fix(skill-registry): adopt agentflare-db-kit migrations to fix missing-column schema drift

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skill-registry's apply_schema() hand-rolled CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS DDL, which is a no-op against an existing table. Any skills.db created before #302 added body/neg_text/last_used_at/bandit_alpha/bandit_beta stayed permanently stuck without them, while the FTS5 triggers added later (#347) reference old.body/new.body etc. and throw no such column: old.body the first time a DELETE or qualifying UPDATE fires (e.g. rebuild()'s DELETE FROM skills). Reproduced live via skill_detect against a real skills.db predating #302.

Migrates skill-registry to agentflare-db-kit's open_file/open_memory with a real migration list, matching the pattern already used by agentflare-backend/agentflare-store/agentflare-artifacts/flare-docs/flare-workflow/agentflare-jobs:

• 0001_initial.sql replays the original (feat: skill registry MCP — skill_search + skill_load #92) narrow schema
• 0002_ranking_and_fts.sql + a migration hook adds the ranking columns via ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN, guarded by a PRAGMA table_info check first (since ALTER isn't idempotent, unlike everything else in this crate), then drops and recreates the FTS5 table + sync triggers unconditionally so the result is correct regardless of which pre-migration shape the database was in.

Verified with a new unit test reproducing the bug synthetically, plus a manual run against a copy of the actual broken skills.db from this session (confirmed it now opens and rebuilds cleanly). cargo test -p agentflare-skill-registry --lib (52/52), cargo clippy with the CI gate flags, and cargo fmt --check all pass; cargo check on the full agentflare binary confirms no caller changes were needed.

Also audited gateway-registry's db.rs, which copies this exact pre-migration pattern (its own doc comment says so) — its tools table's columns have never changed since creation, so there's no live bug there today, but it carries the same architectural gap and is worth the same migration preventively in a follow-up.

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Opened by claude-code on flared:c997d745ae66 for item #519 via agentflare.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Enhanced skill registry database setup and upgrades.
  • Added support for tracking skill impressions and ranking data.
  • Improved full-text search indexing for skills.
  • Strengthened database initialization and recovery for existing and new installations.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed upgrade scenarios that could cause search indexing failures.
  • Prevented newer database schemas from being overwritten during recovery.

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The skill registry now uses ordered SQLite migrations and db_kit for database opening. It upgrades older schemas, rebuilds FTS structures, records skill impressions, and preserves schema-ahead databases while replacing corrupt files.

Changes

Skill registry database migrations

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Schema migration definitions crates/skill-registry/src/migrations/*	The migrations define the skills table, skills_fts table, and skill_impressions table.
Migration-aware database opening crates/skill-registry/Cargo.toml, crates/skill-registry/src/db.rs	Database opening uses db_kit and ordered migrations. The migration logic adds missing ranking columns and rebuilds FTS structures. SQLite-open errors trigger repair, while migration and schema-ahead errors propagate.
Upgrade and repair validation crates/skill-registry/src/db.rs	Tests cover legacy schema upgrades, FTS rebuilding and search, schema-ahead database preservation, and corrupt-file replacement.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 4cda0

The PR can delete a valid skills database when an operational error prevents integrity checking, potentially discarding ranking state; merge should wait until deletion is limited to confirmed corruption.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the migration change and the schema-drift fix.
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23-39: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve skills.db when migration fails.

open_file maps migration failures to db_kit::open::Error::Migration and newer schemas to Error::SchemaAhead. The Err(_) arm deletes db_path for both cases, including skill_impressions and persisted ranking state that the filesystem cannot reconstruct. Propagate these errors and delete the file only for explicitly classified corruption or open failures.

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Record that FTS_AND_TRIGGERS is frozen history for 0002.

Migration 0002 runs this const exactly once per database. If a later change edits FTS_AND_TRIGGERS, new databases get the new FTS shape at 0002 while existing databases keep the old shape, and no migration reconciles the difference. The doc comment at lines 115-123 states the rule for .sql files only.

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recoverable open failures; propagate migration and newer-schema errors without
deleting db_path, and retain file removal plus retry only for explicitly
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In `@crates/skill-registry/src/db.rs`:
- Around line 58-71: Update the documentation for FTS_AND_TRIGGERS to state that
it is frozen history for migration 0002: never edit its FTS shape after release,
and make any future changes in a new 000N SQL migration so existing and new
databases remain consistent.

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