feat(run): single-loop max-steps salvage + enforce MaxToolCalls
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Two gaps surfaced by a live fan-out smoke in a downstream host (mort):

1) A single-loop run that exhausts its step budget (ErrMaxSteps / ErrToolLoop)
   returned empty Output + a hard error, discarding all the reasoning it had
   produced — unlike the phased path, which already salvages a partial
   transcript and continues. Add opt-in single-loop salvage
   (Defaults.SalvageSingleLoopMaxSteps, default off): on budget exhaustion with
   empty Output, reconstruct a best-effort answer from the step narration
   (reusing salvagePhaseTranscript) and downgrade the run to a successful
   partial result. Off by default so a structured-output host keeps its clean
   hard error; an interactive host opts in.

2) RunnableAgent carried no tool-call ceiling — MaxIterations bounds STEPS, but
   one step can dispatch several tool calls, so a host's "max tool calls" cap
   had nowhere to land. Add RunnableAgent.MaxToolCalls (<=0 = unlimited,
   backward-compatible): the step observer counts executed calls and, once the
   cap is reached, stepCeilingOption forces the loop to exit; the resulting
   ErrMaxSteps is relabeled to the new ErrMaxToolCalls sentinel. Enforced
   single-loop only for now (phased is a follow-up). A cap hit is budget
   exhaustion, so salvage recovers its partial reasoning too.

isPhaseBudgetExhaustion becomes the shared isBudgetExhaustion (now also matching
ErrMaxToolCalls) so the phased and single-loop paths never drift, and the
RunStateAccessor now reports the real tool-call cap (was hardcoded 0).

Additive + backward-compatible: new optional DTO field, new opt-in Defaults
flag, new exported sentinel; unlimited/off reproduce prior behavior exactly. No
new dependencies (go mod tidy clean). Tests cover salvage on/off/no-prose, cap
enforcement + sentinel, cap+salvage, unlimited no-op, and cap-overrides-critic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q1eJh5NVR11z6RzyxLANMK
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co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
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@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ import (
// kill via KillCause(); the executor wraps that reason with this sentinel.
var ErrCriticKill = errors.New("run: critic killed the run")
// ErrMaxToolCalls is the cause when a run reaches its RunnableAgent.MaxToolCalls
// budget before composing a final answer. It surfaces from majordomo as
// ErrMaxSteps (the kernel forces the step ceiling down to stop the loop) and is
// relabeled to this sentinel so audit + status report the real cause. Treated
// as budget exhaustion by isBudgetExhaustion, so the single-loop salvage path
// recovers a partial answer from it when enabled.
var ErrMaxToolCalls = errors.New("run: max tool calls reached without a final answer")
// Ports are the host seams the run executor consumes. Every field is nil-safe:
// a light host passes the zero Ports and gets a bounded, in-memory run with no
// persistence, audit, budget, critic, delegation, or delivery — which is