Record the versioned plugin metadata and onboarding docs refreshed by the release preflight so the release workflow can continue from a clean main branch.
Add a maintainers script to safely promote high-confidence legacy risk labels from unknown to concrete values, cover it with tests, and regenerate the canonical skill artifacts and plugin copies. This reduces the legacy unknown backlog without forcing noisy classifications that still need manual review.
Capture the plugin manifest version bumps that release:prepare generated for 9.0.0 and update the release staging step so Claude and Codex plugin manifests are included automatically in future release commits.
