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  • docs/03-github-orchestrator/07-advanced-topics/15-large-projects.mdx — the "Two-Level Workspace Architecture" and "Move-Centric Caching" sections, their game-ci/unity-builder@v4 YAML examples, and the "Inputs Reference" table documented input names that don't exist anywhere in game-ci/cli (verified by grepping the actual yargs.option(...) / getBool/getInput registrations): retainedWorkspaces, workspaceRoot, cacheStrategy, buildTimeout. Replaced with the real ones — childWorkspacesEnabled, childWorkspaceName, childWorkspaceCacheRoot, childWorkspacePreserveGit, childWorkspaceSeparateLibrary for the child-workspace feature; localCacheEnabled, localCacheMode (move-directory / copy-directory / tar), localCacheRoot for the move-centric Library cache. buildTimeout has no orchestrator-level equivalent at all — replaced with the standard GitHub Actions job-level timeout-minutes setting, and called out gcTimeoutMinutes (a real but unrelated cache-hygiene setting) so the two aren't conflated.
  • docs/03-github-orchestrator/07-advanced-topics/01-caching.mdx — the "Cache Retention" section now notes cacheRetentionDays also age-sweeps cached child workspaces when childWorkspacesEnabled is set, not only the local Library cache.
  • Added two entries to 01-caching.mdx's existing "Self-Hosted Operational Lessons" section, matching its established style, documenting two lock-reliability fixes shipped alongside this PR in fix: cache lifecycle can lose or leak state on build failure cli#94: a retained-workspace lock that could outlive a failed build (no TTL, only released on the success path), and a background cache-save lock that could be orphaned by a killed process (only swept reactively, never proactively).

These were found while doing a comparative review against a large, mature Unity monorepo's own CI system (self-hosted runners, move-based caching at scale) to check what lessons from it were and weren't already reflected here — most of the caching/self-hosting content turned out to already be thorough and accurate; these are the two concrete gaps that came out of it: docs describing a config surface that was never real, and two lock-reliability lessons not yet written down anywhere.

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  • Read the contribution guide and accept the code of conduct
  • Readme (not needed)
  • Tests (not needed — content-only change; every replacement input name was verified against the actual game-ci/cli source before writing it, and every internal link target checked against a real heading/anchor in the linked page)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Updated advanced guidance for child workspace caching, retention, and cleanup.
    • Documented new child workspace configuration options, including naming, Git metadata preservation, and separate library caches.
    • Added local caching modes for move, copy, and tar strategies, including fallback behavior.
    • Clarified incremental synchronization and timeout configuration guidance.
    • Updated configuration references to reflect current option names and supported settings.

- large-projects.mdx's "Two-Level Workspace Architecture" and
  "Move-Centric Caching" sections, their YAML examples, and the Inputs
  Reference table documented input names that don't exist anywhere in
  game-ci/cli: retainedWorkspaces, workspaceRoot, cacheStrategy,
  buildTimeout. Replaced with the real ones: childWorkspacesEnabled,
  childWorkspaceName, childWorkspaceCacheRoot,
  childWorkspacePreserveGit, childWorkspaceSeparateLibrary,
  localCacheEnabled, localCacheMode (move-directory / copy-directory /
  tar), localCacheRoot. buildTimeout has no orchestrator-level
  equivalent -- replaced with the standard GitHub Actions
  timeout-minutes job setting, distinguished from the unrelated
  gcTimeoutMinutes cache-hygiene setting.
- caching.mdx's Cache Retention section now notes that
  cacheRetentionDays also age-sweeps cached child workspaces when
  childWorkspacesEnabled is set, not only the local Library cache.
- Added two entries to caching.mdx's "Self-Hosted Operational Lessons"
  documenting two lock-reliability fixes shipped alongside this change
  in game-ci/cli: a retained-workspace lock that could outlive a failed
  build (no TTL, only released on the success path), and a background
  cache-save lock that could be orphaned by a killed process (only
  swept reactively, never proactively). See game-ci/cli#94.
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The documentation updates describe child workspace configuration, local cache modes, timeout settings, cache retention, and cleanup of stale workspace and background cache-save locks.

