sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills v19.12.1

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[19.12.1] - 2026-10-20 - "Direct Installer Release Identity"

The catalog stays at 2,724 skills. This patch fixes the direct installer failing against any release published from the pre-built candidate tarball.

Fixed

• Direct installer --release installs no longer fail with "invalid registry response". Since 19.10.0 the release pipeline publishes the pre-built candidate tarball, and npm publish <file>.tgz does not record gitHead in the registry metadata, so the installer's release-identity lookup received an empty response. The candidate packer now records the release commit in the packed manifest the way npm publish from a Git checkout does, so agentic-awesome-skills --release X.Y.Z installs again from 19.12.1 on.
• A release without gitHead names the missing field instead of blaming the registry, and points at the issue tracker. Releases published before this patch (19.10.1, 19.11.0, 19.12.0) stay as they are; use --tag vX.Y.Z only if you accept an unverifiable ref.

Review scope

The packer was exercised end-to-end on a fixture: it records the release commit, keeps the artifact name package.tgz, restores package.json byte-for-byte, and fails closed on modified or untracked source. The absence of gitHead for a pre-built tarball was reproduced against a local registry stub, and the reverse (a directory publish records it) was reproduced as well. No live npm publication or host configuration was changed by this patch.