Add Jobs skill for daemon automation and recovery

[calvin-archastro]

Review on ArchCode

Problem and author intent

ArchDev exposes repository setup, private branch automation, durable jobs, and automatic PR remediation, but external coding agents lack a packaged workflow for operating them. Agents need to distinguish committed snapshots from checkout state, branch publication from PR watching, and failed Jobs from Factory dead-letter work before configuring or retrying automation.

This skill teaches the existing CLI lifecycle, using archdev setup's evidence-backed configuration audit as its exemplar.

What changed

• Add an independently installable jobs skill covering bootstrap, onboarding, repository registration, private submission, named jobs, result synchronization, and automatic PR watching.
• Add focused configuration and operations references for audited verification commands, model aliases and precedence, worktree runtime environments, validation, retry semantics, Factory dead-letter work, and destructive cleanup boundaries.
• Explain before registration that publish.auto: false does not disable authored-PR remediation; registration cannot promise zero upstream mutations.
• Ship pinned-installer Unix/PowerShell bootstraps that verify actual Jobs and provider command help, including rejection of older CLIs that return success with generic help.
• Add README installation instructions and a dedicated PR CI packaging/bootstrap job.

Scope: CLI distribution, agent instructions, and CI only; no backend/frontend runtime changes. Users can install the skill independently and have their coding agent configure and operate existing automation.

Risk

Low to medium: bootstrap follows the Rooms/Tasks packaging pattern, but agent instructions govern consequential operations. The skill preserves publication authorization, host-owned PR finalization, retry identity, and explicit deletion boundaries. The 675-line change is primarily instructions split into two focused references; packaging remains alongside the skill so it installs independently.

Testing

• Passed bash tests/jobs-skill.sh. Canonical packaging/bootstrap proof: tests/jobs-skill.sh, the complete script target. It invokes the real skills manager in global and repository scopes, checks packaged references, then crosses the installed bootstrap process boundary using a fixture installer/CLI. Assertions cover absolute executable identity, cold installation, reuse, upgrading a permissive older CLI, and installer failure without misleading stdout.
• Automatic PR coverage: .github/workflows/installer-smoke-test.yml → jobs-skill → bash tests/jobs-skill.sh, on pull requests, main pushes, and manual dispatch. No Aster target exists in this public distribution repository; the script runs directly without test filters/skips.
• Passed skill frontmatter validation, Bash syntax checks, and git diff --check.
• Parsed the pipeline, model-alias structure, and worktree examples using the actual ArchDev source parsers. Model IDs are explicitly illustrative; no live availability claim.
• Independent source walkthrough covered private-only onboarding, edited-config named retries, idle PR watching, Factory dead-letter recovery, and lifecycle configuration authority. Findings were corrected.

Follow-ups and limitations

The bootstrap test substitutes the release/CLI boundary; it is not a live daemon or GitHub end-to-end proof. A disposable repository, isolated native runner, authenticated model account, and controlled GitHub PR are needed to exercise setup → submit → job → publication/remediation automatically. That live journey remains follow-up work. PowerShell bootstrap was source-reviewed but not executed locally and has no dedicated Jobs bootstrap CI coverage. No production daemon or PR automation was enabled during this change.