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Orchestrator caching documentation

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Workspace and cache configuration
docs/03-github-orchestrator/07-advanced-topics/15-large-projects.mdx
Updates child workspace names and options, documents local cache modes, revises incremental-sync examples, separates job and garbage-collection timeouts, and updates the inputs reference.
Cache lifecycle guidance
docs/03-github-orchestrator/07-advanced-topics/01-caching.mdx
Documents age-based child workspace cleanup and removal of retained-workspace and stale background cache-save locks.

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The PR improves documented inputs and lock guidance, but the current examples could lead users to build the wrong platform or incorrectly remove an active shared-cache lock, while the cache placement guidance is incomplete. These issues should be addressed before merging.

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In `@docs/03-github-orchestrator/07-advanced-topics/01-caching.mdx`:
- Around line 364-367: Update the proactive lock sweep described in the caching
guidance to scope PID liveness validation to the lock creator’s host or runner
identity, storing and checking that identity alongside the PID; alternatively,
explicitly limit the cleanup behavior to cache roots that are not shared across
hosts.

In `@docs/03-github-orchestrator/07-advanced-topics/15-large-projects.mdx`:
- Around line 112-117: Update the move-directory documentation to state that
cross-filesystem renames fail with EXDEV and automatically fall back to copying,
so a same-volume cache root is only required for O(1) move performance, not
correctness. Preserve the existing guidance about using copy-directory and
fallback-key restores.
- Around line 67-69: Align the build target with the matrix-selected workspace
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childWorkspaceName and targetPlatform with the matrix target value; if the job
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Comment on lines +364 to +367
Sweep lock files proactively at the start of a build, across every cache key under the cache root,
not only the one this run is about to use. Treat a lock as stale when the PID it names is no longer
alive (or the file can't be parsed) — a plain existence check on the marker file, without a liveness
check on the process it names, cannot tell a genuinely in-progress save from an orphaned one.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Scope PID liveness checks to the lock creator host.

A PID-only liveness check is unsafe when multiple runners share the cache root. A process that is absent on the current runner can still be saving the cache on another runner. Store and validate a host or runner identity with the PID, or state that this cleanup applies only to cache roots that are not shared between hosts.

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In `@docs/03-github-orchestrator/07-advanced-topics/01-caching.mdx` around lines
364 - 367, Update the proactive lock sweep described in the caching guidance to
scope PID liveness validation to the lock creator’s host or runner identity,
storing and checking that identity alongside the PID; alternatively, explicitly
limit the cleanup behavior to cache roots that are not shared across hosts.

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childWorkspaceName: ${{ matrix.targetPlatform }}
childWorkspaceCacheRoot: /mnt/build-storage/my-game/workspaces
targetPlatform: StandaloneLinux64

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Keep the workspace name and build target aligned.

Line 67 uses matrix.targetPlatform, but Line 69 always builds StandaloneLinux64. A Windows or WebGL matrix entry would use its own child workspace while still producing a Linux build. Use the matrix value for both inputs. If this is not a matrix job, use a fixed child workspace name instead.

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childWorkspaceName: ${{ matrix.targetPlatform }}
childWorkspaceCacheRoot: /mnt/build-storage/my-game/workspaces
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childWorkspaceName and targetPlatform with the matrix target value; if the job
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Comment on lines +112 to +117
`move-directory` requires the cache root and the workspace to be on the same filesystem volume — a
same-volume rename is what makes the move O(1). A cross-volume rename fails at the OS level, so
point `localCacheRoot` at a path on the same drive as the workspace, or use `copy-directory` when
that cannot be guaranteed. Fallback-key restores (see
[Fallback Keys](build-services#fallback-keys)) are always copied rather than moved, regardless of
`localCacheMode`, so the original cache entry is left intact for other builds.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the cross-filesystem copy fallback.

move-directory does not require a same-volume cache root to function. A cross-filesystem rename fails with EXDEV, then the cache implementation falls back to a copy. State that the same-volume requirement is for O(1) move performance, not correctness.

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In `@docs/03-github-orchestrator/07-advanced-topics/15-large-projects.mdx` around
lines 112 - 117, Update the move-directory documentation to state that
cross-filesystem renames fail with EXDEV and automatically fall back to copying,
so a same-volume cache root is only required for O(1) move performance, not
correctness. Preserve the existing guidance about using copy-directory and
fallback-key restores.

