antigravity-skills-reference/walkthrough.md

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.
• Normalized the active English docs (README.md, user guides, Kiro guide, and evergreen maintainer docs) to the current 7.6.0 / 1,250+ skills state and removed emoji from H2 headers where maintenance rules require clean anchors.
• 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.

Maintenance Walkthrough - 2026-03-13

• Fixed tools/scripts/update_readme.py so normal npm run readme runs preserve the existing registry-sync star/timestamp values instead of rewriting them on every execution, which was causing non-deterministic PR drift failures in CI.
• Updated tools/scripts/sync_repo_metadata.py to expose the same explicit --refresh-volatile behavior for live star/timestamp refreshes, keeping release/metadata refresh flows available without destabilizing contributor PR checks.
• Updated .github/workflows/ci.yml so generated registry drift is informational on pull requests but still strict on main, with auto-sync remaining the canonical path for shared artifacts after merge.
• Updated .github/MAINTENANCE.md, docs/maintainers/ci-drift-fix.md, and docs/maintainers/merging-prs.md to document the lower-friction merge flow: validate source changes on PRs, keep main for generated conflicts, and let main auto-sync the final artifact set.
• Verified the fix with:
  • python3 tools/scripts/update_readme.py --dry-run
  • python3 tools/scripts/sync_repo_metadata.py --dry-run
  • npm run readme
  • npm run validate:references
• Added tools/config/generated-files.json as the single contract for derived registry artifacts so CI, maintainer scripts, and docs share the same file list.
• Added scripted workflow entrypoints: npm run pr:preflight, npm run release:preflight, npm run release:prepare -- X.Y.Z, and npm run release:publish -- X.Y.Z.
• Split PR CI into pr-policy, source-validation, and artifact-preview so PRs stay source-only, policy failures are explicit, and generated drift is previewed separately from source validation.
• Updated CONTRIBUTING.md and .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md so contributors are told not to commit derived files and to enable Allow edits from maintainers.