crate so the spec sits
/// next to the AST it describes; a drift test
/// (`tests/spec_drift.rs`) walks every AST enum variant and asserts
/// its serde tag appears in this string. Adding a new variant
/// without updating the spec fails the test suite.
pub const FORM_A_SPEC: &str = include_str!("../specs/form_a.md");
/// Load a single module file, validate its schema, and deserialize it
/// into a [`Module`].
///