The two skill symlinks under journal/.agents/skills/ and journal/.claude/skills/ are generated by `make skills` and wiped by `make clean` — yet they were tracked in git. Any concurrent `make clean` during an in-flight hopper lode produced a "dirty primary repo" state that blocked the ship stage (hit today during lode eyceddz6). Untrack them (gitignore /journal/* already covers new adds) and add `skills` as a direct prerequisite on install-service to close the narrow corner where symlinks get removed without .installed being invalidated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>