Smoke places its VM on hostList[0] but reads serial from AGENT_HOSTS

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[claude 2026-08-18] Carried in notes as #38. cmd/eitri-smoke picks the first host
from the API's host list to create on, while the serial-console leg reads from the
host named in AGENT_HOSTS (scripts/deploy.sh:238,359). On a multi-host plane those
are not the same machine and the smoke reads a console that belongs to nothing —
which is why the local plane must stay single-host, documented in the README rather
than enforced. Either place deliberately on the AGENT_HOSTS machine, or read the
serial from wherever the VM actually landed.