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fix(installer): persist the bootstrapped Node on PATH, and stop duplicating PATH lines
Two defects found by the second unattended greenfield run on canary (VMID 1125,
rolled back to its greenfield snapshot first).

1. ensure_node() exported the Mosaic-managed Node for the installer process and
   nothing wrote it down. The install finished rc=0, put $PREFIX/bin in
   ~/.profile, and the next login shell found `mosaic` and then died on

       env: 'node': No such file or directory

   The CLI is a Node script, so a CLI on PATH without its runtime is a
   successful install that produces a broken command. persist_node_on_path()
   now writes the runtime's bin dir to the same profile, from both the
   fresh-install and the already-installed-but-not-on-PATH branches.

2. The 'is it already in a shell rc file' guard was a single
   `grep -qslF "$dir" "${rc_files[@]}"` over four paths, most of which do
   not exist on a clean host. Handing grep a missing file makes the exit status
   implementation-defined: GNU grep 3.11 returns 0 when -q already matched an
   earlier file, ugrep 7.5 returns 2 for the missing one regardless. On the 2
   path the caller reads 'not present yet' and appends another PATH line, so
   every re-install grew the profile. Measured: 3 runs produced 3 duplicate
   entries; with the fix, 1.

   path_entry_exists() now tests each file for existence and greps it on its
   own, so the result does not depend on the grep implementation.

The profile-writing body is factored into persist_on_path(), shared by the CLI
prefix and the Node runtime, since both now need identical treatment.

Verified in a scratch $HOME: fresh write, idempotent across three runs, zsh
routes to .zshenv, an unwritable profile warns and survives set -e, and an
already-on-PATH prefix is a no-op that creates no file. Falsified by restoring
the multi-file grep: duplicates return.
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