chore(skills): drop find-skills — unused, and its update step began timing out

RC fix (soak day 1): `make update` step 7.5 failed on a 300s clone timeout
of alchaincyf/find-skills. The skill (search the skills.sh registry from
Claude) was never used; the discovery case stays reachable manually via
`npx -y skills find <query>`. Removed from install-plugins.sh (install list
+ summary + comment), update-all.sh (refresh list), link.sh
(NPX_EXTERNAL_SKILLS), lib/toggle-external.sh (MANAGED_TOOLS + case arms),
plugin-advisor.md, .gitignore; local skills/find-skills symlink deleted.
Memory-registry and test-fixture mentions kept — append-only history.
toggle-external `list` verified post-removal; suites 8/8.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XpphkdTosUzokBDNG7PToS

.gitignore

@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ skills/impeccable
 
 # External skills installed via `npx skills add` — auto-created by link.sh
 skills/darwin-skill
-skills/find-skills
 
 # Context7 docs-lookup skill — installed by `ctx7 setup --claude --cli`
 # (install-plugins.sh Step 6, when absent) into ~/.claude/skills (a symlink to

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/).
 - `gitflow_finish` ignored its `<type> <name>` arguments and always merged the checked-out branch — naming a different branch silently merged the wrong one. The arguments are now an optional safety assertion: if given and not equal to the current branch, `finish` refuses with a clear error instead of merging. No-argument calls (the only real caller) are unchanged.
 - `doctor.sh` false-warnings removed (a check that cries wolf is one you learn to ignore): `cargo` absence no longer claims "RTK unavailable" (RTK ships as a prebuilt binary); `check_symlink` no longer flags files reached through directory-level symlinks (e.g. `hooks/session-start.sh`); the GStack check counts the per-skill symlinks instead of a `skills/gstack` link that `link.sh` deliberately removes; the token-budget estimate is measured against the ~200k context window instead of a mis-framed "~11k session budget" that produced a false "92% CRITICAL".
 
+### Removed
+- **find-skills** (alchaincyf) — skill-discovery helper dropped from the toolchain (install/update/link/toggle/advisor). Never used, and its `make update` refresh step had started failing on clone timeouts. The discovery use case stays reachable manually: `npx -y skills find <query>`.
+
 ## [4.0.0] — 2026-06-30
 
 ### Added

agents/plugin-advisor.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Detect active plugins and project signals. Recommend enable/disable. Apply compa
 claude plugin list 2>/dev/null || echo "plugin-list-unavailable"
 
 # External (non-marketplace) tools status — gstack, emil-design-eng,
-# darwin-skill, find-skills. Managed by lib/toggle-external.sh since
+# darwin-skill. Managed by lib/toggle-external.sh since
 # `claude plugin enable|disable` does not apply to them.
 bash "$HOME/.claude/lib/toggle-external.sh" list 2>/dev/null || echo "toggle-external-unavailable"
 
@@ -353,8 +353,8 @@ RULE: IF `complex-arch` signal (multiple services, event bus, distributed system
 ## TOGGLING EXTERNAL TOOLS
 
 Marketplace plugins toggle via `claude plugin enable|disable <name>@<marketplace>`.
-Non-marketplace tools (gstack per-skill symlinks, emil-design-eng, darwin-skill,
+Non-marketplace tools (gstack per-skill symlinks, emil-design-eng, darwin-skill)
-find-skills) toggle via `bash $HOME/.claude/lib/toggle-external.sh enable|disable <tool>`.
+toggle via `bash $HOME/.claude/lib/toggle-external.sh enable|disable <tool>`.
 
 When a recommendation flips the state of one of those tools, emit the exact
 command — never write files directly.

install-plugins.sh

@@ -832,7 +832,6 @@ echo ""
 
 NPX_SKILLS=(
   "alchaincyf/darwin-skill"
-  "alchaincyf/find-skills"
 )
 
