Initial public release — aci-sim v0.16.0

aci-sim is a stateful REST simulator of a 2-site Cisco ACI fabric
(per-site APIC + ND/NDO management planes) — for testing ACI automation
(Ansible cisco.aci / cisco.mso, aci-py, custom REST clients) and CI gates
without real hardware.

Highlights: APIC + NDO REST surface served from one in-memory MIT built
from a declarative topology.yaml; port mode + sandbox (real per-device IPs
on :443) run modes; LLDP/CDP neighbor visibility; NDO->APIC deploy mirror
(multi-site templates materialize onto the target sites' APIC stores);
real-APIC fvBD default attributes; file-backed state save/restore; an
`aci-sim` CLI (validate/show/graph/run/new/init/lldp); and an 888-test suite.

History squashed for the public release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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