fix: bound module lifecycle shutdown

Nothing bounded shutdown, and a module that failed to start was never cleaned up.

`startModules` appended to its rollback set only after `start()` resolved, so a
hook that acquired a connection, registered a listener, or recorded partial
initialization and then threw had its own `stop()` skipped, while every
previously completed module was rolled back correctly. A module now joins the
rollback set the moment its start hook is invoked: its own stop hook runs first,
then earlier modules in reverse order. The original start issue stays first in
the reported issues, and a failure stopping the failing module is appended
without preventing the rest of the rollback. The consequence for module authors
is explicit and documented — `stop()` may run after a partially completed
`start()` and must be safe and idempotent about resources it may or may not
hold.

Neither stage of shutdown had a deadline. `shutdown()` awaited `server.close()`
with no bound, so one open connection could hold it forever, and each stop or
rollback hook was awaited without a bound, so a hook that never settled kept the
pool open indefinitely. Both now have fixed, non-configurable defaults: 10
seconds per module hook and 30 seconds for the graceful HTTP drain. A hook that
reaches its deadline records MODULE_STOP_TIMEOUT or MODULE_ROLLBACK_TIMEOUT and
the sequence continues with the next module, so the whole stop sequence is
finite in the started module count rather than one global ten-second bound.
Timers that lose the race are cleared, the losing promise gets a permanent
rejection handler so a late throw cannot become an unhandled rejection, and a
timed-out hook is never awaited again.

At the drain deadline the platform closes idle and then active connections
through Node's own public closeIdleConnections/closeAllConnections, after
server.close(), touching no private field, and stops waiting for the close
callback. It then runs the bounded module stop sequence and closes the pool, so
a drain timeout or a stop failure never skips later cleanup. Both are reported
together as an ApiShutdownError carrying only fixed booleans and the already
sanitized module error; a forced drain is a shutdown failure, not a success.

Stated honestly rather than overstated: a deadline bounds how long the platform
waits, not how long module code runs. An in-process promise cannot be canceled,
and closing a socket does not prove a handler promise ended. What is guaranteed
is that shutdown stops waiting and the pool closes afterwards, so late database
work fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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@@ -180,6 +180,21 @@ Entrypoint imports must have no top-level side effects. Modules are trusted back
evaluation cannot be rolled back. Keep registration declarative; open resources in `start` and
close them in `stop`.
### `stop()` may run after a partially completed `start()`
If your `start` hook throws, **your own `stop` hook runs first**, ahead of the previously started
modules being rolled back in reverse order. That is deliberate: a hook that opened a connection,
registered a listener, or recorded partial initialization before failing is the only code that knows
how to release it. Write `stop` so it is safe and idempotent about resources it may or may not have
acquired — guard on what you actually took, and never assume `start` completed.
Stop and rollback hooks have finite time: the platform waits at most **10 seconds** per module hook,
then records a timeout and continues with the next module in reverse order. Settle promptly. A hook
that exceeds its deadline is not killed — the platform simply stops waiting for it — but the shared
PostgreSQL pool closes after the bounded stop sequence, so **a timed-out hook cannot rely on
database availability afterwards**, and any late query will fail. The platform cannot undo side
effects your module performed outside its stop hook.
## HTTP routes
A module registers plain Fetch (`Request` in, `Response` out) route handlers during `register`,