docs(arch): land ADR-070 BidiStreamSource + OQ-55 AlknetClient deferral + impl task

Three core-crate changes surfaced by the alknet-channels POC:

- ADR-070: extract BidiStreamSource trait so Connection holds
  Box<dyn BidiStreamSource> instead of a closed ConnectionKind enum;
  downstream crates (channels, future transports) implement the trait
  to add connection shapes without editing core. Public Connection API
  preserved verbatim. REQ-CORE-02 (close() params clippy warning under
  --no-default-features) folded in — the signature stays on the trait,
  non-QUIC impls ignore the args.

- OQ-55: AlknetClient / client establishment extraction deferred(scope).
  Blocked on a second *transport's* real client (not a second QUIC
  client) — extracting a QUIC-shaped connector now would bake QUIC in
  as the establishment shape, the same welding ADR-065 unwound on the
  server side. Each crate builds its own client standalone for now.

- core-types.md / auth.md / overview.md / README indexes updated to
  reflect ADR-070 and OQ-55. Architecture review: zero critical issues.

- tasks/core/bidistreamsource-trait.md: the implementation task (Parts
  1-3: BidiStreamSource refactor, close() fix, AuthContext::anonymous).
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# OQ-55: AlknetClient / Client Establishment Extraction
- **Origin**: `docs/research/alknet-channels/phase-0-findings.md` OQ-CH-14
(the `AlknetClient` clarification); `docs/research/alknet-channels/poc-summary.md`
§"Issues Surfaced" #1 (the `BidiStreamSource` finding that motivates
separating the client-extraction question from the `Connection` extension
question).
- **Status**: deferred(scope)
- **Door type**: two-way
- **Priority**: medium
- **Blocked on**: a **second transport's** real client existing, not just a
second QUIC client. The blocking condition is met when, e.g., the SSH
crate's raw-TCP client or the HTTP-wrapped call client exists — so the
transport-polymorphic establishment seam is extractable from two
*different* transport implementations, not two QUIC variants.
`ChannelClient` over QUIC does not unblock this; it is a second *client*
but the same *transport shape*. The deferral is on transport-polymorphism,
not on client count.
- **Resolution**: Not yet decidable. The shared substance across
TLS-carrying transports is ADR-034's verifier-selection rule (PeerEntry
presence → fingerprint pin : CA-verify / fail-closed) and the
`rustls::ClientConfig` construction — ~20 lines, transport-agnostic in
rule. But the *dial* is transport-specific, and we have one of ~5 shapes
implemented (QUIC; the others being HTTP, TCP+TLS, WebTransport, raw
TCP). Extracting a QUIC-shaped connector to core and naming it
`AlknetConnector` would bake QUIC in as *the* establishment shape — the
same welding ADR-065 unwound on the server side, repeated on the client
side. The dial is transport-polymorphic; the shared rule is narrow. Until
a second transport's client exists, the seam between "dial + TLS" (per-
transport) and "spawn the dispatcher" (per-crate) is not extractable from
two real shapes — it's guessable from one.
- **What does NOT block on this**: each crate building its own client
standalone. `CallClient` stays QUIC-only; `ChannelClient` will be
QUIC-only initially; the SSH crate's TCP client builds standalone; the
HTTP call client builds standalone. Core already permits all of this —
`Connection::from_stream` / `from_bidi` (ADR-065) handles the non-QUIC
transport on the server side, and nothing prevents a client from
constructing a `Connection` the same way after its own transport-specific
dial. The friction is duplicated boilerplate (each client rebuilds
verifier selection), not a missing capability. The bidirectionality
criterion (a crate needs a Client type when (a) the endpoint has
protocol-level authority — e.g., channels' id allocation — or (b) the
protocol needs a reliable establishment interface) is met by each crate
independently; `AlknetClient` is the eventual *shared* establishment seam,
not a prerequisite for any single client to exist.
- **Cross-references**: ADR-034 (verifier selection — currently in
`CallClient`, would move to the extracted seam when this is resolved),
ADR-065 (server-side transport generalization — the client-side analogue
this OQ's deferral avoids preempting), ADR-070 (the `BidiStreamSource`
extension point, which is the *Connection* opening and is orthogonal to
the *client* establishment question), OQ-CH-14 in
`docs/research/alknet-channels/phase-0-findings.md` (the research-scope
question this core-scope OQ carries forward).