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…into this branch

Consolidating the 3 open docs PRs into 1 per maintainer request.
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Same version-drift formatting issue as the earlier commits on this
branch -- oxfmt --check flagged these 3 files (all content merged in
from the other two branches, untouched otherwise) immediately after
merging. --no-verify for the same pre-existing typecheck reason as
prior commits on this branch.
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Consolidated into #585 (merged branches, no file overlap) so we have a single open docs PR instead of three. Closing this one — its content (fixed fabricated inputs in 15-large-projects.mdx, lock-reliability lessons in 01-caching.mdx) is preserved intact in #585.

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…m/OS mapping, large-projects fixes) (#585)

* docs: fix fabricated inputs in large-projects.mdx, add lock lessons

- large-projects.mdx's "Two-Level Workspace Architecture" and
  "Move-Centric Caching" sections, their YAML examples, and the Inputs
  Reference table documented input names that don't exist anywhere in
  game-ci/cli: retainedWorkspaces, workspaceRoot, cacheStrategy,
  buildTimeout. Replaced with the real ones: childWorkspacesEnabled,
  childWorkspaceName, childWorkspaceCacheRoot,
  childWorkspacePreserveGit, childWorkspaceSeparateLibrary,
  localCacheEnabled, localCacheMode (move-directory / copy-directory /
  tar), localCacheRoot. buildTimeout has no orchestrator-level
  equivalent -- replaced with the standard GitHub Actions
  timeout-minutes job setting, distinguished from the unrelated
  gcTimeoutMinutes cache-hygiene setting.
- caching.mdx's Cache Retention section now notes that
  cacheRetentionDays also age-sweeps cached child workspaces when
  childWorkspacesEnabled is set, not only the local Library cache.
- Added two entries to caching.mdx's "Self-Hosted Operational Lessons"
  documenting two lock-reliability fixes shipped alongside this change
  in game-ci/cli: a retained-workspace lock that could outlive a failed
  build (no TTL, only released on the success path), and a background
  cache-save lock that could be orphaned by a killed process (only
  swept reactively, never proactively). See game-ci/cli#94.

* docs: clarify targetPlatform/runs-on OS mapping, Mono vs IL2CPP, unityVersion syntax

Discord feedback: a new user found these hard to piece together even after
reading the docs - the information existed but was scattered across
getting-started.mdx's per-OS example jobs rather than stated as a rule, and
Mono vs IL2CPP wasn't addressed as a topic anywhere.

- Add a runs-on -> supported targetPlatform values table directly under
  the targetPlatform input, since there's no way to build e.g.
  StandaloneWindows64 from ubuntu-latest and this constraint was previously
  only inferable by diffing three separate example jobs.
- Add a Mono vs IL2CPP note clarifying it's a Unity Player Settings choice,
  not a unity-builder input (no scriptingBackend field exists) - cross-link
  to the existing multi-platform matrix example instead of duplicating it.
- Add a concrete unityVersion example (2021.3.16f1) and note that the exact
  editor version string is required, not just the numeric part.

Verified: yarn build (Docusaurus) succeeds with no broken-link warnings for
the new /docs/github/getting-started#advanced-il2cpp-example anchor, and
oxfmt --check passes.

* docs: update orchestrate docs for built-in plugin, local provider, and Windows host mode

Reflects four recent game-ci/cli changes:

- Orchestrator is now a built-in plugin (game-ci/cli#107) - drop the
  now-unnecessary `--plugin @game-ci/orchestrator-plugin` flag from every
  orchestrate example and the .game-ci.yml config snippets.
- Document what the `local`/`local-system` orchestrator provider strategy
  actually does now that it drives a real build (game-ci/cli#109): the
  same activate/build/test/return-license chain as `game-ci build`/
  `test --local`, no repo clone or LFS pull of its own, plus the new
  --skip-activation flag for long-lived Unity Hub sessions.
- Document the new --local-cache-* flags that wire Library/LFS caching
  into the local provider (game-ci/cli#110), scoped explicitly to
  local/local-system and distinguished from the separate caching path
  used by aws/k8s/local-docker.
- Document `game-ci test --docker --local`'s native Windows support
  (game-ci/cli#108): Unity Hub install-path resolution (or UNITY_PATH
  override) and the known headless-standalone-test limitation on
  Windows. This flow wasn't documented in docs/03-github-cli at all
  before this change.

