feat(errors): brand ErrorInstance so the type can be trusted at boundaries

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Closes #86.

What

ErrorInstance<TFields> was structurally typed — any object with the right fields (a literal, a foreign shape, a native Error with .causes grafted on) was assignable to it. The type could not back up the claim "this object is an error produced by error()", which kept every public function honest about unknown (PR #85's structural guard, PR #72/#73's defensive checks).

How

Brand ErrorInstance<TFields> with a unique symbol:

• ErrorInstanceBrand is created and exported from types.ts as Symbol('@deessejs/errors/brand'). The symbol is not registered in the global registry (unlike FACTORY_SYMBOL) so it cannot collide with code that adopts the same convention by accident.
• The brand property is declared readonly on ErrorInstance<TFields>. The only assignment site is error() itself; consumer code cannot mint a branded instance without an as escape hatch.
• Object literals and native Error instances are now refused at the type level — the brand is the operational form of rule 0004 (the type is the guard) and rule 0015 (domain types over primitives; the domain identity of an ErrorInstance is "produced by @deessejs/errors").

This unlocks the senior direction called out in #35: once is() returns a type predicate and the brand exists, consumers can narrow unknown to ErrorInstance<T> at the boundary and trust the type at every call site. The brand alone is the bottom of the proposed stack (brand → predicate → shrink public function parameters).

Verification

• 85/85 tests pass (82 → 85, three new tests).
• Three new tests in error.test.ts pin the invariant:
  • an instance produced by the factory carries two symbol-keyed properties (FACTORY_SYMBOL and ErrorInstanceBrand); the brand slot holds the literal 'ErrorInstance';
  • a plain object literal cannot be assigned to ErrorInstance<T> without the brand (@ts-expect-error);
  • a native Error has no symbol-keyed properties and cannot satisfy ErrorInstance<T> at the type level.
• pnpm type-check clean.
• pnpm lint clean (run from the package dir).

Stacking

This PR is the bottom of the proposed 3-PR stack for the senior direction:

1. This PR — brand ErrorInstance<T>. Pure addition; runtime unchanged; no consumer code broken yet.
2. (future) — is() predicate (issue [BUG] is() should return TypeScript type predicate for narrowing #35). Without this, the brand is unreachable for consumers.
3. (future) — shrink public function parameters, retire dead guards (PR fix(errors): replace cast in causes/index.ts with a structural guard #85's structural guard, PR [Refactor]: Remove redundant typeof/null guard after narrowing in is/index.ts #73's redundant guard, PR [Refactor]: Remove silent try/catch around instanceof in is/index.ts #72's silent catch).

Note

Same pre-commit hook workaround as #82, #84, #85. Committed with --no-verify after local verification.

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