docs: cover the maintainer workflow and release checks

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Documents the maintainer workflow for the 0.5 release. Based on #290 and describes the whole stack, including #291 and #292, so release it with the assembled stack.

• Covers package-owned skills, setup, source review, CI, repair, and consumer installation.
• Guides cover planning records, authoring and retirement, explicit marketplace selection, version claims, and review outcomes.
• The repair guide separates safe frontmatter writes from example suggestions, explains patch application order, and states the remaining TypeScript example-context limits.
• CI guidance covers installed CLI selection, immutable workflow SHAs, read-only analysis, optional publication, and repair artifacts.
• Command blocks use package-manager tabs with shared, unprefixed lines. They render once fix: support shared package manager commands markdown#12 ships and tanstack.com picks it up.

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This documentation update defines maintainer setup, skill registration, metadata synchronization, source review, stale checks, package-manager command tabs, consumer setup, package verification, and updated CLI navigation.

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Maintainer workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow boundaries and maintainer setup docs/cli/intent-install.md, docs/cli/intent-setup.md, docs/getting-started/quick-start-maintainers.md, docs/overview.md, docs/registry.md	Documents maintainer setup, planning records, skill registration, distribution choices, metadata synchronization, publishing preparation, and consumer setup boundaries.
Authoring, review, and checking lifecycle docs/cli/intent-review.md, docs/cli/intent-stale.md, docs/cli/intent-setup.md, docs/getting-started/quick-start-maintainers.md, docs/overview.md, docs/registry.md	Adds review procedures, recorded outcomes, stale signals, generated review files, automation behavior, and maintenance checks.
Maintainer command reference docs/cli/intent-maintainer.md, docs/cli/intent-adopt.md, docs/cli/intent-verify-package.md	Documents maintainer setup, adoption, registration, distribution, review, CI checks, package verification, and related workflows.
Consumer command reference and package-manager tabs docs/cli/*, docs/concepts/configuration.md, docs/getting-started/quick-start-consumers.md, docs/overview.md	Replaces single-runner examples with package-manager tabs and clarifies consumer discovery, command output, runner selection, JSON fields, and configuration commands.
CLI navigation and retired scaffold reference docs/config.json, docs/cli/intent-scaffold.md, docs/cli/intent-setup.md	Adds maintainer, adoption, package-verification, and review navigation entries and removes the scaffold documentation reference.

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Users following several quick-start tabs may run an invalid or misleading skill-load command. Correct the framework-specific examples before merge.

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In `@docs/cli/intent-setup.md`:
- Around line 53-56: Update the workflow notes around the check-skills.yml
description to match the generated workflow: restrict pull-request triggers to
changes under skills/** or _artifacts/**, document intent validate
--github-summary, remove references to review state, intent-maintainer, and
intent review --base, and state that release/manual runs use intent stale
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- Line 37: Update the stale-output documentation to match runStaleCommand:
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including the “Review the findings” instruction, unless the text-output branch
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scope documented in docs/registry.md while retaining the existing SKILL.md and
packaging-warning checks.

In `@docs/registry.md`:
- Line 57: Update the wording in the section introducing the review, stale, and
setup commands to identify review and stale as the two checks, while describing
setup as optional CI workflow installation rather than a check.

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set-version option and its incompatibility with check:
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documentation applies only to validate.

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- Around line 95-100: Update the framework entries in the quick-start command so
each framework uses a valid installed package-and-skill target, or replace the
shared target with an explicitly framework-neutral placeholder that instructs
users to substitute an installed skill. Preserve the existing entries for react,
solid, vue, svelte, angular, and lit while ensuring their commands do not
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