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Authoring night work: runModes, suggestedCraftbooks, and report actions

How gilde content plugs into gezel's Night Shift.

Craftbooks: declare run-mode affinity

A craftbook suited to unattended recurring runs declares it in the version document (craftbook.json):

"runModes": { "nightShift": "recommended", "scheduled": "supported" }

recommended puts the book on the launcher's recommended shelf for that mode; supported merely allows it. Keep the night-shift manifest tag in sync with runModes.nightShift — the tag drives search, the field drives behavior.

Night-work books should default to reports, findings, and sidecar files (artifacts, translations/…), not in-place workspace mutation. That's a soft rule — gezel's per-project write gates are the hard backstop — but it keeps the morning review a review, not a surprise.

Gezel templates: suggest recurring work

A role can bring standing night work. In the template's version manifest:

"suggestedCraftbooks": [
  {
    "craftbookId": "security-architecture-review",
    "runMode": "night-shift",
    "reason": "Keeps an eye on new code overnight."
  }
]

runMode: "scheduled" requires a cron (5-field, UTC). Suggestions are never auto-armed — gezel surfaces them as opt-in toggles when the role joins a project. Optional params seed the enable form.

Report actions: make recommendations fireable

A night-work book whose report step produces recommendations can make them one-click actionable by emitting ```gezel-action fenced YAML blocks in the report markdown. Three kinds — fire-craftbook (craftbookId, optional params), create-task (prompt, optional role), and apply-edits (edits: [{path, diffArtifact}]). Rules that matter for content authors:

The canonical prompt snippet teaching the format is REPORT_ACTION_AUTHORING_GUIDE in gezel core (packages/core/src/markdown/report-actions.ts) — embed or paraphrase it in report-writing step prompts rather than restating the grammar from memory.

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