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Closes #1732 · Part of #1731

What this does — One skill per mode, mirroring research: the autodev mode-protocol skill is merged into develop (protocol-first: ledger, the loop bound to the dev gate pack, roles, handoffs, honest degradation, compaction honesty; the issue-DAG walk is the mode's primary workflow section, worktree/parallelism content deduplicated). The former id is named inside the skill (forward-only read-resolve); the mode-id alias machinery (MODE_ID_ALIASES, session_spawn, mode_block) is untouched by design — an agent resolved as autodev still binds the develop posture.

Supersession, on the record — this merge supersedes the three-mode rename's id-retention clause (spec-20260907-011500 D1 rev 3, documented at the #858/#868 rename). The structural suite that pinned the two-skill split is rewritten in the same commit — the pin never lies for even one commit.

Sweep surface (all live skill references, alias/history surfaces deliberately untouched):

• skills/develop/SKILL.md — merged (revision 3, agents: union of both)
• skills/autodev/ — removed
• modes/develop/mode.toml — autodev out of protocol_skills; comment updated
• modes/develop/card.md + agents/develop.md — first-actions directive binds develop
• ops/server/hub-AGENTS.md — index rows: stale autoresearch row → research; develop row → merged description; director-core row → copilot/research/develop posture model; onset-router line un-drifted
• test/workflow_skills_public.test.ts — rewritten for the merged shape (protocol half + walk half + read-resolve + self-containment; manifest asserts develop present and autodev absent)
• test/naming_records.test.ts, test/mode_cards.test.ts — inventories updated

Verification (fresh, this commit):

• targeted suites: 42/42 (workflow_skills_public, naming_records, mode_cards)
• packages/schema (the mode-registry validator): 301/301
• lint:skills: 0 errors (the develop companion-path note is the pre-existing known pattern)
• tsc --noEmit: clean
• boot smoke: PASS

Ops checklist (NOT done by this PR — re-stage is a hub-restart action):

• re-stage the hub (ops restart script) so the staged tree picks up the merged develop copy
• remove the staged ghost skills/autodev/ directory (the skills rsync is additive, so the ghost survives until purged — the manifest-driven staging workstream in Autonomous R&D framework: live skills, one develop skill, loop todo discipline (deliberation record + queued workstreams) #1731's plan owns the permanent fix)

AC from #1732: one develop skill ✓ · protocol+walk content ✓ · bindings reference develop/director-core only ✓ · structural test rewritten in-commit ✓ · naming-records row flipped ✓ · repo grep zero live refs ✓ · hub index rows fixed ✓ · lint/parity/smoke green ✓

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