 # `skills add` resolves its target (.agents/skills/, skills-lock.json) RELATIVE
@@ -985,7 +984,7 @@ echo ""
 # STEP 10 — REFRESH SYMLINKS (final, so this script is self-sufficient)
 # ============================================================
 # Steps 2/8/8.5 INSTALL skills (gstack submodule, emil/frontend/motion, npx
-# darwin/find-skills) that link.sh must symlink into ~/.claude/skills/. Since
+# darwin-skill) that link.sh must symlink into ~/.claude/skills/. Since
 # link.sh runs BEFORE this script in install.sh, those symlinks would be missing
 # on a fresh run until link.sh is run again by hand. Re-run it here so
 # `make plugin` (and `make install`) finish complete — nothing left to do.
@@ -1023,7 +1022,6 @@ echo "    🔄 frontend-design     — distinctive frontend interfaces, anti-AI-
 echo "    🔄 impeccable          — /impeccable design verbs + 45-rule deterministic detector (npx impeccable detect)"
 echo "    🔄 design-motion-principles — motion/animation design, 3-designer lens (kylezantos)"
 echo "    🔄 darwin-skill        — autonomous skill optimizer (npx skills, ~/.agents/skills/)"
-echo "    🔄 find-skills         — skill discovery helper (npx skills, ~/.agents/skills/)"
 echo "    🔄 magic MCP           — 21st-dev UI generation MCP (toggle: lib/toggle-external.sh enable magic)"
 echo ""
 echo "  All plugins installed at: user scope (~/.claude/plugins/)"

lib/toggle-external.sh

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 #   gstack            — per-skill symlinks populated by gstack's own setup
 #   emil-design-eng   — single symlink → skills-external/emil-design-eng
 #   darwin-skill      — single symlink → ~/.agents/skills/darwin-skill
-#   find-skills       — single symlink → ~/.agents/skills/find-skills
 #   magic             — 21st-dev Magic MCP server (API key in .env)
 #
 # For fine-grained activation (only design skills, only qa skills, only
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ warn() { echo -e "${YELLOW}⚠${NC}  $1"; }
 err()  { echo -e "${RED}✗${NC} $1"; }
 
 # All non-plugin tools this script can toggle.
-MANAGED_TOOLS=(gstack emil-design-eng darwin-skill find-skills magic)
+MANAGED_TOOLS=(gstack emil-design-eng darwin-skill magic)
 
 # Load MAGIC_API_KEY (and any other secrets) from $REPO/.env if present.
 # Called only by the magic branch — other tools don't need env vars.
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@ status_tool() {
       [ -d "$REPO/skills-external/emil-design-eng" ] || { echo "missing"; return; }
       [ -e "$SKILLS_DIR/emil-design-eng" ] && echo "enabled" || echo "disabled"
       ;;
-    darwin-skill|find-skills)
+    darwin-skill)
       [ -d "$HOME/.agents/skills/$tool" ] || { echo "missing"; return; }
       [ -e "$SKILLS_DIR/$tool" ] && echo "enabled" || echo "disabled"
       ;;
@@ -116,7 +115,7 @@ disable_tool() {
       done < <(gstack_skills)
       ok "gstack disabled ($moved symlinks moved)"
       ;;
-    emil-design-eng|darwin-skill|find-skills)
+    emil-design-eng|darwin-skill)
       if [ -e "$SKILLS_DIR/$tool" ]; then
         rm -rf "${DISABLED_DIR:?}/${tool:?}"
         mv "$SKILLS_DIR/$tool" "$DISABLED_DIR/$tool"
@@ -158,11 +157,11 @@ enable_tool() {
         ok "gstack enabled ($moved symlinks restored)"
       fi
       ;;
-    emil-design-eng|darwin-skill|find-skills)
+    emil-design-eng|darwin-skill)
       local src
       case "$tool" in
         emil-design-eng) src="$REPO/skills-external/$tool" ;;
-        darwin-skill|find-skills) src="$HOME/.agents/skills/$tool" ;;
+        darwin-skill) src="$HOME/.agents/skills/$tool" ;;
       esac
       if [ -e "$DISABLED_DIR/$tool" ]; then
         rm -rf "${SKILLS_DIR:?}/${tool:?}"

link.sh

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ done
 # absolute paths so the link stays valid regardless of where the
 # repo is cloned (relative ../../ paths broke on repos deeper than
 # one level below $HOME).
-NPX_EXTERNAL_SKILLS=(darwin-skill find-skills)
+NPX_EXTERNAL_SKILLS=(darwin-skill)
 for _ext in "${NPX_EXTERNAL_SKILLS[@]}"; do
   _target="$HOME/.agents/skills/$_ext"
   _link="$REPO/skills/$_ext"

update-all.sh

@@ -388,7 +388,6 @@ echo "── Updating external skills (npx skills)..."
 if command -v npx &>/dev/null; then
   NPX_SKILLS=(
     "alchaincyf/darwin-skill"
-    "alchaincyf/find-skills"
   )
   for _src in "${NPX_SKILLS[@]}"; do
     _name="${_src##*/}"