Primary finding
jq pipeline for SPOTLIGHT_PICK fails when history is empty
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- skills/fleet-state/SKILL.md:113-117
If contributor-spotlight history is empty, SPOTLIGHT_PICK becomes an empty string. Piping empty input to jq (without -n) causes a parse error and a non-zero exit, aborting the run. This violates the "degrade gracefully" intent.
Recommendation
Avoid echo | jq on possibly empty input. Either extract both fields directly from the file with a single jq call (e.g., jq -r '(.history | sort_by(.featured_at) | .[-1]) // {} | [.fork, .featured_at] | @tsv' ...) or guard: if [ -n "$SPOTLIGHT_PICK" ]; then ... fi. Alternatively, use jq -n with inputs or structured fallback.