Note: --no-verify used because the repo's pre-commit typecheck hook fails
on pre-existing, unrelated TypeScript errors in src/components/ (verified
present on main before this change, via `git stash` + `yarn typecheck`).
oxfmt formatting was run and applied cleanly before this was needed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: extend orchestrate/host-execution docs for PRs #109-#115, state core-vs-orchestrate boundary explicitly

Builds on the prior partial pass (#107-#108) to cover everything shipped since in game-ci/cli:

- Local provider real build path (#109) and Library/LFS caching (#110) - documented under a new
  docs/03-github-cli/04-orchestrate-advanced/ subdirectory, split into dedicated pages (local
  caching, middleware, build retry, launch wrapper) so the core-vs-advanced boundary is visible
  structurally, not just in prose.
- Corrects/confirms the local caching docs' `move-directory` mode: it is an O(1) same-volume
  move/rename swap of a per-runner Library backup (real production parity), explicitly not a
  hardlink strategy.
- Native-plugin Windows-visibility warning (#111) and named config profiles (#113), documented on
  core `game-ci build` where they belong (thin engine-invocation wrappers, no new advanced surface).
- Middleware/hook system (#112) given full schema, phase, priority-ordering, and `when`-expression
  documentation with a worked example.
- Opt-in build retry/recovery (#114) documented with the failure-class table and an explicit
  rationale for defaulting off (automatic Library mutation is a real behavior change).
- Engine launch wrapper (#115) documented only under `orchestrate` per the maintainer's explicit
  framing - `ENGINE_LAUNCH_WRAPPER`/`--engineLaunchWrapper` is deliberately not a core CLI option.

Adds an explicit, visible "core stays lean, orchestrate owns advanced capability" callout to the
core build docs, the orchestrate overview, the CLI index, and the GameCI-vs-Orchestrator page,
per the maintainer's architectural framing rather than leaving it implicit.

Verification: all touched/added .mdx files parse cleanly via a standalone @mdx-js/mdx check;
internal links manually cross-checked against defined slugs and sibling files. `yarn typecheck`
still fails the same 3 pre-existing, unrelated errors in src/components/ (confirmed via `git
stash` exactly as the prior pass on this branch did), so this commit uses --no-verify to skip
the pre-commit hook's typecheck step. `yarn build`'s known pre-existing webpack/dependency issue
was not exercised for the same reason documented in the prior pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: cover cache-floor-on-import-success (cli#118)

Documents --local-cache-save-on-failure and
--local-cache-floor-corruption-categories on the local-caching page:
what triggers a floor save, the generic-vs-corruption-specific
category split and its default, and how to override it. Folded into
this same PR per the "unified single PR" directive rather than
opening a separate docs PR.

Committed with --no-verify: pre-commit's typecheck step fails on the
same 3 pre-existing, unrelated src/components/ errors already
documented in this PR's description (unity-version.tsx,
fade-into-view.tsx, section.tsx) — this commit touches only docs/,
confirmed via `git diff --stat HEAD -- src/` showing no src/ changes.
No lint-staged formatting or gitleaks steps were skipped; oxfmt
--write ran and passed before the typecheck step failed.

* fix: quote colon-containing label in orchestrate-advanced _category_.yaml

label: Orchestrate: Advanced Topics parsed the second colon as a
nested mapping key, breaking Docusaurus's sidebar YAML loader
(YAMLException: bad indentation of a mapping entry) and failing
build/E2E/format-check CI on every run since this file was added in
the second pass -- undiscovered until now since the pre-mdx-js-mdx
verification only checked .mdx files, never this .yaml file.

Committed with --no-verify for the same pre-existing, unrelated
src/components/ typecheck reason as the prior commit on this branch;
this file isn't covered by that check anyway (Types check already
passes independently in CI).

* style: run prettier on 5 files CI's format:check flagged

yarn format:check on the branch's head commit flagged these 5 files
(all pre-existing from the second pass, not touched by the last two
commits) as needing reformatting -- table column widths and the
_category_.yaml quote style. Ran yarn format and committed only the
resulting diff to these exact 5 files (verified via git diff
--name-only before staging); no other files in the 389-file
repo-wide format pass were touched.

--no-verify for the same pre-existing typecheck reason as prior
commits on this branch.

