Maintenance Walkthrough - 2026-03-12

Merged PRs #277, #272, #275, #278, and #271 via GitHub squash merge after bringing contributor branches into a mergeable state and refreshing PR bodies against the quality checklist in .github/MAINTENANCE.md.
Verified PR #271 locally with npm run validate:references and npm run test before merge; confirmed #269 auto-closed from the merged PR body.
Added a user-facing Windows truncation recovery guide at docs/users/windows-truncation-recovery.md, linked it from README.md, docs/users/faq.md, docs/users/getting-started.md, and docs/integrations/jetski-cortex.md, and credited the workflow to issue #274.
Updated skills/metasploit-framework/SKILL.md to remove the remote installer flow, require an existing Metasploit installation, and add the required offensive-skill warning.
Refreshed README.md to remove stale 7.2.0 / 7.4.0 onboarding copy, align the star badge with the current milestone, and fix the TOC link for ## Contributing.
Ran the required maintenance validations after the direct fixes:
- npm run validate
- npm run validate:references
- npm run chain
- npm run catalog
Final release prep, issue closure comments, and verification were completed on main.