niri: drop untracked noctalia.kdl include; sync memory skills

- remove 'include noctalia.kdl' from shared config.kdl: the file is a
  per-host noctalia template render (colors from local palette), was
  never committed, and made every config load fail hard on hosts where
  it was absent — niri 26.04 falls back to DEFAULT config on parse
  error, silently killing keybinds/rules/layout/autostart
- theme integration now only via keybinds (noctalia msg verbs) + the
  host-local rendered files (see managed skill noctalia-template-offline-render)
- sync agent memories: delete retired memory-store skills, add new ones
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- 2026-09-14 dankware outage: upstream commit 49afdfe ("Noctalia theme migration") committed config.kdl with include "noctalia.kdl" but noctalia.kdl is a per-host GENERATED file, never in the repo; the same pull set ghostty theme = noctalia and alacritty import = themes/noctalia.toml, both also template-generated and absent here. Niri 26.04 does NOT exit on a config error — it logs "error parsing" and boots with DEFAULT config, producing a half-dead desktop (no keybinds/rules/autostart shell, default output placement). noctalia msg templates-apply answers "ok" but is a NO-OP on noctalia 5.0.1 (opt-in schema mismatch). Working fix (offline, no session restart needed): noctalia theme --theme-json ~/.config/noctalia/colors.json --render "builtin template:output" for each: templates/niri/niri.kdl → ~/.config/niri/noctalia.kdl (plain host-local file, NOT a repo symlink), templates/ghostty/ghostty → ~/.config/ghostty/themes/noctalia, templates/alacritty/alacritty.toml → ~/.config/alacritty/themes/noctalia.toml. Tokens resolve fully from the 16-key colors.json (primary_container etc. are derived). Verify: niri validate rc0; fresh login loads full config (journal "loaded config" + custom output placement). Also verified: kill -USR1 was NOT the cause of the session ending that night — journal showed a fresh niri-session login; don't accept blame for user-initiated logouts.
- On this host's niri build, niri msg do reload-config is rejected ("unrecognized subcommand 'do'") — verified 2026-09-10 during the noctalia unification deploy. The working config-reload path is kill -USR1 $(pidof niri) (SIGUSR1 to the niri process); verified on both fleet hosts (dankware pid via /proc, blankpad over ssh). Future keybind/config deploys that need live reload must use the SIGUSR1 path, not niri msg do.
- Noctalia fleet architecture UNIFIED 2026-09-10: both dankware and blankpad now run bare noctalia (v5 native, package noctalia 5.0.1-1.1) as the desktop shell, launched via niri spawn-at-startup "noctalia" from repo autostart.kdl. The v4 Quickshell-hosted architecture (qs -c noctalia-shell, JSON settings.json) is retired on dankware; qs host process killed and replaced live by a transient systemd-run unit (noctalia-live) that hands off to autostart at next login — single-instance guard in the binary makes overlap safe. Live config layer on both hosts = TOML only: hand-edit ~/.config/noctalia/config.toml; runtime state ~/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml loads last and overrides same keys (never hand-edit). Verified mechanics: noctalia msg resolves the running instance via D-Bus session bus, so it works from systemd user-unit context (systemd-run --user --pipe --wait) even though niri's own environ lacks WAYLAND_DISPLAY; spawn-at-startup children do receive a working display connection. Lock keybinds/swayidle unified to noctalia msg session lock; verified verb grammar includes panel-toggle {launcher,session,control-center,...}, volume-up/down/mute, mic-mute, media next/previous/playPause (graceful no-op rc 0 with no active player), brightness-up/down. Wallpapers: wallpaper-next/wallpaper-get confirm rotation draws from the configured [wallpaper] directory on both hosts; current wallpaper stays on the built-in default asset until first rotation after config-reload. Leftover dead packages on dankware (noctalia-shell 4.7.7, noctalia-qs fork) are inert — removal is optional cleanup, zero dependents post-flip.
- Divergence explained (as of 2026-09-10): dankware and blankpad both show noctalia 5.0.1-1.1 but run different live architectures because each host's autostart froze at its adoption-era architecture and package upgrades never rewrote autostart commands. Fossil record from pacman install dates: noctalia-shell 4.7.7-3 installed on dankware Jul 3 (v4 Quickshell-hosted architecture, JSON config; module files owned at /etc/xdg/quickshell/noctalia-shell/, launched via qs -c noctalia-shell from base niri package autostart.kdl); noctalia-qs 0.0.12-2 (Quickshell fork hosting the shell) installed Aug 24; v5-era noctalia package landed Sep 6 as a parallel package owning ONLY /usr/bin/noctalia + desktop file + README — CLI/client surface, no shell module. blankpad was provisioned fresh Sep 9 entirely from CachyOS repo packaging (noctalia 5.0.1-1.1 + vanilla quickshell 0.3.1-1.1 + cachyos-niri-noctalia 1.4.0-1; no v4-era packages exist in that repo set), so its zz-blankpad override autostart launches bare noctalia (native v5, TOML config). Consequence: settings.json is genuinely the live config on dankware (v4 code), while blankpad runs true v5 with TOML state at ~/.config/noctalia/config.toml + ~/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml. Unification candidate when approved: flip both to noctalia as single entrypoint, but verify first that the v5 packaging on dankware ships the shell module (current -Ql evidence says CLI-only) — a unified flip likely requires installing the full v5 package set on dankware first. Diagnostic recipe for this class of question: query pacman install dates + package ownership (pacman -Qi/-Ql/-Qo, pgrep -af) to reconstruct which architecture each host actually runs rather than trusting version labels.