* fix: use absolute doc paths for overview page's sub-page links

The overview page's slug (/cli/orchestrate-advanced) resolves to the
same path as its containing folder, so Docusaurus's relative-link
resolution treated the folder segment as if it were a filename and
stripped it -- ./local-caching resolved to /docs/cli/local-caching
instead of /docs/cli/orchestrate-advanced/local-caching, breaking the
production build (Docusaurus found broken links!). Switched all four
sub-page links on this page to absolute /docs/cli/orchestrate-advanced/*
paths, matching each target page's actual slug frontmatter and the
absolute-path convention already used elsewhere in this PR's own
local-caching.mdx addition.

This was previously undiscovered because yarn build never got this
far locally in this checkout (blocked by the pre-existing
dependency/webpack issue documented in this PR's description) or in
CI (blocked by the _category_.yaml parse error fixed in an earlier
commit on this branch) -- confirmed via CI's own build_and_preview
log showing the exact same four broken links this fix addresses.

--no-verify for the same pre-existing typecheck reason as prior
commits on this branch; oxfmt --check on the touched file passes.

* style: run oxfmt on files merged from PRs #583/#584

Same version-drift formatting issue as the earlier commits on this
branch -- oxfmt --check flagged these 3 files (all content merged in
from the other two branches, untouched otherwise) immediately after
merging. --no-verify for the same pre-existing typecheck reason as
prior commits on this branch.

* docs: align CLI and orchestrator guidance with source

* docs: merge the plugin catalog into this PR's configuration-and-plugins page

Consolidates #586 (docs: plugin catalog for the 14 new game-ci/cli
plugins) into this PR instead of merging it separately - #586 targeted
docs/03-github-cli/04-configuration-and-plugins.mdx, which this PR
renumbers to 05-configuration-and-plugins.mdx (it inserts
04-orchestrate-advanced/), so the two would otherwise collide on the same
page under different filenames.

Content is updated to match what actually shipped, not #586's original
snapshot:

  - live-show, dev-tunnel, crash-symbol-upload, screen-capture,
    dedicated-server-provisioning and anti-cheat are removed from the
    plugin list - the first was dropped entirely (game-ci/cli#146:
    duplicated runtime-test-framework's player-launching, and the rest
    of its scope - broadcast, an AI-driven playthrough agent - doesn't
    belong in a CI tool), the other five were re-implemented as real
    Orchestrator capabilities rather than plugin skeletons
    (game-ci/cli#144), and are documented in a new "Not plugins:
    build-lifecycle capabilities" section instead.

  - steam-deploy and runtime-test-framework are marked "Implemented,
    loaded by default" rather than folded in with the drafts - they are
    real, working commands, just still subject to change.

  - Added a warning block reflecting game-ci/cli#145: every plugin here
    is experimental, none are published to npm, and each one warns at
    runtime (drafts on load, the two implemented ones when their command
    is actually used).

#586 will be closed as superseded once this merges.

* docs: move screen-capture/dedicated-server-provisioning/dev-tunnel/anti-cheat back into the plugin catalog

game-ci/cli#147 reclassified four of the five capabilities #144 had put
into the Orchestrator - only crash-symbol collection actually belongs
there (symbols have to be captured at build time or they're gone for
good, which is genuinely output-collection). screen-capture,
dedicated-server-provisioning, dev-tunnel and anti-cheat are plugins
again, matching the other 9 drafts.

Moves those four back into the main catalog table (status notes point out
which parts are real vs which command is still unregistered), and shrinks
the old five-row "Not plugins" section to a single paragraph about
symbols, since it's the only one left.

* docs: give output collection (incl. crash symbols) its own page

The plugins page isn't the right place for orchestrator internals - it
had a "Not a plugin: crash-symbol collection" note that was really just a
footnote about an unrelated system. Removed it in favor of a real page
under github-orchestrator/advanced-topics, and left a one-line pointer
from the plugins page instead.

The new page covers all 9 built-in output types (not just symbols),
requesting them via the artifactOutputTypes Action input, the related
artifactUploadTarget/artifactCompression/etc. inputs, and registering a
custom type via OutputTypeRegistry.

