Epic: Golden actor provisioning to activation-ready user handoff

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Goal

Make the local Ubuntu golden actor reproducibly reach an activation-ready state where the extension user can complete their own LabVIEW Community Edition activation without exposing credentials to automation.

Scope

• Drive safe, repeatable golden actor provisioning preflight cycles.
• Make activation readiness explicit and fail closed.
• Preserve the human-only NI sign-in and activation step.
• Capture non-secret activation and actor-enrollment evidence.
• Make mesh actor lifecycle work resumable and efficient for future agents.

Completion Criteria

• A user can provision or inspect the golden actor and receive a clear activation-ready handoff.
• Automation never requests, captures, or transmits the user's credentials.
• A functional LabVIEWCLI probe determines activation status after the user completes the handoff.
• The resulting receipt gates golden actor enrollment.
• The workflow has an issue-sized commit/PR trail with reproducible validation evidence.

Child Work

Child issues will cover activation-ready preflight/handoff, activation receipt and enrollment workflow, and resilient mesh lifecycle automation.

[svelderrainruiz]

Implemented child tracks:

• Golden actor: activation-ready preflight and user handoff #443 activation-ready preflight and human-only handoff
• Golden actor: activation evidence and enrollment handoff #444 activation evidence and gated enrollment handoff
• Golden actor: receipt-driven mesh provisioning lifecycle #445 receipt-driven mesh provisioning lifecycle

The epic branch is feat/442-golden-actor-activation-ready. Individual child branches and commits include their issue number; child work is merged into the epic PR before the final parent PR.