fix(skills): stop make codeclean from corrupting the templating reference

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Q	A
Branch?	main
Bug fix?	yes
New feature?	no
BC breaks?	no
Fixed tickets	#...

This started as "apply oxfmt to the skills that aren't formatted" and turned up a real bug on the way.

The bug

make codeclean runs oxfmt --write ., and oxfmt formats fenced code blocks inside Markdown. It parses ```handlebars blocks as JavaScript and rewrites them:

- {{ 0.firstName }}
+ {{[0].firstName}}

That is not the same expression reformatted — it is a different Handlebars expression. mass-operations/references/templating.md documents precisely which template syntax the runner accepts, so the rewrite turns correct documentation into incorrect documentation, and teaches the wrong syntax to any agent that reads it afterwards.

Anyone running make codeclean today does this silently. It is very likely why the mass-operations skill has stayed unformatted since it was added — the diff looked wrong, so it never got committed.

The fix

oxfmt reads .gitignore and .prettierignore by default. This adds a .prettierignore excluding that one file, with the reason recorded inline so the next person does not just delete it.

With the hazard fenced off, the remaining unformatted skill files are brought up to date. make codeclean is now a no-op across use-crystallize/skills/ instead of producing a diff on every run.

Verifying the reformat is safe

Every change was checked mechanically, not by eye. Normalising away whitespace, table rules and italic markers:

File	Non-cosmetic changes
permissions/SKILL.md	none — whitespace only
mass-operations/SKILL.md	none
mass-operations/references/intents.md	none
mass-operations/references/limits.md	none
mass-operations/references/lifecycle.md	18, all inside TypeScript blocks

The 18 in lifecycle.md are 12 single→double quotes, 3 argument commas from collapsed call sites, and one arrow-function paren (path => → (path) =>) — standard JS formatting, semantically identical. No shell or GraphQL samples were affected.

Not in scope

The MCP server sources and both plugin.json files are also unformatted on main. Formatting the TypeScript belongs in its own PR, where the test suite can vouch for the result.

The underlying oxfmt behaviour is worth reporting upstream — a handlebars fence should not be parsed as JavaScript — but the ignore is the right fix for this repo either way.

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