Verified every claim against game-ci/cli's actual source rather than
extrapolating from the removed note - caught and fixed two inaccuracies
in the process: `--outputTypes` isn't a real CLI flag (I'd invented it;
artifactOutputTypes is registered as a GitHub Action input via
action.yml/getInput, not as a yargs .option(), and the CLI runs
yargs.strict(true), so an unregistered flag would be rejected - the
Action input is the only currently-real way to set it), and dSYM bundles
are reported as a single manifest entry by the collector, not something
this system is itself confirmed to preserve through upload.

* style: run oxfmt on the two files touched in the previous commit

Committed with --no-verify earlier for the same pre-existing
src/components/ typecheck failures this branch has carried all along -
but that also skipped formatting, and CI's separate 'Code formatting'
check caught it. No content changes, table column widths only.

* docs(cli): document the new experimental deploy/QA/engine plugins

Documents @game-ci/github-release-deploy, @game-ci/itch-deploy,
@game-ci/steam-workshop, @game-ci/code-signing, @game-ci/pseudo-localization,
and @game-ci/bevy now that they're real implementations rather than
structural drafts (game-ci/cli#217-222) - all were previously undocumented
anywhere since they threw immediately.

Folded into this PR rather than opened separately, since this PR already
renumbers docs/03-github-cli/'s sidebar positions and a standalone PR
would have collided on the same numbering.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: document extraExclusions, multi-account, SDK bundling, and same-job deploy patterns for steam-deploy

Closes out the documentation side of game-ci/steam-deploy#67/#83/#63/#59:
- extraExclusions input (shipped)
- a note that multi-FileMapping/FileProperties support exists in
  game-ci/cli but isn't wired into this action's inputs yet
- multiple Steam accounts/apps in one workflow (just multiple steps)
- bundling extra files (e.g. the Steamworks SDK) into a depot
- skipping the artifact upload/download round-trip by building and
  deploying in the same job

* docs: bring all CLI plugin docs current, add coverage for the planned plugins

- Removes --plugin flags from every experimental-plugin usage example:
  bevy, github-release-deploy, itch-deploy, pseudo-localization,
  code-signing, and steam-workshop are all registered by default as of
  game-ci/cli#230 - no flag, no npm publish needed.
- Adds a Bevy options table (--target/--features/--locked/--debug/--outputPath),
  matching the level of detail the other plugins already had.
- Adds a "Planned plugins" table covering the 8 structural-draft-only
  plugins (anti-cheat, dedicated-server-provisioning, dev-tunnel,
  gamemaker, renpy, rpg-maker, save-data-compat, screen-capture) that
  had no documentation at all before this - not usable yet, but visible
  as roadmap.
- Bumps the GitHub Action's stale v0.1.14 example pin to v0.1.48, fixes
  the Windows asset description (it's a .zip archive with a dist/
  sibling, not a bare .exe - matches the actual fix in game-ci/cli#230),
  and corrects the Orchestrator section's now-wrong claim that the
  current release "predates" Orchestrator integration.

* docs: correct Bevy target default, document --engine override

--target is optional and already defaults to the host toolchain
(verified against cargo-runner.ts) - the earlier example needlessly
required it for a plain host build. Also documents --engine=bevy as an
explicit override for engine auto-detection, which already exists
(project-options.ts/engine-detection middleware, predates this
session's work) and works the same way for every engine, not just
Bevy - verified live against the compiled binary.

* style: fix markdown table formatting (oxfmt)

The CI's oxfmt caught table-column-width misalignment in the plugin
docs I added/edited - fixed by running `yarn format` and keeping only
the diff to these two files (it reformatted the whole 391-file repo
locally due to a toolchain version mismatch; everything else was
reverted).

* docs: reflect cli#232 built-in plugins, Bevy engine, Godot import fallback

- Reclassify itch-deploy, steam-workshop, github-release-deploy,
  code-signing, and pseudo-localization from "draft" to "implemented,
  loaded by default" in the plugin catalog - cli#232 registered them
  as built-in plugins, same as steam-deploy/runtime-test-framework.
- Add Bevy to the built-in engine tables in index.mdx and
  configuration-and-plugins.mdx - it's auto-detected via a bevy
  dependency in Cargo.toml, same tier as Unity/Godot/Unreal.
- Note that game-ci build falls back to `godot --headless --import`
  when export_presets.cfg is missing, instead of failing outright.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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